The fourth annual Global Corporate Venturing & Innovation (GCVI) Summit in Monterey, California on Wednesday and Thursday, January 30-31 by reporters Kaloyan Andonov, Edison Fu and Thierry Heles

Day 1 of the summit

In the morning, Tim Lafferty, chief operating officer of Mawsonia, publisher of Global Corporate Venturing, Global University Venturing and Global Impact Venturing, gave opening remarks to kick off the first day of the summit, welcoming the 831 corporate venturers and industry experts present at this year’s event, understood to be the world largest CVC-themed gathering to date.

Sue Siegel, chief innovation officer of industrial conglomerate General Electric and CEO of GE Ventures, was the first…