World Financial Symposiums (WFS) is an international organization dedicated to educating technology leaders. Renowned as the pre-eminent networking facilitator, WFS organizes and promotes forums, seminars and conferences for CEOs, CFOs, corporate investors and other deal participants for software and IT industries worldwide, with the intent to educate and encourage deal flow among industry colleagues. Founded by experts in management education in the software and IT industries, and supported by a top-tier faculty of presenters from around the globe, WFS has developed a true symposium bringing together all elements of the financial and partnering community, including company leaders, venture capitalists, investment bankers, private equity firms, top law firms, accounting experts and M&A specialists.
WFS today offers management and leadership symposiums in both the United States and Europe, with new conferences in Asia and China scheduled for 2008.
WFS has grown from one conference held in the Bay Area to three annual events, with several other symposiums soon to be offered for specific markets, most notably the Market Spotlight Series and Merge Briefings. The firm’s flagship symposium is Growth and Exit Strategies for Software and IT Companies. It is now in its sixth year, and is the leading conference of its kind in the world, drawing together technology company owners and managers in a comprehensive one-day education forum and networking event.
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WFS offers executive education forums globally for CEOs and CFOs of software and IT companies. The educational forums offered provide technology leaders with strategies for building healthy enterprises and for making effective decisions as they consider growth and exit opportunities for their companies. WFS also includes leaders in the finance fields globally, encouraging all participants to think and act globally and responsibly in growing their businesses.
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World Financial Symposiums (WFS) was founded in 2002 to fill the void for high level educational events on growth, financing, leadership and exit options for software and technology leaders in the IT and Internet industries. The first conference, Growth and Exit Strategies for Software and IT Companies, was held in
Palo Alto in 2003. The conference series was then expanded to New York and a year later to
London, catering to an international audience. Each of these conferences has now become an annual event. The west coast conference is in late spring/early summer in the Bay area, the European conference is in the fall in London, and the East Coast event marks the beginning of the new year and is held in the financial capital of the world,
New York.
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WFS aims to reach technology leaders through educational offerings that allow them to make conscious and sound choices for their enterprises that embrace the well-being of all stakeholders: management, employees, customers, investors and the governments and cultures in which they serve.
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