Review of the GCV Symposium 2019 by Callum Cyrus and Jack Hammond, reporters
The first day of the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium 2019 covered topics ranging from frontier technologies and risk-reward to the launch of Global Impact Venturing. The ninth annual symposium in London got under way with opening remarks from GCV founder and editor-in-chief James Mawson and chief operating officer Tim Lafferty.
Co-chairing this year’s gathering were BP Ventures vice-president David Gilmour and Jacqueline LeSage Krause, managing director of Munich Re’s corporate venturing unit, Munich Re/HSB Ventures, who spoke about the principal…