Venture Capital in Emerging Markets, 9 - 10 June 2008, Istanbul, Turkey

Venture Capital in Emerging Markets Conference will be held in Istanbul, Turkey on 9 and 10 June 2008.

The goal of the conference is to bring venture capitalists, limited partners (investors to venture capital firms) and entrepreneurs together and start discussions on what are the right and wrong models of venture capital investing in emerging markets. It is an important goal to create an open environment where parties can discuss what each party needs, lacks and can do better. We also think it is important if we can share some stories about failures and successes.

There will be many networking activities and panels on the conference where topics such as "what do the limited partners expect from an emerging market venture capitalist, what are the top 10 mistakes of the emerging market venture capitalists, why do the startups fail, why do the venture capital firms fail, how to overcome the exit problems, what do entrepreneurs need and how to help creation of a technology ecosystem in emerging markets" will be discussed.

Venture Capital in Emerging Markets is an international conference with around 100 attendees from North America, Europe, Asia and South America.

The Agenda will be as follows:

9 June

9:30 - 10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:00 - 11:00 Welcome and Introductory talk
11:30 - 12:30 The Nature of Financing in Emerging Markets
- What would make a qualified VC from LP point of view?
- Is the model of funding right? ( from an LP point of view) What else is missing? How can it be improved?
- What could be done to create a VC environment in emerging markets?
- What role each party wants to play in the regions?

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Problems of emerging market entrepreneurs
- What are the common mistakes of Venture Capitalists in the Emerging markets?
- Why do they fail?
15:00 - 16:30 Networking time or "chat" groups around specific topics
- Company going global
- Fundraising Tips from LPs, New Model suggestions from Fund Managers
- Managing Portfolio Companies
- How to exchange information for more Success Stories
16:30 - 17:30 View from local VC'S; what is it they are doing right/wrong, strategies, commonalities between emerging market conditions
- What are the Investment Strategies?
- What do we need to make success stories? Is it the fundraising/ dealflow/ managing portfolio companies/ exits the most time consuming? / where you need partners / help?
- What are the wrong models for venture capital in emerging markets?
- What are the right strategies for venture capital in emerging markets, which brought success to your companies?

Free time until dinner for "networking"/marketplace activities

20:00 - 22:00 Dinner and Networking Events

10 June

9:30 - 10:30 The ecology of emerging markets
11:00 -12:00 Angel Networking and cross-border angel activities
Buffet lunch

Comments

[paul wouters]

thanks - nice inititative

hope to see you there

paul

[Paul McManus]

This sounds like a very interesting and timely conference. If I was going to be in the region at the time I would defintely attend.

Best of luck,
Paul

[Mehmet]

I hope this will be the first of Venture Capital in Emerging Markets Conferences. I see great value in this conference.