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General Session: Opening Remarks and Keynote Speaker

  • 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

PRESENTOR:

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

SPEAKERS:

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

ICT Panel 1: Mobile Broadband Panel

MODERATOR:

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

SPEAKERS:

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

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

MODERATOR:

  • Eduard Ramos, Partner and Founder, Polinomi

SPEAKERS:

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

ICT Panel 3: Next generation Internet

MODERATOR:

  • Dr. Abbas Masnavi, Technical Leader, Cisco Systems

SPEAKERS:

  • 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

ICT Panel 4: Enterprise Software

MODERATOR:

  • Dr. Abbas Masnavi, Technical Leader, Cisco Systems

SPEAKERS:

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

Global State of Biotechnology

PRESENTOR:

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

SPEAKERS:

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

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

MODERATOR:

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

SPEAKERS:

  • 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

Life Sciences Panel 2: Health and Wellness

MODERATOR:

  • Dr. Jaleh Daie, Managing Partner, Aurora Equity

SPEAKERS:

  • 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

Life Sciences Panel 3: Health Medicine

MODERATOR:

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

SPEAKERS:

  • 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

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

MODERATOR:

  • Mateu Hernandez, Director de Barcelona Activa

SPEAKERS:

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

Workshop 2E: All about financing companies

MODERATOR:

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

SPEAKERS:

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

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

MODERATOR:

  • Prof. Xavier Mondoza, Dean, ESADE Business School

SPEAKERS:

  • 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

Silicon Valley-Catalonia Convergence 2: Establishing transatlantic partnerships

MODERATOR:

  • Marc Lloveras, Head of the Financing Department, CIDEM

SPEAKERS:

  • Juan Roure, Professor of the IESE Business School and Director of IESE’s Private Investors’ Network
  • Xavier Casares, President of the Keiretsu Forum Barcelona
  • Josep Herrera Fontanals, Partner, Deloitte Abogados

Global State of Energy

SPEAKER:

  • 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

MODERATOR:

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

PANELISTS:

  • 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

Lunch and keynote (Dinar Cambra)

  • Regis McKenna, Chairman and Founder of Regis McKenna, Inc., consulting firm specializing in the application of ICT to business strategies

Awards Ceremony and Dinner

  • Miquel Valls i Maseda, President of the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce
  • Jaime Malet, President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Spain
  • Dr. William Miller, ITF Chairman of the board, Co-director, SPRIE, Stanford University
  • Josep Huguet i Biosca, Conseller, Ministry of Innovation, Universities and Enterprise of the Generalitat de Catalunya
  • Keynote: Mr. Steve Westly, CEO & Founder, The Westly Groupand Former California State Controller “From California to Catalonia and Beyond: How Regions Can Lead – and Why They Should”

Lunch: American style entrepreneurship and role of banks in thriving entrepreneurship in emerging markets

  • Doug Hamilton, SVB Capital, Managing Director, Private Equity Group