"Innovations’ DNA Club" project ( i-DNA Club)
Dear colleagues,
We invite you to a meeting of the DNA Innovations Club, which will focus on the commercialization of new products/technologies/services of startups through their acquisition by large companies and corporations.
The meeting will start with reports by representatives of Microsoft and IBM, after which we will discuss key issues with the speakers and invited experts. The discussion will be held in an informal atmosphere, allowing the attendees to discuss the issues raised in the reports and share their opinions.
Our invited experts will include Sergei Vykhodtsev, head of Velle, as well as representatives of IBM, Microsoft, Du Pont and startups with a successful track record of selling their technologies to large companies.
Agenda:
| 4:00 – 4:30 p.m. | Registration | | 4:30 – 4:40 p.m. | Opening of the meeting, welcoming speech by the organizers
| | 4:40 – 5:00 p.m. | “Commercialization of startups: innovation activities as seen by big business”
Oleg Byakhov, Business Development Director, IBM Russia and CIS
Gaidar Magdanurov, Managing Director, Microsoft Seed Fund, Russia | | 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. | Round-table discussion
| | 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. | Standing buffet, networking
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Target audience: innovation entrepreneurs and startups interested in commercializing their products by selling their technologies/solutions/business to large companies; representatives of large corporations interested in raising the level of their competitiveness.
Date & Time: 16 February 2012, Thursday, 4:30–7:30 p.m.
Registration starts at 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Ernst & Young Office
Address: 77 Sadovnicheskaya Naberezhnaya, building 1.
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We look forward to seeing you at the event.
Contacts – Konstantin Zakharov, Нead of the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovations, Russia & CIS, tel: +7 (495) 755 9700, Email: Konstantin.Zakharov@ru.ey.com
