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Silicon Valley Comes to the UK 2011

The Silicon Valley Comes to the UK Programme is a series of events bringing together investors, iconic serial entrepreneurs, ambitious students and successful angels from the UK with leading Silicon Valley talent.

The objective is to inspire students and alumni to consider starting or joining an entrepreneurial business at some point after graduation and to foster relationships between top entrepreneurs, angels and investors from Silicon Valley and Europe.

At the 2011 forum, the movers and shakers from Silicon Valley will share their views about the new and innovative business models they see as the most disruptive across the 'Gaming' and the 'Consumer Internet' sectors.

Attendees and sponsors are encouraged to actively participate and will depart having thoroughly examined the latest in cutting-edge disruptive business models and renewed networking ties with colleagues who are leading the most disruptive entrepreneurial companies in the world.

Silicon Valley Schedule

Wednesday 16 November
Cross-Party Parliamentary Panel
in London

Thursday, 17 November
Media Breakfast
in London
CEO Workshops in London
Discussion / Debate at Cambridge University

Friday, 18 November
Master Classes for Students, Cambridge and other universities
Company Exhibition
Discussion / Debate

Saturday, 19 November
Silicon Valley comes to Tech City
in London

Ask a question

We will be interviewing key Silicon Valley stars on Thursday 17 November, so if you have a burning question you'd like them to answer, please email us here.

Watch last year's interviews

Last year we asked our stellar line-up of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to share the secrets of their success with us. Find out what advice they had for fledgling entrepreneurs here.

Silicon Valley 2011 - Speakers

Image of Silicon Valley 2010 - Adam Nash Adam Nash
Vice President of Search & Platform Products, LinkedIn
—Read more about Adam Nash

Alexandra Wilson
Founder and CMO at Gilt Group
—Read more about Alexandra Wilson

Image of Ali Partovi Ali Partovi
Co-founder, iLike; Co-founder, LinkExchange; SVP Bizdev, MySpace
—Read more about Ali Partovi

Ben Casnocha
Entrepreneur, writer and founder of Comcate Inc
—Read more about Ben Casnocha

Image of Cindy McLaughlin Cindy McLaughlin
Co-founder and CEO of Style for Hire
—Read more about Cindy McLaughlin

Image of David Hornik David Hornik
General Partner, August Capital
—Read more about David Hornik

Image of DJ Patil DJ Patil
Data Scientist in Residence at Greylock Partners
—Read more about DJ Patil

Image of Gil Penchina Gil Penchina
CEO at Wikia, Investor at LinkedIn, Evite and Paypal
—Read more about Gil Penchina

Image of Greg Joswiak Greg Joswiak
Vice President of iPod and iPhone Product Marketing, Apple
—Read more about Greg Joswiak

Image of Silicon Valley 2010 - Hans Peter Brondmo Hans Peter Brondmo
Head of Social Software and Services, Nokia
—Read more about Hans Peter Brondmo

Image of Silicon Valley 2010 - Joi Ito Joi Ito
CEO, Creative Commons
—Read more about Joi Ito

Image of Silicon Valley 2010 - Megan Smith Megan Smith
Vice President, New Business Development, and General Manager, Google
—Read more about Megan Smith

Image of Reid Hoffman Reid Hoffman
Co-founder of LinkedIn
—Read more about Reid Hoffman

Image of Sherry Coutu Sherry Coutu
Sherry Coutu has angel investments in more than 35 companies and holds investments in 2 venture capital firms.
—Read more about Sherry Coutu

Image of Julie Hanna Julie Hanna
Chair of the Board, Kiva
—Read more about Julie Hanna

Kim Polese
Advisor at Clearstreet; formerly founder and CEO of Marimba, Sun Microsystems
—Read more about Kim Polese

Shaukat Shamim
Founder and CEO of Buysight
—Read more about Shaukat Shamim

Image of Silicon Valley 2010 - Ted Shelton Ted Shelton
CEO, Open-First
—Read more about Ted Shelton

Thomas Ryan
CEO of Gemz Inc
—Read more about Thomas Ryan