The forum will host six sector specific plenary panels. The industry sectors of the panels are Communications, Investment, Life Sciences, New Technologies, Software and Wireless. Speakers currently confirmed for the panels are:
ROUNDTABLE: Communications
Chair: Dr. Dietrich
Ulmer, CEO & President, Siemens
Mobile Acceleration (smac)
Peter Gardner,
Deputy Head of Communications Investments, 3i
Dr. Soren Hein,
Partner, Doughty
Hanson Technology Ventures
Dr. Hendrik Brandis, Partner,
Earlybird Venture Capital
Michael Boshammer, Investment
Director, T-Venture
INVESTMENT PANEL: THEMES FOR 2003
Chair: Christoph Bellmer,
Managing Director,
b-business partners
Holger Heims,
Managing Partner, DVC
Deutsche Venture Capital
Maximilian Brönner,
Partner, LGT
Capital Partners
Helmut Schön,
Managing Director, Partech
International
Ivy Lindstrom Fredericks,
Managing Director of Corporate Finance, Westminster
Securities
PANEL: Life Sciences
Chairs: Adi Seffer,
Partner, Morgan
Lewis & Bockius
& Anthony Warnock-Smith,
Partner, Morgan
Lewis & Bockius
Sabine Kaiser, Investment
Director Healthcare, 3i
Deutschland
Dr. Ansbert Gädicke,
Founding General Partner, MPM
Capital
Dr. Denise Pollard-Knight,
Head of Healthcare Private Equity, Nomura
International plc
Frances Bornstein, Vice
President, SWX
Swiss Exchange
DISCUSSION ROUNTABLE: New Technologies
Nanotechnology, Renewable Energy, Artificial Intelligence, New Materials
Chair: Holger Heims,
Managing Partner, DVC
Deutsche Venture Capital
Martin Rigby,
Managing Director, ET
Capital
Johann Weber,
Sector Manager Wireless, Intel
Capital Europe / Israel
Dr. Simon Waddington,
Partner, PolyTechnos
Venture-Partners
Bjoern Eske Christensen,
President & CEO,Siemens
Venture Capital
ROUNDTABLE: Innovative Software Trends
Chair: Kurt Mueller,
Partner, Target
Partners
Vijay K Sondhi,
Managing Director, Allianz
Venture Capital GmbH
Michael Wand, Director,
Carlyle Europe
Venture Partners
Dr. Christian Waldvogel,
Partner, Viventures
Partners
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: New Directions in Private
Equity
Chair: Harald Ehren, Head of
Inside Business, Financial
Times Deutschland
Thomas Puetter, CEO, Allianz
Capital Partner
Max Burger-Calderon,
Partner, Apax
Partners
Dr. Holger Frommann,
Managing Director, BVK
Melchoir Stahl,
Managing Director, Warburg
Pincus