Portal de apoyo a la economía del conocimiento en Canarias. Gobierno de Canarias

Friday July 11th
8:00     Registration of participants. Hotel Lobby      
9:15     Opening Remarks and Welcoming.

Mario Cabrera González. President of the island of Fuerteventura

Juan Ruiz Alzola. Director of the Regional Innovation Agency
   

9:30     Conference. "San Diego, from a sleepy Navy town into to a high-tech center in 20 years"

Peter Thomas. Director of Operations for Global CONNECT at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Global CONNECT is a network of technology commercialization/business accelerator organizations around the world. Many of these organizations were inspired by CONNECT in San Diego, which was founded by UCSD in 1985, and spun off as an independent entity in 2005. The mission of Global CONNECT is to assist members' companies and entrepreneurs to access trusted and qualified resources in other parts of the world, and to benchmark best practices in technology commercialization. Mr. Thomas was born and raised in the UK, and has lived in the US since 1978.

10:00     Companies short presentations. (5 minutes presentation and 4 minutes of Q&A done by a panel of experts)

1. Ghost Inc.  Internet based virtual computer.
2. Kooaba AG. Search engine based on images
3. Miraveo. Mobile technology for social networks
4. NGD Studios. Online videogame platform for multiple players
5. Play Futbol Corporation. Online platform for the distribution of football contents world wide
6. Winit. Tool to create flexible online databases
7. Wormhole. Virtual classrooms
8. Zetacorp Networks. Virtual communities and classified advertising
9. CC&S Group. Management tool for the administration of empty shipping containers
10. Wul Szulman Engeneering. Technology for the bending of containers

11:45 Coffee Break


12:10 Companies short presentations. (5 minutes presentation and 4 minutes of Q&A done by a panel of experts)

11. AlerGenetica. Treatment for fungal allergies
12. Medicaa Balance for Life. Treatment for balance problems
13. Oncobiomed, Cellular Oncologic. Treatment for melanoma
14. Tetra Therapeutics. Clinical trials for products with therapeutic properties
15. Rite Bite Dental Services. Easy and fast fabrication of dentures
16. Conabio - GEM S.C. Applied biotechnology to compact clay and sandy soils
17. Nautor Pharma. Chlorine substitute for pools, non toxic and more efficient
18. Seaweed Canarias. Bioactive components based on algae for agriculture, cosmetics and nutrition
19. Simply Agave. Natural sweetener for diabetics
20. Sinaloa Seafields Int. Product of high nutritional content base on algae

14:00    Lunch

16:00    Panel discussion. "Silicon Valley outside of Silicon Valley. Building a company from a peripheral region for the global reach.

Panelists: Juan Ruiz Alzola, Director of the Regional Innovation Agency. Emiliano Kargieman y Jonatan Altszul. Founders of Core Secutiry Technologies. Dan Kikinis, Silicom Ventures. Mario Nemirowsky, Consentry Networks. Jose María Blanc, Intel Capital. Rodolfo Oppeheimer, Prosperitas Venture Capital. Manuel Lopez-Figueroa. Vicepresident of Bay City Capital. Luis Martin Cabiedes. Private Investor

17:45 - 20:50 Presentations by area of specialization (The companies will be divided in 3 groups. Each company will have 18 minutes to answer questions from the panel of experts).

18:45 Coffee Break

21:40 Dinner- BBQ by the pool. 

Saturday July 12th

10:00 ? 11:30 Discussion Panel "University and Regional Development"

Panelists: Juan Ruiz Alzola, Director of the Regional Innovation Agency. Sergio Alonso, Universidad de La Laguna. Fernando Real, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Peter Thomas, University of California San Diego. Enrique Mesri,  University of Miami.  Victor Alamo-Bethancourt, Revista Nature. Guillero Aguirre, Former Director of Technology of Mexico. Gerardo Toledo, Synthetic Genomics. Antonio Estévez, Open Canarias. 

11:30 Coffee Break

12:00 ? 13:15  Global knowledge-based companies : 3 success cases. 

13:15 ? 13:45 Latipnet: La conexión latina en Silicon Valley

Adolfo Nemirovsky & Simon Goldbard 

12:45      Conference. "The Energy Future of the World: Challenges and Opportunities"

Eric J. Mathur. Eric J. Mathur, PhD. Currently serves as Vice President of Metagenomics at Synthetic Genomics, Inc.; he was responsible for establishment of the Company's La Jolla-based biological research laboratories. Eric also holds a Visiting Distinguished Scientist non-paid position at the J. Craig Venter Institute. Prior to working with Dr. Venter, Eric served as Vice President of Scientific Affairs & Molecular Diversity at Diversa Corporation where he developed the Company's metagenomics (gene recovery from the environment), high throughput cultivation and biodiversity access discovery programs. Eric was the first employee and a scientific founder of Diversa and at various times during his 12 year tenure, had direct oversight for the majority of the research organization - including microbial diversity, enzyme discovery, gene evolution, gene expression, metabolic engineering, sequencing, bioinformatics and process development. Prior to Diversa, Eric was a founding scientist at Stratagene Cloning Systems where he discovered and developed Pyrococcus furiosus (Pfu) DNA polymerase. Eric has published over 60 scientific papers, is named inventor on more than 50 issued US and World patents and has been invited to present over 100 scientific lectures.

13:15 Announcement of the best 5 investment initiatives & Closing remarks

Paulino Rivero Baute. President of the Government of the Canary Islands.  
Jorge Rodríguez Díaz. Minister of Industry. Government of the Canary Islands.
Mario Cabrera González. President of the island of Fuerteventura