Stanford University (CA) March 31st 2011

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START 4.30 PM FLOOR EXHIBITION OPENS: WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS BY M.MARINUCCI (MIND THE BRIDGE), M.FABIANO (BAIA), R. PROFETA (INTESA SANPAOLO) 4.40PM -5.00PM PRESENTING WHITE PAPER: “WHY ITALY MATTERS” BY R.VIETOR (HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL), A.ONETTI (MIND THE BRIDGE), F.NAPOLITANO (BOOZ&CO) CASE STUDY: “ENEL GREEN POWER”, PRESENTED BY F. STARACE (CEO) 5.00PM - 6.00PM VISITING SMEs @ EXHIBITION FLOOR 6.00PM - 6.45PM INVESTORS PANEL: “WHY AND IF SILICON VALLEY STILL MATTERS” T. DRAPER (DFJ), S.SANDELL (NEA), JEFF CLAVIER (SOFTTECH VC) MODERATOR F.CAPOBIANCO (FUNAMBOL) 6.45PM - 7.45PM STARTUP PITCHES 7:45PM - 8.45PM HORS D’OEUVRES AND NETWORKING 8:45PM BEST PROJECTS AWARD 9.30PM EXHIBITION CLOSES

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FABRIZIO CAPOBIANCO Fabrizio Capobianco is Chairman and President of Funambol, Inc. since December 2, 2010. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Funambol, Inc. until December 2, 2010. Capobianco, a serial Entrepreneur and Veteran Executive at Reuters and Tibco, founded the first Italian Web company, Internet Graffiti. He also founded Stigma Online, developer of an information portal product with customers that included Kraft, Novartis, Italian Broadcasting Television and the Italian Stock Exchange. He joined by other technology heavyweights from IBM Venture Capital Group, Napster, Motorola and Hyperic, among others. He serves as a Director of Funambol, Inc. In addition to his monthly column for Wireless Magazine, he has taught courses on wireless and mBusiness strategies at the University of Pavia in Italy. Capobianco was recognized in 2007 as a top “40 under 40” leader by American Venture Magazine and by the readers of Mobile Village for being a consumer email visionary. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Sience from the University of Pavia in Italy. JEFF CLAVIER Jeff Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed stage investors in Web 2.0 startups. Since 2004, Jeff has invested in more than 20 consumer Internet companies developing new concepts (such as social media) or revisiting “old” ideas with a new set of economics and technologies. In 2007, Jeff was recognized as one of the 13 “Web 2.0 King Makers” by Business 2.0, and is often noted for his investments in categories such as “passion-centric communities,” or for having already sold five of his companies in the past two years through successful M&As. Jeff’s 19 years of operational, entrepreneurial and venture capital experience enable him to add relevant perspective and value to the companies in which he invests. TIMOTHY C. DRAPER Timothy C. Draper is the Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His original suggestion to use “viral marketing” in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique to hundreds of businesses. Mr. Draper launched the Draper Affiliate Network, an international network of early-stage venture capital funds with offices in over 30 cities around the globe. He founded or co-founded DFJ EPlanet (global), Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham (NYC), Zone Ventures (LA), Wasatch Ventures (Salt Lake City), , Draper Atlantic (Reston), Draper Triangle (Pittsburg), Timberline Ventures (Portland), Polaris Fund (Anchorage), DFJ Frontier (Sacramento and Santa Barbara), and DFJ Dragon (Shanghai).

MATTEO FABIANO Matteo Fabiano is an international executive with 12 years of management experience in Online Media, Video e Web Technology. Since 2005, Matteo has led marketing and operations at international software and internet startups. As COO at Your Truman Show, Inc., Matteo managed product marketing, planning and operations. Matteo held international service management roles at Hewlett-Packard, Procter & Gamble and IBM. Matteo is president of the board of BAIA, Business Association Italy America and makes time to volunteer his management skills to the Taproot Foundation, “the non-profit marketing agency”. Matteo has lived and worked in Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and the USA and holds a Laurea degree (MS) in Engineering from Milan Politecnico and an MBA from IMD. MARCO MARINUCCI Marco Marinucci is the founder and executive director of the Mind the Bridge foundation. In his daily job, he is responsible for Google’s content partnerships activities in several countries. Marco’s 15+ years professional experience spans from a VoIP start up, to artificial intelligence research, to management of an international Ecommerce business. Prior to Google, he was the US general manager of Giunti Interactive Labs, the new media branch of one of the oldest publisher in the world, Giunti Editore. With a real international focus, he lived in Spain, France and Italy before he settled down in California. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughters. Marco holds a master in Engineering with specialization in Artificial Intelligence from the Universita’ di Genova (Italy) and an MBA from Instituto de Empresa Business School, Madrid (Spain) where he’s also a lecturer on Entrepreneurship. FERNANDO NAPOLITANO Fernando Napolitano is a Booz & Company Senior Partner and Managing Director of Booz & Company Italia. He leads the organization and change practice in Italy and has specialized for fifteen years in the telecommunications, media, and aerospace industries. He leads the Firm’s European Advisory Board, an external consultative body composed by 10 leading European personalities. Prior to his consulting career, he held management positions at Procter & Gamble Italia marketing division and at Laben S.p.A. (Finmeccanica) Tethered Satellite, Commercial Department. Napolitano graduated with honors in economics from the University of Naples in Italy, followed by the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School, a Master of Science Management (major in technology management) at Brooklyn Polytechnic University, New York, and a Diploma from the Chamber of Commerce of Paris, France.

ALBERTO ONETTI Alberto Onetti, Ph.D., is Professor of business administration and innovation management at the Department of Economics of the Insubria University. He is Director of the CrESIT (Research Center for Innovation and Life Science Management) and Pro-Rector for innovation and academic high-tech spin-offs. Since 2006 he is Visiting Professor at San Francisco State University. He is Chairman and Board Member of Mind the Bridge Foundation. He is a seasoned serial entrepreneur and acts as consultant for leading banking groups and multinational companies. He sits on the board of some private companies. Along the years, Alberto has developed in-depth expertise in the areas of corporate strategy and corporate finance. Alberto Onetti is author of an extensive list of conference contributions, books and articles. ROBERTA PROFETA Roberta Profeta is Innovation Manager for the Corporate & Investment Banking Division of Intesa Sanpaolo, since the Innovation Department was first created. Being Innovation Manager entails the fostering of research, development and innovation in the scientific and technological world. Prior to this, she was Policy Officer for the European Commission, with a focus on the ‘Risk Sharing Finance Facility’, a new financing instrument for Research, Development and Innovation launched by the EC and the European Investment Bank (EIB) under the 7th Framework Programme 2007 - 2013. Before her experience at the European Commission, she was Relationship Manager for North American Large Corporates within Banca Intesa. Having received a British education until her A-levels, she completed her University studies in Italy, with a Thesis on ‘Aids: Legal and Social Aspects – A Comparison Between Italy and England and Wales’. She is an alumna of the Young Leaders Programme. SCOTT SANDELL Scott Sandell joined NEA in 1996 and became a General Partner in 2000. Scott focuses on investments in information technology and alternative energy, and is responsible for NEA’s activities in China. Present board memberships include Bloom Energy, DreamFactory, Fusion-io, HelioVolt, Lianlian Pay, SolFocus, Spreadtrum Communications (NASDAQ: SPRD), SugarCRM, TabbedOut, Tableau Software, Telegent Systems, Teneros and Workday. He has sponsored investments in 3ware (acquired by Applied Micro Circuits Corporation), Amplitude Software (acquired by Critical Path), Data Domain (acquired by EMC), Fineground Networks (acquired by Cisco), Neoteris (acquired by Juniper Networks, (NASDAQ: JNPR), NetIQ (NASDAQ: NTIQ), Playdom (acquired by Disney), Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) and WebEx (NASDAQ: WEBX). Scott started his career at the Boston Consulting Group and later joined C-ATS Software as the company’s first salesman. He founded and ran the European Subsidiary before attending Stanford Business School. During and after business school, Scott was a Product Manager at Microsoft, where he worked on Windows 95.

FRANCESCO STARACE Francesco Starace is Chief Executive Officer of Enel Green Power. Between 1982 and 1987 he has worked in General Electric, living abroad for many years (United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bulgaria and Switzerland). Since 1987 to 2000 he worked in ABB and ALSTOM. In Enel he was Head of the Business Power Area within the Generation and Energy Management Division, and later Managing Director of the Market Division. Starace graduated in Nuclear Engineering from the Milano Politecnico. RICHARD H.K. VIETOR Professor Vietor is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for the Asian Initiative. He teaches courses on the international political economy. Professor Vietor’s research on business and government policy has been published in numerous journals and books. For his courses in business-government relations and environmental management, Professor Vietor has published more than eighty case studies on energy policy, the regulation of natural gas, nuclear power and hazardous wastes; on strategy and deregulation in airlines, railroads, telecommunications, and financial services; and on the national development strategies of a dozen countries. He received a B.A. in economics from Union College (1967), an M.A. in history from Hofstra University (1971), and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pittsburgh (1975).

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2SN Siena Solar Nanotech designs and manufactures deposition equipment based on the Pulsed Plasma Deposition technology (PPD). A novel deposition technique for PV thin films that allow the production of high quality films on large area at a very competitive cost.

BioSolids developed a patented technology for the production of edible protein meals from low value biofuels crop Jatropha by-product. By using BioSolid’s technology, biofuels companies can more than double their profits.

eRALOS3 produces innovative and flexible photovoltaic (PV) cells to be integrated in clothes. PV cells are manufactured in various shapes and patterns giving an aesthetic value to the garments, to satisfy the energy needs of small portable electronic devices in a simple, autonomous and cheap way, anywhere.

Glossom is a platform for creative professionals and visual addicts who work in Fashion, Design, Photography, Illustration, Videomaking and other creative media. It allows users to visually curate their work and promote it throughout the web. Just like a Tweet or Facebook status update, the Glossom Collection allows to create and share snippets of visual work.

Minteos wireless sensor network technology and services manage risk of valuable corporate assets such as forests, oil fields, farming fields, industry plants, and pipelines. The innovative detection technology helps companies reduce their risk, liability and drastically reduces costs.

By using light, highly efficient and autonomous tethered wings, Kitenergy technology is able to convert the energy of strong and persistent high-altitude winds into electricity, with the minimal effort in terms of generator structure, cost and land occupation. Kitenergy has the proven potential to provide large quantities of renewable energy at lower cost than fossil sources, thus bringing forth a major breakthrough in renewable energy generation.

Mopapp is like Google Analytics, but for tracking & analyzing the sales of a developer’s / company’s mobile apps published in the major stores (iTunes, Google Android Market, RIM AppWorld, MobiHand, Handango and counting). It provides advanced but simply-to-understand reports and comparison charts that show how your apps sell in the different stores, OS platforms, devices, countries and more.

Porcovino.com is a revolutionary social e-commerce platform bringing hidden treasures of Italian wine & gourmet to the worldwide stage. Organised as a virtual village with product categories displayed as shops with its shopkeeper, its focus is on a content-rich user experience and on discovery of new products and narratives.

SMANIA is specialized in the research, design, and development of innovative neural interfaces for a bidirectional communication between the peripheral nervous system and an artificial device to intimately connect an amputee with its prosthesis.

Skipso leverages the Internet to accelerate Cleantech innovation globally. Its proprietary matchmaking platform helps Cleantech companies around the world: seek solutions to their challenges by tapping into an external network of experts and service providers; access multiple sources of capital to grow their business faster; commercialize their products and services by leveraging an extensive global platform.

Super Compare IT, is the first website that gathers and compares supermarket online and offline product prices. Therefore, on one hand, Shoppers can save time and money finding the cheapest supermarket in their neighborhood according to their shopping list. And on the other hand, Stores can reach customers during their decision making process and access real time data and analytics on competitors price strategies and shoppers behavior.

VisualSport.com is a revolution in the sports experience. It helps people to self-track & to analyze their sports-data, with an initial focus on amateur soccer the most social and played sport in the world.

Xapio makes your information scattered around apps and devices easy to find and reuse, just by who you want.

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CenterVue develops and markets diagnostic systems for the early detection of sight-threatening pathologies such as Diabetic Retinopathy, Macular Degeneration, and Glaucoma. VenterVue design innovative devices that are highly automated, affordable, provide high image quality, and easily integrate with telemedicine packages. With over 200 installations worldwide, we make it easy to save patients’ sight.

Expert System is the leading provider of semantic software that discovers, classifies and interprets text information. All Expert System products, which are based on the patent pending technology COGITO®, leverage the company’s expertise in the development of business solutions for the primary markets (i.e. Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Oil & Gas, Media, Mobile, etc.) and support the activities of Knowledge Management, Customer Care and Intelligence. Worldwide customers include CVS, EniGroup, Pirelli, ANSA, Telecom Italia, Microsoft, the Italian Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Interior Affairs, the U.S. DOD, DOJ and the Department of Agriculture.

HyperFair has developed a disruptive proprietary technology becoming the most innovative provider of virtual events and virtual business environments such as trade shows, congresses and corporate events. We reproduce the environment in 3D where people, through their avatars, can meet, engage and do business without incurring in the hassle and cost of travelling. We enable people worldwide to connect in a cost-effective way while generating leads, transferring knowledge and generating new online revenues opportunities.

Infinity Storage’s mission is to develop high performance software for storage management and long-term data archiving. They develop, realize and provide solutions which are transparent to all applications and which guarantee security for archived data and personalized management tailored to the type of storage. The result is an extremely innovative, flexible, modular and optimized product that is designed around the needs of customers. Infinity Storage technology enables firms to manage transparently all the most popular storage devices and combine integrated ILM functionality with storage virtualization, de-duplication, thin provisioning, compression, encryption, automatic data backup and archiving to meet the strictest regulatory criteria. MailUp is a professional, multichannel direct marketing system that allows you to send effective, rich e-mail, Smsand Fax to your customers while tracking statistics for evaluating the results of each campaign. In Italy, MailUp is among the leading providers in the industry, thanks to its unique pricing, powerful features and unparalleled inbox delivery. MailUp has been adopted by well known companies such as Mercedes-Benz, Coca Cola, Pirelli, Peugeot, Lufthansa, eBay, Trussardi, Shell, Emerson, Valentino, Eni, Costa. MailUp currently has over 2,800 active users worldwide with an yearly growth of 100%. To compensate the Carbon footprint, MailUp is ZeroImpactCertified. OpentechENG is a leading developer of software applications for mobile banking and mobile social networking. Opentech’s solution has been deployed by several multinational banks, positioning the company as a leader in the European mobile banking sector. Major handset OEMs – among them Motorola, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson, Alcatel and Huawei– ship Opentech’s mobile social networking applications pre-installed on their products. Facebook has acknowledged the company’s product as one of the best performing mobile applications worldwide, and has granted Opentechrights to distribute its product as “Facebook-branded”. The company combines the creativity of Italian designers with a strong engineering team that is well versed in mobile technologies. The company’s strategic focus is on increasing market share in mobile banking, as well as developing own-branded mobile applications leveraging on existing social networks, for mass market distribution.

Real Web SA operates a number of leading and profitable web marketplaces in Italy, Spain and Poland. In the online real estate market, Immobiliare.it is the flagship site in Italy, with over 6 million visitors per month, plus other sites addressing niches like rents or new homes. In Poland, we operate similarly thru Oferty.net and Domy.pl sites. In the online insurance broking market, Assicurazione.it is the undisputed leader in Italy, Seguros.es in Spain, plus other verticals in adjacent financial products. Silicon Biosystems, with offices in Bologna Italy and San Diego CA has developed an instrument platform for cell and molecular biology which can sort, manipulate, and collect individual or groups of rare cells. Using a proprietary electronic chip-based microfluidiccartridge and microscopic image analysis the DEPArray™ system can recover as little as one single cell from a suspension of tens of thousands of cells with 100% purity, allowing downstream molecular analyses such as whole genome amplification and sequencing. The technology has application in the molecular characterization of circulating tumor cells, tumor infiltrating cells, stem cells and circulating fetal cells. The Artificial Vision and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (VisLab) of Parma University (Italy) is involved in basic and applied research developing machine vision algorithms and intelligent systems for the automotive field. It undertakes research in many disciplines like machine vision, pattern recognition, lowlevel image processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, and real-time systems, but the main focus of the laboratory is to apply basic and advanced research to intelligent transportation systems and intelligent vehicles. The laboratory know-how is world renown and was mainly developed together with automotive companies for active/passive safety systems, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, perception of the automotive environment, up to completely automatic vehicle driving. Some examples are: lane detection, vehicle detection, pedestrian detection, obstacle localization, sensor fusion with radar and laserscanner, night vision, start inhibit. The know-how includes: monocular, stereo, multi-camera systems using daylight, Near Infrared, Far Infrared cameras; analog and digital cameras.

SCIE COM NTIFIC MIT TEE ROBERTO CREA Dr. Crea is a scientist, investor and entrepreneur. As one of the scientific cofounders of Genetech, headed the DNA chemistry department that enabled Genentech to commercialize its first biotechnology products. He is also founder of Creative BioMolecules, Creagen, CreAgri, Bioren and ProtElix. Currently he is President and CEO of ProtElix and CreAgri. Roberto Crea received his Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry from University of Pavia, Italy. He was also an Associate Professor of DNA Chemical Synthesis at Leiden University in the Netherlands prior to moving to the US in 1977. Roberto Crea is the author of more than 25 international patents and has co-authored more than 50 scientific articles. He was also the recipient of the Rumbaugh Award for Scientific Contribution given by the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation for America. FEDERICO FAGGIN is an Italian physicist/electrical engineer, principally responsible for the design of the first microprocessor and for leading the 4004 (MCS-4) project to its successful outcome and for promoting its marketing. He also designed/led the design and was the vital force during the first five years of Intel’s microprocessor effort. He continued to play a pacesetting role as founder and CEO of Zilog, the first company solely dedicated to microprocessors, for the next five years. In 2010 the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by Barack Obama, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on scientists, engineers, and inventors. GIACOMO MARINI Giacomo Marini is founder and Managing Director at Noventi,an early-stage technology venture capital firm, based in Silicon Valley. In 1981, Marini co-founded Logitech with Daniel Borel and Pierluigi Zappacosta. He was with the company until 1992 as a director and member of the management team launching Logitech and driving it to become a world leader in computer-input devices. Prior to Logitech, he held technical and managerial positions with Olivetti and IBM. Marini is Chairman of Marini Investments, TES Automation and a director of Aurora Biofuels, Ecrio, Neato Robotics, Minerva Networks and PCTEL. Previously, he was Chairman of Teknema, an Internet appliances company and Silicon Valley Advisor for CDB Web Tech, a venture capital fund of funds. He holds a Laurea Degree, cum laude, in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, Italy.

ALBERTO SANGIOVANNI VINCENTELLI Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli is an academic researcher, teacher, entrepreneur, technical advisor and business man. He is a co-founder of the two largest EDA companies: Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys, Inc., a recipient of Phil Kaufman Award, 2001. He received his engineering degree (a “laurea”) summa cum laude from the Politecnico di Milano in 1971. The youngest person to become an associate professor there, in 1976 he quit for a position at the University of California at Berkeley, where he currently is a full Professor in the Electrical Engineering department.

PIERLUIGI ZAPPACOSTA Pierluigi Zappacosta is a Venture Partner with Noventi and Vice President of Business Development at Sierra Sciences. In 1981, he co-founded Logitech together with Daniel Borel and Giacomo Marini, which went on to become the world’s largest manufacturer of computer mice and other personal interface products. he served at Logitech for sixteen years, first as President and CEO and later as Vice-Chairman. Zappacosta is also Chairman of Digital Persona, Inc., a company dedicated to mass market solutions for identification based on biometrics. He also sits on the Board of Trustees of the Reason Foundation and of the Bruno Leoni Institute. He received his bachelor’s degree (laurea in Electrical Engineering) from the University of Rome in Italy, graduating cum laude. He earned his master’s degree in Computer Science from Stanford in 1978.

MATTEO FABIANO

MARCO MARINUCCI

President of BAIA

Executive Director of MtB

FERNANDO NAPOLTANO

ALBERTO ONETTI

Managing Director of Booz & Co. Italia

Chairman of MtB

ROBERTA PROFETA

LIVIO SCALVINI

ORG A COM NIZING MIT TEE

Innovation Manager at Intesa Sanpaolo Head of Innovation and Marketing at Intesa Sanpaolo

GIUSY CANNONE MtB Startups Coordinator

MARCO RIZZONE MtB Web Coordinator

GABRIELE SCODITTI MtB Event Coordinator

ILARIA VENTRIGLIA BURKE MtB Marketing Coordinator

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EVEN DETA T ILS JEN-HSUN HUANG ENGINEERING CENTER The Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center provides a vibrant hub for science and engineering activity on campus and promises to become a magnet for casual and formal interaction among students, faculty, and industry. The Huang Engineering Center includes an “engineering commons” extending from a rotunda that forms the focal point of the entire SEQ into the underground level that connects all four SEQ structures. The commons includes a new state-of-the-art library, machine shops, flexible classrooms and conference areas, and a café, all of which make the center a campus destination. It also houses the School of Engineering administration, the Department of Management Science and Engineering and its campus-wide entrepreneurship programs, and the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. 475 Via Ortega, Stanford, California 94305-4200

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