Jam-packed with pertinent subject matter, critical advice, investor panels, and practical take-away advice on Due Diligence and On-Going Monitoring for Alternative Investments, this two day event will deliver everything you need to improve your due diligence protocol. Find out how investors are tweaking their due diligence standards and how managers are responding to the new criteria.

Network with the industry's leading experts as they analyze the opportunities and challenges in the real estate market! Our 2011 event was a tremendous success, with hundreds of delegates at the Gansevoort in Miami, Florida. Opal's 2012 real estate investors conference will focus on the latest developments in the marketplace. It will analyze the opportunities and challenges in the real estate market; examine best practices and explore new deal making strategies.

Opal's Annual Real Estate Investors Summit: Dealmakers Conference promises to be 2012's leading conference and exposition for real estate professionals, hedge fund managers, private investors, family offices, pension funds and other institutional investors. It will provide various networking opportunities along with an educational platform.

If you are looking to expand and diversify your asset allocation by investing in emerging managers as well as women and minority owned investment managers, the emerging managers conference will provide the unique opportunity to access a diversified group of up-and-coming performance-oriented managers and manager of managers. The conference will explore the benefits and opportunities offered by investing in emerging managers as well as new strategies for implementing an emerging managers program. If you are an emerging manager, you will learn the procedures used by institutions to launch and maintain successful emerging manager programs. This event will showcase a variety of emerging mangers as well as minority-owned manager funds and other high potential smaller investment firms, and it will offer participants invaluable networking opportunities.

Opal Financial Group's annual public funds conference will address issues that are most critical to the investment success of senior public pension fund officers and trustees. The Summit will cover how surplus returns should affect employee benefit plans, the processes for selection and evaluation of investment managers, legal concerns with fund investment and management policies as well as the benefits and pitfalls of a wide variety of investment strategies.
Opal will kick off the event with its 5th Annual America's Cup Regatta, in which attendees will have the opportunity to work with a professional sailing charter crew while competing against industry peers.

Opal Financial Group's Investment Trends Summit will serve as an educational forum focused on analyzing trends for the future, as well as exploring ways to implement new strategies in particular investment plans. Speakers and attendees will discuss topics such as investor's perspectives, investment management theories, emerging market trends, socially responsible investing, venture capital investing, commodities and more.
As one of our Platinum Series Events, we have designed this investment trends conference to meet the needs of money managers, senior pension fund officers and trustees who prefer smaller, more structured programs. By limiting this event to select managers, participants will be able to more carefully examine a distinct set of topics specifically tailored to their interests.

The Ophthalmology Innovation Summit (OIS) brings together leaders in the development of ophthalmic products, drugs, and devices. Meeting content will be presented and panel discussions delivered by noted experts in academia, industry, and healthcare investing. OIS is directly prior to the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s annual convention.

The Clean-Tech Investor Summit chaired by Technology Partners' Ira Ehrenpreis and co-produced by International Business Forum and Clean Edge, is the premier clean-tech investment and innovation event of the year. Held each winter in Palm Springs, CA, the event brings together leading investors, Fortune 500 executives, entrepreneurs, and service providers for two days of high-level presentations, conversations, and networking. Attendance is capped at 500 registrants to guarantee the optimum networking experience.

Through interactive discussions with the panel presenters, cleantech startups will gain insight on San Jose's preeminence in international markets and the local programs that are spurring domestic and international adoption of U.S.-developed clean energy technologies. This session will provide insight on U.S. Commercial Service resources and programs that match U.S. clean tech firms with overseas buyers, through B2B matchmaking, international partner searches, vetting of potential overseas partners, and trade missions. The City of San Jose will highlight the San Jose Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) program which allows a business or individual to delay, reduce or eliminate duty payments on foreign merchandise that enters the Foreign Trade Zone. This session will also include an overview from a logistics/transportation service provider who will highlight the requirements needed to ship U.S. products to overseas market via freight forwarder and export forwarder.

How can U.S. companies most effectively obtain export loans intended to advance sales of U.S. goods or services abroad? This session will highlight public-private programs aimed at expanding your company's sales internationally, thereby allowing your company to compete more effectively in the international marketplace. Learn from public and private financial institutions on how to obtain the financing needed to help maximize borrowing potential and grow your sales internationally.

Minnesota has long been one of the leading regions in the world for medical technology innovation. The MedTech Investing Conference has become the leading event for medical device investors, entrepreneurs and corporate business development executives. As in the past, this year's conference will feature industry leaders who will share their candid insights on the most critical issues in the sector today; while, at the same time, providing an intimate venue to network and to grow impactful relationships to help foster the development and financing of companies. This year, we will be joined by over 45 industry experts from around the nation, focusing on the broader theme of "THE NEW ERA OF INNOVATION".

What is the risk that your company could be the victim of intellectual property (IP) infringement, counterfeiting, or piracy? Does your company export goods or services overseas? Does your company manufacture or source overseas? Does your company attend international trade shows? This session will highlight IP protection and enforcement resources and will provide tools to help U.S. companies understand their IP rights and obtain IP protections. Legal experts will provide insight on strategies for companies to maintain their IP and obtain successful resolution of IP issues.

What is the risk that your company could be the victim of intellectual property (IP) infringement, counterfeiting, or piracy? Does your company export goods or services overseas? Does your company manufacture or source overseas? Does your company attend international trade shows? This session will highlight IP protection and enforcement resources and will provide tools to help U.S. companies understand their IP rights and obtain IP protections. Legal experts will provide insight on strategies for companies to maintain their IP and obtain successful resolution of IP issues.

The 2009 Corporate Venture Capital Summit, now in it's fifth year, has become recognized as the premier venue for venture capitalists, Startups and Corporate Development Officers to meet, interact and network with leading Corporate VCs and Strategic Investors.

More than 24 active Corporate Investors will share their strategies, criteria and perspectives.

Whether you're:

*An emerging company seeking funding

*An investor seeking new investment opportunities

*An investor seeking opportunities to partner with Corporate VCs

This is one event you won't want to miss.

The 2009 Corporate Venture Capital Summit, now in it's fifth year, has become recognized as the premier venue for venture capitalists, Startups and Corporate Development Officers to meet, interact and network with leading Corporate VCs and Strategic Investors.

More than 24 active Corporate Investors will share their strategies, criteria and perspectives.

Whether you're:

*An emerging company seeking funding

*An investor seeking new investment opportunities

*An investor seeking opportunities to partner with Corporate VCs

This is one event you won't want to miss.

An Encore Conference
For Middle-Market Private Equity
& Mezzanine Investors & Lenders