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.

1:30 – 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. Three (3) minutes will be provided to start-ups that are considered pre-seed or A-round funded. Start-ups to be featured as part of the following sectors:

    • Consumer

    • *Healthcare

    • Energy

    • AI

    • Enterprise

1:30 - 5:00 pm

    • *Startup showcase

    • CVC speed dating

    • Topical sector and CVC best practice roundtables

    • Networking cocktails

4:30 - 5:30 pm

    • Alleviating AI Anxiety – How Corporates Can Partner For AI Acceleration (Beer Garden)

    • 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?(Big Sur)

    • The Semicon Play – The State of Semiconductors In 2026 (Spyglass)

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

    • Rising Stars Reunion – New and alumni Rising Stars to join (Monterey Ballroom Terrace)

5:30 – 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)

    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  

  • 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

  • Ana Lopes, Operating Partner, 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

    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 Tejwai, Global Head, Coinbase Ventures, Coinbase

12:10 - 12:30 pm

  • Barbry McGann, SVP and Managing Director, Workday Ventures

    Interviewed by: Einat Meisel, Partner, Fenwick

12:20 – 1:15 pm

Luncheon reception hosted by Fenwick

1:15 – 1:35 pm

  • John Wesley, Founding Investment Director, NVentures

    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

    Takuya Odagiri, Senior Investor, Mitsubishi Corporate CVC

    Gen Tsuchikawa, Founder, Sony Ventures

    Interviewed By: Rob Carlson, Partner, 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

  • 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

  • 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

     

  • Engineering Tulum Energy

    Andrea Siciliani, Founding Partner, TechEnergy Ventures

Track C

CVC Development Programming

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

    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

4:15 – 5:30 pm

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

    • Beyond Copper and Steel: Advanced Materials for AI and Data Centers (Roundtable) – Spyglass 2

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

    • Family Feud: Advocating For CVC When Your Parent Wants To Pause – Big Sur 3

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

    • CFO Office Engagement – 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

  • 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

    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

    Sarah Applebaum, Partner, Pangaea 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

  • 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

  • This session explores how CVC, R&D, and innovation functions can operate as a connected ecosystem rather than competing silos, sharing intelligence, co-developing theses, and collectively building long-term enterprise value. The result is a more agile, externally connected corporate that can place smarter bets, move faster, and convert startup innovation into sustainable competitive advantage

    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 Operational Performance & Reporting

Monterey Ballroom (Grove)

    • Operations and portfolio management community roundtable (10:45 - 11:30) - Operating and fund management practices for CVC resiliency and scalability

    • Platform/portfolio development community roundtable (11:30 - 12:30) - Parent engagement and impact

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

  • Sameer Kenkare, Venture Capital & Start-Up Strategy, AWS

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