During the second day of the meeting of the Future Trends Forum was held a session devoted exclusively to investors, who under the moderation of Richard Kivel, Chairman and President at MIT Enterprise Forum and patron of the Bankinter Innovation Foundation, discussed the elements of the investment in the new possibilities offered by social technologies. Eden Shochat, Director of Genesis Partners, offered us the vision of investors on these technologies and Tan Tinglan, Director of the National Research Foundation of Singapore offered the keys to create a successful business on the basis of social technologies.

Richard Kivel is Chairman of Rhapsody Biologics and Chairman of MIT Enterprise Forum. Trustee of Bankinter Foundation of Innovation. Richard is a well known strategist and entrepreneur focused on development of global entrepreneurial ecosystems, cluster development and the innovation economy. Eden Shochat is Early stage investor at Genesis Partners and has over 15 years of experience as the founder and Chief Technology Officer of a variety of startups, and is an angel investor, serial entrepreneur and technology specialist. Yinglan Tan is Head (Projects) of the National Research Foundation, of Prime Minister’s Office at Singapore. He oversees the National Framework of Innovation and Enterprise, reporting directly to the Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council chaired by the Prime Minister.