Tech Summit 2012: Innovation, Disruptive Technologies and Emerging Markets
The Tech Summit 2012 "Innovation, Disruptive Technologies and Emerging Markets" will be held on May 7-10, 2012 in Brugge, Belgium. The conference is a technology briefing for government and corporate decision makers, venture capitalists, strategic investors and private equity bankers.
The Tech Summit will hold four sessions:
A. Innovation
- Government programs supporting innovation;
- Do incentives work?
- Creating favorable innovation climate: what does it take?
- Measuring innovation: benchmarks
- Does innovation pay off?
B. Disruptive Technologies
- Defining disruption
- Measuring distuption
- Predicting disruption
C. Emerging Markets
- Quantum computing
- Biofuels
- Fuell cells
- Deduplication
- NoSQL databases
- Cloud computing
- Big Data challenge
- DNA sequencing
- Femtocells
- Knowledge engineering
D. Venture Capital Trends
- State of the IPO market
- Anticipated VC investment levels by verticals
- Exit strategies
- Seed investments and incubators: do they pay off?
- Identifying the Next Big Thing
- Taking advantage of underappreciated markets
- Governmet markets: unloved, under-rated and underappreciated but still huge