Pre-Conference Day

Tuesday, March 24

A selection of pre-event networking activates take place in the morning, including golf, whale watching, a half-day trip to Carmel, pickleball and a run.

PS: Places are limited. You’ll be asked to sign up once you have registered.

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. Three (3) 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  

  • Garden Terrace

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 – 8:55 am  

  • Senator Richard Burr’s discussion will provide a high-level overview of the current U.S. and global policy landscape, focusing on how domestic political dynamics, regulatory shifts, geopolitical tensions, and evolving trade and security priorities are reshaping the near-term business environment.

    Senator Richard Burr – U.S. Senate (2005-2023)

8:55 – 9:15 am  

9:15– 9:35 am  

9:35 – 9:45 am  

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

  • Eric Buatois, General Partner, BGV

9:45- 10:05 am  

10:05 - 10:25 am  

  • Dr. Trevor Lanting, Chief Development Officer, D-Wave Quantum

    Eric Buatois, General Partner, BGV

  • Emily Fontaine, Global Head, IBM Venture Capital

    Interviewed By: Ian Goldstein, Partner, Fenwick

10:25 - 10:45 am   

  • Saeed Amidi, Founder & CEO, Plug & Play

10:45 - 11:10 am

  • Lip-Bu Tan, CEO,  Intel Corporation

11:10 - 11:30 am

  • Andrew Ferguson, Vice President, Databricks Ventures, Databricks

    Interviewed By: Sandi Knox, Partner, Sidley

11:30 - 11:50 am

  • Jasdeep Sawhney, Managing Director, InMotion Ventures Studio, InMotion Ventures

    Moderator: Justin Watkins, Partner, Faegre Drinker

11:50 - 12:10 pm

  • Hoolie Tejwai, Global Head, Coinbase Ventures, Coinbase

12:10 - 12:30 pm

  • Barbry McGann, SVP and Managing Director, Workday Ventures

12:20 – 1:15 pm

Luncheon reception hosted by Fenwick

1:15 – 1:35 pm

  • Jihong Kim, Vice President, Samsung Ventures America

    Dong-Su Kim, CEO, LG Technology Ventures

    Interviewed By:

    Jay Eum, Co-Founder, GFT Ventures

1:35 – 1:55 pm

  • Milo Werner, General Partner, DCVC

    Ann Bordetsky, Partner and Board Advisor

    Greg Reichow, General Partner, Eclipse

    Interviewed By: Greg Heibel, Partner, Orrick

1:55 – 2:15 pm

  • Lena Ambrozy, Senior Investment Manager, Henkel

    Hiroto Takeuchi, Senior Manager,Mitsubishi Corporate CVC

    Gen Tsuchikawa, Founder, Sony Ventures

    Interviewed By: Sidley

2:15 - 4:15 pm

Concurrent tracks

Track A

The New Nexus Of Corporate Partnership Plays

Main stage - Regency ballroom

  • Sha-Chelle Devlin Manning, Chief, Commercial Strategy DARPA

    Todd Stavish, Managing Partner, SRI Ventures

  • Paul St. John, Chief Revenue Officer, Poolside

  • Deidre Paknad, Chief Executive Officer, WorkBoard

  • Tamara Steffens, Managing Director, TR Ventures, Thomson Reuters

    Moderator:

    Eric Buatois, General Partner, BGV

Track B

Workshop ballroom – Inside out innovation:

Monterey ballroom (side 1)

    • 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

     

  • Andrea Siciliani, Founding Partner, TechEnergy Ventures

Track C

CVC Development: Creation of corporate venture capital in today’s market

Monterey ballroom (side 2)

  • Big bets, big rewards > making the case for CVC

    • The big benefits of CVC = why do it

    • Here & how = options for creation

    • Against all odds = Messaging the process & purpose

4:15 – 5:30 pm

    • AI & the new tools of the trade: AI tooling (Workshop)

    • AI reliability and trust in enterprises (AI roundtable)

    • 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)

8:15 – 8:25 am

  • Maija Palmer, Editor, GCV

8:25 - 8:45 am

  • Mike Jones, General Partner, Science

8:45 – 9:05 am

  • Gabriela Hernandez, Head of Strategy & Corporate Development, Mercado Libre

    Thamara Prado, Head of Strategy, Open Innovation, and Corporate Investment, Natura Latam

9:05 – 9:25 am

  • Joel Krikston, Managing Director – Venture Investments, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund

    Interviewed By: Ian Goldstein, Partner, Fenwick

9:25 – 9:45 am

  • Barrie Laver, Managing Director, Head of Venture Capital & Private Equity, RBC Capital

    Interviewed by: Jim Fischer, Partner, DLA Piper

9:45 – 10:05 am

10:05 – 10:25 am

10:25 – 10:45 am

  • Danny Cotter, Managing General Partner, The Westly Group

    Steve Abbott, Managing Partner, Sapphire Ventures

    Interviewed by: Hyundo Kwon, Principal, Honda Xcelerator Ventures

  • Anil Achyuta. Partner, Energy Impact Partners

    Richard Wang, CEO of Voya

    Paul Lambert, CEO of Quilt

10:45 – 12:30 pm

Concurrent tracks

Track A

Corporate innovation landscape insights

Main stage

  • Anish Patel, CIO and COO, Yamaha Motor Ventures

    Fred Schonenberg. Founder and CEO, VentureFuel

  • Roger Barga, Senior Vice President, AI & ML, Oracle Cloud

  • Mike Smeed, Managing Director, InMotion Ventures

    Raj Singh, Managing Partner, JLL Spark

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)

12:30 – 1:30 pm

Luncheon reception hosted by Orrick

1:30 – 1:50 pm

  • Kent Lucas, Founding Partner, non sibi Ventures

    Bernard Harris, NASA Astronaut Venture Partner, non sibi Ventures

1:50 – 2:10 pm

  • Emilie Mazzacurati, Founding Partner, Tailwind Futures

2:10 – 2:30 pm

  • Jason Clinton, Deputy CISO, Anthropic

2:30 – 2:50 pm

  • With factories becoming more like data centers, a new wave of reindustrialization is upon us.  How will today’s corporate VCs support business transformation through strategic investing?        

2:50 – 3:00 pm

3:00 – 5:00 pm

Closing GCVI Summit happy hour social