1. MBA World Trophy
Dublin 16th – 18th May 2013
Find out more at www.mbaworldtrophy.com

2. Speaker Highlights
Prof. Vivek
Wadhwa
Dr. Ronald
Weissman
Stanford,
Singularity and
Duke Universities
Silicon Valley
Band
of Angels
Prof. Raomal
Perera
Dr. Martyn
Newman
INSEAD Paris
RocheMartin, &
Univ. of East
London
Margaret
Molloy
Johnny
Ryan
Velocidi
Rahaf
Harfoush
World Economic
Forum
Johan
Wendt
The Irish Times
William
Reeve
Paddy Power
Colm
Lyon
Mattcentrum
Realex Payments
Kyra Maya
Phillips
Prof. Niamh
Brennan
Author
Sharon
Vosmek
Astia Inc
Univ. College
Dublin
Ruairi
Quinn
Minister for
Education

3. Innovation Day
Thursday 16th May – Citi, Dublin
Event Schedule
07:30
08:00 –
09:30
09:30
09:45 – 10:00
Depart hotel for Citi, North Wall Quay, Dublin
2
Lean pitch at Citi
Welcome to Innovation day in association with
the MBA World Trophy
Cecilia Ronan, Citi.
Opening VIP Address:
11:00 – 11:20
10:00 – 11:00
11:20 – 12:00
Coffee Break
Keynote: Innovating into the future, How
Ireland can leapfrog Silicon Valley:
Lean Strategies for the innovator
12:00 ––12:30
11:00 11:20
13:00 – 14:00
Bandits, Pirates and Gangsters, Disruptive
Coffee Break
Innovation and other lessons from The Misfit
Economy: Kyra Maya Phillips
Innovation: Been there-done that, The Citi
Innovation Story
Brian Hayes, Managing Director, Citi Europe
Lunch
14:00 – 14:30
Innovating through adversity
14:30: – 15:00
Big Data, The new raw material of Business”,
Rahaf Harfoush
12:30 – 1300
Professor Vivek Wadhwa Insead
Professor Raomal Perera,
Johnny Ryan, The Irish Times
Humanities Grand Challenges, Joe Haslam
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:15 Keynote: Fostering Innovation through
15:00 – 15:30
Diversity:
Sharon Wosmek
16:15 – 17:00
18:30 – 20:00
Panel discussion: Balancing your board: Prof
Niamh Brennan UCD, Sharon Wosmek,, Astia,
Caroline Casey Kanchi, Prof Vivek Wadhwa,
Stanford , Danuta Gray, Aer Lingus and Paddy
Power
Doing business in Ireland hosted by Enterprise
Ireland, City Hall, Dame Street

4. Day 2: Startup Dublin
Friday 17th May – The Marker Hotel
FINANCE PILLAR
07:30 – 08:15
08:15
08:20 – 08:30
08:30 – 10:40
10:40 – 11:00
11:00 – 13:30
13:30 – 14:30
14::30 – 14:50
14:50 – 15:10
15:10 – 16:00
16:00– 16:15
16:15-16:40
16:40 – 17:10
Registration: The Marker Hotel
Opening remarks
VIP Address
Finance Workshop. Building the perfect pitch
Dr. Ronald Weissman, Chairman, Silicon Valley
Band of Angels
Been there done that
Connor Murphy, Founder, Datahug
Coffee Break
LEADERSHIP PILLAR
Leadership Workshop: Building emotional
capital
Dr. Martyn Newman
Been there done that
Colm Lyon, Realex Payments
Lunch
GROWTH PILLAR
Bootstrapping successful social media
campaigns:
Johan Wendt, Mattcentrum
The importance of cash in a growth business
Jonah Lupton, Cauzly
Managing digital identity and security during
growth:
Tarun Wadhwa, Singularity University
Been there done that: Using your Mac Guffin to
win big.
William Reeve, Paddy Power
Coffee Break
The Irish technology landscape, government
policy and its impact on growth and
innovation, where to from here? Shay Garvey,
Frontline ventures.
Using Twitter to grow your business. Stephen
McIntyre, Twitter
Growth – Your questions answered

5. ay 3: Investment pitch da
Saturday 18th May – Final Pitch and Wrap party, Guin
Location “National Digital Research Centre, Crane
street”
09:00
10:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 11:45
Bus departs the Marker hotel for the NDRC
for investor pitch session
Investor pitch session 1
Coffee Break
11:45 – 14:00
Investor pitch session 2
14:00 -14:30
Lunch at the NDRC
14:30
Bus departs NDRC for Marker hotel
14:30 – 18:30
Free Time
Award Ceremony @ The Gravity Bar, Guinness
Storehouse
18:30 – 19:00
Depart hotel for Award Ceremony at The
Gravity bar, Guinness Storehouse
19:00 – 20:30
Guinness Storehouse tour, Networking, Food
and Guinness pint pulling competition
20:30 – 21:00
Prizegiving of the MBA World Trophy and
keynote by Barry O’Brien, Silicon Valley Bank
21:30 – 23:30
Wrap Party
23:30
Bus departs for hotel via nightclub in city
centre

6. MBA World Trophy
hanks to our teams and sp