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AGENDA:
0830 Opening Plenary – Emerging Innovations
Plenary Hall, CMEX
This plenary session will explore new global innovations and the entrepreneurs that are attracting funding, breaking the status quo and changing the world.
0930 Future-Ready Women
0937 Group Photo
0945 Coffee & Networking Break
1000 – 1215 Curbside Coaching
Pre-registration required
1000 Training Session I – Engaging the Mobile Generation
Room M104
Create useful apps, find your niche market and connect to mobile payments with help from these session leaders.
Training Session II – Creative Execution: Bringing Ideas to Life
Room M105
Implementing your vision through product ideation and design.
Training Session III – Stand Out: Personal Branding
Barnes/McDowell – Fischer Conference Center
Amplify your business footprint and become a thought-leader in your field.
Training Session IV – Building Startup Communities
Lane – Fischer Conference Center
Learn how to connect your business to the local ecosystem to become a leading voice in your community.
1100 Break
1115 Training Session V – Leveraging Technology Platforms
Room M104
Engaging, educating and empowering youth and women entrepreneurs to accelerate the growth of technology industries in emerging markets.
Training Session VI – How to Sustainably Manage Growth
Room M105
Resources and tools to successfully push your company to the next level of growth.
Training Session VII – Pitch the Media
Barnes/McDowell – Fischer Conference Center
Learn how to attract and talk to media experts about your business products or services.
Training Session VIII – Passion, People, and Profit
Lane – Fischer Conference Center
This session will focus on improving the viability of social business models using case studies of companies that are scaling sustainable, purpose-driven businesses. Q&A will follow the session.
1230 Lunch
Ford Plaza
1345 – Spark the Fire Pitch Competition – Round II
1700 Rooms C101, P101, E104
During the second half of the day, thirty-six GES+ Round 1 pitch participants will have the opportunity to pitch their company to a panel of investors.
1345 GES+ Master Classes
GES+ entrepreneurs will divide into three Master Classes for immersive sessions taught by experts in the field. Participants can select from three classes:
Master Class I – Product Brainstorming 101
Room M104
Coming up with new products is a difficult task, but it doesn’t have to be. There are several easy techniques for coming up with new product ideas. This class will focus on three of these techniques.
Master Class II – Design Thinking with Sprout and Stanford D School
Koret-Taube 130
Attendees will explore how design thinking can play a powerful role for discovery, inspiration, empathy, and rapid prototyping as part of an entrepreneur’s toolkit. This session will utilize human-centered design in an immersive challenge experience. The d.school will lead a rapid cycle design challenge with support from HP.
Master Class III – Courageous Entrepreneurship
Barnes/McDowell – Fischer Conference Center
Entrepreneurship is nothing but a series of courageous conversations – asking for funding; making your first hire; negotiating a sale; working through co-founder issues. Your success as entrepreneur can be measured by the number of courageous conversations you are willing to have. In this workshop we learn how to identify them, prepare for them, and have them, well.
1600 Ignite Talks
Fifteen minute talks by high level leaders in the field of entrepreneurship and business for all GES+ entrepreneurs.
Emcee: Evan Ryan, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State
1700 Final Pitch Competition
CMEX Auditorium
Six winning companies from the afternoon Round 2 pitch competition will compete on the main stage in front of panel of judges for a chance to win funding, prizes and valuable mentorship.
Final Judging Panel
1800 Closing & Award Ceremony
CMEX Auditorium
1830 GES Opening Reception presented by Silicon Valley Bank
Arrillaga Alumni Center
0800 Registration
0900 Opening Plenary
Memorial Auditorium
Welcome Remarks
Entrepreneurial Inspiration
TED-style Talks:
Fireside Chats:
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Success Stories from Previous GES:
1130 Lunch
1130 Office Hours (invite only)
Faculty Building East and Google for Entrepreneurs, Ford Plaza
1130 GIST Tech-I Pitch Competition
Burnham Pavilion
The GIST Tech-I Pitch Competition is an annual competition for science and technology entrepreneurs from 135 emerging economies. Over 1000 young innovators applied with a pitch video and summary. Applications were reviewed first by a panel of experts and then by the online voting public to determine the top 30. Come see GIST’s 15 Idea Stage finalists compete for a share of the $70,000 USD prize pot.
1300 Speed Networking (invite only)
Encina Hall
1300 Breakout 1 – Solving Tomorrow’s Global Challenges
Cemex Auditorium
The future’s most pressing challenges will only be solved by those willing to take bold risks in business and research. This panel will feature world renowned innovators and entrepreneurs, all of whom are at the forefront of solving the challenges of tomorrow.
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Breakout 2 – Igniting Silicon Valley to Accelerate Global Entrepreneurship
Bechtel Conference Center
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Breakout 3 – What Attracts Venture Capital/Private Equity
McCaw Hall
Panel explores how (a) investing in emerging markets is a very mainstream activity; (b) major investors are active and investing in great companies; and (c) there are sophisticated Private Equity/Venture Capital firms from these markets.
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Breakout 4 – Preparing for Growth
Koret –Taube Conference Center
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1400 Transition
1400 Office Hours (invite only)
Google for Entrepreneurs, Ford Plaza
1415 Breakout 5 – Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership
Cemex Auditorium
Join successful and influential women who will share their experiences and offer advice on building entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe, accessing capital, fostering diverse talent, and what it takes to be an effective leader.
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Breakout 6 – Entrepreneurship in Africa: “Glocal (global and local) capital for SSA Entrepreneurs”
Koret-Taube Conference Center
We know Africa is the hot spot for technology innovation, however the lack of early stage capital from both local and international investors is slowing down the pace of technology catalyzing Africa’s leadership of the digital economy. This panel explores how investors from Silicon Valley can partner with investors from Africa to bring mentoring and early stage capital to Sub-Saharan African entrepreneurs.
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Master Class 1 – Crowdfunding and Angel Investing
Fischer Conference Center
Many entrepreneurs worldwide find themselves unable to access traditional sources of funding through conventional banking systems. This panel focuses on alternative sources of financing: angel investing and crowd funding. Attendees will gain insights from expert panelists representing both of these exciting sectors.
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Master Class 2 – How to Build a Startup Ecosystem from Scratch in an Emerging Market
Fischer Conference Center
Silicon Valley has fueled startup fever the world over. From Mumbai to Mexico City, men and women in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East are trying their hands at being an entrepreneur. Yet as Silicon Valley proves, an entrepreneur is only one part of startup success. Context – where you are an entrepreneur matters. In this panel we will take a look at the birth, evolution, and scale of entrepreneurial ecosystems worldwide; systems that are poised to yield unicorns in the next decade.
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Master Class 3 – How to Pitch a VC
Fischer Conference Center
Frank Chen is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and leads the firm’s research and deal team. In this session, Frank will walk entrepreneurs through how to pitch a venture capital firm and offer best practices from what data is important to walking through the founder’s story
Master Class 4 – Bootstrapping and Non-Commercial Financing
Fischer Conference Center
Focus on the growing network of non-commercial funders targeting entrepreneurs as an engine for economic growth and poverty reduction.
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Master Class 5 – Blitz Scaling: Best Practices, Partnerships, Culture, Technology, and Tools as You Swiftly Grow your Brand
Seawell Boardroom
The session will focus on people practices and culture at all stages of growth; how you establish practices to scale as you scale, and strategies and insights for managing and strengthening a workforce. As you blitz-scale, how do you take innovation to the next level? Even if you’re not a tech company, do you have the tech knowledge you need, and when you find technology that is interesting to you, do you partner with it or acquire it?
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Master Class 6 – Y Combinator Unlocked: How to Build a Successful Startup
McClelland Building
Y Combinator Partner Michael Seibel and Y Combinator COO Qasar Younis will be interviewed by Claire Lee, Head of Early Stage at Silicon Valley Bank, in a session on how to build a successful startup. They will give interactive advice on the YC application process and invite all GES entrepreneur delegates to apply to the Y Combinator.
Master Class 7 – Secrets of Silicon Valley
McClelland Building
Educating attending entrepreneurs via real example of how they can best leverage Silicon Valley to access experience, knowledge, best practices, raise investment, and develop business and distribution partners. A panel of 3-5 early stage non-U.S. based startup Founders/CEOs who managed to get Silicon Valley VCs to invest in their startups and/or entering the U.S. market by establishing platform channels with large U.S. corporations.
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Master Class 8 – Bridging the Missing Middle via Ecosystem Development and Local Investing
Faculty East Building
Even the most capable entrepreneurs are not able to grow businesses in many emerging markets due to lack of local investment resources. Please join the panel as they discuss different ways to get funding to the missing middle – companies that are beyond friends & family funding, but too small for banks or venture growth capital. The panel comprises a diverse set of experts, including private and public sources of investment, business readiness firms, and incubators who will discuss innovative solutions for getting companies across the funding valley of death and help build sustainable local ecosystems.
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Master Class 9 – For-Benefit Entrepreneurship in Action: Global Leadership for Sustainable Development
Faculty East Building
In September 2015 President Obama, along with the leader of every country in the world, committed to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a bold set of 17 global goals and 169 targets to be achieved by 2030. The SDGs are a powerful expression of leaders and citizens committing to a brighter future that offers a unifying, universal vision toward which all countries can move. The SDGs converge social, economic and environmental goals, and chart the course to solve the world’s most pressing problems. But the price tag to achieve them is no less than US $4 trillion per year. With a cost that dwarfs government budgets and philanthropy combined, the only path to success is a huge expansion of social finance, and an exponential growth in for-benefit businesses – enterprises that aim for positive social and environmental impact, not just financial return.
Our panelists are leaders in this field who are changing the landscapes in which they work, from Zimbabwe to India to Silicon Valley. Our speakers will share their successes and challenges, and illuminate how for-benefit entrepreneurship is contributing to the SDGs and how impact investment can drive more capital into sectors that will help achieve them. The session will be an interactive discussion that aims to catalyze new commitments and partnerships for action in 2016 and beyond.
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1430 Office Hours (invite only)
Faculty Building East
1430 GIST Tech-I Pitch Competition
Burnham Pavilion
The GIST Tech-I Pitch Competition is an annual competition for science and technology entrepreneurs from 135 emerging economies. Over 1000 young innovators applied with a pitch video and summary. Applications were reviewed first by a panel of experts and then by the online voting public to determine the top 30. Come see GIST’s 15 Startup Stage finalists compete for a share of the $70,000 USD prize pot.
1515 Coffee Break
1600 Speed Networking (invite only)
Encina Hall
1600 Breakout 7 – Impact Investing: Houseboat or Brunch?
Cemex Auditorium
What’s all the fuss over impact investing anyway? Engage with this panel of fearless investors as they debate the rise of impact investing, the trade-offs between profit and purpose, and the barriers to tipping good intent to action. You vote – houseboat or brunch?
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Breakout 8 – Silicon Valley to Silicon Burma: Creating Startup and Investor Ecosystems Around the World
Bechtel Conference Center
Healthy entrepreneurial climates help startups succeed ‒ even in nascent ecosystems where access to funding is limited. How can emerging markets provide support for founders and help them develop successful startups? 500 Startups Founding Partner, Dave McClure will show a strategy for scaling startup investment and developing robust startup ecosystems that can be replicated globally. 500 Startups Partner, Monique Woodard, highlights the $2.5 trillion in combined black and Latino purchasing power and shifting market forces that are shaping the future economy and creating the next big emerging market ‒ right here in the United States. She will highlight success stories from the 500 Startups portfolio and their vision to unlock capital and resources that will make them the most active investor in black and Latino founders.
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Breakout 9 – China Entrepreneurship
McCaw Hall
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In a challenging global macro environment, innovation offers hope for growth in China. For a country going through a challenging transition from an investment-based manufacturing-oriented economy to a consumption-led service-driven economy, innovation will be key to separate winners from losers in a fiercely competitively environment. This panel comprises leaders of China’s burgeoning class of successful entrepreneurs and the investors who are funding them. They will offer their views of the current climate for entrepreneurship in China and the prospects for innovation-driven growth.
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Breakout 10 – Cashing Out: The Potential for FinTech for Emerging Markets
Koret-Taube Conference Center
Over the past 3 years, a wave of technology companies using software and the Internet to disrupt and disaggregate traditional banking has popularized the term “FinTech.” The promise of these companies is that they will lower costs and give consumers, borrowers and investors more choice, all while reducing risk in the system. In emerging markets where 90% of transactions are still in cash and more than half of people are still outside the formal financial system, what are the real opportunities for FinTech to accelerate inclusion, investment, digitization and stability?
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1745 Dell PolicyHack Powered by the Kauffman Foundation
Cemex Auditorium
Join Dell and the Kaufmann Foundation for an interactive policy hack-a-thon that tasks teams of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, youth and policy experts to design solutions to pressing global policy challenges faced by entrepreneurs. Five teams will have five minutes to pitch their idea to a panel of experts and a wider audience. Then, the audience – you- will vote for the winning solution. The winning team will receive a Dell product and commitment from Dell and the Kauffman Foundation to help further develop the proposal.
0930 Partner Plenary
Memorial Auditorium
1115 Coffee/Networking
1145 Breakout 11 – Trends in Entrepreneurship that are Changing the World
Cemex Auditorium
Access to technology, financing and human capital is rapidly evolving for startup ecosystems around the world. Mary Grove, Director of Google for Entrepreneurs, discusses four key entrepreneurship trends in this evolution and how startups, community leaders and governments can take advantage of them.
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Breakout 12 – Entrepreneurship in the Middle East: Youth Tech and Entrepreneurship: Unlocking the Middle East’s Economic Potential
Koret-Taube Conference Center
The rapidly increasing access to technology in the Middle East and the region’s comparatively young population (over 30 of which are between the ages of fifteen and twenty-nine) are the two main factors contributing to a quiet technological and societal transformation in the Middle East. Creating an economic ecosystem conducive to technology-enabled entrepreneurship is crucial for this transformation. This panel will focus on how to unlock the Middle East’s economic potential.
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Master Class 10 – The Shared Economy and Emerging Markets
Fischer Conference Center
Driven by the ubiquity of smartphones and the emergence of peer-to-peer platforms, the sharing economy has grown rapidly in recent years and has tremendous potential to empower entrepreneurs, create jobs, and deliver valuable services around the world. This panel explores how the model is being adapted and refined in order to meet new demands in emerging markets.
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Master Class 11 – Impact Startups 2020:
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How Mobile is Eating Frontier Markets
Fischer Conference Center
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Startup founders need to build for the future today. How is technology in frontier markets changing and what do startups and impact investors need to do to succeed by 2020? How will high Android/smartphone penetration, mobile money, big data and artificial intelligence affect business plans and team building?
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DD Ganguly – President, iMerit
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Master Class 12 – Education technology
Fischer Conference Center
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Master Class 13 – Operating in Low-Tech Environments
Fischer Conference Center
This panel has experience operating in low-tech environments across the globe. This session will outline the solutions the panelists have created to meet the challenges of operating in low-tech environments, as well as outlining the future opportunities that traditionally low-tech environments offer to entrepreneurs.
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Master Class 14 – An Immigrant’s Story
Seawell Boardroom
Leaving your home to start a new life in another country involves something inherently entrepreneurial. Perhaps that is why immigrants tend to start businesses at a disproportionately higher rate than native-born Americans. This session will discuss what it takes to be an entrepreneur in a country not your home.
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Master Class 15 – Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa: Infrastructure and the Enabling Environment
McClelland Building
This session will analyze the technology entrepreneurship ecosystems in SSA and highlight the infrastructure needs, gaps, and opportunities. Participants will present current market solutions that are creating an enabling environment for Africa’s digital entrepreneurs and discuss the next wave of market opportunities across leading industries.
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Master Class 16 – Business Model Innovations
McClelland Building
We will discuss the very creative businesses that entrepreneurs build when they understand the way that people live and work locally, especially in emerging markets. A global panel of experts will give a fascinating set of examples of startups that embody business models inspired by their home markets.
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Master Class 17 – Protecting Intellectual Capital
Faculty East Building
When you’re an entrepreneur, you create extraordinary content- and all of it is worth protecting. But where do you start? Join Master Class 17: Protecting Intellectual Capital for a discussion featuring Bahrain’s youngest inventor, the creator of the United Kingdom’s next hit mobile app, California’s premier legal aid to entrepreneurs, and a moderator with 35 years of business consulting experience. This Master Class will teach you about the resources you need to own your brand, protect your intellectual property, and grow your business.
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Master Class 18 – How to Effectively Pitch Your Story to the Media
Faculty East Building
Pitching a convincing story or news angle requires preparation, focus, hard work and persistence – the same effort that goes into an investor pitch. There are close to 30 million businesses in the US so if you want your story pitch to be taken seriously, put in the time pitching a story you know will be read. To be heard, an entrepreneur needs to have a convincing story and one tailored to the media you are pitching.
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1245 Lunch
1345 Speed Networking (invite only)
Encina Hall
1345 GIST Tech-I Pitch Competition
Burnham Pavilion
The GIST Tech-I Pitch Competition is an annual competition for science and technology entrepreneurs from 135 emerging economies. Over 1000 young innovators applied with a pitch video and summary. Applications were reviewed first by a panel of experts and then by the online voting public to determine the top 30. Come see GIST’s 15 Idea Stage finalists compete for a share of the $70,000 USD prize pot.
1345 Breakout 13 – David and Goliath Linking to International Supply Chains
Cemex Auditorium
Developing partnerships with governments and large corporations can be an important stepping stone for small and medium-sized businesses to scale and achieve new levels of growth. This panel will feature corporate executives who have successfully assisted small and medium-sized businesses with entering their supply chains, both in the U.S. and internationally. Through sharing best practices, delegates will learn how to build connections with corporations and take their businesses to the next level.
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Breakout 14 – Social Entrepreneurs: Drafting Blueprints for a Beyond-Better World
Bechtel Conference Center
Powered by partnerships across sectors and a spectrum of capital, social entrepreneurs are drafting blueprints to transform suboptimal systems and make real a more just, peaceful, and prosperous world.
As President and CEO of New America, Anne-Marie Slaughter, recently wrote in theFinancial Times: “It is interesting, and significant, that social entrepreneurs have found ways to work with government rather than around it.”
Come hear how social entrepreneurs around the world are catalyzing big, systems change by leveraging a range of investment models, approaches, and tools, and working with government, corporate, and civil society partners to scale their solutions. But they didn’t do this overnight–also learn about the challenges they faced and how they tackled them.
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Breakout 15 – Exponential Entrepreneurs: Driving Global Innovation through Robust Mentoring
McCaw Hall
The most talented entrepreneurs can – and do – change the world! And behind every amazing entrepreneur, there is almost always an equally amazing mentor – or a whole group of mentors. LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman has commented on the power of mentorship and networks that: “Life is a team sport. And, as much as entrepreneurs look like individuals who explore the desert by themselves in order to find riches, they are actually successful based upon their ability to find, build, connect, and collaborate with important networks.”
This panel will explore the idea that mentorship networks are reaching farther than ever before, bolstered by organizations like Endeavor and Village Capital, who have facilitated thousands of breakthrough mentoring connections over the past two decades, and that it is these “exponential entrepreneurs” who leverage the power of mentorship to multiply their own impact who become the biggest success stories.
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Breakout 16 – How the U.S. Government Catalyzes Investment in Emerging Markets
Koret-Taube Conference Center
This session will show how U.S. government agencies like OPIC and USAID harness the power of entrepreneurs to drive economic growth, scale development innovations, and combat poverty. The panelists will examine how the U.S. government directly supports entrepreneurs to help them test innovations and become investment-ready; how we partner with investors to catalyze investment into entrepreneurs; and how we strengthen the ecosystems in which entrepreneurs operate by tackling the range of market barriers and failures.
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1400 Office Hours (invite only)
Google for Entrepreneurs, Ford Plaza
1445 Coffee Break/Networking
1500 Breakout 17 – Investing in South Asia: What’s Next for Entrepreneurship in India, Pakistan, and Beyond
Cemex Auditorium
From Bollywood to the world’s cheapest smartphone, South Asia is known for its creativity and innovation. In recent years, this subcontinent has also become the fastest growing region in the world. One factor for this success is that local entrepreneurs have not only attracted overseas investment to South Asia, but they have also reinvigorated “homegrown” and diaspora investors. This session will highlight the robust investment environment in places such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka; explore considerations for making investments in the region; and preview what is on the horizon, including innovative business models that deliver both strong profits and meaningful social impact.
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Breakout 18 – Navigating the ASEAN Market: Successes and Challenges in Investing in Southeast Asia ASEAN Connect
Koret-Taube Conference Center
As an economic powerhouse with a predominantly young populace, Southeast Asia reigns supreme in entrepreneurship and investment opportunities. This is one reason that innovation and entrepreneurship are featured so prominently under President Obama’s U.S. – ASEAN Connect initiative, announced in February. The Innovation Connect pillar of U.S. – ASEAN Connect supports Southeast Asia’s emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem through policy support and direct engagement with entrepreneurs. This Innovation Connect session will highlight investment successes and challenges in this incredibly diverse region, spanning from economic superpowers like Indonesia to frontier markets like Myanmar. In what areas and industries do the greatest opportunities lie for investors? What role can impact investing play in developing the startup ecosystem and elevating local communities to the next level?
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Noni Sri Ayati Purnomo – CEO, Blue Bird Group
Master Class 19 – The Creative Economy
Fischer Conference Center
Creative ideas and transformational thinking are key drivers of innovation and economic growth, but they need proper cultivation to become viable businesses. This panel – which includes avant-garde fashion designers, media producers, restaurateurs, and social advocates – will explore the entrepreneurial spirit and the ingredients for success in the creative economy.
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Master Class 20 – Ecosystem Hackathon
Fischer Conference Center
Attend a unique master class where you are the teacher. Participate in an immersive and interactive process – led by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and 8works Consulting – exemplifying how start up ecosystems are being built around the world. Join us as we harvest the collective intelligence of Summit participants, through sharing of ideas, stories and solutions to challenges of culture, connectivity, top-down enablement and the measurement of start-up ecosystems.
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Master Class 21 – Fireside Chat with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki
Fischer Conference Center
Interviewed by Angie Chang, Vice President, Hackbright Academy, Founder of Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners
Master Class 22 – Applying Digital Technologies to Improve Agriculture Outcomes
Fischer Conference Center
A panel with field based AgTech entrepreneurs who are using innovative digital technologies to improve agriculture outputs in developing countries. Possible topics for discussion include: the importance of localization, barriers to scale, regulatory barriers, success stories on behavior change, promising new technologies.
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Master Class 23 – Lessons From the Front Lines: How True Impact is Realized
Seawell Boardroom
Hear first-hand from the Draper Richards Kaplan (DRK) Foundation team and their social entrepreneurs how to create real impact across the globe. Join an intimate conversation with DRK’s most impactful social entrepreneurs who are addressing some of society’s most complex issues from healthcare to extreme poverty around the globe. Since 2002, DRK has invested in over 100 social entrepreneurs who are impacting millions of lives around the globe with innovative and scalable solutions. The latest fund brings the total capital they’ve stewarded to more than $100 million and have been the early stage capital for legendary social enterprises including Kiva, Room To Read, One Acre Fund and Grassroot Soccer, to name just a few.
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Master Class 24 – Energy: Off-Grid
McClelland Building
Off-grid energy solutions for hard-to-reach and underserved populations present a quickly growing market that includes a number of opportunities for innovation. As more enterprises enter this space, and investors show rapidly increasing interest, off-grid energy solutions such as household solar systems, are ready to scale. This panel will dive into a conversation about the direction of clean energy and the impact that it will have on the future of development. We will discuss emerging trends in this dynamic industry, including innovative off-grid business models, investor strategies, and how donor organizations are helping to set a pathway to sustainability and steady growth.
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Master Class 25 – Energy: The Green Economy
McClelland Building
The Green Economy refers to an economy that aims for sustainable development without degrading the environment by limiting environmental risks. With perspectives varying from academic research to on the ground implementation, the conversation will cover new technologies and approaches, including investable clean energy opportunities. In this panel, speakers will discuss approaches to taking new technologies from Silicon Valley and building clean energy companies in the developing world.
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Master Class 26 – Healthcare Entrepreneurship
Faculty East Building
This session will explore how multinational giants and foundations, and asset managers, are investing millions in emerging market entrepreneurs in the health sector.
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Master Class 27 – Leveraging Partnership to Meet Growth Needs of Global Health Enterprises
Faculty East Building
The role of impact investment for social enterprises is a key theme of this year’s GES. The actual flow of impact investment to the health sector, however, is lagging far behind other sectors. According to a GIIN 2015 report, of the $9.3B disperses investments in East Africa today, only $1.4B (15%) is from private sector investors. Of these, only $60M (~4%) is invested in the health sector. As a result, many global health enterprises need to tap into public financing and leverage partnerships with private companies to meet their growth needs. This panel brings together entrepreneurs who have successfully built partnerships with private companies, intermediaries who facilitate such connections, and USAID’s GHB as a public sector funder to discuss their experience making partnerships work.
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1600 Coffee Break/Networking
1630 Breakout 19 – Entrepreneurship in the Americas
Koret-Taube Conference Center
In recent years, Latin America has emerged as a vibrant and fast-growing ecosystem that has sourced top entrepreneurs and global startups. In this panel, we will discuss exciting startup trends in the region and showcase stories of entrepreneurs who have discovered hidden market opportunities with global reach. The combination of the availability of technical and creative talent hungry to build the next big thing, as well as concerted efforts by governments to invest in the institutional frameworks that are conducive to innovation have made Latin America a fertile ground for founders. In this panel, we will discuss the landscape of innovation and entrepreneurship in the region, as well as feature stories of inspiring entrepreneurship journeys in the Americas.
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Breakout 20 – Technology for Entrepreneurship with a Social Impact
Bechtel Conference Center
This panel will feature individuals whose companies are delivering advanced technological solutions to real societal problems. These innovators will provide an authoritative opinion on how technology can and should be used to deliver social impact.
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Breakout 21 – Emerging Global Technologies: Virtual Reality, Internet of Things, 3-D Printing
McCaw Hall
Please join this exciting session to learn about some of the hottest technology trends and how they relate to spurring entrepreneurship. Virtual reality, the internet of things and 3D printing, robots and drones are all tangible tools that present opportunities for a wide range of start-ups. Learn from the foremost experts in the field how you can get in the game.
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Breakout 22 – Charting an Enduring Strategy: How Entrepreneurs Can Embrace Failure
Cemex Auditorium
This session explores how to translate setbacks and failure into success, and examines how in Silicon Valley, failure is perceived as having the courage to pursue a lot of big ideas, but in emerging markets, failure for entrepreneurs can be considered a dead-end. Hear how successful entrepreneurs have learned from mistakes and refused to accept ‘No’ as an answer on their way to building successful enterprises.
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1645 GIST Tech-I Awards Ceremony
Burnham Pavilion
The GIST Tech-I Pitch Competition is an annual competition for science and technology entrepreneurs from 135 emerging economies. Over 1000 young innovators applied with a pitch video and summary. Applications were reviewed first by a panel of experts and then by the online voting public to determine the top 30. The winners will be announced and cash prizes awarded.
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• Dan Price, Gravity Payments, Keynote
• Natali Ardianto, Tiket.com, 2012 Tech-I finalist
• Alvin Chai, Netizen Experience, 2013Tech-I finalist
• David Gluckman, Lumkani, 2014 Tech-I finalist
1745 Closing Reception
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17:00 às 18:00
The Talk:Learn the exact marketing system of leading Silicon Valley apps to supercharge your mobile growth
Presented by: Nagi Salloum, mobile growth expert in Silicon Valley
Host: Jeff Robinson
TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENTCLICK HERE
About the webinar:
Without a well engineered mobile-centric marketing system in
place, like 90% of startups, you will most likely struggle to build
consistent traction to grow your app before you run out of money (and
consequently kill your startup).
In this webinar, you’ll learn the exact marketing system of leading
Silicon Valley apps, and real-world examples that will help you grow
your app even if you don’t have a marketing team or a marketing budget.
Some of what you’ll learn
• The 6 signs your marketing is killing your startup (without you knowing) and how to fix them.
• The critical 4 stages of marketing you need to master.
• A simple free hack to 40x your installs.
• How to hack Whatsapp to earn free installs
• How to hack the app stores to 5x your organic installs and a lot more….
About Nagi:
Nagihas 12 years of marketing expertise and currently the
founder of the Mobile Growth Academy, an online platform that offers
mobile startups a step by step guide to help them market and grow their
apps.
Prior to that, Nagi was the head of global product marketing for
Tango Messenger, a Silicon Valley company that raised over $350M and has
400M users worldwide. Nagi also served as the Chief Marketing Officer
at N2V, a leading internet investment group, a regional marketing
executive for Google, and as a regional brand manager for P&G .
Nagi is also a board member, mentor and advisor to dozens of tech
startups in Silicon Valley, Norway, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, UAE, UK,
Germany, Egypt, Lebanon and many more..
TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT CLICK HERE
Date: Monday, February 15th
Duration: 60 mins with Q&A
Time: 9am – 10am San Francisco time
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