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 ninth annual global corporate venturing symposium in London got underway yesterday with opening remarks from Mawsonia’s founder and editor-in-chief, James Mawson, and chief operating officer Tim Lafferty.
The event kicked off with the co-chairs of this year’s gathering – BP Ventures vice-president David Gilmour and Jacqueline LeSage Krause, managing director of Munich Re’s corporate venturing unit, Munich RE/HSB Ventures – expounding on the principal theme of this year’s symposium: facing up to potential “turbulence” in the industry.
Fittingly,…
