Overview

For its 27th edition, the Tech Tour will visit England for the second time and showcase its rich culture of technology and innovation. The English Tech Tour will highlight this enormous potential and depth during its unique two-day tour across the country.

Participation will be limited to 60 privately invited international professionals featuring a broad spectrum of senior representatives from VC funds, leading corporations and institutional investors. The English Tech Tour will meet a double agenda, first to showcase 25+ of England's most promising technology companies for potential investment or partnership and for you to extend your local network in England.

• Showcase the best of English high growth, early stage technology companies to selected international and local VCs and to help these companies achieve funding and/or alliance partnerships.
  
• Promote "hot" English tech regions – perhaps the less well known ones – Manchester, Southampton, Newcastle as well as London, the Thames Valley and Cambridge.
  
• Promote new technologies – incl. internet security, clean tech, nanotechnology etc as well as electronic systems, optical components, terminals and peripherals, networking, software applications, platform and infrastructure, medical devices etc.
  
• Promote commercialisation of technology from the universities.
  
• Raise profile of VCs and especially tech VCs in the UK – everybody knows about Private Equity from all the recent press coverage, but we need more promotion and especially more funding for tech venture capital in the UK.
  
• Use data for research purposes.
  
• Generate deals amongst tour delegates.
  
• Showcase English culture to our international delegates - with some surprises we hope - and have a great deal of fun!

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 (London)
Opening dinner with 250+ guests (by invitation only)

Thursday, October 18, 2007 (London & Southampton)
Company presentations at Imperial College and Southampton University and special evening event

Friday, October 19, 2007 (Manchester)
Company presentations at Manchester United and Manchester University and Closing Cocktail

A group of highly regarded professionals have undertaken the responsibility of screening and selecting the companies to the presented at the English Tech Tour. A selection committee has been set up to ensure the independence of the selection process. It is composed by experienced and highly regarded senior professionals, from relevant backgrounds and industry expertise, such as venture capital, technology industry, investment banks, academic & research.

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English Tech Tour Team

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Presenting Companies