17:00 – 18:00 Professor Barry Hedley

Barry’s early career was with The Boston Consulting Group, which he joined in Boston after gaining a Baker Scholarship and MBA from Harvard Business School. He was then part of the team that established BCG’s London office in the early 1970’s, where he became a Director. After a stint at Courtaulds running part of the International Paint business and working on strategy for the Chairman he founded his own international strategy, financial consulting and private equity firm Braxton Associates, which later became the global strategy practice of Deloitte Consulting, of which he was Chief Executive, building it to around 1000 consultants in over twenty offices worldwide. He returned to Cambridge in 2000 where he focuses on developing strategy formulation and execution processes, which are capable of operating rapidly in changing environments, frequently supported by novel software platforms. This has led him to his current role as Chairman of Dialectyx, a private company which offers on-line and direct educational and corporate talent development services in both entre- and intra-preneurialism. He is also an active “angel” investor and his current activities in this regard include a biomass-to-biofuels venture, (see

www.novapangaea.com) a medical device business (www.natroxwoundcare.com) and a blended on-line algorithmic and human trainer based personal health and fitness developing programme  (www.goodmeasures.com)

18:00-19:00 Roberta Valenca – Coca-Cola Company

Roberta is the Regional General Manager Stills for Brazil and South Cone at The Coca-Cola Company. Board Member. She is a challenger, disruptive and positive leader with 10X growth mindset, passionate about DE&I, with a record of outperforming enterprise goals and building a winning, engaging, diverse team. She is driven by results thru happy people and challenges beyond limits, setting an agenda of business & cultural transformations with sustainable growth formulas, leading new business models, M&As and innovation plans.

Roberta was the first woman to become General Manager for Chile and Bolivia at The Coca-Cola Cia. Recognized as an inspirational leader, horizontal and collaborative style. Some awards and recognitions: “100 business leaders with best reputation in Chile 2021 by Merco”, “Referent Leader 2021 by Women Economic Forum”, “100 women leaders 2020 by ME and El Mercurio”, “Executive of the year 2020, mention Women Initiative by Scotiabank and ME” and “Inspirational Leader @The Coca-Cola Company 2019”

17:00 – 18:00 Dr Panikkos Poutziouris

Dr Panikkos Poutziouris is the Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business and Rector at UCLan Cyprus, and Chair of CEDAR- Centre for Entrepreneurial Development Alliance and Research. He is also a Fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, working with the Economics and Policy Group on Circular Economics and Entrepreneurial Development Models. For two decades, he was a Senior Lecturer and later a visiting Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business at the Alliance Manchester Business School-UK where his initiatives enjoyed support from NatWest Bank, Grant Thornton, BDO Stoy Hayward, KPMG, EY, PWC, Saggita Fund Management, Tilney Investment Management, Sand-Aire Private Equity, UBS Wealth Management; he cooperated with FBN-International, FFI, IFB UK, Coutts, JP Morgan etc.

Professor Poutziouris has been leading a number of teaching, training, research and consultancy initiatives around the world with a focus on the entrepreneurial development of family business across generations. He has served as an advisor–consultant for the Family Business Expert Group working for the European Commission, Directorate of Enterprise and Industry and for OECD on Entrepreneurship Policy. He is an active Fellow of the FFI-Family Firm Institute and former President of IFERA- International Family Enterprise Research Academy. He has been honoured by FFI – USA with the International Award for promoting family business entrepreneurship across frontiers.

18:00 – 19:00 Inés Temple – President LHH DBM Perú & Chile

President LHH DBM PERU & LHH Chile. Author ‘You, Incorporated’, the English version of ‘Usted S.A.’ best seller 20 editions. LinkedIn Top Voices 2019; #1 HR Influencer 2020; #1 Top Digital Referent Peru; Board member.

17:00 – 18:00 Dr. Stephen Lile – Cambridge Professor & Partner at OCP

Stephen Lile is Managing Partner at Oxbridge Capital Partners and Advisor to Oxbridge Angels Fund. He holds an MBA from Cambridge University where he also expects to complete his PhD in Engineering in 2021. Stephen has also completed the Private Equity Programme at Oxford University Saïd Business School.

Stephen is Co-Founder of Emmy Award winning Ensequence Inc, multi-founder, C-level executive and investor with a 20-year history of building companies on a global scale and getting exits. He has extensive corporate governance experience and served on several profit and non-for-profit boards over the last 25 years. Stephen’s professional reputation spans Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Silicon Forest and Wall Street.

He has produced 75 hours of network television, launched 3 globally disruptive media-technology companies, and was the presiding banker for Hollywood Entertainment at Bank of America.

Stephen executive produced the independent film After… (winner of Worldwide Premier 2006 AFI Film Festival), which gained European theatrical distribution in Europe and Asia with worldwide streaming distribution on Netflix. Stephen was a member of the Oregon Governors Asian Economic Summit and has been recognized by the Governor of Oregon as one of Oregon’s Media Technology Pioneers and Innovators.

18:00 – 19:00 Antonia Rojas – Partner at ALLVP

ALLVP was founded in 2012 in Mexico City with the ambition to enable founders to impact visibly the Latin American entrepreneurial ecosystem, it is one of the most active Series A fund in the venture capital industry in Latin America. ALLVP´s investment thesis participates deeply and actively in the FinTech, Future of Commerce, Human Capital and Smart Cities sectors, which are all experiencing a drastic shift at a regional level (LATAM).

Across three portfolios, the fund has invested in 35+ innovative and successful companies led by founders who share our vision to democratize access to services and fix large inefficient industries throughout the region. Cornershop scaled its unique on-demand marketplace from Chile to Canada; Flink provides access to free trading to many small investors; Nuvocargo enables thousands of cross-border shipments in the world’s most active trade corridor; Robinfood is building the largest network of ghost restaurants in the region and Yana is the world’s fastest-growing mental health app with over 5 million downloads.

The firm is a member of the Latin-American Venture Capital Association (LAVCA), the Mexican Private Equity Association (AMEXCAP) and Endeavor Investor Network.

17:00-18:00 Dr Jerry Wu

Head of Investment at TusPark Holdings (UK), Venture Capital and Private Equity.

Jerry’s career journey led him to venture capital from being a principal scientist. He brings 24+ years of experience in R&D and venture investment covering life science (digital health, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals) and deep technology (big data, machine learning and AI).

As an innovator and investor, always enthusiastic to push the boundaries, drive the innovation, foster the collaborative network with industry, academic and government partners within the bioscience and high-tech ecosystem. Jerry maintains an active network in golden triangle Cambridge-London-Oxford and beyond, and interacts with start-ups/scale-up accelerator and incubation hubs. He is also interested in entrepreneurship and understanding how big pharma and high-tech can support innovation. As an enthusiast of university-based entrepreneurial ecosystem, Jerry is a mentor at Cambridge Judge Business School and London & Partners.

As a principal scientist, Jerry has interdisciplinary R&D experience at both pharmaceutical/biotech and academy. Skill set includes digital health, real world evidence, informatics, image analysis, high-throughput screening, systems biology, AI and machine learning, plus strong project and stakeholder management skills.

18:00-19:00 BHP – Minning innovation

Speaker to be defined

17:00 – 18:00 Professor Dr. David Lenihan

Dr. David Lenihan is the co-founder and CEO of Tiber Health. Cambridge EMBA. He is driven by a relentless commitment to making medical education more accessible for students of all backgrounds and income levels. An experienced entrepreneur, educator and medical practitioner, he has witnessed first-hand the limitations of the traditional medical school model and resolved to create a better, more inclusive and effective one.

The Tiber model is inspired by students at Ponce Health Sciences University in Puerto Rico, where Dr. Lenihan serves as President, and the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in New York, where he served as Dean. Dr. Lenihan has fundamentally changed the way medical education is taught. By flipping the classroom, personalizing curriculum and assessing students and faculty in real-time he created a model that reduces costs while improving quality, graduate rates, and U.S. Board scores.

18:00 – 19:00 Karin Jürgensen – Corporate Governance 

Dean Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences at Universidad de los Andes, Board Member in COPEC, National Mining Company (ENAMI) and Unemployment Fund Management Company of Chile (AFC Chile)

17:00 – 18:00 Professor Davide Sola

Professor Sola is full Professor at ESCP Business School teaching in London, Paris and Madrid. His research interests are in corporate transformation, entrepreneurship, and applied enterprise economics with a particular focus on the Scale Up phases of Exponential technologies. He teaches the core courses of Strategy and Entrepreneurship across all the ESCP Business School Masters. He leads the J. B. Say Entrepreneurship Institute London chapter and co-directs the Health Management Innovation (HMI) research center with Professor Olivier Saulpi. Davide is Italian, graduated from ESCP Business School (formerly ESCP-EAP) and the University of Turin. He has earned a Phd in enterprise economics from the University of Turin.

18:00 – 19:00 Zekeriya Polat – Increasing efficiency during Peace, Corona and War times

Zekeriya is the founding partner of AVES Law Firm. He is a graduate of the University of Wollongong for International Business and an MBA from Cambridge University. He takes part in the method, installation and Advisory Boards of many technology companies in Turkey and abroad. He provides active financing and consultancy to start-ups. He has work experience in Asia, Europe and America in high-tech products such as contracting, negotiation, mediation and AI/IOT. He is fluent in English, Korean and Russian.

17:00 – 18:00 Konstantin Anissimov – Blockchain, crypto assets & decentralized finance. 

Cambridge EMBA. Executive Director at CEX.IO. Established in 2013, CEX.IO is a regulated cryptocurrency exchange trusted by 4M+ users. The platform offers an industry-leading retail investor experience, as well as a leading institutional and corporate offering to over 50+ institutional clients. CEX.IO is licensed and regulated by Gibraltar GFSC, FinCEN registered in the USA, in the process of obtaining FCA registration in the UK.

18:00-19:00 Deloitte expert – Cybersecurity

Expert to be confirmed. 

17:00 – 18:00 Cambridge expert  

Cambridge expert to be defined.

18:00 – 19:00 Deloitte 

Expert to be defined.

17:00 – 18:00 Dr. Hitesh Sanganee – Turning ideas inot innovation  

Executive Director and Head of Emerging Innovations in AstraZeneca, Dr Sanganee leads an amazing team that contains experienced clinicians, translational scientists, biologists that discovers and develops medicines and catalysis new ideas into the AstraZeneca Business. Working with VC’s, academics and start-ups to develop new ideas and concepts.

Life sciences , Venture Capital, Strategy, Pharmaceutical, Project leadership, Innovation, Partnering, Business Innovation, Drug discovery. Drug repositioning / repurposing , Digital Health, AI, Start-Ups, Degree and D.Phil Phd Oxford University, MBA Cambridge University.

18:00 – 19:00 Dr. Anil Sadarangani – From the lab to the market. 

Director of Innovation University of Los Andes (UANDES) and member of the Board of Directors of UANDES spin-offs and initiatives: Diamás, HubTec Chile and Pregnóstica. Lead the design and institutional strategy of technology transfer and innovation, based on science, of the UANDES; in addition to the process of technology and knowledge transfer from UANDES to the market. Ph.D. and Master in Biomedicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. MBA, University of California, San Diego, United States.