International Technology Forum 2007

• Miquel Valls i Maseda, President, Barcelona Chamber of Commerce
• Jaime Malet, President, American Chamber of Commerce in Spain
• Dr. William Miller, ITF Chairman of the board, Co-director, SPRIE, Stanford University
• Jordi Williams Carner, Lt. Mayor for Economic Promotion and Taxation, Ajuntament de Barcelona (Barcelona City Government

Global State of ICT

• Josep Morell, comissioner to the presidency for ICT and Information Society, Barcelona Chamber of Commerce

• Dr. William Miller, ITF Chairman of the board, Co-director, SPRIE, Stanford University
• Jordi Botifoll, CEO Mediterranean Region, CISCO

Global State of Biotechnology

• Honorató Monzó, Director for R&D Development, Natraceutical, SA

• Dr. Roger Wyse, General Partner and Managing Director, Burrill and Company
• Montserrat Vendrell, Director, BioRegió de Catalunya (BIOCAT)

ICT Panel 1: Mobile Broadband Panel

It is predicted that nearly half of the handsets will be broadband-capable by 2010. This creates a new generation of consumers who value mobility above all else when it comes to telecommunication services. Applications such as video, gaming, and a wealth of new services are competing to run on your personal communication device. Mobile broadband promises to meet the needs of these consumers as well as the service providers.

Competing technologies ranging from WiMax and3GPP to those beyond 3G are claiming to be the vehicle of choice for the next generation consumers and their favorite services. This panel will evaluate the underlying technologies behind mobile broadband as well as the array of new services which can be delivered over this infrastructure. It will examine governmental, economic and structural issues of the sector and how they may affect the introduction of new technologies and services.

• Faraj Aalaei, CEO & Co-founder, Centillium Communications

• Kamran Elahian, Chairman & Co-Founder, Global Catalyst Partners
• Joaquim Faura Batlle, Director General, Telefónica de Cataluña
• Jordi A. Aliagas, VP EMEA, Arena Mobile

Life Sciences Panel 1: White Biotechnology (Industrial, Food and Agriculture, Environmental)

The world population has increased from 3 billion in 1959 to 6 billion in 1999 and is expected to grow to 9 billion by the year 2042. With this rapid growth, there has also been an increase in the per capita income globally, especially in such areas as China and India resulting in a significantly higher demand for food products. However, rural and agricultural land is decreasing due to urban development, thus requiring global improvements in efficiencies in agricultural practices.

In addition, with diminishing fossil fuel resources, nations are trying to find alternative sources such as bio-based diesel fuels to minimize the contribution of fossil fuel to climate change. McKinsey & Company have estimated that biotechnology could be applied in the production of 10% to 20% of all chemicals sold by 2010, starting from the current level of about 5%. While different chemical markets introduce and use biotechnology at different rates, the McKinsey study indicates the greatest impact of industrial biotechnology will be on the fine chemical segment, where up to 60% of products may use biotechnology by 2010. McKinsey have further estimated that between 11 & 22 billion Euro additional added value could be created by the chemical industry alone in 2010, through cost reduction and the introduction of novel products.

In this panel, opportunities in food and agriculture and bio-industrial products to address these growing needs will be discussed.

• Ross Haghighat, Chairman, CEO & Founder, Triton Systems, Inc

• Bryant E. Fong, Principal, Burrill & Company
• Fernando Albericio, director general, Parc Cientific de Barcelona
• Francesc Gòdia, full Professor of Chemical Engineering and vice-Rector, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

ICT Panel 2: Digital content: Creation, Access and Distribution

Digital content is increasingly important across all media and publishing industries and is becoming pervasive in sectors not previously considered to be content producers or users (for example, business services) and in the public sector (public sector information such as weather information, public sector content such as archives, and cultural content), education and health. Rapid changes in the value chains for content development, production, delivery and use and the creation of new commercial business models to exploit these opportunities are posing new policy challenges for governments to provide the market and business environment that supports development of new digital content goods and services, promotes competition and benefits users.

In addition, it is important to understand dynamic impact of broadband rollout, its effects on content creation and distribution, and the implications for creativity, economic growth and employment and provide an overview of emerging developments. In addition, with digital content opportunities and challenges, we need to understand changing value chains and business models. Lastly, new platforms and content delivery opportunities and the Creation and access to content and the role of new commercial agreements and user-side perspectives such as new user habits and social attitudes and Enhanced access to research and public sector information will be discussed in the session (web 2.0)

This panel provides a forum for all stakeholders to draw on this analysis as a basis for discussing policy developments and solutions to emerging technology and policy challenges, and identify issues for further analysis. It focused on:

• Improving understanding of the implications of development of digital content.
• Reviewing impacts of digital content on value chains.
• Providing insights into development of new business models.
• Identifying business, technological and policy approaches that contribute to a supportive environment for broadband content and the Internet.

• Eduard Ramos, Partner and Founder, Polinomi

• Jaume Teodoro, Director General, Grup Lavinia
• Vicent López, Director General, Barcelona Media Centre d’Innovació
• Kamran Elahian, Chairman & Co-Founder, Global Catalyst

Life Sciences Panel 2: Health and Wellness

The cost of healthcare and treatment of disease is ballooning world-wide. Preventive medicine through a variety of means including appropriate and customized nutrition is gaining widespread acceptance. Access to the internet and availability of information offer consumers the ability to actively participate in their choice of health and wellness products and services. As a result, new and expanding markets are opening for innovative health and wellness products and services. Nutrition and health and wellness products offer great opportunities to help all demographic segments to improve their health and enjoy a desired life style.

There is considerable growth potential within the health and wellness industry resulting from the convergence of the $700 billion food and beverage industry and the $150 billion pharmaceutical industry, influenced by consumer trends in exercise, healthy lifestyles and nutrition, and galvanized by paradigm shifts in consumer attitudes toward wellness and disease. This panel discussion will focus on opportunities in health and wellness.

• Dr. Jaleh Daie, Managing Partner, Aurora Equity

• Jaime Grego, President, Laboratorios Leti
• Xavier Gomez, General Manager, Shirota Functional Foods, Ltd.
• Carlos Buesa, Director General, Oryzon and President, Catalan Association of Biotecnologia Companies – CataloniaBIO

Workshop 1E: How to go about launching your idea successfully

Venture Capital firms are flushed with money and want to put it to work. You believe your latest idea will change the world as we know it. A match made in heaven? No problem? Not so fast!. There are thousands of entrepreneurs churning business plans that never get funded or even reviewed by the VCs. What are they looking for? How should you prepare to make an impression on them?

The presenters in this session, One VC and One Entrepreneur will share their thoughts on how to go about launching your idea successfully. You will learn about various stages of starting your business such as testing your idea, building a winning team, selecting the right VCs, understanding the VC lingo, writing a business plan, negotiating with VC, selecting a board and leveraging the vast network of your VCs.

• Mateu Hernandez, Director de Barcelona Activa

• Faraj Aalaei, CEO & Co-founder, Centillium Communications
• Kamran Elahian, Chairman & Co-Founder, Global Catalyst Partners

Silicon Valley-Catalonia Convergence 1: Investing in Catalonia & Spain is a safe bet

The business and regulatory climate in Catalonia and Spain (Policy Framework, Incentives and Regulations, etc.) will be analyzed and debated by experts in the field.

• Prof. Xavier Mondoza, Dean, ESADE Business School

• Guillermo Ramos, Head of Investment, NEOTEC and Head of the Madrid Office of the European Investment Fund
• Marcel Prunera, Director General of Economic Promotion, Ministry of Economics and Finances of the Generalitat de Catalunya
• Josep Maria Cervera, Director of the International Business Department, Barcelona Chamber of Commerce

Workshop 2E: All about financing companies

This workshop session will feature one Angel/Venture Capital investor and one start-up entrepreneur who will describe their experiences in financing start-up companies and how to prepare the start-up for initial funding.

The Angel/Venture Capital investor will describe what seed investors are looking for in a new company and some of the screening mechanisms that Angels and VCs use.

The experienced start-up entrepreneur will describe the search for seed capital and what a start-up executive might expect during the interactions with Angels and/or VCs.

After brief presentations from the workshop leaders, they will take questions from the audience.

• Josep Miquel Pique, Director of the La Salle Innovation Park and President of the Keiretsu Forum Spain

• Dr. William F. Miller, Co-director, SPRIE, Stanford University
• Ross Haghighat, Chairman, CEO & Founder, Triton Systems, Inc.

ICT Panel 3: Next generation Internet

In this panel we use the Internet as our primary vehicle for discussing next generation networks and their architectures. Today’s Internet is evolving at a rapid pace with advances being made on many fronts ranging from deploying new applications and services to implementing advanced technologies. And much more are yet to unfold. We narrow our discussion to how we would design the Internet if we were to architect it today to meet the needs of new applications including the popular P2P networking (Napster, BitTorrent, Skype), Web2.0 mass collaboration (Wikis/ Wikipedia, blogs, MySpace social networking YouTube video sharing, user generated content and distribution), and friendly e-commerce just to name a few. We will also cover the important issues of regulation, public policy, and competition as related to the business aspects of building the next generation Internet.

• Dr. Abbas Masnavi, Technical Leader, Cisco Systems

• Eduardo Ratón, Corporate Director Internet Operations, ZED Group
• Sergi Figuerola, Coordinator of the Network Technologies Cluster, i2CAT
• Massimo Ciociola, Regional Director and CEO of Dada Iberia and Latam

Life Sciences Panel 3: Health Medicine

On average, therapeutics cost at least $800M in research and development prior to reaching the market. Many candidates fail to make it through the development process, contributing to this high cost. In addition, drugs can be approved and then withdrawn due to safety concerns. Ideally drugs should be perfect, safe and cheap, but perfection and safety come at a price. Making drugs 100% safe for a genetically diverse population is a tough task, yet the benefits of a drug to the majority can be outweighed by harm, real or perceived, to a very few. It is clear that the cost of successfully bringing drugs to the market needs to be reduced.

Therefore, many companies globally are approaching disease treatment through the fields of medical diagnostics and medical devices. With the sequencing of genomes, including human genome, there are exciting opportunities in molecular diagnostics for application at site of treatment such as hospitals and military fields. Advances in medical devices have enabled earlier detection and prevention of cancer through the use of high-resolution endoscopy and chromoendoscopy among others, needle-free treatment of diabetes have improved general patient compliance as well as better quality of life, innovative use of plastics in such areas as hip and knee replacement have improved not only life expectancy in our population, but have also increased the qualify of life for the elderly.

This panel will address innovative means for disease treatment that could be applied to a wide variety of fields such as infectious diseases, terrorism, border checking and trade, bio-terrorism, and food safety, among others.

• Rudy Mazzocchi, Managing Director, Accuitive Medical Ventures / The Innovation Factory

• Dr. Joyce Tsang, Partner, ProQuest Investments
• Dr. Lluís Pareras, Manager of the Innovation Technology Area and Business Projects Incubation of the Barcelona Medical Association (Col·legi Oficial de Metges de Barcelona)
• Jordi Martin, director general, Amgen Spain

Global State of Energy

• Steve Westly, CEO & Founder, The Westly Group and Former California State Controller

Energy Panel: Investing in Clean Energy: What Silicon Valley and Spain Can Learn From Each Other

Dollars have poured into clean energy deals in recent years, resulting in some stirring successes and notable failures. For this trends that shows no signs of abating, many questions remain unanswered:

• What's next?
• What kinds of firms will be winners in the space?
• What are the smart things that Silicon Valley and Spain have done to advance the Clean Tech movement
• How much VC/AC money has flowed into the industry in the last 12 months?
• What are some of the success stories?
• What is the role of major utilities ,such as PG&E, Duke Power,etc. in the development clean energy sources?

A panel of venture capitalists and Spanish executives will tackles these issues and more.

• Steve Westly, CEO & Founder, The Westly Group and Former California State Controller

• Dr. Tapan Munroe, Munroe Consulting and Director, LECG, LLC.
• Mike Dorsey, Managing Director at JP Morgan and Managing partner of the Bay Area Equity Fund
• Daniel Weiss, Managing director at the Angeleno Group
• Antoni Martínez, Director of the Energy Park of bTEC – Barcelona Innovació Tecnològica

ICT Panel 4: Enterprise Software

Unlike the front page attention Internet companies get from the media, the enterprise software companies tend to get sporadic coverage. As a consistently robust sector for venture investors, software industry seems to be at crossroads. Salesforce, Inc. certainly proved the attractiveness and viability of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model in a proven CRM space. SaaS’s expansion will be further bolstered by much anticipated IPOs of NetSuite and SuccessFactors. On the virtualization front, VMWare’s IPO is setting new standards and clearly prompted the $500M acquisition of XenSource which itself underlines the compelling value of both virtualization and Open Source solutions.

The Software Panel will discuss the trends and dynamics of the Internet SW industry, explore what innovations may drive the next set of SW solutions and investment opportunities, debate whether the software industry is transitioning from a “growth” to “value”, as well as other megatrends that are monitored

• Dr. Abbas Masnavi, Technical Leader, Cisco Systems

• Simon Cook, CEO, DFJ Esprit
• Ferran Lemus, CEO, High Growth
• Lluis Font, CEO, NTR Global