12 The TEP Times | Fall 2014
AGENDA
Investing, innovating, and collaborating in two global hubs:
Opportunities for New York and Berlin in 2015
Transatlantic Entrepreneur Conference • New York City, September 2-4, 2014
DAY 1
September 2, 2014
8.15am Arrival and breakfast
Office Links, 460 Park Avenue South, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10016
8.50am Opening of the conference
9.00am Startup Hub Berlin – Status & Outlook
9.30am The State of Play in Digital Investing Globally and Locally
Investors’ perspective
Followed by startup pitches and feedback
11.00am Content & Innovation in Media: the search for new models continues
Transportation Talk: Recruiting Talent in NYC
12.30pm Inside Techstars at R/GA Accelerator
350 West 39th Street, New York, NY 10018
Transportation Talk: Corporate Law
2.00pm – A The Vengo Story at NYDesigns
45-50 30th Street, 7th Floor, Long Island City, NY 11101
2.00pm – B
3D Printing in Action at Shapeways
3002 48th Avenue, Suite 1, Long Island City, NY 11101
Visiting Shapeways’ 3D printing factory in LIC
11.45am Starting Here and There: the NYC & Berlin tech ecosystems
Transportation provided
3.30pm – A Innovation in Design, Prototyping and New Manufacturing
at Brooklyn Navy Yard
63 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205
12.30pm Lunch and special presentation
The Art of Raising Capital in the US
3.30pm – B
1.30pm
2.15pm
The IoT: hardware is hard
3.00pm
3.15pm
4.00pm
4.00pm
Coffee and email break
Transportation provided
5.00pm – A Spark Labs
833 Broadway, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10003
6.30pm
7.15pm
Sharing and Mobility
Launch Berlin: inside the Berlin tech ecosystem
End Conference Day 1
After-conference drinks (optional)
The Cannibal Beer & Butcher, 113 East 29th Street,
New York, NY 10016
Arrival and security check-in at The German House
The German House, 871 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017
Please arrive early, bring ID!
Reception and dinner buffet
The German House, 871 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017
• Progress for Berlin
• Berlin startup pitches
• “How We See the World, and What it Means for Germany”
9.30pm Nightcap
Grand Havana Room, 666 5th Avenue, 39th Floor, New York,
NY 10103
Private club, hidden entrance. RSVP with Markus Matjeschk
([email protected]).
DAY 2
September 3, 2014
Site visits in Long Island City, Brooklyn, Manhattan
8.00am The Ultimate Start: NYC or SF?
BMW iVentures, 95 Morton Street, New York, NY 10014
9.00am Signing Ceremony
-11:30 am NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, 15 MetroTech Center,
6th floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Cooperation agreement for the project CleanTech Business
Park Berlin-Marzahn and NYU Poly Brooklyn
Please note: This event occurs simultaneously to our site visits.
Transportation Talk: Immigration Law
9.30am Innovating beyond Mitte: a view on US tech
Deutsche Bank, 60 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005
5.00pm – B
Open doors at KISI
20 Jay Street , Brooklyn, NY 11201
Dataminr
99 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10016
Transportation provided end
7.00pm Dinner and nightcap @230 Fifth Avenue - 230 5th Ave, New York, NY 10001
• Expanding from NYC to the World
• How to Manage Disruptive Change in Media
• How We Take Art into the Future: @MetMuseum and beyond
DAY 3
September 4, 2014
Starting Up Day: Making it in NYC
9.00am Match Making for Berlin Startups
BakerHostetler, 45 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10111
The Match Making session is organized in collaboration with
the German American Chamber of Commerce
11.15am Transfer to Urban Future Lab (UFL) in Brooklyn
15 MetroTech Center, 19th floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201
12.00pm Welcome
Pitch, Lunch and Mingle with current roster of UFL companies
2.00pm Workshops
International Day
5.45pm International Day reception & networking
Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
6.15pm • Welcome
• Brooklyn International
• Global Youth: Starting Now
• The Big Questions
• Making it in NYC: Discussion and Q&A
Followed by light dinner buffet
9.00pm End of conference