Wednesday 19 September 2018

20:00 Informal Dinner of early coming event participants and speakers from optional program

Thursday 20 September 2018

08:30 Registration
09:00 Welcome from IVC Chair and Smart Capital President
Room: Tribuna VIP
09:10 Welcome from the Hosts
Room: Tribuna VIP
09:30 Keynote: Key drivers in building worldwide tech companies
Jolt capital examined over 8000 growth companies to identify which value levers investors can pull to build global tech success from Europe. This is what they learnt.
Room: Tribuna VIP
09:55 Keynote presentation & Fireside Chat: David meets Goliath: Open Innovation, Corporate Partnerships and CVCs
Room: Tribuna VIP
10:45 Coffee Break and Networking
11:15 Breakout Discussions Enhancing Value in CVC / Meet the LPs
Room: Foyer Poente Norte
12:30 Lunch and 1-2-1 Meetings
14:00 Transfer to the team building activity
14:30 The IVC Baywatch Challenge: Beach volleyball, surfing and softball competition
18:00 Transfer back to hotels
19:30 Welcoming Cocktails
Venue: BH Foz Restaurant
20:00 Welcome
20:10 Dinner Keynote “History of VC in Portugal”
20:30 Networking Dinner
22:00 End of Day 1

Friday 21 September 2018

08:30 Coffee and Pastries
09:00 Guest Keynote: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence
Room: Tribuna VIP
09:30 Keynote presentation: Scaling Tech Companies in the Digital Era
Room: Tribuna VIP
09:50 Fireside chat: Can CVC succeed in the Mittelstand?
Will CVC unlock the door to German growth companies, and if so create the next SAP? Will independent fund managers benefit?
Room: Tribuna VIP
10:15 Fireside Chat: Building international success from Portugal
Room: Tribuna VIP
10:35 Plenary Discussion: The IVC – Maximising Impact for all Members
Room: Tribuna VIP
11:00 Coffee Break and Networking
11:30 Fireside Chat: “Thinking Fast and Slow” in Tech Investment
Conventional wisdom would have it that experience is everything, but paradoxically our experience can create bias, so how can we identify this, and harness to our advantage.
Room: Tribuna VIP
11:55 “Non-panel” Discussions – a special opportunity for participants to meet in focused, facilitated groups to dive deeper into the issues raised at Smart Capital:
“Thinking fast and slow in tech investments” – how our inherent bias impacts investments – and how can we exploit this? / More than just capital – we all claim to add more than “just capital” – but what does this mean in practice?
13:00 Report back on non-panel discussions
13:15 Lunch
14:30 Breakouts by sector and presentation of portfolio company opportunities
14:30 The outlook for Sustainability
Room: Tribuna VIP
14:30 The outlook for Digital Tech
Room: Foyer Poente Norte
14:30 The outlook for Healthcare
Room: Foyer Poente Sul
16:00 End of Smart Capital 2018
16:30 Optional Programme Open Talk: Tales of the Exit Moment
Room: Tribuna VIP
17:30 End of talk and Networking