Transcript The EIT Roundtable: The business case for

The EIT Roundtable:
The business case for
participation
Brussels, 17 June 2014
Supported by
AGENDA
The EIT Roundtable:
The business case for participation
This year, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology is preparing to expand,
with the addition of new ‘KICs’ between now and 2020. Business participation in KICs,
old and new, is vital. So how to make the EIT ever-more attractive to companies and
funds, large and small?
Answering that question is the goal of this roundtable event, supported by the
European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education and Culture. It gathers
some of the existing KIC participants from the private sector for a morning of
brainstorming with Commission, EIT and KIC representatives.
09:00 Welcome
■■ Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor, Science|Business
09:05 Why this meeting?
■■ Xavier Prats Monné, Deputy Director-General for Education and Culture,
European Commission
09:15 EIT outlook
■■ Alexander von Gabain, Chairman, EIT Governing Board
09:30 Four short case studies – business perspective
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Javier Alonso Martinez, Director of Technology Portfolio, Gas Natural
Christoph Sievering, Managing Director - Strategic Energy Management, Bayer
Cesare Sironi, Head of Innovation, Telecom Italia
Klaus Beetz, Vice-President for Innovation and Cooperation, Siemens AG
AGENDA
10:00 Workshop 1 – Expectations and returns
Moderator: Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor, Science|Business
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Workshop 2 – Execution and fulfilment
Moderator: Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor, Science|Business
12:30 Wrap-up and conclusions
■■ 12:30 - Peter Olesen, Appointed Chairman from 1 August 2014, EIT Governing
Board
■■ 12:50 - Raquel Maria Mota Lucas, Member of Cabinet of President José Manuel
Barroso, European Commission
13:00 Informal networking lunch
SPEAKERS
Javier Alonso Martinez
Klaus Beetz
Director of Technology
Portfolio, Gas Natural
Vice-President for Innovation
and Cooperation, Siemens AG
Javier Alonso Martinez is Head of the Unit
of Innovation and Technological Support in
Gas Natural, Fenosa. This unit comprises the
identification of new trends and insights in
energy technology as well as the technological
scouting, transfer and innovation fostering for
the group.
Alexander von Gabain
Chairman, EIT Governing
Board
Alexander von Gabain is Chairman of the
EIT Governing Board. He was Chair of
Microbiology of the University of Vienna at
the Campus Vienna Biocenter, Austria and
helped to build the public private partnership
of the Vienna Biocenter/IMP. He co-founded
Intercell AG and led the company as CEO until
it was successfully floated on the Vienna Stock
Exchange in 2005. He has been serving the
Company as strategic advisor and chair of the
Scientific Advisory Board. He was appointed
as member of the EIT’s Governing Board on
30 July 2008 and on 15 September 2011.
Klaus Beetz joined Siemens in 2002 and
headed the Global Technology Field
“Software and System Engineering” while
also being responsible for global research and
technology transfer of innovative engineering
technologies for software-intensive systems.
He is now in charge of external European
collaboration in Research, Development and
Innovation, including research funding. He
holds the position of business director at the
KIC ICT Labs within the European Institute of
Innovation and Technology (EIT) and recently
he was appointed as member of the Connect
Advisory Form (CAF) of the EC.
Raquel Maria Mota
Lucas
Member of Cabinet of
President José Manuel
Barroso, European
Commission
Raquel Maria Mota Lucas is a graduate of the
College of Europe in Bruges. Raquel Lucas
joined the European Commission on 2005
following an open competition. She spent six
years in DG Employment, Social Affairs and
Inclusion, where she was team leader of the
Portuguese desk in charge of Lisbon Strategy/
Europe 2020 strategy and ESF programmes
monitoring in Portugal.
In 2012, she was seconded to the Support
Group for Portugal (SGPT) responsible for
the overall coordination of the SGPT and
the support for the implementation of the
Portuguese adjustment programme. In
September 2012, Raquel became a member
of the Cabinet of the President Barroso.
SPEAKERS
Peter Olesen
Xavier Prats Monné
Appointed Chairman from 1
August 2014, EIT Governing
Board
Deputy Director-General
for Education and Culture,
European Commission
Peter Olesen obtained his PhD in Plant Cell
Biology at University of Copenhagen in 1978.
He has been Chair of the Board of the Danish
Council for Strategic Research since 2008
and spent 25 years as Research Director, VP
R&D and Executive VP/CSO in four leading
international food and food ingredients
companies. In 2012, he was appointed to the
Governing Board of the European Institute of
Innovation and Technology (EIT), which he will
become Chairman of on 1 August 2014.
Xavier Prats Monné served from mid-2007
till the end-2010, as the EC Director for
employment policy, Europe 2020 Strategy
and international relations in the field of
employment; in this capacity, he was also
responsible for relations between the EC and
the International Labour Organisation (ILO),
and EC “sherpa” representative at the G20
Labour Ministers meeting. He was also, from
2007 to end-2010, one of the five founding
members of the EC Impact Assessment Board,
which vets all impact assessments produced
by the institution and reports directly to the
President.
Christoph Sievering
Cesare Sironi
Managing Director
- Strategic Energy
Management, Bayer
Head of Innovation,
Telecom Italia
Christoph Sievering was educated in
mechanical/process engineering at University
of Essen, Germany. His studies were finalized
with a master degree in 1989. Since the end
of 2012, Christoph Sievering works on a global
basis as Head of Strategic Energy Management.
He is also co-chair of the platform of Industrial
Symbiosis within the Climate KIC organisation
and lead of European programme for enabling
CO2 re-utilsation (“enCO2re”), which is
supported by the European Institution Climate
KIC.
Cesare Sironi has a successful track record of
driving innovation and creating shareholders
value and has been involved in all stages of
the innovation and venture capital cycle,
building experience in diverse and increasing
roles as product manager, head of technology,
country manager, CEO, board member of
start-ups, and Head of Innovation. He entered
the Telecom Italia Group in April 2009 as CEO
of Matrix. In December 2009, he was also
appointed Head of Telecom Italia’s Strategy
and Innovation, and from April 2011 Head of
Innovation for the Group.
PARTICIPANTS
Armand Albergel
Elena Bou
Director General, ARIA
Innovation Manager, KIC
InnoEnergy
Armand Albergel dedicates his professional
life to the atmospheric environment. He
has always worked in the environmental
field, first as a research scientist for EDF, the
French electricity board, where he developed
atmospheric dispersion models for advanced
emergency response systems and then in
the executive board of ARIA Technologies, an
innovative SME. He is one of the co-founders
and the Deputy CEO of ARIA Technologies
since 1990.
Elena Bou holds a PhD in Management
Sciences from ESADE-URL (Doctor Europeus).
She has been a member of the faculty of ESADE
since 1998. She is a researcher in the field
of knowledge and innovation management
and has authored several professional and
academic publications. She is a member of the
Editorial Board of Management Learning and
founder, former director and research head of
GRACO Research Group (IIK) at ESADE.
She has been a member of the founder team
of KIC InnoEnergy and since January 2011,
acting as its Innovation Director.
Mike Cherrett
Fabrice Comptour
Director -International
Strategy and Partnerships,
Climate KIC
Member of Cabinet of
European Commissioner
Androulla Vassiliou,
European Commission
Mike Cherrett joined Climate-KIC with a career
spanning engineering business development
and international relations.
He became part of the British Diplomatic
Service in 1997 and established an innovative
new high-tech trade and investment unit in
South Korea. He became Britain’s Deputy High
Commissioner to New Zealand in 2006, where
among other things, he was driving advocacy
on climate change and sustainability in the
public and private sector. He returned to UK in
January 2011 and led a cross-Whitehall study
on climate change and resource scarcity and
their implications for national security.
Fabrice Comptour is a Member of Cabinet
of Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou since
2010. His portfolio includes H2020 issues,
the European Institute of Innovation and
Technology, relations with ERA and Erasmus
+. Previously he held several positions in the
European Commission and he was Member of
Cabinet of Jacques Barrot, Vice-President of
the Barroso Commission.
PARTICIPANTS
Maximilian Horster
Managing Partner, South
Pole Climate Neutral
Investments
Max is partner at the South Pole Group, a
global leader in measuring and reducing
climate impact. Max’ focus within South
Pole is the financial industry. In 2010, Max
pioneered the leading methodology for
climate impact assessments of investment
portfolios. It became the backbone of the
largest database on company greenhouse
gas (GHG) emissions in the market, feeding
into multiple investment analysis tools
and services. Within Climate-KIC, Max is in
charge of two GHG measurement projects,
Sgreenvest and Knowcarbon.
Richard L. Hudson
CEO & Editor,
Science|Business
Richard
L.
Hudson
co-founded
Science|Business in 2005 with Peter Wrobel
and Malcolm Laws. He has been a leading
science and technology journalist in Europe
for more than 30 years.
As managing editor of The Wall Street Journal
Europe from 1997 to 2003, he helped lead a
redesign of the title in 2000. He is a graduate
of Harvard, and a former Knight Fellow at MIT.
In 2004 he co-authored a book with Yale/ IBM
“fractal” mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot:
The (mis)Behavior of Markets: A fractal view
of risk, ruin & reward. Basic Books 2004.
Willem Jonker
Rose de Lannoy
CEO, EIT ICT Labs
CCS Corporate Program
Manager, GDF Suez
Willem Jonker has a broad background in ICT,
both in industry as well as in academia. He
studied mathematics and computer science
at Groningen University, worked at Delft
University of Technology, received his PhD
from the University of Utrecht, and he works
part-time as a full professor in computer
science at Twente University.
Jonker’s industrial experience covers
telecommunications (KPN), IT (European
Computer industry Research Centre, Munich)
and consumer electronics (Philips). In 2006
he was appointed Vice President Philips
Research.
Rose de Lannoy has a track record of more
than 15 years in the energy sector. Her main
area of activities are in the field of climate
change policies (which she followed from 1997
to 2005), coordinating all aspects of carbon
markets implementation in the Electrabel
then Suez Group. Subsequently, she pursued
Carbon Capture Transport and Storage (CCS)
of CO2 both for Suez and then GDF SUEZ.
In 2008 she is appointed manager of the
CCS corporate program within the division
Research & Innovation. As such she has the
overview of the Group’s activities in this field
and a comprehensive approach including
technology, policy, and business case.
PARTICIPANTS
Cédric Latessa
Jaime Lledó
Investment Manager, Aster
Capital
Co-Founder and CEO,
Tecnoturbines
Cédric Latessa has been active in Venture
Capital for the past 12 years and is an
investment manager for Aster Capital. He
first held long term internships in early stage
VC funds like Mangrove, Mileno Capital and
FCJE. Cédric started his career at BIP where
he invested in early and later stage technology
companies and funds. He subsequently joined
DFJ Esprit as an Investment Manager where
he led the fundraising efforts and deal flow
sourcing activities in European technology
companies.
Ross Melzer
Director, Science|Business
Ross Melzer has 30 years experience in
managing key client relations. He has
a distinguished track record in media
management, including 6 years as public affairs
director of EurActiv, 7 years as marketing
and business development director of the
Wall Street Journal Europe, and 7 years in
marketing and strategy roles for the Financial
Times, The Observer and Time Magazine.
Jaime Lledó has more than six years of
experience in creating custom made solutions
for clients, in both, national and international
level. Five of those years were dedicated
to renewable energies companies and
environmental friendly solutions companies.
Patrik Möller
CEO, Corpower
Patrik Möller is a passionate entrepreneur with
experience in building VC-funded technology
start-ups from first idea to businesses with
more than 80 people conducting multinational operations. He has successfully led
international product development teams to
deliver complex machinery outperforming
prior state-of-the art solutions. Prior to
CorPower he co-founded Replisaurus
Technologies, developing tools and processes
for printing patterned metal layers used in
semiconductor manufacturing.
PARTICIPANTS
Adrian Murphy
Olivier Pascal
Commercial
Director,
International Synergies
Deputy Director at VEOLIA
for Mission Métropole du
Grand Paris
Adrian Murphy is one of the founding members
of International Synergies, a company based in
the UK. He is responsible for all of the technical
and Innovation issues within the business.
His work has directly influenced policy at
local, national and international level. Most
recently the European Commission called for
Europe-wide implementation of industrial
symbiosis networks, modelled on our award
winning programme, NISP (National Industrial
Symbiosis Programme) which it acknowledges
as ‘an innovative means to achieve resource
efficiency’ in its flagship 2020 initiative,
‘Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe.’
Olivier Pascal is currently Managing Director
at VEOLIA for Mission Metropolis du Grand
Paris, to ensure the participation of the
group in the project ‘Grand Paris’. Trained at
the Ecole Polytechnique, University ParisDauphine, the National School of Bridges
and Roads, Olivier Pascal held different
positions within the group Générale des
Eaux, now Veolia environnement. It included
successive positions as COO in different
water and sanitation services in Île-de-France
or in research and development on urban
hydrology issues, particularly as Director of
the Competence Centre of Berlin’s water at its
foundation (2000).
Lucia Recalde
Anja Rienitz
Head of Unit - Higher
Education, Innovation and
Entrepreneurship, DG EAC,
European Commission
Community Manager, Plug
Surfing
Lucia Recalde worked between 1990-1995
for the Directorate of European Affairs of
the Basque Government. She joined the
Commission in 1995 and spent 10 years in DG
EMPL dealing inter alia, with the European
Social Fund and the implementation of the
European Employment Strategy. Joined the EIT
unit in 2006, she has been responsible for the
negotiations on the Regulation establishing
the EIT, the amended EIT Regulation and
the Strategic Innovation Agenda (SIA) and
is responsible for the relations between the
European Commission and the EIT.
Anja Rienitz joined PlugSurfing in April 2014
as Community Manager. Following her B.Sc. in
Biology, she is currently busy with pursuing a
Master degree in Industrial Ecology at the TU
Delft (NL). She is also following the ClimateKIC Master label program. It was through
Climate-KIC’s network that she came across
the opportunity to work for PlugSurfing.
PARTICIPANTS
Alain Rodermann
Balz Roth
Managing Partner,
Arenatis Capital
Angel Investor, Go Beyond
Alain Rodermann joined Genii Investment
Management in 2014 and is currently
Managing Partner of the Luxemburg Future
Fund. He has been an active investor in
Venture Capital Firms since 1997. He is
founder of the seed fund Arenatis Capital,
worked for ten years as Partner of Sofinnova
Partners. He is leading the European VC firm
and is Investment director of Innovacom, the
VC Arm of Orange. He invested at the very
early stage as a lead investor and has served
as board member in 25 companies across
Europe and in the USA.
Hendrik Schwietert
General Manager, Evalan
Hendrik R. Schwietert received engineering
degrees from Delft University of Technology
in The Netherlands and Carnegie-Mellon
University in the USA. He worked for Philips
Consumer Electronics and for Air Products
and Chemicals Inc., holding positions in
commercial development, operations and
general management. He has extensive
international experience including postings
in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and North
America. His responsibilities have included
the development of large capital projects and
innovation projects, and the management of
start-ups. In 2005 he co-founded EVALAN and
within that organization has been responsible
for technical development.
Balz Roth is a Go Beyond Venture Partner,
serving as lead investor in a number of
investments. Balz is both an experienced
business angel and a successful entrepreneur,
with over 20 years of experience in founding
and running several SMEs in the technology
and media environment and the lifestyle
and entertainment industries. His broad
‘know-how’ of different industries, coupled
with his entrepreneurial spirit and strong
analytical skills, makes Balz a valuable
member of Go Beyond Team when it comes
to understanding, selecting and guiding
promising entrepreneurs.
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