YOUTH & ENTREPRENEURSHIP-DRIVERS OF INNOVATION

EIT Conference

19-21 October 2011 - KIC InnoEnergy co-location centreKrakow, Poland

18:00 Register and refresh

18:30 Welcome to Krakow! Welcome Address: - Daria Tataj, EIT Governing Board and Executive Committee - Antoni Tajduś, Rector of AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland - Marek Sowa, Marshall of Małopolska region - Stanisław Kracik, Mayor of Małopolska region

Musical performance: AGH university student orchestra

AGENDA09:00 Start-up day 2 Coffee & cookies

09:15 Highlights from Empowering you! workshops

09:45 Fit for (ad) venture?

Facilitator: Jean-Francois Dehem, Secretary General, EIT Foundation

- Barbara Nowakowska, Managing Director of the Polish Private Equity Association

- Anna Czekaj, Business Angel, S&E Impact Group, Go Beyond Ltd

- Jan Mühlfeit, Chairman of Microsoft Europe

- Bruno Claude, Member of the Board of Directors, Invitel

- Moritz Meenen, Climate-KIC Alumnus

11:30 The EIT as engine of an entrepreneurial Europe

Facilitator: Richard Hudson, ScienceBusiness

- Daria Tataj, EIT Governing Board and Executive Committee

- Nevena Vuksanovic, European Students Union

- Folker FRANZ, Industrial Affairs Director, BUSINESSEUROPE

- Christian Weinberger, Entrepreneurship & SME Policy Adviser, DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission

- Lucia Recalde, Head of Unit, EIT and Economic Partnerships, DG Education and Culture, European Commission

- Aleksandra Kariima, EIT ICT Labs PhD Student

12:45 Closing Anders Flodström, Vice Chairman, EIT Governing Board

13:00 - 14:30LUNCH

Day 2 - Friday 21 OctoberAGH university campus - U2 ROOM Conference rapporteur: Javier Garcia MartinezExhibition: ”EIT, KICs, Krakow”

11:00COFFEE &COOKIES

Wednesday 19 October 2011AGH university campus – main hall

08:15 Register and refresh

09:00 Dzień dobry!

Facilitator: José Manuel Leceta, EIT Director

- Polish Presidency Welcome Minister Barbara Kudrycka - Minister of Science and Higher Education

- Androulla Vassiliou - European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth - video message

- Herbert Reul, Chairman of ITRE Committee, European Parliament – video message

- Doris Pack, Chairwoman of CULT Committee, European Parliament – video message

- Alexander von Gabain, Chairman of the EIT Governing Board

10:00 Entrepreneur - Why and when?

Facilitator: Daria Tataj, EIT Governing Board and Executive Committee

- Kristo Ovaska, Founder of Alto Venture Garage and winner of the ACES Bridge Award

- Amir Nissen, Founder of Agents of Change Programme and CEO of “Students entrepreneurs”

Grill the entrepreneurs: Kristo and Amir

12:50LUNCH

Day 1 - Thursday 2O OctoberAGH university campus– U2 conference room Conference rapporteur: Javier Garcia Martinez Exhibition: ”EIT, KICs, Krakow”

11:30 KICkin` in: ingredients for entrepreneurial success

Facilitator: José Manuel Leceta, EIT Director

- Mary Ritter, CEO Climate-KIC Testimonies: “Hedgehog Energy” and “Artboreal” entrepreneurial projects

- Willem Jonker, CEO EIT ICT LabsTestimony: Khalid Latif, EITICTLabs, PhD student

- Diego Pavia, CEO KIC InnoEnergy Testimony: Pep Salas, Founder of ENERBYTE

11:00COFFEE &COOKIES

14:00 Have you got it?

Interview with Rajeeb Dey

Facilitator: Giovanni Colombo, EIT Governing Board

- Rajeeb Dey, CEO of Enternships.com

- Grill the entrepreneur: Rajeeb 14:40 Unleashing entrepreneurial talent through KIC education

Facilitator: Prof. Dr. Mark Harris, CEO InnoVaVentures

- Prof. Torsten Fransson, Education Director, KIC InnoEnergy - Student testimony: Priyamvadha Suresh, KIC InnoEnergy MSc student

- Eleanor Saunders, Educational Programmes Lead, Climate-KIC - Student Testimonies: Stephen Opuni, Climate-KIC alumnus and Christoph Mazur, Climate-KIC PhD student

- Prof. Hannu Tenhunen, Education Director, EIT ICT Labs- Student Testimony: Satu Jääskeläinen, EIT ICT Labs PhD student

16:30 Nurturing environments: How to transform your idea into business

Challenger: Charlotte Van de Water, Climate-KIC Alumna

- Antti Toropainen, Aalto Venture Garage

- Jan de Merlier, Manager Systematic Innovation Group, Altran

- Prof. Krzysztof Pawlowski, Founder and President of Wyzsza Szkoła Biznesu - National Louis University

16:30 ¥ - € - $

Challenger: Eduardo Maria Appleyard, MSc Student, KIC InnoEnergy

- Ruben Bach, Venture Capitalist

- Simon Stockley, Director of the Full-Time MBA programme and Teaching Fellow in Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School London

- Piotr Wilam, CEO and Founder of Innovation Nest

WORKSHOP 1

WORKSHOP 2

WORKSHOP 3

19:00EVENING

RECEPTIONWelcome: Alexander von

Gabain, Chairman EIT Governing Board

16:30Empowering

you! workshops

16:00COFFEE &COOKIES

17:45END OF DAY 1Guided Krakow

city tour

16:30 Developing your creative ideas Challenger: Awet Y. Weldezion, EIT ICT Labs PhD student

- Javier Garcia Martinez, Co-Founder, Director, Chief Technology Officer of Rive Technology Inc.

- Philippe van Caenegem, Founder of the Thinking Arch

- Codrin Kruijne, Entrepreneurship educator and Climate-KIC summer school 2010 coach