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V2C Forum 2001
Pushing Ventures to Capital


Program

Subject to changes

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2001 (anyone can attend)

12.00 - 12.30 Defining Venture-to-Capital: Role of Knowledgests vs. Capitalists in High-Growth Ventures
- opening of eBRF 2001 & MindTrek 2001 (www.etampere.fi -- www.mindtrek.org)
- Professor Jorma Routti, Founding Partner & Chairman of Creative Industries Management Oy
12.30 - 12.50 Positioning V2C Process and V2C Players in the Venture Capital Industry Value Chain
- Professor Richard Harrison, Founding Co-Editor of Venture Capital Research Journal
12.50 - 13.10 European V2C Initiatives - the Matching of Ventures, Capital, and Knowledge: Case E-forum
- Professor Rudy Aernoudt, Access to Finance, EU Enterprise DG
13.10 - 13.30 Local V2C Initiatives - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Case Tampere Seed Finance Consortium
- Marjukka Alhava,Co-Founder, Partner, and Managing Director of Ledi Oy
13.30 - 14.00 Coffee Break
14.00 - 15.20 V2C Case Stories: From Venture to Capital - Who, Why, and How?
Case 1: MediaClick Oy
Fredrik Husberg, CEO
Case 2: Geniem Oy
Tuomas Kumpula, CMO
Case 3: Biodeus Oy
Thomas Lemström, CEO
Case 4: RoadSnoop Ltd
Jari Lepistö, Business Controller
15.20 - 17.00 Panel Discussion: Defining the V2C Arena, Process, and Players - VC panel: Guus Keder, Partner of Alta Berkeley Venture Partners; William Cardwell, Partner of Eqvitec Partners; Dr. Osmo Koskisto, VP of IPR and VC at Alma Media; Ville Jumppanen, Managing Director of OKO Venture Capital
V2C panel: Arto Naukkarinen, Managing Director of Privanet Ventures; Pekka Jussila, Director of Hermia Business Development Ltd and the leader of the eTampere eAccelerator development program; Dr. Eero Silvennoinen, Director of Information Technology at Tekes; Dr. Kari Kankaala, Director of Technology Transfer at Sitra
- Panel moderated by Dr. Marko Seppä, Co-Director of eBRC and Co-Chair of the Conference
17.00 - 18.00 Cocktails sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers and CIM
18.00 - 22.00 Gala Dinner
- Key Note Speaker Guus Keder, Partner of Alta Berkeley Venture Partners
- release of the private program for Tuesday
- restaurant Fuuga, Tampere Hall



TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2001 (based on an application and invitation procedure)

09.00 - 15.00 Private one-on-one V2C meetings
- according to schedule put together during Monday afternoon
- Tampere Technology Centre Hermia