Speakers 2026
The leaders who shaped the conversation at GCV Symposium 2026
Merete Clausen
Deputy Chief Executive of European Investment Fund
Gianluigi Baldesi
Head of the Ventures and Financing Office of European Space Agency (ESA)
Agnieszka Stasiakowska
Head of Sector, EIC Business Acceleration Services, European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA)
Henri Jaanimägi
Global Head of eBay Ventures
Kirsty Keoghan
GM Fashion & Luxury Europe of eBay
Steven Kan
Other Bets Director of Alphabet
Jill Tully
Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Shell Ventures
Maximilian Kammerinke
Investment Manager at Henkel Ventures
Priyanka Agarwal Chopra
CEO and Managing Partner of IIMA Ventures
Lukasz Garbowski
Chief Investment Officer at Btomorrow Ventures
Gabriele Papievyte
Head of Ventures at XTX Markets
Davide Ritorto
Innovation Management at Automobili Lamborghini
Minette Navarrete
President & Managing Partner of Kickstart Ventures
Vipul Vachhani
Founder & CEO of Jaivel Aerospace
Ronja Stoffregen
Director Corporate Venturing at Rehau New Ventures
Markus Gatterwe
VC Investment Lead of Holcim MAQER Ventures
Tanja Emmerling
Partner & Head of Berlin Office at High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF)
Peter Wozny
Head of Legal at Btomorrow Ventures
Suzanna Chiu
Head of Amadeus Ventures
Kevin Rodrigues
Chief Investment Officer & Managing Director of bp Ventures
Tanya Prive
Managing Director at Silicon Foundry
James Lockyer
Director of Portfolio Management at Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund
Inga Grieger
Managing Director at BWM i Ventures
Ben Wright
Vice President of 3M Ventures
Yoko Fukata
Head of India of Sony Ventures
Luca Gori
Partner at DLA Piper
Maija Palmer
Head of Content Strategy of GCV
Melis Yirçi
Innovation Business Development and Portfolio Manager of Tüpraş
Sebastiano Silvestri
Head of Corporate Venture Capital at A2A Life Ventures
Axel Deniz
CEO of Bosch Business Innovations
Karen Xiang
Consumer VC and Growth Investor at Btomorrow Ventures
Matt Ridley
Director of Sustainability and Innovation at oneworld Alliance
Kaz Hadano
CEO of Sony Ventures
Scott James O'Brien
Chief Investment Officer at Innovate UK
Ulderico Ulissi
Associate at the ZERO Institute - University of Oxford
Sam Harman
Partner, Head of Deep Tech at Oxford Science Enterprises
Jim Mawson
Founder & CEO of GCV
J.D. Englehart
Senior Investment Director at In-Q-Tel
Nicolas Sauvage
President of TDK Ventures
Raza Ali
Managing Partner of IAGi Ventures
Charlie Hayward
Deputy Managing Director at GCV
Bill Taranto
President of MSD Global Health Innovation Fund
Victor Boyajian
Global Chair at Dentons Venture Technology Group
Rob Desborough
General Partner and Managing Partner at Seraphim Space
Ricardo Zapatero
Senior Investment Associate at Repsol Energy Ventures
Jeppe Høier
Co-founder of EUVC Corporate
Patty Burke
Principal at the GCV Institute
Johann Boukhors
Managing Director at ENGIE New Ventures
Takeshi Kodama
Head and Managing Partner of JERA Ventures
Philipp Rose
Managing Director of Robert Bosch Venture Capital
Alex Kolmakov
Partner at DLA Piper
Mike Smeed
Managing Director at InMotion Ventures
Tony Askew
Founder Partner of REV Venture Partners
Amit Mulgaonkar
Senior Managing Strategist, Emerging Technologies at SRI International
Amber Knapp
Relationship Manager at GCV
Bernhard Mohr
Managing Director of Evonik Venture Capital
John Banta
President & Managing Director, BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners
Neeraj Makin
Senior Executive Vice President, Group Head - Strategy, Analytics & Venture Capital of Emirates NBD
Justin Watkins
Partner at Faegre Drinker
Roger Kitterman
Managing Partner at Mass General Brigham Ventures
Martin Scherrer
Partner at Redstone
Kemal Anbarci
VP & Managing Executive of Chevron Technology Ventures
Amey Mashelkar
Head of JioGenNext at Reliance Industries
Andy Challis
Managing Director and Co-Head of Principal Investments at Barclays
Ben Lawson
VP Strategic Initiatives at Enterprise Mobility
Alfredo Ramos
Investment Director at High Value Manufacturing Catapult
Clément Aglietta
Co-founder & CEO of Edda
Terry Doyle
Managing Partner at TELUS Global Ventures (TGV)
Sean Huff
Head of Ventures at James Fisher and Sons
André Botelho
Principal at EDP Ventures
David Dowling
Counsel at Ropes & Gray LLP
Oliver Fitz-Gibbon
Head of Platform at InMotion Ventures
Kienan Bruemmer-Gambles
Investor Ecosystems Lead at Innovate UK Business Connect
Tom Whitehouse
CEO of Leif Capital
Mark Pihlstrom
Partner at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Tjerk Joustra
GM, Business Development at Shell Ventures
Jaidev Shergill
President at Capital One Ventures
Jasdeep Sawhney
Former Managing Director at InMotion Venture Studio
Doug Russell
Managing Partner and Head at MassMutual Ventures
Dev Amratia
CEO of nPlan
Chris Kimmett
CEO at Odqa
Dave Ewing
Head of Technology Commercialisation at BAE Systems Launchpad
Karan Goyal
Managing Director - Group Strategy, M&A and CVC
Emirates NBD
Sota Moriyama
CEO of YOAKE entertainment
Daniel McMahon
Director & CEO at Snowfox
Ethan Feldman
Co-Founder & CTO of Talos
Chris Maurice
Co-Founder & CEO of Yellow Card
Roberto Ricci
CFO at Seloxium
Thomas Schubert
Partner at Dentons
Peter Stirling
Founder & CEO of STL Tech
Louis Head
Senior Associate at DLA Piper
