Silicon Valley Comes to Lisbon is a non-profit event organized by Beta-i.
Its purpose is to promote intercultural and intellectual sharing and networking of people from diverse backgrounds – academics, students, entrepreneurs and businessmen. It is a very networking-oriented event with the explicit objective of promoting learning experiences to its participants through private mentoring, speed networking, discussion panels and master classes.
After the astonishing success and feedback achieved on the first edition last year, a second edition is being held during 2012.
This year besides the main event in November, Beta-i organized during the Lisbon Council Entrepreneurship Week last May, the SVc2Lx_Sessions, a warm-up event consisting of an informal afternoon with four talks and a participative debate by international speakers (svc2lx.com|sessions).
As to the SVc2Lx main event it will occur on the 15th and 16th of November, once again as one of the anchor events of the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) in Lisbon.*
In these two days, prominent entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley will come to Lisbon to share their knowledge and experience with the local community of students, entrepreneurs, academics and general public, in networking events, mentoring sessions and master classes.
The first day will be a by invitation only session, where workshops, private and group networking as well as mentoring sessions will be promoted between the invited speakers and selected MBA students, academics, entrepreneurs, investors and business people.
On the second day, the public conference will start and end with panels of several speakers discussing together critical issues on entrepreneurship, technology and business. Keynote speeches will also occur during the day, where guest speakers will share their perspectives on the defined themes, in participative talks. During the day several master classes and workshops will also be running in parallel, as well as several networking and pitching routines.
More information: http://www.svc2lx.com/2012/about