Abstracts


    Panel 1: 
    18 February 2019, Monday
    15.00 – Fuji Hall 2

    Today’s CEOs as Tomorrow’s Qualified Angel Investors: Fostering Economic Development by Involving CEOs in Early-Stage and Post-Early Stage Equity Markets 

    On their retirement, corporate CEOs will have more time to mentor start-ups, scale-ups, high-growth businesses, and SMEs. They come with a good financial package and a vast network that they have built over the years. The only thing they may lack is know-how: they need to learn about the principles of investing in start-ups and about founding a company from scratch. Now is the time for the CEOs to take a smart step — to contemplate their potential as future angel investors. This panel will focus on ways to support the transitioning of today’s CEOs to qualified angel investors.

    Moderator
    Asma Bashir, Chairwoman, Centuro Global, UK

    Paul Doany, Chief Executive Officer, Turk Telekom, Turkey
    Peter Cowley, President, The European Trade Association of Business Angels (EBAN), BelgiumUgur Talayhan, Chief Executive Officer, Swissotel The Bosphorus Istanbul, Turkey

    Panel 2: 
    18 February 2019, Monday
    15.30 – Fuji Hall 2

    Leveraging Corporate Innovation by Engaging with External Ecosystems: Entrepreneurs, Start-Ups, Scale-Ups, High-Growth Businesses, Crowdfunders and Angel Investors 

    As the market environment changes, corporates have to adapt to new market dynamics to stay ahead of shifts in the market. Opening themselves to external ecosystems can add value to corporate innovation activities. This panel will focus on the question of how corporates can connect with external ecosystems to collaborate with early-stage and post-early stage entrepreneurship markets and to accelerate the innovation process within the corporate.

    Moderator
    Fadi Saab, Chairman, Trans Capital Finance, Lebanon

    Arton Celina, Chief Executive Officer, BPB Bank, Kosovo
    Patrick Kedziora , Founder & CEO, KedzohDental, USA
    Rui Falcao, Co-founder and Angel Investor at REDAngels, Portugal

    Panel 3: 
    18 February 2019, Monday
    16.00 – Fuji Hall 2

    Entrepreneur-In-Residence Programmes to Cultivate Intrapreneurship: An Option for Accelerating Corporate Innovation from Within 

    While corporate cooperation with innovative start-ups focuses on making use of the external entrepreneurial potential of new market players, the introduction of an ‘intrapreneurship’ initiative can also foster innovation potential. Some corporates have developed a different kind of intrapreneurship program known as ‘entrepreneurs-in-residence’ (EIR). Based on the concept of venture capital (VC) companies, EIRs develop their own business models – financially backed by a VC or with the support of companies within the VC portfolio. Corporates enable EIRs to develop and/or launch business models within the corporate venture portfolio. This panel will focus on ways to manage both initiatives efficiently and to cooperate with external start-ups for their mutual benefit. 

    Moderator
    Nikhil Agarwal, Senior Advisor, Federation for Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI),  India

    Julius Akinyemi, Resident Entrepreneur at MIT Media Lab, USA
    Robert Lugowski, Managing Partner at CobinAngels, Poland
    Sabur Khan, Chairman, Daffodil International University, Bangladesh

    Panel 4: 
    18 February 2019, Monday
    16.30 – Fuji Hall 2

    Corporate Innovation Accelerators: A Win-Win Opportunity for Start-Ups and Corporate Ventures 

    Corporates establish corporate innovation accelerators to support various internal innovation management activities, to implement new business models, and make good use of the entrepreneurial potential of start-ups. The fundamental aim of such an initiative is to provide an interface with the external ecosystem and to cooperate with new market players. In this model, start-ups have access to established corporate infrastructure and are able to have their solutions challenge by experts in the corporate. In this panel, the discussants will share their experiences with their own corporate innovation centres and offer tips on best practices.

    Moderator
    Faruk Inaltekin, Chief Executive Officer, Bilkent Cyberpark, Turkey

    Etienne Kouadio Doh, General Manager, Francophone West Africa, MainOne, Cote d'Ivoire
    Hasan Khakbaz, Vice-President of Isfahan Science and Technology Town (ISTT), Iran
    Mohamed Fetah Krichene, General Manager, Sfax Technopark, Tunisia