World Financial Symposiums - Educating Technology Leaders
October 5, 2010
9am-5pm with reception following hosted by Silicon Valley Bank
Conference hosted at the Davis Wright Tremaine Conference Center; Downtown Seattle
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$195 for WTIA Members (use promo code: WTIA)
$295 for Non-members
World Financial Symposiums is proud to announce the addition of Seattle to its Global Conference Schedule. Now in its 8th year, the World Financial Symposiums’ “Growth and Exit Strategies for Software and IT Companies” conferences is the premier educational event for technology and finance leaders. Seattle will join New York City, Silicon Valley and London on the annual roster. This one-day conference brings together software and IT executives with prominent M&A, IPO, private equity, venture capital and investment banking professionals.
According to conference chair Nat Burgess, “Seattle is becoming a start-up capital. All of the attention used to be on Microsoft, Amazon, Concur and the other industry giants based here. This year, headlines include the sales of Vertafore for $1.4 billion, and Picnik to Google.”
Who should attend?
Technology leaders: CEOs, CFOs, corporate investors and other deal participants in software and IT industries.
Agenda:
This one-day event is filled with the top industry leaders and experts participating in panels, forums and keynotes, bringing together business, technology and finance.
* Exciting Sellers’ Panel filled with the executives who closed deals in the last year
* Informative Buyers’ Panel will go into details about leveraging your company’s growth for a successful exit
* Exit Options Panel will go over the various funding methods that start-ups use: VC, angel, PE, M&A, etc.
* Dedicated VC panel with top players from along the West Coast will talk about how they choose to acquire certain companies and what characteristics get their attention
* Two keynote speakers who have been in the news will speak about their blockbuster deals.
This event will be an exciting opportunity to grow and expand your company with newly acquired knowledge as well as the perfect networking platform with top industry executives.
Speakers:
Prior speakers include Geoffrey Moore from the Chasm Group; Peter Coffee from Salesforce.com; Art Coviello from RSA, the security division of EMC; founders of Sage, Veritas; and senior speakers from most of the leading software companies in the world, including Google, Microsoft, Symantec, Intel and Cisco.
Register Today and Mark your Calendar for October 5th!