high alpha innovation Presents – Alloy 2021
The annual corporate venture studio summit
Bringing together
venture studios
innovation leaders
corporate partners
builders

Questions? Email alloy@highalphainno.com
2021 Schedule
10:00 AM ET
Welcome

Lauren Kellum
High Alpha Innovation
10:10 AM ET
Keynote: Welcome to the future: It's about to get weird

Elliott Parker
High Alpha Innovation
10:40 AM ET
Panel: Comparing Innovation Models: Secrets of Successful Corporate Innovation
From accelerators and incubators to CVC and venture studios, which model is the best and which model is the right one for your organization? Explore the pros, cons, do's and don'ts of the innovation growth models used by some of the most progressive leaders in the corporate innovation landscape.

Mike Joslin
High Alpha Innovation

Aaron Schacht
Elanco

Melody Dippold
Silicon Valley Bank

Danielle Cohn
Comcast
11:20 AM ET
Panel: Entrepreneurial Experiences: What I Wish I Would Have Known
In this session, you'll hear directly from successful founders and insights from their entrepreneurial journeys. What would they have done differently? How does the venture studio model compare to other founding approaches? Where can founders find community and increase their odds of success?

Ali Norup
Google

Trey Closson
Amplio

Clarence Bethea
Upsie

Claudia Reuter
Pre-Launch Company
11:20 AM ET
Panel: Venture Capital 2021: Trends, Challenges & Opportunities
In this session, you'll get an informative overview of today's venture landscape, including trends, future predictions, notable deals, data around deal sizes, and predictions from experts across a variety of investment tracks.

Ian Hathaway
Techstars

Jenny Fielding
The Fund

Janet Bannister
Real Ventures

Sophie McNaught
Silicon Valley Bank
15 minute Break
12:10 PM ET
General Session: Finding Entrepreneurial Talent
What does a "rockstar" management team look like at a start-up? What do studios and corporate innovators look for when recruiting CEOs and cofounding teams? What incentives and compensation structures work best to attract and retain top talent? Hear directly from a top venture studio recruiter in this all-in-one talent primer.

Amanda Poole
High Alpha Innovation

Linda Lee
AI Fund

Matt Hoffman
M13

David Beuerlein
Khosla Ventures
12:50 PM ET
Panel Track 1: First 100 Days of Building a Startup: What to Expect
The startup journey is riddled with challenges from Day 1. What services and external support do founders and new startups benefit from at launch? How do new companies best access customers as they simultaneously validate concepts? Listen to experts share practical advice on building a successful foundation -- and a winning culture -- in early-stage startups.

Paul Myer
Entrepreneur

Ryan Larcom
High Alpha Innovation

Alex Maleki
Idealab

Mike Fridgen
Madrona Labs
Panel Track 2: Where Do Disruptive Ideas Come From? Insights into Feeding the Innovation Pipeline
Explore how innovators generate the next great idea. What are the different approaches, sources, techniques and tradecraft used to create disruptive concepts? Listen to experts share insights and their stories.

Amol Dixit
General Mills

Alexandra Savona
ZX Ventures

Amish Parashar
Explorers' Lab

Teaque Lenahan
Ex-Zillow
30 minute Break
1:45 PM ET
Networking Session #1
2:15 PM ET
General Session: Scaling Leadership in Startups
In this Q&A session, Bolster CEO and author of "The Startup CEO" and "The Startup CXO" Matt Blumberg will share what it means to scale leadership teams, culture, and success at new companies. Matt's wide-ranging discussion will provide practical advice for founders, those who aspire to lead new companies, and those who work with leadership teams both inside and out of startups.

Matt Blumberg
Bolster

Gene Han (Moderator)
High Alpha Innovation
3:00 PM ET
Panel Track 1: Managing the Innovation Ecosystem: Leading the Charge from Within
Innovation leaders have the mission to develop disruptive ideas but that work often requires Herculean efforts on managing internal "change" as well. What really works in influencing internal stakeholders and driving adoption across the corporate ecosystem? Hear what tactics real-world practitioners find to be effective in leading the innovation agenda.

Alice Liu
Stanley Black & Decker

Rob Martens
Allegion

Jen Gaze
High Alpha Innovation

Dave Sonders
Salesforce
Panel Track 2: Dynamics of a University Venture Studio
Universities, perhaps even more than corporations, must constantly seek to innovate and deploy new ideas into the marketplace. In this panel, you'll hear success stories and get advice from university innovators who have successfully indroduced the venture model to campuses, including HBCUs.

Matt Brady
High Alpha Innovation

Katie Rice
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Marlon Evans
Nex Cubed

Bob Dieterle
University of North Carolina
3:40 PM ET
Networking Session #2
15 minute Break
4:30 PM ET
Keynote: The Entrepreneur's Weekly Nietzsche
In this headlining session, early-stage investor, entrepreneur, and Foundry Group partner Brad Feld takes the Alloy stage for a wide-ranging Q&A around his latest book, The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche. Brad will connect the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (who he considers the "patron philosopher of entrepreneurs") to startups and entrepreneurship in a way that is both practical and approachable, providing inspiration, introspection, and storytelling to disruptors of all types.

Brad Feld
Foundry Group

Elliott Parker (Moderator)
High Alpha Innovation
5:15 PM ET
Closing Remarks

Elliott Parker
High Alpha Innovation