Pre-Conference Day

Tuesday, March 24

A selection of pre-event networking activities takes 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.

1:00 – 6:00 pm

  • Regency Foyer

1:00 - 4:30 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.  The following start-ups to be featured (bracketed according to industry focus):

    -Enterprise (1:00 – 2:00 pm) 

    • Arkestro 

    • Crystal Sonic Inc. 

    • SirenOpt, Inc. 

    • Magnus Metal 

    • Adopt AI 

    • DeepChecks 

    • Pathway 

    • Plurai 

    • ReSim 

    • Virewirx 

    -*Healthcare (2:00 – 2:30 pm) 

    • Mdisrupt 

    • Q bio 

    • Acceldata 

    • Arize AI 

    • Deepset 

    -Energy (2:30 – 3:10 pm) 

    • Tidal Metals

    • Noon Energy 

    • Aikido

    • Deepsky 

    • ElectraMet 

    • ION Storage Systems 

    • Princeton NuEnergy Inc. 

    • H55

    -AI (3:10 – 4:30 pm) 

    • Niqo Robotics 

    • Axya 

    • Cartken 

    • Inception 

    • Briq Technologies, Inc 

    • Roebling 

    • DevRev 

    • Pickle 

    • RLWRLD 

    • PhysicsX

    • Furisosa 

    • RoboForce 

2:00 - 5:00 pm

    • *Startup showcase – featured in Grand Ballroom per the above 

    • CVC speed dating

    • Topical sector and CVC best practice roundtables

    • Networking cocktails

4:30 - 5:30 pm

    • Alleviating AI Anxiety Mixer – How Corporates Can Partner For AI Acceleration (Spyglass Outdoor Prominade)

    • Spin Doctors (Spinout Workshop) – Understanding How & When To Spin Out (Oak Tree)

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

    • Energy, Resource and Transport Venturing Goes Geopolitical – Threat or Opportunity? (The President's House)

    • The Dual-Use Dilemma (Defense): How investors and government partners evaluate technologies that must simultaneously meet commercial market demands and national security needs.

      (Monterey Ballroom Terrace)

    • Rising Stars Reunion – New And Alumni Rising Stars To Join (Garden Terrace Lawn)

5:30 – 6:30 pm  

  • Garden Terrace

6:30 – 9:00 pm   

  • The Monterey Bay Aquarium

Conference Day 1

Wednesday, March 25

7:00 – 7:55 am

  • Regency Foyer

7:55– 8:10 am

  • Jim Mawson, Founder, GCV

    Nicolas Sauvage, President, TDK Ventures, TDK and 2026-2027 Chair Elect, GCV Advisory Baord

8:10 – 8:30 am

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

    Nicolas Sauvage, President of TDK Ventures, TDK

    Interviewed By: Ellen Ehrenpreis, Senior Partner, Orrick

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)

    Interviewed by: Jeff Baglio, Partner, DLA Piper

8:55 – 9:15 am  

  • Fernando Fabre, CEO, Kaufmann Fellows

    Rob Freelen, General Partner, Sozo Ventures

9:15– 9:35 am  

9:35 – 9:45 am  

  • Special Introduction by Felix Belisle Dockville, CEO of Axya

    Barbry McGann, SVP and Managing Director, Workday Ventures 

    Interviewed By: Einat Meisel, Partner, Fenwick 

  • 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

  • Special Introduction by Todd Lyons of the Naval Post-Graduate School

    Ana Lopes, Operating Partner, IBM Venture Capital

    Interviewed by: Ian Goldstein, Partner, Fenwick

10:25 - 10:45 am   

  • Saeed Amidi, Founder & CEO, Plug & Play

    Lucas Guillet, Investment Director, BNP Paribas

10:45 - 11:10 am

  • Lip-Bu Tan, CEO,  Intel Corporation

    Interviewed by: Ira Ehrenpreis, Founder & Managing Partner, DBL Partners

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 Tejwani, Global Head, Coinbase Ventures, Coinbase

    Daniel Wypler, Managing Partner, QBE Ventures

12:10 - 12:30 pm

  • Jonathan Hurst, Chief Robot Officer & Co-Founder, Agility Robotics 

    Ankur Saxena, Investment Director - Physical AI, TDK Ventures 

12:30 – 1:40 pm

Luncheon reception hosted by Fenwick

1:10 – 1:40 pm

  • John Wesley, Founding Investment Director, NVentures

    Jihong Kim, Vice President, Samsung Ventures America

    Dong-Su Kim, CEO, LG Technology Ventures

    Quinn Li, Global Head of Qualcomm Ventures, Qualcomm 

    Interviewed By: Jay Eum, Co-Founder, GFT Ventures

1:40 – 2:00 pm

  • Milo Werner, General Partner, DCVC

    Ann Bordetsky, Partner and Board Advisor

    Greg Reichow, General Partner, Eclipse

    Interviewed By: Greg Heibel, Partner, Orrick

2:00 – 2:20 pm

  • Lena Ambrozy, Senior Investment Manager, Henkel Ventures

    Takuya Odagiri, Senior Investor,Mitsubishi Corporate CVC

    Gen Tsuchikawa, Founder, Sony Ventures

    Interviewed By: Rob Carlson, Partner, Sidley

2:20 - 4:20 pm

Concurrent tracks

Track A

The new nexus of corporate partnership plays

Main stage - Regency ballroom

  • Sha-Chelle Devlin Manning, Commercial Strategy, DARPA

    Todd Stavish, Managing Partner, SRI Ventures

    Moderator: Mile Corrigan, CEO, Noblis

  • Neal Hansch, CEO, Silicon Foundry

    Evan Gutoff, Managing Director, Kearney Ventures

    John Glushik, Managing Director, HG Ventures

    Victoria Slivkoff, Global Head of Innovation Partnerships, Chemonics

  • Philip Krim, CEO, Montauk Capital

    Sydney Robinson, Senior Manager, New Products Innovation & Analytics, Tokio Marine HCC

    Mike Gulla, CEO, Adaptive Insurance

  • Deidre Paknad, Chief Executive Officer, WorkBoard

    Interviewed By: Maija Palmer, Editor, GCV

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

    Lukasz Garbowski, Chief Investment Officer, Btomorrow Ventures

    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

  • Mark Rakoski, Vice President, Advanced Engineering, Mitsubishi Electric | Technology Incubation, Acceleration, and Product Commercialization

    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 Programming

Monterey ballroom (side 2)

    • Setting up a high performance CVC 

    • Corporate Venturing Squads for multi-party collaborations 

    • Using LP positions to access pre-seed/seed stage deal flow 

    GCV Institute (Lee Sessions) and Fenwick (Jonathan Sagot) to drive discussion with featured thought leaders including: 

    • Josemaria Siota, Executive Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center, IESE Business School

    • Bill Taranto, President, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund

    • Roman Mueller, Executive Director, RTX Ventures 

    • Jason Miles, CAIA,  Founder, Managing Partner, Amenti Capital Partners

4:20 – 5:30 pm

    • AI & The New Tools Of The Trade: AI Tooling (Workshop) – Monterey Ballroom Side 2 (Grove & Pacific) 

    • Beyond Copper and Steel: Reinventing the Materials of Advanced Industries (Roundtable) – Spyglass 2 

    • The Breaker Box: Data Centers & Scaling Start-Ups (Roundtable) – President’s House 

    • Secondaries (Workshop) – Monterey Ballroom Side 1 (Pebble & Beach) 

    • The $70B CFO Stack Is Being Rebuilt: AI, ERP Disruption, and the Convergence of Finance, IT & HR – Big Sur 1  

    • Beyond The Pilot: Reliability In Real-World AI Deployment – Cypress 1 

5:30 – 7:00 pm

Cocktail reception

Conference Day 2

Thursday, March 26

7:30 – 9:00 am

  • Regency Foyer

8:15 – 10:15 am

  • House of Commons: Private executive leadership gathering

    (Executive NDA session)

    Monterey Ballroom (Pebble/Beach)

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

    Moderator: Laura Chicurel, Founder & Director, Innova360 / Regional Director & Partner, BlueBox

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

  • Murat Oguz Arcan, Managing Director, Sabanci Climate Ventures 

    Austin Noronha, Managing Director, Sony Innovation Fund 

    Sarah Applebaum, Partner, Pangaea Ventures

  • Anil Achyuta. Partner, Energy Impact Partners

    Richard Wang, CEO, Voya

    Paul Lambert, CEO, Quilt

10:45 – 12:30 pm

Concurrent tracks

Track A

Corporate Innovation Landscape Insights

Main Stage

  • Phoebe Wang, Chief AI Officer, Nuvini

    Facilitated by: Jonathan Sagot, Partner, Fenwick

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

    Interviewed by: George Hoyem, Former EVP, In-Q-Tel

  • Anish Patel, CIO and COO, Yamaha Motor Ventures

    Fred Schonenberg, Founder and CEO, VentureFuel

  • Bruno Francisco, Head of CVC - Petrobras Fund, Petrobras 

    Daniel Moczydlower, President & CEO, Embraer-X 

    Mark Hannan, Partner, Venture Investing & Strategy, Rainmaking 

  • Mike Smeed, Managing Director, InMotion Ventures

    Raj Singh, Managing Partner, JLL Spark

    Siddhant Masson, Co-founder & CEO, Wokelo AI

    Nicolas Sauvage, President, TDK Ventures

Track B

CVC Operations and Platform Communities of Practice

Monterey Ballroom (Grove)

  • Get Real About CVC Scalability and Risk 

    Session Leaders:  

    • Liz Arrington, Co-Founder and Managing Director, GCV Institute

    • Dave Stevenson, MD and COO, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund

    • Alex Kamenetskiy, COO, Munich Re Ventures


  • Drive Parent Engagement and Impact 

    Session Leaders:

    • Liz Arrington, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, GCV Institute

    • Geetha Dholakia, Program Portfolio Director, TDK Ventures

    • Troy Arnold, Partner, Echo Health Ventures

    • Arturo Litvin, Director and Head of Global Portfolio Development, Intel Capital

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

  • Kate Niedermeyer, Venture Capital & Start-Up Strategy, AWS

    Arbaaz Khan, Founder and CEO, Graphon AI  

    Davis Stone, Head of Growth, Arcee

2:30 – 2:50 pm

  • Jason Clinton, Deputy CISO, Anthropic

    Interviewed by: Shannon Yavorsky, Partner, Orrick

2:50 – 3:00 pm

3:00 – 5:00 pm

Closing GCVI Summit happy hour social