1. WATERLOO MBET
CONRAD
SEPTEMBER 3,
2013
Jim de Wilde
www.jimdewilde.net
www.twitter.com/jimdewilde

2. GLOBAL INNOVATION – WATERLOO AS
INNOVATION HUB
 ZERO-WASTE CITIES FINANCED BY DUBAI
 M-HEALTH LEADING APPS in NAIROBI
 RARE EARTH COMMERCIALIZATION BUILT “SOVIET”
SCIENCE
 GERMAN INCINERATORS REDEFINE CLEAN TECH
 GAMING, MOBILITY AND CREATIVITY (WHY ROVIO?)
 CLONE GROWTH MODELS - THE OPEN SOURCE
REVOLUTION

3. VCS - BUILDING GLOBAL INNOVATION
ALLIANCES
 3M VENTURES
 DOW VENTURES
 NIKE VENTURES
 BASF VENTURES
 CISCO VENTURES
 INTEL VENTURES

4. WHERE IS LINUS THORVALDS THESE
DAYS?
LINUX FOUNDATION
Companies such as Google, IBM, Intel, the New York Stock
Exchange, Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC), HP, Samsung,
Cisco and others have relied on The Linux Foundation to host their
collaborative software projects and provide the organizational,
promotional and technical infrastructure needed to make those
projects successful.

5. WHERE IS NIKLAS ZENNSTROM THESE
DAYS
 Atomico Ventures

6. WHERE IS PIERRE OMIDYAR THESE
DAYS
 SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP DIGITALLY EMPOWERED

7. HOW INNOVATION NETWORKS GROW
AND INTERSECT
 EBAY Omidyar Networks
 LINUX Linux Foundation
 SKYPE Niklas Zennstrom
 PAYPAL Peter Thiel
 AMAZON Bezos Expeditions

8. WHY WATERLOO?
 Innovation is about developing ecosystems
 VENTURE CAPITAL + UNIVERSITIES + COMPANIES WHO
ARE THE COMMERCIALIZAERS OF KNOWLEDGE +
ENTREPRENEURS + SUPPORTIVE GOVERNMENT
 CORPORATE CONNECTIONS (OPENTEXT, BLACKBERRY) as
3M is to MINNEAPOLOIS and ELI LILLY is to INDIANAPOLIS
 SW ONTARIO as a region

9. 3M VENTURES - INNOVATION
NETWORKS

10. WHERE IS THE WORLD GOING
 TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF VALUE CREATED IN FOOD
SUPPLY
 TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF VALUE CREATED IN ZERO
WASTE
 TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF VALUE CREATED IN LEARNING
TECHNOLOGIES
 TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF VALUE CREATED IN APPLYING
DATA ANALYTICS TO HEALTH CARE

11. WHAT ARE THE TOP INNOVATORS
DOING
 INNOVATION IS GLOBAL
 BE CAREFUL NOT TO CONFUSE TOYS WITH INNOVATION
 PEOPLE MAY WATCH MICKEY MOUSE IN 1935, BUT ATE
KELLOGG’s CORNFLAKES

12. WHERE ARE THE GLOBAL PARTNERS
OF THE 21ST CENTURY - GLOBAL
WATERLOO
 NOLLYWOOD
 TURKISH VENTURE CAPITAL
 BRAZILIAN GROWTH MODELS
 MALAYSIAN PALM OIL

13. ALL REQUIRES A GLOBAL ECONOMY
DEDICATED TO VALUE CREATION
 Bonderman says there are not enough good investments out
there
 The TSX on the day PETRONAS was denied acquisition of
PROGRESS ENERGY, more than 3x the annual VC spending in
CANADA was erased in a single stock (some came back)
 PRIORITIES ARE MISGUIDED FOR JOB CREATION and FOR
GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS

14. TIM HORTON’S IS MORE THAN TIMBITS
– INNOVATION IS MORE THAN
INVENTION
 Was TIM HORTON’s innovative? (Answer is surprising: its
human resource policy was strategically brilliant).

15. THE WATERLOO CHALLENGE
 TO BECOME ONE OF THE LEADING NON-U.S. CENTRES OF
INNOVATION
 EXPANDING STARTUP VISA
 STRATEGIC ALLIANCES WITH COMMERCIALIZATION (what
Helge Seetzen has done with TANDEM LAUNCH, DOLBY,
SAMSUNG etc.)
 CREATING ZONES OF COLLABORATION - STARTUPS
SHOULD BE FUSED INTO SCALABLE COMPANIES
 GLOBAL CONNECTEDNESS - DATELINE WATERLOO:
GLOBAL VC INITIATIVE TO BACK ENTREPRENEURS
CREATING VALUE WHEREVER THEY ARE

16. START-UP NATION GOES GLOBAL


17. ARABIC STARTUPS - THE STARTUP
REVOLUTION IS GLOBAL

18. CHINESE VENTURE CAPITAL
 Chengwei ventures
 New Margin Ventures

19. INDIAN INNOVATION MODELS
 VENTURE EAST

20. WHY FINLAND?
 WATERLOO-HELSINKI PATHWAYS

21. APRIL 2014
 CHANGING THE WAY THE GLOBAL CAPITAL MARKETS
INVEST
 A CHINESE VC CAPABILITY
 THE PENSION FUND RESPONSIBILITY
 WALL STREET BECOMES JUST ANOTHER CAPITAL MARKET,
NO MORE OR LESS THAN TORONTO

22. THE WORLD MAP – FROM OULU TO
MINNEAPOLIS WATERLOO NETWORKS
 WATERLOO (GLOBAL CONNECTEDNESS HUB OF
INNOVATION)
 G-20 SHIFTS FROM HEDGE FUNDS TO A BILLION
ENTREPRENEURS (NEW CAPITAL MARKET STRUCTURE)
 GLOBAL COMMERCIALIATION OF TECHNOLOGY
 HELSINKI-WATERLOO