Pre-Conference Day

Tuesday, March 24

1:30 – 6:00 pm

  • Regency Foyer

1:30 - 4:00 pm

  • Select portfolio companies will be selected to participate in the 2026 Disrupt showcase taking place the day prior to the start of the GCVI Summit. Four (4) minutes will be provided to start-ups that are considered pre-seed or A round funded.

4:00 - 5:00 pm

    • Alleviating AI Anxiety – How Corporates Can Partner For AI Acceleration (Beer Garden)

    • ClimateTech & Capital Intensity - How can climate tech start-ups get funding and scale up quickly?

    • Spin Doctors (Spinout Workshop) – Understanding How & When To Spin Out (Campfire Storytelling)

    • Making Headway In Healthcare  

    • La Vida LatAm – The Approach Of Corporates In Latin America

    • Maneuvering In Mobility - Supporting Start-Ups and Intersecting Across Industries 

    • The Semicon Play – The State of Semiconductors In 2026

5:00 – 6:30 pm  

  • Regency Foyer

6:30 – 9:00 pm   

  • The Monterey Bay Aquarium

Conference Day 1

Wednesday, March 25

7:00 – 8:00 am

  • Regency Foyer

8:00 – 8:10 am

  • Jim Mawson, Founder, GCV

8:10 – 8:30 am

  • Michelle Gonzalez, Corporate Vice President & Global Head of M12, Microsoft

    Nicolas Sauvage, President of TDK Ventures,TDK

8:30 – 8:50 am  

8:50 – 9:10 am  

  • Peggy Johnson, CEO, Agility Robotics/Member of the Board at Blackrock and Fox

    Nicolas Sauvage, President, TDK Ventures

9:10 – 9:30 am  

9:30 – 9:50 am   

9:55 – 10:15 am   

  • Milo Werner, General Partner, DCVC

    Ann Bordetsky, Partner, NEA

    Greg Reichow, General Partner, Eclipse

10:15 - 10:40 am

  • Lip-Bu Tan, CEO,  Intel Corporation

10:45 - 11:00 am

11:00 - 11:20 am

  • Andrew Ferguson, Vice President, Databricks Ventures, Databricks

11:20 - 11:40 am

  • Hoolie Tejwani, Global Head, Coinbase Ventures

11:40 - 12:00 pm

  • Plug & Play

12:00 - 12:20 pm

  • Barbry McGann, SVP and Managing Director, Workday Ventures

12:20 – 1:15 pm

Luncheon reception hosted by Fenwick

1:15 – 1:40 pm

1:40 – 2:00 pm

2:00 – 2:30 pm

  • Jihong Kim, Vice President, Samsung Ventures America

    Dong-Su Kim, Managing Director, LG Technology Ventures, Intel Capital

    Jeff Herbst, Co-Founder, GFT Ventures

2:30 - 4:30 pm

Concurrent tracks

Track A

The New Nexus: Realizing how innovation & intelligence will be intersected 

Main Stage- Regency Ballroom

  • Paul St. John, Chief Revenue Officer, Poolside

    Rita Waite, Partner, In-Q-Tel

  • Tassbieh Hassan, Portfolio Development, Salesforce Ventures 

    Tamara Steffans, Managing Director, TR Ventures Thomson Reuters

Track B

Workshop ballroom – Inside out innovation: Corporate venture building

Monterey Ballroom - Pebble & Beach Sections

    • The CVB Startup = How To Get Follow-On CVC Backing

    • Finding Talent To Run CVB Startups = Internal Or External?

    • The CVB Blueprint: Best Practices and Running a Professional CVB

  • Daniel Golden, VP, Global R&D Strategy and Research & Discovery, Elanco

    Elliott Parker, CEO, Alloy Partners

  • Zafer Sahinoglu, VP, Innovation, Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center

    Mark Simoncelli, Founder, CEO, LaunchStone

  • Stefanie Diaz, Innovation & Venture Strategy, Catalyst by Wellstar

  • Dan Northover, Venture Principal, InMotion Venture Studio

     

4:30 – 5:30 pm

    • The Life Of A Showgirl: AI Front & Center (AI Roundtable)

    • AI & The New Tools Of The Trade: AI Tooling (Workshop)

    • The Breaker Box: Energy Innovation & Scaling Start-Ups (Energy Roundtable)

    • Family Feud: Advocating For CVC When Your Parent Wants To Pause

    • Incubation “Inside Out” (Workshop)

    • Secondaries (Workshop)

    • Strategic Signals

5:30 – 7:00 pm

Cocktail reception

Conference Day 2

Thursday, March 26

7:00 – 9:00 am

  • Regency Foyer

8:15 – 10:15 am

  • Session A:

    House Of Commons: Private executive leadership gathering

    (Executive NDA session)

    Session B:

    CVC operational performance & reporting

    Operations and portfolio management community of practice roundtable (Hour 1)

    Platform/Portfolio development community of practice roundtable (Hour 2)

8:30 – 8:45 am

  • Maija Palmer, Editor, GCV

8:45 – 9:10 am

9:10 – 9:30 am

  • Steve Westly, Founder, The Westly Group

9:30 – 9:50 am

9:50 – 10:10 am

10:10 – 12:00 pm

Concurrent tracks

Track A

Main Stage – CV&I market landscape insights

  • Jason Clinton, CISO, Anthropic

  • Chris Gandolfo, Executive Vice President, North America Global AI Infrastructure, Oracle

Track B

CVC operational performance & reporting

Monterey Ballroom (Grove)

    • Operations and Portfolio Management Community of Practice Roundtable (Hour 1)

    • Platform/Portfolio Development Community of Practice Roundtable (Hour 2)

11:50 – 1:00 pm

Luncheon reception Hosted by Orrick

1:00 – 1:20 pm

  • Moving Goalposts: Scoring Points With Tomorrow’s Start-Ups

1:20 – 1:40 pm

1:40 – 2:00 pm

2:00 – 2:20 pm

2:20 – 2:40 pm

2:40 – 3:00 pm

3:00 – 4:30 pm

Closing GCVI Summit Happy Hour Social