Andrew Gaule chaired a panel on innovative new value chains that included Sarah Fisher of Johnson & Johnson, Pauline Tay of NRF, Jonathan Tudor of Castrol and Phil Giesler of BAT.

Stefan Gabriel, formerly head of advanced materials and manufactured product group 3M's corporate venturing unit for six years, hosted a discussion on CVC data.

SVB's Tracy Isacke spoke to Akira Kirton from BP, Jaidev Shergill from Capital One and Sohaila Ouffata from BMW on the best ways of incorporating diversity into corporate venturing.

Claudia Fan Munce, chairman of GCV Leadership Society and head of IBM Venture Capital until January this year, told the conference how much more mainstream corporate venturing has become in the past 15 years.

"Working with large-scale commercial enterprises creates greater impact than working with early-stage startups."