Official venue: Penza, street Popova, Youth Business Incubator

November 14, 2012

Day 1

09.00 – 09.30 Welcoming Coffee & Registration

09.30 – 10.00 Press Briefing

10.00 – 10.45 Opening session. Welcoming words

Moderator: Kendrick White, Founder & Managing Partner, MARCHMONT Capital Partners. 20 years of successful venture capital , private equity and corporate finance investing and advisory work in Russia

Topics for discussion:

• Regional innovation cluster development in Russia – linking federal initiatives with regional entrepreneurs

• Breaking down barriers and seeking synergies between Government, Business & Academia

Trainers and consultants:

• Yuriy Ivanovich Krivov, Chairman of the Government of the Penza region

• Vitaly Vasilyevich Demidochkin, Head of Innovation Policy and Special Projects of the Government of the Penza region

• Andrey Larchenko, managing partner of business Laboratory SokolLab

10.45 - 11.30 From the Russian innovations to global markets

Trainer: Kendrick White, Founder & Managing Partner, MARCHMONT Capital Partners

Topics for discussion:

• The key innovative sectors and global target markets

• Barriers to the commercialization of Russian scientific innovation

• Venture Industry of Russia and trends of innovation economy

• Internal market drivers of innovation in Russia

11.30 - 12.00 Peter Nemoy, Business Consultant, Expert in innovation creative technology, developer of author's educational programs on strategic management for top-managers and business owners

Topics for discussion:

• The effectiveness of the creative environment and its impact on the economy. Analysis of the previous global experience. Science cities and cultural centers.

• Tools of creative economy. The newest approach to team building and product creation in various fields of activities. Experience of McKinsey, Cirque du Soleil etc.

• Interactive part. Analysis of several case studies presented at the forum, together with their developers. Tools & formation of an effective strategy. From idea to the investments.

• Questions and Answers

12.00 – 12.30 Networking

12.30 - 14.00 Workshop "Generating revenue in the creative economy"

Trainers and Consultants:

Andrey Larchenko, managing partner of business Laboratory SokolLab

Topics for discussion:

• Problems of the creative economy and their solutions.

• Management Challenges creative and innovative environments and teams.

• Organization and promotion of innovative and creative performance of staff and the company.

• Organizational and psychological mechanisms turn ideas into profits.

• Holistic man as a subject of creative economy.

14.00 - 15.00 Dinner

15.00 - 16.30 Master-class “Corporate R&D Investing - building Russian innovation market”

Trainer: Kendrick White, Founder & Managing Partner, MARCHMONT Capital Partners. 20 years of successful venture capital , private equity and corporate finance investing and advisory work in Russia

Topics for discussion:

• Global Trends in Corporate R&D investing – questions of licensing and technology transfer

• Global best practices in technology commercialization, tech transfer and tax law formulation

• Case Study about Corporate R&D investing in Federal Express (FedEx)

16.30 - 16.45 Break

16.45 – 18.00 Workshop "Venture Accelerator. Commercialization projects at an early stage "

Trainer: Kendrick White, Founder & Managing Partner, MARCHMONT Capital Partners

Topics for discussion:

• Key innovative sectors and global target markets

• The ecosystem of innovation commercialization

• International experience commercializing tehnology

• The systems approach to the commercialization of Russian Innovations

• Stages of work - evaluation and packaging of projects

November 15, 2012

Day 2

10.00 - 12.00 Round table

“Innovation Community Drivers: Government, Business & Academia – Who Leads? Why Follow?”

Moderator: Kendrick White, Founder & Managing Partner, MARCHMONT Capital Partners

Trainers and consultants:

• Vitaly Vyacheslavovich Vinogradov, Co-Founder and CEO, i-Accelerator, deputy Director of "Innovation Center of the Higher School of Economics", Moscow

• Evgeny Anatolyevich Gaiduchenko, First Deputy Head of the Innovation Policy and Special Projects of the Government of the Penza region

• Sergey Alekseevich Berezin, General Director of "Technology Commercialization Center"

• Boris Nikolayevich Poluektov, General Director of JSC "Penza regional fund to support innovation"

• Yulya Sergeyevna Artamonova, General Director of JSC "Center of cluster development"

• Igor losifovich Artemov, Provost for Scientific Work and Innovation FGBOU VPO "Penza State University"

• Clara Rustemovna Tarantseva, Provost for Scientific Work FGBOU VPO "Penza State Technological Academy"

• Victor Vasilievich Usmanov, First Provost, Provost for Scientific Work FGBOU VPO "Penza State University of Architecture and Construction"

• Gennady Evgenievich Grishin, Provost for Scientific Work FGBOU VPO "Penza State Agricultural Academy"

Topics for discussion:

• The importance of establishing an efficient tax & legal framework specifically designed to reduce systemic business risks and increase private sector investments into modernization;

• How RF institutions and federal programs can support the commercialization of both academic science and private sector High Tech Innovation ideas – the POC as a systemic catalyst;

• Regional innovation cluster development strategies - success stories and lessons learned;

• Can Russia create an effective 21st century bottom up driven innovation economy - in spite of its historical top down administrative and cultural barriers?

12.00 - 13.30 Workshop ”Market Driven Technology Commercialization - Global Best Practices in IP Protection & Licensing”

Trainer: Vitaly Vinogradov, Co-Founder and CEO, i-Accelerator, deputy Director of "Innovation Center of the Higher School of Economics", Moscow

Topics for discussion:

• Intellectual property types and their transfer

• Formulating the strategies for IP protection / IP rights

• The difference between patents and know how

• International patenting process in Europe and North America

• Intellectual property valuation

• University R&D Commercialization - Does FZ 217 work? If not , how to fix it?

• Questions and Answers

13.30 - 14.30 Dinner

14.30 - 15.00 Workshop 1 “From the Lab to the Market - Building a Team which can succeed in raising Seed & Start Up Capital”

Trainer :

Sergey Mitrofanov, CEO Brandflight, specialized in developing marketing, branding and sales strategies for Russian enterprises seeking to expand domestic and international market share. Has built extensive practical experience during the past 20 years in business development, using an academic foundation in economics &engineering together with an MBA from the Stockholm School.

Topics for discussion:

• Building an effective team to lead product development and market intro

• Who Should Lead the Venture Management Team?

• The role of executive education in training venture management leaders

• Success stories and Lessons learned in building teams

• The Role of mentors in preparing Start Ups for the Real World

15.00 – 16.30 Master Class «Entrepreneurs Support Programs»

Trainer: Vitaly Vinogradov, Co-Founder and CEO, i-Accelerator, deputy Director of "Innovation Center of the Higher School of Economics", Moscow. A pioneer in creating an innovative approach to cultivating and developing new enterprise start-ups. A professional lawyer & linguist by training, specializing in business development with both international (Big 4) consulting experience as well as banking and private equity fund management.

Topics for discussion:

• Incubators and accelerators, types, status, goals and tasks

• Terms of cooperation with i-Accelerator and other such support programs

• Y Combinator, Tech Stars, Plug & Play and other mentoring and offsite incubation programs

• Competitions, test crash programs and other such survival “battles”

16.30 – 18.00 Master-class “UK 40 years on the way of modernization. Historical aspects of the venture capital”

Trainer: Kendrick White, Founder & Managing Partner, MARCHMONT Capital Partners Topics for discussion: Culture as a major factor determining the development of the economy

November 16, 2012

Day 3

10.00 – 17.00 Innovation project presentations to Experts Panel A team of project evaluation experts of between 2-5 people will be formed and work from 10.00 to 19.00.

This team will review individual project presentations, up to 10 minutes per presentation plus 10 minutes of feedback for each project team. The team of experts will review between 15-20 individual projects during the day, which will have been pre-selected by the local technopark partner. The experts will make commercial viability assessment on each project anв discuss the results with each team and provide immediate feedback. The experts will select the top 5 projects which will qualify for the one-on-one consultations during Day 3. For up to one hour of individual consultations. Based on the results of the consultations, certain projects may be invited to join more intensive training and consulting assessments and support from MARCHMONT Business Lab in Nizhny Novgorod.

Contacts:

Alena Ryabinina, Manager, PR & Events Department, +7 831 419-45-65 (130), a.ryabinina@marchmont.ru