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CONFERENCE PROGRAM

May 7, 2008 | 7am-6pm | Millennium Biltmore Hotel

The Conference -- for 15 years the signature event of the Los Angeles Venture Association -- features a unique content-rich program, top-level and effective networking, and The Capital Zone. It is structured to deliver unique, uncommon and essential knowledge and contacts to executives from early-stage to middle-market companies, and is marketed to senior executives and capital providers throughout the region.

The California State Bar has approved this conference for 6.00 hours of MCLE credit. (pending)

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Turbo-charged event for entrepreneurs, CEOs, CFOs, board members, agents and advisors. Over 80 top capital providers representing close to $100 billion in capital and hundreds of transactions annually - all in one location and "open for business." Includes angel investors, early-stage and later-stage VCs, mezzanine and bridge lenders, venture lenders, private equity funds, PIPE investors, and more. It would take months of meetings and a gold-plated Rolodex to match the breadth and depth of financing options available in one big room at The Capital Zone. This is a unique opportunity to connect with capital providers covering every stage of the corporate lifestyle from startup to exit.

“Capitalizing on… Capital” (Financing Growth at various stages)

Capital providers and CEOs give strategic advice and market-driven information that executives need at the four key stages of their companies’ development.

STARTUPS
Four startup founders and their respective VCs together explore how their relationship works in practice. We’ll dig into the real startup issues and opportunities.

GROWTH CAPITAL
Growth capital: Spectacular successes, fantastic failures, and amazing adaptations. Lessons on financing growth from experienced CEOs, capital providers, and intermediaries.

GOING PUBLIC
Explore different ways that US companies can go public, including traditional IPOs, reverse mergers, and blank check companies. Hear from companies that have gone public through these non-traditional routes, from investment bankers and other advisors on the market's appetite for such deals, and why foreign exchanges are capturing the attention of US issuers.

EXIT & RECAP
Opportunities and issues for private company owners considering a liquidity event – hear from ex-CEO’s, transactional intermediaries, and investors/capital providers.

Focuses on Capitalizing on four LA regional industries

Capitalizing on…..California Green
Four green technology entrepreneurs, moderated by an expert in investment in clean technology companies will present their experience and discuss their active participation in the development, use and application of green technology.

Capitalizing on …the New New Media
Learn the prospects of the “new new media”, Web 2.0, and “soon-to-be-named” business models coming just off of the virtual presses.

Capitalizing on…Commercial Real Estate
This panel provides updated information regarding the current state of the market in Southern California as well as practical ideas of value to businesses that need flexible and cost efficient real estate solutions.

Capitalizing on…the supply chain
Supply Chain Logistics - What you need to know to improve your competitiveness and bottom line. Hear about the latest trends in Outsourcing, Offshoring, Third Party Logistics (3PL & 4PL), Supply Chain Technology and Internet software and other hot topics.

Breakfast: Kenneth Starr - Breakfast Keynote

Kenneth Winston Starr is the dean of Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California. He is currently challenging the constitutionality of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to the US Supreme Court.

Lunch:

Jerry Greenfield co-founded Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc. He helped build a storefront venture into a $300 million ice-cream empire by making social responsibility and creative management strengths instead of weaknesses.

Greenfield's presentation delivers a rousing tribute to America's entrepreneurial spirit, full of anecdotes and radical business philosophy. It also addresses the great sense of fun that is the company's hallmark, illustrated with the serving of Ben & Jerry's ice cream for the entire audience.

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