World Financial Symposiums invites you to attend the annual "Growth and Exit Strategies" conference for senior executives, investment professionals, transaction and corporate development advisors operating in the technology sector. This conference is now in its 10th season in New York, London and San Francisco, with a past faculty roster that has included tech luminaries such Geoffrey Moore, Mark Leslie, Michael Jackson, and others.
Attend this conference to learn about:
Where global technology M&A stands today
Raising capital in the current environment
Founder-CEO experience of corporate development
How buyers use acquisitions for growth
Preparing companies for exit
Latest valuations and metrics
And meet:
Corporate development professionals from major acquirers
Entrepreneurs who recently sold their companies
Venture Capital and Private Equity specialists invested in technology
Leading industry visionaries, and leaders who shape our industry
Comments on past events:
“Very informative and thought-provoking.”
Mike Banahan, Chairman, Cutter Project Ltd.
“Very insightful event, possibly the best quality of speakers I’ve seen in one
room…”
Jolanta Pilecka, Director, Thinkmint
“Great speakers, great content and an audience that asked questions.A rare
GROWTH AND EXIT STRATEGIES FOR SOFTWARE AND IT COMPANIES
"The most focused and relevant conference I have attended in recent years." Bruce Nelson, CFO - NetGuru Inc.
Growth and Exit Strategies for Software and IT firms is the firm's flagship event held three times a year in Silicon Valley, Boston and London. This conference has an extensive set of advisors and faculty as well as many other executives and industry experts that it draws upon for each event. The number of speakers is between 30 to 36, and they represent the elite in their field and the most knowledgeable.
A typical agenda covers a financial market overview, IPOs today, Venture Capital, Angel Investors, Recapitalizations, and alternative forms of financing such as debt. In addition to the firms that provide these services, there are speakers and panelists from those firms who have been subject to investment, an IPO or a merger with either a strategic or financial partner. This core group of speakers is supported by specialist presenters covering business modeling, legal, accounting, tax, due diligence, valuation, structure, negotiation, and integration issues.
Since its inception, this conference has received unanimous praise for both the quality of content and speakers. This is because great care is given not only to selecting each presenter, but also to the way presenters are coordinated so as not to overlap topics and stay on time, both of which are often problems with conferences such as these.
This is a new series of conferences dedicated to reaching out to specific market segments with high-level education on similar topics to the Exit Strategies symposium series. These are done either in concert with an industry event as part of their educational offering or as a standalone webcast sponsored and supported by firms that work in that field. A typical event will be for a specific market segment such as Security, RFID, ERP, etc., and will include brief presentations by an industry luminary, and supporting panels/presentation on IPOs, Investment, and M&A, by both specialists, as well as CEOs and CFOs from the companies making deal headlines in that market.
These webcasts will run 60-90 minutes, are worldwide in scope, and are very specific to one distinct market segment. The sponsors, faculty, and speakers are therefore highly specialized in these markets, thus each event will have a different set of presenters with specific expertise and experience.
