Data presented by Martin Haemmig and GCV Analytics provided insight into the substantial growth in corporate venturing along with some of the major trends.

Tencent Investment's Jeffrey Li, number one on the GCV Powerlist this year, spoke to Michael Redding of Accenture Investments about how he approaches investing.

Paul Jacquin of Randstad Innovation Fund, Bo Ilsoe of NGP Capital and Leo Clancy from IDA Ireland exchanged views on how AI technology will affect the HR sector.

Gerald Schumann chaired a discussion with speakers including Swisscom Ventures' Dominique Mégret and AP Ventures' Andrew Hinkly on managing strategies and interests in funds with multiple corporate LPs.

Shiva Dustdar and Peter Cowley joined Mark Wilson to talk about whether adoption of the hybrid fund model is increasing in the corporate venturing space, particularity in the healthcare sector.

Jacqueline LeSage Krause, Bernhard Mohr and Jeanne Bolger spoke about the possible benefits of corporate investors joining venture funds as a limited partner.

Julie Kainz of Salesforce Ventures and Marc Rennard from Orange Digital Ventures discussed topics such as alignment with a corporate parent and the importance of streamlined processes.

The first day of 2019's GCV Symposium covered topics ranging from frontier technologies and risk versus reward to the launch of Global Impact Venturing.

The newest Mawsonia platform, Global Impact Venturing, was launched from the stage in connection with discussions on the nature and trends of impact investing for corporates.

The data and key findings from the JVCA/GCV survey reveal an open, innovation-oriented community.