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CONFERENCE PROGRAM

April 5, 2006 | 7am-6pm | Millennium Biltmore Hotel

The conference features a rich program, extensive networking and The Capital Zone, all designed to deliver in one day everything and everyone that executives from early-stage to middle-market companies need to know to finance the growth of their companies successfully.
The California State Bar has approved this conference for 3.25 hours of MCLE credit.

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Turbo-charged event for entrepreneurs, CEOs, CFOs, board members, agents and advisors. Dozens of top capital providers representing over $50 billion in equity and debt capital in one room and "open for business." Includes angel investors, early-stage VCs, later-stage VCs, mezzanine and bridge financing, 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 room at The Capital Zone.

COMPANY LIFECYCLE: FINANCING GROWTH FROM STARTUP TO EXIT

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

STARTUP. Angel investing, early- and later-stage venture capital, bridge financing, venture lending, and government grants.

GROWTH. Initial public offerings, PIPE financings, private equity, follow-on offerings, reverse mergers, high-yield debt, and asset-based & senior lending.

ALTERNATIVE LISTING VENUES: AIM & OTCQX. More than 2,200 companies have raised over £24 billion at the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange, which allows growing businesses to go public within a flexible regulatory approach. The Pink Sheets' OTCQX offers US and foreign companies access to US secondary market liquidity outside Sarbanes Oxley financial disclosure.

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS. Acquisition financing, private equity, strategic partners, roll-ups, build-ups, SPACs and spin-outs.

STRUCTURED DEALS. Elaborate financing transactions that involve several simultaneous debt or equity instruments from one or more capital providers.

GROWTH DRIVERS: COMPANIES AND SECTORS BEHIND THE NEXT WAVE OF GROWTH

CEOs of leading companies in four growth industries give unrehearsed and unvarnished insights on the defining opportunities and trends, secrets to successful financings and outlook and appetite for acquisitions in 2006.

FUTURE ENERGY. Energy has been one of the hottest investment sectors in recent years -- meet companies that are redefining our hydrocarbon-based economy.

HOMELAND SECURITY. New threats to our nation's security and prosperity are creating new opportunities for both entrepreneurs and defense giants to build businesses that help to keep the homeland safe.

CONSUMER BRANDED. Meet the marketing mavens behind the hottest brands and fastest growing retail outlets today -- what it takes to win the battle for consumers' hearts, minds, and pocketbooks.

MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT. The media landscape is transformed by proliferating modes of distribution and new business models -- download direct from the brightest minds and hottest deals where new and old media intersect.