CAPTURING TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION, MARKET SHARE, AND REVENUE STREAMS THROUGH CORPORATE VENTURING & INNOVATION PARTNERSHIPS
	February 23rd: THE NEW DEFINITION OF CORPORATE VENTURING As the environment for corporate venturing continues, this portion of the conference is designed to spotlight how select CV programs have changed, along with ways to restructure, relaunch, and design new business models to ensure future success.
	February 24th: OPEN INNOVATION IN ACTION Key insights will be shared by leading corporate development and innovation officers to illustrate collaboration models and technology partnership trends through corporate keynote presentations and case study illustrations.

Overview:

This annual event provides corporate investors with strategies to gain a competitive advantage through corporate venturing and innovation initiatives. Capturing innovation is at the top of the corporate agenda for global growth and an important lever to increase profitability and market share. Corporate venturing is a vehicle used by corporations to capture innovation, provide a window for acquisitions and an opportunity for strategic partnerships.

Audience profile:

This conference unites CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, R&D executives, and corporate investors from major technology and tech-enabled companies with venture capitalists and CEOs of venture-backed startups.

KEYNOTE TOPICS INCLUDE:

• The corporate venturing imperative and defining the growth strategy
• Views on the pros and cons of various corporate venturing models
• Protecting investment value during challenging VC periods
• Key management imperatives of innovation performance
• Strategic venture investing and other non-investment venture partnering models
• B2B Alliances across borders - strategies and issues for International alliances
• Approaches to working with university programs - including tech transfer, sponsored research, and spinouts
• Corporate incubation models - internal and external
• Corporate spinouts, spinups, spinins
• Government partnerships, research grants and stimulus programs
• The new landscape for corporate IP licensing (In/Out)
• M&A: models, business goals, targets and strategies

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