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.
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
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.
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.
Adam Nash
Vice President of Search & Platform Products, LinkedIn
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Alexandra Wilson
Founder and CMO at Gilt Group
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Ali Partovi
Co-founder, iLike; Co-founder, LinkExchange; SVP Bizdev, MySpace
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Ben Casnocha
Entrepreneur, writer and founder of Comcate Inc
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Cindy McLaughlin
Co-founder and CEO of Style for Hire
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David Hornik
General Partner, August Capital
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DJ Patil
Data Scientist in Residence at Greylock Partners
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Gil Penchina
CEO at Wikia, Investor at LinkedIn, Evite and Paypal
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Greg Joswiak
Vice President of iPod and iPhone Product Marketing, Apple
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Hans Peter Brondmo
Head of Social Software and Services, Nokia
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Joi Ito
CEO, Creative Commons
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Megan Smith
Vice President, New Business Development, and General Manager, Google
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Reid Hoffman
Co-founder of LinkedIn
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Sherry Coutu
Sherry Coutu has angel investments in more than 35 companies and holds investments in 2 venture capital firms.
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Julie Hanna
Chair of the Board, Kiva
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Kim Polese
Advisor at Clearstreet; formerly founder and CEO of Marimba, Sun Microsystems
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Shaukat Shamim
Founder and CEO of Buysight
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Ted Shelton
CEO, Open-First
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Thomas Ryan
CEO of Gemz Inc
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