About the event
The objective of Tech Tour Solutions 2012 is to bring together the whole European technology ecosystem including start-up and growth companies, investors and leading corporates. Tech Tour Solutions aims to help participants understand the needs of large corporations, their internal challenges and their long-term vision, as well as how this impacts upon their investment decisions. It will showcase the very best of Europe’s technology delivering disruptive solutions to market needs, insights on future investment direction within the four sectors (Disruptive Technologies, Web & Mobility, Financial Services and Sustainability).
Participants
Corporate buyers looking for cutting-edge technology and solutions to internal challenges.
Investors funding and looking to fund companies with solutions matching corporate and market needs.
Technology entrepreneurs providing dynamic and disruptive solutions.
Why should you attend?
Corporates
Opportunity to have an impact upon entrepreneurs’ and investors’ future direction by explaining business challenges and potential solutions.
Access to Europe’s most exciting emerging technology that has the potential to change the industry landscape.
Gain insight into current investment trends and understand how they impact upon your decisions.
Investors
Gain an in-depth understanding of Corporate 'hot buttons', their internal challenges and future investment strategies.
Access to Europe’s most exciting emerging technology that has the potential to change the industry landscape.
Networking opportunities with top investors, corporates and entrepreneurs, with potential to have an impact upon portfolio companies, deal flow and exit opportunities.
Entrepreneurs and Technology Companies
Gain an in-depth understanding of Corporate 'hot buttons', their internal challenges and how you can help to provide solutions.
Find new opportunities and functions for your technologies.
Networking opportunities with top investors, corporates and entrepreneurs, potentially leading to investments, partnerships or new business opportunities.
The event programme
Tech Tour Solutions is a one-day event focusing on four streams high on the corporate agenda. Each stream will be represented by a showcase of four of the best European emerging technology companies in each industry:
1. Disruptive Technologies
2. Financial Services
3. Web & Mobility
4. Sustainability
Panels prior to each stream will include large corporates discussing their internal challenges and potential opportunities as well as top investors and industry experts giving insights on future investment direction within the four sectors.
There will be workshops for entrepreneurs including corporate mentoring, a VC and investor panel and others covering aspects of building successful company.
Agenda
08:30 Delegate Registration & Welcome Coffee in Thames Suite
09:00 Welcome by Heinrich Adami, Pictet Investment Company and Sven Lingjaerde, European Tech Tour Association, Chairman
09:10 State of the Industry - Keynote Speech by Paul Harvey, Investment Banker, who has been involved in over 16 billion dollars of Technology Financing over the years.
Disruptive Technologies Stream - The Next Big Thing
09:30 Panel Moderated by Jennifer Schenker, Informilo, Editor in Chief.
Confirmed Speakers include:
Speaker TBA, Facebook
Erik Jorgensen, Investment Director, Intel Capital
Alain Tiquet, Group Director, Business Development, NVidia
10.00 4 Company Pitches
11.00 Coffee Break
Finance 2.0 Stream - How Technology is Disrupting Banking & the Future of Money
11:30 Panel Moderated by Pierre-Alain Wavre, Pictet Investment Office, Pictet
Confirmed Speakers include:
Jurgen Ingels, Co-Founder, Clear2Pay
Kosta Peric, Head of Innovation, SWIFT
12.00 4 Company Pitches
13:00 Lunch
13:50 Industry Speech TBA
Web & Mobility Stream - SoLoMo, M2M, Big Data, The Cloud
14:10 Panel Moderated by Jennifer Schenker, Informilo, Editor in Chief.
Confirmed Speakers include:
Christian Craggs, Europe Investment Manager, Telefonica Ventures
Philip von Bieberstein, Senior Business Development, Google
Curt Gunsenheimer, Partner, Iris Capital - a Orange/Publicis Fund
Bindi Karia, VC/Emerging Business Lead, Microsoft UK
Laura Merling, Senior Vice President Application Enablement, Platform & Strategy Alcatel-Lucent
14:40 4 Company Pitches
15:40 Coffee Break
Sustainability/Cleantech Stream - Smart Cities: Solving Environmental, Communication & Efficiency Challenges
16:20 Panel Moderated by Jennifer Schenker, Informilo, Editor in Chief.
Confirmed Speakers include:
Benoit Charpentier, Senior VP Investments, Total
Tore Land, Director ecomagination, GE International
Kumar Neeraj, Business Development Manager for CO2, Shell
16.50 4 Company Pitches
18:00 End of presentations
19:00 Investor AllStars Awards - 10th Annual Gala Dinner organised by GP Bullhound & GrowthBusiness.co.uk (separate registration or package): click here
Join us for the tenth annual Investor AllStars, Europe's leading investors event. We are bringing together the leading lights of Europe's venture capital and private equity communities, celebrating great investments, lucrative exits, the financing of entrepreneurship and all-round professional excellence. With plenty of new features like live tweets, interactive voting, gaming tournament, more opportunities for networking before and during the event, this is not an event you should miss. For more information on Investor AllStars 2012, click here
How to register
SINGLE TICKETS
Take advantage today of our 20% discounted Early Bird Rates:
Option 1: To register for Tech Tour only - this is for investors, corporates, entrepreneurs, click here (Early Bird Rate - £280+VAT usual rate - £350+VAT)
Option 2: If you are an adviser or work in professional services (i.e. Account, Laywer, PR, etc) and wish to register for Tech Tour Solutions 2012, please click here (Early Bird Rate - £400+VAT usual rate - £500+VAT)
JOINT PACKAGES
Option 3: To register for Tech Tour and Investor AllStars - this is for investors, corporates, entrepreneurs, click here (discounted rate £500+VAT)
Option 4: If you are an adviser or work in professional services (i.e. Account, Laywer, PR, etc) and wish to register for Tech Tour and Investor AllStars, click here (discounted rate £650+VAT)
OTHER PAYMENT OPTIONS:
If you would prefer to be invoiced for the event please contact:
Jenna Parker. Event Manager
T: 0207 250 7043
E: jenna.parker@vitessemedia.co.uk
Book hotel at a discounted rate
To book a hotel at a discounted rate please follow the instructions below
1. Follow the link: here.
2. Enter London GB as the destination.
3. The dates on which you wish to stay and the promotional code: VITE.
Contact us
For further information on the event, please contact the Events Manager, Jenna Parker on Tel: 020 7250 7043 or email jenna.parker@vitessemedia.co.uk
For further information on Tech Tour, please contact Simone Theiss on Tel: +41 22 544 6090 or email simone@techtour.com
Evening awards ceremony
- please join us for 2012 Investor AllStars
GP Bullhound are also supporting Investor AllStars 2012, recognised as the must-attend fixture in the venture capital community’s calendar, attended by VCs, the companies they back, and the advisers who help them get deals done.
In true VC style, we’re breaking down the usual boundaries for this anniversary event. There’ll be no dress code. Live tweets will be displayed on the main screen throughout the night. There’ll be interactive voting for the new categories. And we’ll be bringing a competitive yet cool element to the evening through gaming.
Investor AllStars has always brought together the leading lights of the VC world. This year, we want to maximise networking opportunities, allowing people to have fun while showing due respect to the winners and shortlisted companies selected by our authoritative judging panel.
For more information on Investor AllStars 2012, click here
About Tech Tour
The European Tech Tour Association (ETT) was founded in Geneva in 1998 in response to the growing interest in emerging technology companies in various European regions. ETT is an independent, not-for-profit organisation composed of key contributors to the high technology industry. The association recognises that continued prosperity in Europe lies in its ability to transform today's innovative projects into tomorrow's global technology leaders.
For further information, please visit www.techtour.com
