Cleantech Venture Day 2012
DAY 1 | April 25th
Venue: Aalto Venture Garage, Espoo
FINAL OF NORDIC CLEANTECH OPEN
Alexander Lidgren, Managing Director of Nordic Cleantech Open
15:30 – 16:20 Presentations from the first 5 Finalists
16:20 – 16:30 Paul Cousens, Head of Cleantech Business Development, Autodesk"Digital prototyping inspiring advancements in the cleantech sector."
16:30 – 16:50 Coffee break
16:50 – 17:40 Presentations from the second 5 Finalists
17:40 – 18:20 Panel on Cleantech Around the World Moderator Dr Peter Adrians, Cleantech Director, Wolverine VentureFund, Board Member of GCCA Panelists representing VC's from Europe, Asia and North‐America Pankaj Sehgal, Technology Investment at SUN Group (India)
Anders Frisk, Sustainable Technologies Fund (Sweden/USA)
Julien Mialaret, Idinvest Partners (France)
Bao (Bob) Hongxuan, Juno Capital Group (China)
Andrée‐Lise Méthot, Founder & Senior Partner, Cycle Capital Management (Canada) 18:20 – Voting by the audience 18:30 – 20:00 Refreshments, Dinner and the Award ceremony for this year’s
Nordic Cleantech Open winner and runners-up during Dinner
20:15 – 21:45 Bus-transport from Espoo Aalto Venture Garage to Lahti
DAY 2 | April 26th
Venue: Sibelius Hall, Lahti
08:00 Registration
Exhibition area opens
08:30 – 09:30 INDIVIDUAL DEALFLOW SESSION - INVESTORS ONLY
One-on-one meetings. Matching against entepreneurs’
and investors’/industrials’ own criteria. Each investor or
industrial & entrepreneur have maximum of
12 four minutes’ meetings.
09:30 – 10:00 Networking break
Nina Harjula, Development manager, Finnish Cleantech Cluster and
Alexander Lidgren - Managing director Cleantech Scandinavia
10:15 – 11:05 SEMINAR 1
Energy Efficiency in Smart Cleantech
Smart Cleantech means ICT for managing
devices or processes in an efficient and economic manner.
This is an area where the Nordics stand out and where we see a strong
upcoming dealflow paving the way for totally new business opportunities
across industries.
Panel
Moderator Jacob af Forselles – Investment Director at Ahlström Capital
Björn Peltonen - Solution Marketing Manager, Global Operations - Schneider Electric Mika Halttunen – CEO of Halton Johannes Siebers - Analyst Growth Capital at Siemens Venture Capital
11:15 – 12:05 DEALFLOW 1 & 2
13:20 – 14:20 SEMINAR 2
Opportunities and challenges for growing cleantech business in China
Chinese Venture Capital and Cleantech
Key Notes
Marko Vänskä, Managing Director, Golden Bridge
Insight to the Chinese VC view of the cleantech business in China
Daniel Zhu, Tsing capital
Finnish success case in China
Jari Hurttia, Beneq Oy
Softlanding in China - Green Tower Kunshan
Peter Jahn, Vice Presindent, Etteplan 14:30 – 15:20 DEALFLOW 3 & 4 15:20 – 15:40 Networking break
15:40 – 16:30 SEMINAR 3
Cleantech meets Biotech
Biotech research and inventions often create a basis for cleantech innovations.
Investigating potential of joining forces in the two seemingly disconnected industries
and creating opportunities for co-investors, new dealflow and new markets.
Moderator Josko Bobanovic, Partner, Sofinnova
Panel:
Andy Naylor – CEO of MatOx Ltd
Fredrika Gullfot - CEO and founder of Simris Alg
Victor Christou - Venture Partner at Wellington Partners
16:40 – 17:30 DEALFLOW 5 & 6
17:30 – 20:00 Cleantech lounge & CocktailsCleantech Scandinavia’s Hall of Fame Award
Best CVD 2012 Pitches as seen by the VC-Jury
CleanDesign Award 2012
19:00 – 21:00 SYMPHONY CONCERT by Okko Kamu & Olivier Latry
Cleantech lounge during the break
DAY 3 | April 27th
Venue: Sibelius Hall, Lahti
08:30 Registration
09:00 – 11:00 Québec – Finland Roundtable Seminar
Cleantech Opportunities and Development in Québec
Denis LeClerk, CEO Ècotech Québec
Presentations by Québec delegation: Plan Nord (tbc)
One-on-one meetings between Finnish and Canadian companies
pre-arranged
09:00 – 11:00 Individual dealflow session – Chinese Investors only
One-on-one meetings.
Matching against entepreneurs’ and
investors’/industrials’ own criteria
11:00 - 12:00 LUNCH Metsähalli
