1st UPM innovatech® International
Workshop
THE NEW INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY-BASED ENTREPRENEURSHIP MODEL
2013/14 focused on: “New Technology Investment Trends: California vs Europe”
2013, December
4th
Center of Support for Technological
Innovation
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MADRID (UPM)
Introduction
The Technical
University of Madrid (UPM), within the activities promoted by the Center of
Support for Technological Innovation and in the frame of the development of the
International Campus of Excellence of
Montegancedo, launches the 1st UPM Innovatech, Innovation and Technology -Based
Entrepreneurship International Workshop.
In this journey we will
be able to know experiences and acceleration models of new technologies, in
order to promote its adoption by the most innovative markets.
Presentations,
Networking and Business Opportunities will take place in a day that connects
large companies, researchers, experts, investors, technological SMEs and new
businesses with high growth potential.
Energy, materials,
nanotechnology, health, internet, mobility, transport, security, space,
agri-food and biotechnology sectors are among others, will be highlighted from
the point of view of the exploitation of new technologies and new models of
technological acceleration.
California is once
again one of the centers of technological investment in the United States.
After accusing the crisis in 2007 prior to other parts of the world, California
is now again one of the first places where the recovery is occurring with great
dynamism of investment, technological innovation and employment. The EU aims to
boost this process and lost time at the frame of Horizon 2020.
To compare these
strategies and to learn from them is essential. Inside the function of the UPM
Center for Support of Technological Innovation of connecting technology
initiatives of the Technical University of Madrid with the leaders of the
world, in this workshop is presented much of the existing set of relationships
with investors and technologies in California.
Who is it for?
Technology based companies, R&D
and innovation responsible in Universities, researchers, spinoff companies and
technology startups, multinational companies´ managers, investors and Venture
Capital professionals.
When?
Wednesday, December 4th, 9:30 a.m.
Where?
Assembly Hall, CEDINT UPM and UPM Center for Support of
Technological Innovation
Campus de Montegancedo UPM, km 38 M-40, 28223 Pozuelo de
Alarcón, Madrid (map)
How?
Attendance is free, invitation
required.
You can request your invitation at
innovacion.tecnologica@upm.es indicating name, company, title, email address
and interest in attending the conference.
Who is already confirmed (keynote speakers):
Glenn Osaka has over 30 years of experience in building and managing information technology based businesses. He most recently served as a Senior Vice President at Juniper Networks responsable for the company´s services portfolio globally. Prior to his role at Juniper, he served as the Vice President, Strategy and Planning for Worldwide Operatios at Cisco Systems and as Vice President, Enterprise Computing at the Hewlett Packard Company. In addition to his experience wiht large corporations, he served as CEO of Reactivity Inc. a startup focused on web service integration (acquired by Cisco), and as Managing Director for the Redleaf Group, an early stage venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. Glenn has also served as a member of the Board of Directors for several U.S. based startup companies. He has also been an early stage advisor to Paypal and Insight Venture partners. In the non-profit domain, Glaann has served as a board member for CommerceNet, an organization that helped set the groundwork for global electronic commerce and as Chairman and board member for the Center for Asian American Media.
Glenn was educated at UCLA where he completed both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master in Business Administration.
Jonathan
Taplin
is director of the Annenberg Innovation Lab based at USC. Jonathan Taplin's
areas of specialization are in International Communication Management and the
field of digital media entertainment.
Taplin began his entertainment
career in 1969 as Tour Manager for Bob Dylan and The Band. In 1973 he produced
Martin Scorsese's first feature film, Mean Streets, which was selected for the
Cannes Film Festival. Between 1974 and 1996, Taplin produced 26 hours of
television documentaries (including The Prize and Cadillac Desert for PBS) and
12 feature films including The Last Waltz, Until The End of the World, Under
Fire and To Die For. His films were nominated for Oscar and Golden Globe awards
and chosen for The Cannes Film Festival seven times.
In 1984 Taplin acted as the
investment advisor to the Bass Brothers in their successful attempt to save
Walt Disney Studios from a corporate raid. This experience brought him to
Merrill Lynch, where he served as vice president of media mergers and
acquisitions. In this role, he helped re-engineer the media landscape on
transactions such as the leveraged buyout of Viacom. Taplin was a founder of Intertainer
and has served as its Chairman and CEO since June 1996. Intertainer was the
pioneer video-on-demand company for both cable and broadband Internet markets.
Taplin holds two patents for video-on-demand technologies.
Taplin was appointed by California
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in December 2006 to the California Broadband
Taskforce.
Mr. Taplin graduated from
Princeton University. He is a member of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences and sits on the advisory board of the Democracy Collaborative at the
University of Maryland. Taplin is a member of the Academy Of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences and sits on the International Advisory Board of the Singapore
Media Authority and the Board of Directors of Public Knowledge. Taplin was
appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the California Broadband Policy
Task Force in January of 2007.
Kamila Markram is a neuroscientist,
autism researcher and co-founder & CEO of Frontiers, a leading open-access
academic publisher and research network.
Kamila graduated in psychology from the Technical
University Berlin in 2003. She did her diploma thesis work at the Max-Planck
Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt under the supervision of Sergio Neuenschwander and Wolf Singer
focusing on fast coherent responses to visual inputs as a function of prior
synchronization states in the visual cortex. She obtained her PhD degree in
Neuroscience at the Brain Mind Institute at the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in 2006 under the supervision of Carmen Sandi,
where her work in the Laboratory of Behavioral Genetics was focused on
molecular alterations involved in emotional learning and characterization of a
rat model of autism. She then joined the Laboratory of Neural Ensemble
Physiology at the BMI, EPFL as a post-doc with Miguel Nicolelis
where she continued working on autism using parallel multi-electrode,
multi-site recordings in a rat model to unravel the brain circuit alterations
underlying autism.
Since 2008 she is the autism project group leader in the Laboratory of Neural
Microcircuits, BMI, EPFL. This team studies autism in several rodent models
using a spectrum of non-invasive and invasive approaches at the genetic,
molecular, cellular, synaptic, local circuit, circuit, systems and behavioral
level. Together with Henry Markram, she co-developed the "Intense World Theory of Autism” which proposes that many
symptoms of autism may be secondary to exaggerated fear memories and an overly
intense world.
(more coming son)
Organizers
and sponsors
About the Center for Support for Technological
Innovation CAIT
The Center for Support for Technological Innovation at the Technical
University of Madrid was founded in the framework of the development of the
International Campus of Excellence Montegancedo, with the aim of promoting the
technology transfer to market and productive relations between different public
and private institutions.
The Center manages and supports initiatives as UPM innovatech Innovationa and Commercialization Program; actúaupm Entrepreneurship Program; and Business Center & Living Labs.
About UPM_innovatech®
Innovation and Commercialization of Technologies Program
UPM_innovatech® Innovation and
Commercialization of Technologies Program provides supporting services for the
commercialization of technologies generated in the UPM with potential
application in the market, ranging from the detection of innovative
technologies, developing commercial dossiers based on them, the specialized
training in marketing and sales of technology, to advising in the final
negotiation of commercial contracts.
The program offers a range of additional services to support and
accelerate collaboration between companies and the UPM in the field of
innovation and technology (screening solutions and know-how, coordination of
work meetings, joint organization of conferences, technology watch).
The running initiative of generating a catalogue of UPM Innovatech
Technologies Marketplace now has a portfolio of 38 innovative technologies in
various sectors.
About UPM actúaupm®
Entrepreneurship Program
The UPM Entrepreneurship Program has the main objective of building
companies with high growth potential in the framework of the Technical
University of Madrid, with activities ranging from the detection of ideas,
support in developing the business plan and seeking funding by investors.
From the very beginning, the Program has detected more than 2,200 UPM
researchers and student business projects, has worked continuously with 550
teams and has supported the running of 138 companies in the period between 2007
and 2013, which have captured €28M from investors.
In 2013, the UPM Entrepreneurship Program counts as sponsors with
Accenture, Creania Labs, eGauss, InvestBan, ROUSAUD COSTAS DURAN SLP and Savior
Venture Capital, and as collaborators IEN Polytechnic Business School and
Revista Emprendedores.
It has recently launched the actúa_COM program, Ist Open Innovation Competition of the Center for
Open Middleware UPM (COM) with the support of Banco Santander, ISBAN and
Produban.
More information at www.upm.es/actuaupm
The Centre is involved in the Master
and Doctorate programme on Economy and Innovation Management (MEGIN)
organised by UPM, UCM and UAM universities. Master and phD students are invited
to participate in the workshop.
More information about I innovatech International
Workshop at:
t: 91 336 4687/ 9201
