The EIT Roundtable: The business case for participationBrussels, 17 June 2014

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AGENDA

■ Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor, Science|Business

09:00 Welcome

09:05 Why this meeting?

■ Xavier Prats Monné, Deputy Director-General for Education and Culture, European Commission

09:15 EIT outlook ■ Alexander von Gabain, Chairman, EIT Governing Board

09:30 Four short case studies – business perspective

The EIT Roundtable: The business case for participation This year, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology is preparing to expand, with the addition of new ‘KICs’ between now and 2020. Business participation in KICs, old and new, is vital. So how to make the EIT ever-more attractive to companies and funds, large and small?Answering that question is the goal of this roundtable event, supported by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education and Culture. It gathers some of the existing KIC participants from the private sector for a morning of brainstorming with Commission, EIT and KIC representatives.

AGENDA

■ Javier Alonso Martinez, Director of Technology Portfolio, Gas Natural ■ Christoph Sievering, Managing Director - Strategic Energy Management, Bayer ■ Cesare Sironi, Head of Innovation, Telecom Italia ■ Klaus Beetz, Vice-President for Innovation and Cooperation, Siemens AG

AGENDA

■ Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor, Science|Business

11:30 Workshop 2 – Execution and fulfilment

11:00 Coffee break

Moderator: Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor, Science|Business

12:30 Wrap-up and conclusions ■ 12:30 - Peter Olesen, Appointed Chairman from 1 August 2014, EIT Governing

Board

13:00 Informal networking lunch

AGENDA

10:00 Workshop 1 – Expectations and returns

Moderator: Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor, Science|Business

■ 12:50 - Raquel Maria Mota Lucas, Member of Cabinet of President José Manuel Barroso, European Commission

Director of Technology Portfolio, Gas Natural

Javier Alonso Martinez

Alexander von Gabain is Chairman of the EIT Governing Board. He was Chair of Microbiology of the University of Vienna at the Campus Vienna Biocenter, Austria and helped to build the public private partnership of the Vienna Biocenter/IMP. He co-founded Intercell AG and led the company as CEO until it was successfully floated on the Vienna Stock Exchange in 2005. He has been serving the Company as strategic advisor and chair of the Scientific Advisory Board. He was appointed as member of the EIT’s Governing Board on 30 July 2008 and on 15 September 2011.

Javier Alonso Martinez is Head of the Unit of Innovation and Technological Support in Gas Natural, Fenosa. This unit comprises the identification of new trends and insights in energy technology as well as the technological scouting, transfer and innovation fostering for the group.

Chairman, EIT Governing Board

Alexander von Gabain

SPEAKERS SPEAKERS

Vice-President for Innovation and Cooperation, Siemens AG

Klaus Beetz

Klaus Beetz joined Siemens in 2002 and headed the Global Technology Field “Software and System Engineering” while also being responsible for global research and technology transfer of innovative engineering technologies for software-intensive systems. He is now in charge of external European collaboration in Research, Development and Innovation, including research funding. He holds the position of business director at the KIC ICT Labs within the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and recently he was appointed as member of the Connect Advisory Form (CAF) of the EC.

Raquel Maria Mota Lucas is a graduate of the College of Europe in Bruges. Raquel Lucas joined the European Commission on 2005 following an open competition. She spent six years in DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, where she was team leader of the Portuguese desk in charge of Lisbon Strategy/Europe 2020 strategy and ESF programmes monitoring in Portugal. In 2012, she was seconded to the Support Group for Portugal (SGPT) responsible for the overall coordination of the SGPT and the support for the implementation of the Portuguese adjustment programme. In September 2012, Raquel became a member of the Cabinet of the President Barroso.

Member of Cabinet of President José Manuel Barroso, European Commission

Raquel Maria Mota Lucas

Cesare Sironi has a successful track record of driving innovation and creating shareholders value and has been involved in all stages of the innovation and venture capital cycle, building experience in diverse and increasing roles as product manager, head of technology, country manager, CEO, board member of start-ups, and Head of Innovation. He entered the Telecom Italia Group in April 2009 as CEO of Matrix. In December 2009, he was also appointed Head of Telecom Italia’s Strategy and Innovation, and from April 2011 Head of Innovation for the Group.

Christoph Sievering was educated in mechanical/process engineering at University of Essen, Germany. His studies were finalized with a master degree in 1989. Since the end of 2012, Christoph Sievering works on a global basis as Head of Strategic Energy Management. He is also co-chair of the platform of Industrial Symbiosis within the Climate KIC organisation and lead of European programme for enabling CO2 re-utilsation (“enCO2re”), which is supported by the European Institution Climate KIC.

Peter Olesen obtained his PhD in Plant Cell Biology at University of Copenhagen in 1978. He has been Chair of the Board of the Danish Council for Strategic Research since 2008 and spent 25 years as Research Director, VP R&D and Executive VP/CSO in four leading international food and food ingredients companies. In 2012, he was appointed to the Governing Board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), which he will become Chairman of on 1 August 2014.

Head of Innovation, Telecom Italia

Cesare SironiManaging Director - Strategic Energy Management, Bayer

Christoph Sievering

Appointed Chairman from 1 August 2014, EIT Governing Board

Peter Olesen

SPEAKERS SPEAKERS

Xavier Prats Monné served from mid-2007 till the end-2010, as the EC Director for employment policy, Europe 2020 Strategy and international relations in the field of employment; in this capacity, he was also responsible for relations between the EC and the International Labour Organisation (ILO), and EC “sherpa” representative at the G20 Labour Ministers meeting. He was also, from 2007 to end-2010, one of the five founding members of the EC Impact Assessment Board, which vets all impact assessments produced by the institution and reports directly to the President.

Xavier Prats MonnéDeputy Director-General for Education and Culture, European Commission

Armand Albergel dedicates his professional life to the atmospheric environment. He has always worked in the environmental field, first as a research scientist for EDF, the French electricity board, where he developed atmospheric dispersion models for advanced emergency response systems and then in the executive board of ARIA Technologies, an innovative SME. He is one of the co-founders and the Deputy CEO of ARIA Technologies since 1990.

Elena Bou holds a PhD in Management Sciences from ESADE-URL (Doctor Europeus).She has been a member of the faculty of ESADE since 1998. She is a researcher in the field of knowledge and innovation management and has authored several professional and academic publications. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Management Learning and founder, former director and research head of GRACO Research Group (IIK) at ESADE.She has been a member of the founder team of KIC InnoEnergy and since January 2011, acting as its Innovation Director.

Innovation Manager, KIC InnoEnergy

Elena BouDirector General, ARIAArmand Albergel

Mike Cherrett joined Climate-KIC with a career spanning engineering business development and international relations. He became part of the British Diplomatic Service in 1997 and established an innovative new high-tech trade and investment unit in South Korea. He became Britain’s Deputy High Commissioner to New Zealand in 2006, where among other things, he was driving advocacy on climate change and sustainability in the public and private sector. He returned to UK in January 2011 and led a cross-Whitehall study on climate change and resource scarcity and their implications for national security.

Mike CherrettDirector -International Strategy and Partnerships, Climate KIC

PARTICIPANTS PARTICIPANTS

Fabrice Comptour is a Member of Cabinet of Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou since 2010. His portfolio includes H2020 issues, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, relations with ERA and Erasmus +. Previously he held several positions in the European Commission and he was Member of Cabinet of Jacques Barrot, Vice-President of the Barroso Commission.

Fabrice ComptourMember of Cabinet of European Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou, European Commission

Willem Jonker has a broad background in ICT, both in industry as well as in academia. He studied mathematics and computer science at Groningen University, worked at Delft University of Technology, received his PhD from the University of Utrecht, and he works part-time as a full professor in computer science at Twente University. Jonker’s industrial experience covers telecommunications (KPN), IT (European Computer industry Research Centre, Munich) and consumer electronics (Philips). In 2006 he was appointed Vice President Philips Research.

CEO, EIT ICT LabsWillem Jonker

PARTICIPANTS PARTICIPANTS

Rose de Lannoy

Rose de Lannoy has a track record of more than 15 years in the energy sector. Her main area of activities are in the field of climate change policies (which she followed from 1997 to 2005), coordinating all aspects of carbon markets implementation in the Electrabel then Suez Group. Subsequently, she pursued Carbon Capture Transport and Storage (CCS) of CO2 both for Suez and then GDF SUEZ. In 2008 she is appointed manager of the CCS corporate program within the division Research & Innovation. As such she has the overview of the Group’s activities in this field and a comprehensive approach including technology, policy, and business case.

CCS Corporate Program Manager, GDF Suez

Max is partner at the South Pole Group, a global leader in measuring and reducing climate impact. Max’ focus within South Pole is the financial industry. In 2010, Max pioneered the leading methodology for climate impact assessments of investment portfolios. It became the backbone of the largest database on company greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the market, feeding into multiple investment analysis tools and services. Within Climate-KIC, Max is in charge of two GHG measurement projects, Sgreenvest and Knowcarbon.

Managing Partner, South Pole Climate Neutral Investments

Maximilian Horster

Richard L. Hudson co-founded Science|Business in 2005 with Peter Wrobeland Malcolm Laws. He has been a leadingscience and technology journalist in Europefor more than 30 years.As managing editor of The Wall Street JournalEurope from 1997 to 2003, he helped lead aredesign of the title in 2000. He is a graduateof Harvard, and a former Knight Fellow at MIT.In 2004 he co-authored a book with Yale/ IBM“fractal” mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot:The (mis)Behavior of Markets: A fractal viewof risk, ruin & reward. Basic Books 2004.

Richard L. HudsonCEO & Editor, Science|Business

Patrik Möller is a passionate entrepreneur with experience in building VC-funded technology start-ups from first idea to businesses with more than 80 people conducting multi-national operations. He has successfully led international product development teams to deliver complex machinery outperforming prior state-of-the art solutions. Prior to CorPower he co-founded Replisaurus Technologies, developing tools and processes for printing patterned metal layers used in semiconductor manufacturing.

CEO, CorpowerPatrik Möller

PARTICIPANTS PARTICIPANTS

Ross Melzer has 30 years experience in managing key client relations. He has a distinguished track record in media management, including 6 years as public affairs director of EurActiv, 7 years as marketing and business development director of the Wall Street Journal Europe, and 7 years in marketing and strategy roles for the Financial Times, The Observer and Time Magazine.

Director, Science|BusinessRoss Melzer

Jaime Lledó has more than six years of experience in creating custom made solutions for clients, in both, national and international level. Five of those years were dedicated to renewable energies companies and environmental friendly solutions companies.

Co-Founder and CEO, Tecnoturbines

Jaime Lledó

Cédric Latessa has been active in Venture Capital for the past 12 years and is an investment manager for Aster Capital. He first held long term internships in early stage VC funds like Mangrove, Mileno Capital and FCJE. Cédric started his career at BIP where he invested in early and later stage technology companies and funds. He subsequently joined DFJ Esprit as an Investment Manager where he led the fundraising efforts and deal flow sourcing activities in European technology companies.

Cédric LatessaInvestment Manager, Aster Capital

Commercial Director, International Synergies

Adrian Murphy

Anja Rienitz joined PlugSurfing in April 2014 as Community Manager. Following her B.Sc. in Biology, she is currently busy with pursuing a Master degree in Industrial Ecology at the TU Delft (NL). She is also following the Climate-KIC Master label program. It was through Climate-KIC’s network that she came across the opportunity to work for PlugSurfing.

Adrian Murphy is one of the founding members of International Synergies, a company based in the UK. He is responsible for all of the technical and Innovation issues within the business. His work has directly influenced policy at local, national and international level. Most recently the European Commission called for Europe-wide implementation of industrial symbiosis networks, modelled on our award winning programme, NISP (National Industrial Symbiosis Programme) which it acknowledges as ‘an innovative means to achieve resource efficiency’ in its flagship 2020 initiative, ‘Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe.’

Community Manager, Plug Surfing

Anja Rienitz

PARTICIPANTS PARTICIPANTS

Olivier Pascal

Olivier Pascal is currently Managing Director at VEOLIA for Mission Metropolis du Grand Paris, to ensure the participation of the group in the project ‘Grand Paris’. Trained at the Ecole Polytechnique, University Paris-Dauphine, the National School of Bridges and Roads, Olivier Pascal held different positions within the group Générale des Eaux, now Veolia environnement. It included successive positions as COO in different water and sanitation services in Île-de-France or in research and development on urban hydrology issues, particularly as Director of the Competence Centre of Berlin’s water at its foundation (2000).

Deputy Director at VEOLIA for Mission Métropole du Grand Paris

Lucia Recalde

Lucia Recalde worked between 1990-1995 for the Directorate of European Affairs of the Basque Government. She joined the Commission in 1995 and spent 10 years in DG EMPL dealing inter alia, with the European Social Fund and the implementation of the European Employment Strategy. Joined the EIT unit in 2006, she has been responsible for the negotiations on the Regulation establishing the EIT, the amended EIT Regulation and the Strategic Innovation Agenda (SIA) and is responsible for the relations between the European Commission and the EIT.

Head of Unit - Higher Education, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, DG EAC, European Commission

PARTICIPANTS NOTES

Hendrik Schwietert

Hendrik R. Schwietert received engineering degrees from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands and Carnegie-Mellon University in the USA. He worked for Philips Consumer Electronics and for Air Products and Chemicals Inc., holding positions in commercial development, operations and general management. He has extensive international experience including postings in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and North America. His responsibilities have included the development of large capital projects and innovation projects, and the management of start-ups. In 2005 he co-founded EVALAN and within that organization has been responsible for technical development.

General Manager, Evalan

Balz Roth is a Go Beyond Venture Partner, serving as lead investor in a number of investments. Balz is both an experienced business angel and a successful entrepreneur, with over 20 years of experience in founding and running several SMEs in the technology and media environment and the lifestyle and entertainment industries. His broad ‘know-how’ of different industries, coupled with his entrepreneurial spirit and strong analytical skills, makes Balz a valuable member of Go Beyond Team when it comes to understanding, selecting and guiding promising entrepreneurs.

Angel Investor, Go BeyondBalz Roth

Alain Rodermann joined Genii Investment Management in 2014 and is currently Managing Partner of the Luxemburg Future Fund. He has been an active investor in Venture Capital Firms since 1997. He is founder of the seed fund Arenatis Capital, worked for ten years as Partner of Sofinnova Partners. He is leading the European VC firm and is Investment director of Innovacom, the VC Arm of Orange. He invested at the very early stage as a lead investor and has served as board member in 25 companies across Europe and in the USA.

Alain RodermannManaging Partner, Arenatis Capital

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