Prominent serial entrepreneurs, angels and venture capitalists from Silicon Valley in the US will come to Cambridge to meet with their UK peers, Cambridge students and alumni, over a three day forum entitled ‘New Barriers and New Opportunities: Disrupting in a Global Collaborative World’.
The event will be held at the business school and will include seminars, plenary sessions and master class lectures covering exit strategies through to entrepreneurial strategy 102. These will be followed by networking and exclusive dinners during which entrepreneurs, investors, scientists and students will discuss topics of importance to our global economy. A panel debate on the first day will consider the premise that Europe, not Silicon Valley, will become the best place to build the future billion dollar companies.
Iconic entrepreneurs, including Megan Smith (Google), Hermann Hauser (Amadeus Capital Partners) and Reid Hoffman (Linkedin) and investors such as James Slavet (Greylock), and Emily Melton (DFJ) will share their views on the latest and most innovative disruptive business models, providing best practice advice on how and why they came to create and fund some of today’s most successful disruptive technology companies. They will also identify key emerging technologies, and provide analysis on which companies are growing the fastest in ‘the valley’. These bi-directional discussions, whilst generating global perspectives, will also sow the seeds of substantive international relationships that will impact how (and with whom) everyone does business in the future.
Professor Arnoud De Meyer, Director, Judge Business School said, “This forum is a fantastic demonstration of the unique strength of the business school and university which together can act as an ‘agora’, drawing together talent and ability, and facilitating engagement and a free-flow of ideas around the implications of new business models which will be used by students who will lead the businesses of tomorrow.”
Commenting on the forum, Sherry Coutu, Trustee of NESTA and Finance Board member of Cambridge University said,”This is an amazing opportunity for students and alumni of Cambridge University and Judge Business School to make personal connections with, and gain inspiration from, the movers and shakers in Silicon Valley who have created the leading gorilla companies of today. We know the leaders of tomorrow are here at Cambridge and we hope that this event will supercharge them so that they are more able to make an even bigger difference in the world by starting or joining the companies that will dominate the global scene in a few years time.”
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