The Web & Mobility Summit 2009

 

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Global Partners

Audemars Piguet
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Silver sponsors

Morgan Levis
Sofinnova Partners
Canton de Vaud
 

Local Support Sponsors

Acton Capital
Big Bang Ventures
Doughty Hanson
Fidelity Ventures
Frog Capital
Partech International
Serena Capital
Time Equity Partners
Wellington Partners
 

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Biz-News.com
Informilo
The Chilli
 

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EVCA
 
 

Overview

The Web & Mobility Summit 2009

The European Tech Tour Association launched the 1st Summit in 2006 in a series of vertical events that gathers the best emerging European companies in a given industry sector. This initiative sprouted from the need to identify and showcase European technology start-ups in a vertical industry segment to professionals investing or working within this industry. The concept is to structure a best of best start-up track along side an innovative industry specific initiative.

The first of our series covered the semiconductor segment, the 2nd the online communities segment, the third the MedTech segment, the 4th the Cleantech segment. The Web & Mobility Summit was held November 18-19, 2009.

Objectives

To identify the upcoming and leading top 25+ high-growth privately held web and mobility companies in Europe and to introduce them to key European, US and Asian investors and professionals who can assist in their global expansion.

Program

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 (Montreux & Lausanne, Switzerland)
11:30 Registration at Montreux Palace Hotel
12:00 Networking Lunch
13:30 Welcome & Company Presentations
14:00 Setting the Stage - Market Overview by Per Roman of GP Bullhound
14:20 Company Presentations
15:40 Coffee Break & Exhibits
16:10 Concurrent Company Presentations
18:00 Transfer Montreux-Lausanne
19:00 Cocktail & Gala dinner with 180 guests at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne with a Keynote Speech by Martin Varsavsky of FON

Thursday, November 19, 2009 (Montreux, Switzerland)
07:00 Networking Breakfast
08:00 Company presentations
09:10 Future of VC Industry Panel. Speakers include: Phillippe Collombel of Partech, Rainer Maerkle of Holztbrinck, Christophe Maire, Mike Reid of Frog Capital, Sebastian Wossagk of Acton Capital & Paul Jozefak of Neuhaus Partners
09:50 Coffee break & Exhibits
10:20 Concurrent Company Presentations
11:20 Where do the marketing dollars go? Panel. Speakers: Paul Cornet of Yahoo, Kjell Fischer of Apprupt, Carsten Frien of Madvertis, Christian Heitmeyer of Brands4friends & Dominique Megret of Swisscom
12:00 Networking lunch
14:00 Company Presentations
15:20 Coffee break & Exhibits
15:50 Company Presentations & Closing Remarks
19:00 Optional AP Times Changing Award Dinner at Kempinski Hotel in Geneva

Web & Mobility Summit 2009 Selection Committee

A group of highly regarded professionals have undertaken the responsibility of screening and selecting the companies to the presented at the Web & Mobility Summit 2009. A selection committee was 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, and research.

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Web & Mobility Summit 2009 Team

Robert Lang
President
Pamir Gelenbe
Vice President Selection Committee
Olivier Schuepbach
Vice President Sponsoring
Stefan Tirtey
Vice President Selection Committee

Web & Mobility Summit 2009 Selection Committee

Andrin Bachman
M/C Venture Partners
Jean-Stéphane Bonneton
Time Equity Partners
Barend Van den Brande
Big Bang Ventures
John Chapman
Business Angel
Philippe Collombel
Partech
Steve Coppens
GIMV
Robert Dighero
Business Angel
Etienne Drouard
Senior Associate at Morgan Lewis
Harald Ebrecht
Acton Capital Partners
Olivier Edwards
Partner at Morgan Lewis
Jerry Ennis
Business Angel
Marc Fournier
Serena Capital
Lukasz Gadowski
Team Europe Ventures
Angel Gambino
former senior executive at Bebo
Davor Hebel
Fidelity Ventures
Alex Hoye
Business Angel
Hussein Kanji
Accel Partners
Greg Lockwood
former chairman of and investor in Betfair, former MD at UBS Capital
Rainer Maerkle
Holtzbrinck Ventures
Christophe Maire
Business Angel
Malcolm Myers
Business Angel
Karen Noel
Morgan Lewis
Renate Nyborg
Business Angel
Christopher Pommerening
Business Angel
Sonia Rameau
Business Angel
Mike Reid
Frog Capital
Cem Sertoglu
Business Angel
Olivier Sichel
Sofinnova
Reshma Sohoni
Seedcamp
Jörg Überla
Business Angel
Daniel Waterhouse
Wellington Partners

Presenting Companies

A list of the companies that are selected to present during the Web & Mobility Summit 2009 will be available 1 month after the event takes place.

 

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