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.

Dow Venture Capital is working with the Environmental Business Cluster to engage with the latest cleantech startups. We invite startups involved in the energy storage, solar, wind, water, agricultural, carbon capture, and energy efficiency fields to apply to Meet with Dow by completing the application form on our website.

Silicon Valley's Premier International Startup Event
The Founder Showcase is a quarterly seed-stage startup pitch and networking event that gathers global entrepreneurial leaders to hear talks from top CEOs and investors, and help launch a promising startup to greatness.
The 13th Founder Showcase is scheduled for Wednesday, March 27th at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View. Guests will be treated to an entertaining Pitch Competition featuring 8 promising seed-stage companies, as well as talks from… Show more

Mobile is one of the hottest technology trends, with millions of computing devices being developed to keep you connected night and day—and from work to play. Everything is evolving: the hardware, the operating systems, the interfaces and the applications.

The IBF Venture Capital Investing Conference is the Premier Industry Gathering For VCs and LPs. IBF organized the first Venture Capital Investing Conference back in 1989 and has continued to bring together venture capitalists and limited partners each year in June.
Focusing on leading-edge strategies for creating value, maximizing returns, GP/LP relations, ensuring successful fundraising and optimizing exits. This conference boasts an unparalleled history with regard to quality of program and to seniority of both speakers and attendees. Planned with the assistance of our prestigious advisory board and peer input, attending will help you compare best practices and track industry trends. This industry meeting unites the most active venture investors and institutional investors representing over a trillion $ dollars in capital.

Network with some of the industry's most recognized decision makers while gaining a wealth of insight to help you come away with a competitive edge at FRA's 15th Annual Sub-Advised Funds Forum! Whether you're an advisor, sub-advisor or fund sponsor, you will learn how to achieve great success from fresh products and concepts and get the most from your strategic relationships.
Highlights include:

State of the Industry – How Has Demand Changed for Sub-Advised Products?
Performance Measurement – How Much Should it Affect Sub-Advised Mandates?
Asset Allocation Trends – Design, Strategies and Opportunities
Launching a New Fund Vehicle in Today’s Marketplace
Expanding Your Strategies and Managing Volatility via Alternatives
The Shifting Landscape of Variable Annuities – How Can Sub-Advised Services Effectively Play a Role in this New Paradigm?
Investment Management Due-Diligence – An In-Depth Look at the Ever-Evolving Process
Due Diligence from a Compliance Perspective – What Issues Are Advisors Facing that Sub-Advisors Should be Attentive to?
Global Transition Management – Efficient Ways to Enhance Sub-Advised Funds
Seizing the New Opportunities in the Growing Retirement Space
Investment Management Opportunities in the Insurance Industry’s General Accounts Assets

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.

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 event 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.

Upstate New York’s Premiere Venture Capital Forum

The Life Sciences and Healthcare Venture Summit, presented by youngStartup Ventures, is the premier industry gathering connecting venture capitalists, corporate VCs, angel investors, technology transfer professionals, senior executives of early stage and emerging growth companies, university researchers, incubators and premier service providers.

Whether you are an investor seeking access to new early stage deals, or a CEO or Founder of a new venture looking for funding, visibility and growth, the Life Sciences and Healthcare Venture Summit is one event you won’t want to miss.
CALL for TOP INNOVATORS

A select group of 50 Top Innovators from the life sciences, healthcare, pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare IT sectors will be chosen to present their breakthrough investment opportunities to an exclusive audience of Venture Capitalists, Private Investors, Investment Bankers, Corporate Investors, and Strategic Partners.

Join private equity's most powerful investors and dealmakers as they convene to analyze the state of the industry. Hosted by top editors from Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, this distinctive conference features focused conversations, provocative interviews and compelling panel discussions. Influential general partners and limited partners will reveal crucial insights on how private equity will be impacted by the U.S. Presidential election, depressed European assets, changing industry dynamics and much more . Highlights include:
Fundraising: Get proven strategies to successfully raise a fund now
Washington: How the Presidential election will affect the industry and investing
Limited Partners: The questions they are asking and the information they are seeking
International Markets: The regions to consider now to generate strong returns later
Exits: The outlook for IPOs, M&As and more
All registered attendees are also invited to join our private, online community to connect directly with other conference participants, speakers and Dow Jones editors prior to, during and after the conference has concluded. Registrants may also request to join the Private Equity Analyst Conferences LinkedIn group and connect with a range of participants from across Dow Jones private equity conferences.

The BIF Summit is a national gathering of amazing people driven by their passion, creativity and smarts to create value in entirely new ways. A two-day storytelling jam, peppered with tales of personal discovery, innovation and transformation, the Summit provides participants with the space to be crazy, get inspired and collide with unexpected collaborators.

Accelerating the Commercialization of Global Innovation

TechConnect World is uniquely designed to accelerate the commercialization of innovations, out of the lab and into industry. TechConnect World is divided into a Technical Research Program and an Innovation Partnering Program, gathering the world's leading market-focused research and commercially-viable innovations into the largest global technology accelerator program. Join leading funding agencies, national and federal labs, universities, tech transfer offices, and investment and corporate partners as we accelerate the commercialization of the world's top innovations in Washington D.C. We look forward to your participation!