Collaborate2Innovate Re-Launch

Successful Innovation Through Collaboration

A significant part of the ongoing success and competitiveness of our regional economy is based on the success of our innovative large and small companies and the acknowledged creativity of our long established universities. Collaborate2Innovate was established to facilitate the formation and growth of innovative organisations in the Eastern region through collaboration. We are now embarking on a new programme of activities and have partnered with University Campus Suffolk to present a re-launch event on 17th March at the new UCS building on Ipswich waterfront. The theme will be “Successful Innovation Through Collaboration”, with a keynote presentation from Harry Berry, Head of New Venture Partners. There will be opportunities for tours of the new University building.

When

Tuesday, 17th March 2009 Registration, tea, coffee and networking from 5.30 pm Optional tours of the campus at 6 pm and 8pm Speakers at 6.30 pm Networking and refreshments at 8pm

Where

University Campus Suffolk Waterfront Building Neptune Quay Ipswich IP4 1QJ 01473 338581 www.ucs.ac.uk

How to Reserve a Place

Connect to www.collaborate2innovate.com/events.php

Keynote Presentation: Harry Berry

Here we go again...

In 2000 Brightstar was at its peak and then came the technology bubble crash and suddenly corporates were looking to concentrate on their core business, so innovation became a secondary event.

In 2009 it now looks like we have a similar situation with the 'credit crunch' and clearly in the ensuring aftermath risk capital will become very scarce.

Harry will cover the journey from what happened to Brightstar in the year 2000 through to today and also give his opinion of the current UK/USA venture capital market. Harry will give his viewpoint on how he sees the market over the next few years and some personal opinions on how start-ups could survive this troubled period.

The Speakers

Harry Berry, New Venture Partners Harry Berry manages the operations of the United Kingdom-based team of New Venture Partners, a global venture capital firm dedicated to corporate technology spin-outs. New Venture Partners has over $700 million under management. The firm provides a bridge between technology corporations and traditional venture capital. Starting in 1997 as Lucent Technologies New Ventures Group and operating as an independent firm since 2001, the New Venture Partners team has launched dozens of companies built upon innovations from Bell Labs, British Telecom, Philips, and other major technology companies.

Harry has over 30 years experience in the telecommunications industry in a wide range of senior positions. He was a Director on the Board of BT Exact Technologies and the creator of BT Brightstar, BT's corporate incubator prior to setting up the European arm of New Venture Partners.

Harry is a Board member of several software and services businesses, including Subex, iO Global Ltd., Airversent Inc., and Real Time Content Ltd. How Business Can Work With The New University Clare Avery, Associate Dean, Suffolk Business School, University Campus Suffolk With a background in the management of SMEs, Clare studied applied psychology at Cranfield University’s College of Aeronautics, before joining Cranfield's School of Management Strategic Management group. Here she carried out research into the processes of strategy development and organisational change as well as contributing to the design and delivery of management development programmes aimed at executives and owners/ managers of SMEs. At Suffolk College Clare headed the research centre CREATE, which is dedicated to the design, delivery and evaluation of technology-supported learning and its role in personal and economic development. Concurrently, as Associate Dean she was responsible for the start up and operation of the Suffolk Institute of Technology, one of 19 New Technology Institutes in the UK and which was to become a Centre of Vocational Excellence.

Now Head of Suffolk Business School, she is responsible for an expanding portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate business courses, all of which embrace themes of employability and entrepreneurship. Research interests include critical success factors in SMEs; strategy development processes; organisational change, employability and management development of the future.

How We Can Repeat These Successes

John McMillan, Chairman of Collaborate2Innovate Chairman of Collaborate2Innovate, John McMillan has run software companies since 1980. He has formed collaborative ventures with local councils, government agencies, and with other small and medium companies. He has worked with universities assisting them to exploit their intellectual property.

John is director of a number of software companies. He specialises in bringing software products to market.

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