February 28 (Tuesday)

19:00 –21:00

Opening Ceremony

Venue

Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Hunyadi Mátyás room 2

1113 Budapest, Tas vezér utca 3-7.

March 1 (Wednesday)

08:30 –09:00

Opening speech and presentation

Zoltán Cséfalvay, Head of MCC Centre for Next Technological Futures

09:00 -10:00

From Start-up to Scale-up – Why, When, How

Danny Biran, policy fellow, Start-up Nation Policy Institute, Tel Aviv

10:00 -11:00

From Holy-land to Start-up Nation to Scale-up Nation: The role and responsibility of Government

Andy David, Director, Innovation Task Force, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tel Aviv

11:15 – 13:00

Lunch Debate: What polices for scaling the innovation and startup ecosystems?

  • Molly Livingstone, Ecosystem Manager, MassChallenge Israel, Jerusalem
  • Daniel Bajer, Director for Business Development, Enterprise Estonia, Tallinn
  • Amiram Porath, Amiram Porath Consulting, Tel Aviv
  • Jon Steinberg, Partner, Mountside Ventures, London
  • Eitan Kyiet, CEO of Road2, Haifa
  • Patrick Grady, policy analyst, Center for Data Innovation, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF), Washington

13:00- 14:00

Lunch at MCC Scruton

14:00 – 15:00

How to Spot a Tech Panic

Patrick Grady, policy analyst, Center for Data Innovation, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF), Washington

15:00 – 16:00

Estonia - the secret of the land of Unicorns

Daniel Bajer, Director for Business Development, Enterprise Estonia, Tallinn

16:00 – 17:00

Building an entrepreneurial ecosystem. Learnings and next steps from the Road2 Experience in Haifa

Eitan Kyiet, CEO of Road2, Haifa

17:00 – 18:00

UK policies for scaling the innovation and startup ecosystems

Jon Steinberg, Partner, Mountside Ventures, London
     

 

March 2 (Thursday)

09:00 – 10:00

 

Corporate, Independent and Governmental Venture Capital: the interaction of private and public funds

Ramón Compañó, senior scientist, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Seville

10:00 – 11:00

U.S. Policies, Programs, and Institutions to Support Innovative Startups and Scaling.

Stephen Ezell, Vice president, global innovation policy, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF), Washington

11:15 – 13:00

Lunch Debate: Global race of innovation and startup ecosystems?

  • Tessa McIver, Head of Alumni Development, MIT Enterprise Forum CEE, Warsaw
  • Yoav Barlev, Director, Business Development, Start-up Nation Central, Tel Aviv
  • Stephen Ezell, Vice president, global innovation policy, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF), Washington
  • Andy David, Director, Innovation Task Force, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tel Aviv
  • Ramón Compañó, senior scientist, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Seville
  • Danny Biran, policy fellow, Start-up Nation Policy Institute, Tel Aviv

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch at MCC Scruton

14:00 – 15:00

Making Noise in the Ecosystem: How to Get Heard as an Early Stage Startup

Molly Livingstone, Ecosystem Manager, MassChallenge Israel, Jerusalem

15:00 – 16:00

To Develop the managerial capabilities or to acquire them – that is the question

Amiram Porath, Amiram Porath Consulting, Tel Aviv

16:00 – 17:00

Leadership and the Entrepreneur 

Tessa McIver, MIT Enterprise Forum CEE, Warsaw

17:00 – 18:00

The evolving role of MNCs in an evolving innovation ecosystem

Yoav Barlev, Director, Business Development, Start-up Nation Central, Tel Aviv

 

Biographies of the experts

Abstracts of the presentations