Jeff Clavier's Buzzlog

Moderator: Philip GALLAGHER, CeBIT News Media Network
Panelists:
Jacques BONIFAY, Transatel
Koen BOUWERS, The Software Factory
Joan LLORACH, Interactora

Alain Uzzan, of Total Immersion - a French augmented reality play which is absolutely amazing!

Doing the un-conference thing with the audience as the panel, very challenging.

From the moderator's seat: Niko von Huetz, Marc Goldberg and Philippe Collombel

There is no backchannel at Innovate Europe. No big deal. Here is the "backskypnel" with Loic, Rodrigo and Julio... and more joining.
See also: Software Only

Preparing for Loic's session: Marc Goldberg, Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz, Pascal Mercier.

Moderator: Joshua JAFFE, The Deal
Panelists:
Loic LE MEUR, Six Apart
Fred DESTIN, Atlas Venture

Briefly talking about blogging, and the European blogosphere project.
Yo European bloggers! Add yourselves to the wiki.

Having lunch at Innovate!Europe.

Sven Lingjaerde, from Vision Capital & the Euro Tech Tour Association, is keynoting the conference - talking about one of the engines of innovation: venture capital.
One of his statistics is interesting: working with a European fund of fund, he has established that only 77 funds in Europe have gone "all the way", i.e fund raising, investing, managing, exiting. And less than 10% of European GPs have over 10 years of VC experience.
Key assets: leading education, world class research centers,...
Key issues: lack of entrepreneurial spirit, complex technology transfer, our education focuses on larger corporations, roll out of new technology challenging, not really one market - neither commercial nor financial.