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Upcoming IVCA Events
| Mar 14, 2012 | IVCA Luncheon - March 14, 2012 -Best Practices for Replacing the Founder CEOBest Practices for Replacing the Founder CEO March 14, 2012 11:30AM – 1:30PM Downtown Chicago Panel will include:
Topics Covered will include:
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| May 2, 2012 | 2012 IVCA/NVCA Annual Luncheon |
| Jun 12, 2012 | IVCA Luncheon - TBD |
| Jun 20, 2012 | Crosstown Classic June 20, 2012Wednesday, June 20, 2012 Sox vs. Cubs U.S. Cellular Field Ticket purchase includes all of your food and drinks and your entry into the ballpark/Miller Lite Extra Base Terrace Suite! Cost: Member ticket purchased by March 14, 2012 is $40 each. March 15, 2012 and after is $50 each. Non-member guest tickets are $140 when purchased by March 14, 2012. March 15, 2012 non-member guest ticket price is $150. |
| Sep 6, 2012 | IVCA Luncheon - September 6, 2012 - TBD |
| Oct 18, 2012 | 12th Annual IVCA CFO Summit |
| Nov 13, 2012 | IVCA Luncheon - November 13, 2012 - TBD |
| Dec 3, 2012 | 11th Annual IVCA Awards Dinner |
Other Events of Interest | |
| Feb 24, 2012- Feb 24, 2012 |
11th Annual Chicago Booth Private Equity ConferenceIntercontinental Hotel, 505 North Michigan Ave, 60611 Date:
Friday, Feb 24, 2012
Place:
Intercontinental Hotel, 505 North Michigan Ave, 60611
Attendance: 350
– 400 (60/40 Professionals/Students)
Firms:
Last
year, professionals represented over 100 firms
Current
Committed Platinum Sponsors: Beecken
Petty O'Keefe & Company; Ernst & Young; Kirkland & Ellis; BCG; Winston & Strawn; McDermott, Will & Emery Keynote
Speakers: Jeff Burgis (Partner, Adams Street Partners), Glenn
Hutchins (Co-Founder & CEO, Silver Lake Partners), Steven Taslitz
(Co-Founder, Sterling Partners)
Panels: 5 with
3 - 4 professionals per panel discussion (Topics: Creative Financing,
Fundraising, Economic/Political Outlook on PE Investing, Operational Value
Creation, Deal Structuring, etc.)
More
Details: see
the 2012 Conference
Website |
| Feb 29, 2012- Mar 2, 2012 |
Midwest Energy ForumFor the past four years, Chicago Booth has partnered with prominent community organizations to host the premier cleantech conference in the Midwest, the Midwest Energy Forum. New for 2012, we’re pleased to announced the evolution of the forum to Energy Week, three days of energy and cleantech programming in Chicago from February 29 – March 2. Leaders from Chicago and throughout the globe will come together during Energy Week to discuss new technologies and innovations, hot topics in global energy, energy strategy, and more. Energy Week Events: · February 29: The Midwest Energy Connection , hosted by ACG Chicago, open to the public Last year Illinois awarded more than $31M in grants for green industry business development. Join us to find out who got the money, how it has been spent, what the opportunities are for Illinois manufacturers and capital providers, and how to benefit from the State’s plan to make Illinois a center of green industry manufacturing. Networking will follow. Click here for info and registration · March 1: 2012 Clean Energy Challenge, hosted by the Clean Energy Trust, open to the public Ten finalists will present their early stage businesses to a distinguished panel of venture capitalists, corporate investors, and business leaders at the second annual Clean Energy Challenge. Representatives from across the clean energy spectrum will award a total of $250,000 to winners in both the Student Challenge and the Early Stage track. Click here for tickets to the Clean Energy Challenge. · March 2: Energy Forward 2012, hosted by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, open to the public The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship, in partnership with the Chicago Booth student Energy Group, will host the second annual Energy Forward conference, the largest business school event of its kind in the Midwest. The event will explore some of the most important topics in today’s worldwide energy equation. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from thought leaders in the energy industry, and to network with energy executives from around the globe. See below for more information. Click here for Energy Forward info and registration. |
| Mar 1, 2012- Mar 1, 2012 8 am - 6 pm |
Clean Energy ChallengeVenue Six10 610 South Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60605 8 am - 6 pm We are just weeks away from our annual gala, The Clean Energy Challenge. I would like to invite you to attend our second-annual business plan competition at a special discounted rate. Use the promotional code"AMYVIP"to save $150 when you purchase your ticket. This makes the ticket cost $245. This year's event, to be held March 1, 2012at Venue SIX10 in Chicago, will give a first-look at 18 exciting start-ups. 10 of these teams will be Early Stage businesses from six states, and the other eight are student-led teams from 11 different universities across five states. Technologies range from energy efficiency systems and biofuels to solar cells and wind energy innovations.The finalists will be judged by a distinguished panel of venture capitalists, industry leaders, and successful entrepreneurs. The top performing Early Stage and Student Challenge teams will each win a $100,000 grand prize, with the winning student team advancing to the National Competition in Washington DC this summer. For more event details and registration, click here. |
| Mar 15, 2012- Mar 15, 2012 |
Barrington Research Technology Conference: Focus on Public/Private Cloud/SaaS CompaniesFour Seasons Hotel Chicago 120 East Delaware Place Chicago, IL 60611Barrington Research Technology Conference - A Focus on Public/Private Cloud/Saas Companies This exclusive one-day conference will feature both publicly traded companies, and privately traded Chicago-based cloud/Saas companies, who will present to an audience of institutional and private equity investors. Thursday, March 15, 2012 Four Seasons Hotel - Chicago Confirmed Companies—11 confirmed, 12 Expected:
Conference Format Efficient one-day format, featuring six public and six private companies. Each company will give a podium presentation (40 minutes for the public companies; 15 minutes for the private companies), and will be available for scheduled one-on-one and small group meetings throughout the day. Registration Registration is now open! Please click here or contact your institutional salesperson. Hotel Information Four Seasons Hotel Chicago, 120 East Delaware Place, Chicago, IL 60611 / Reservations: 312-280-8800 For Additional Information For questions or inquiries regarding this conference, please contact your institutional salesperson or our conference coordinator, Angela Fabiano, at 312-634-6349 or e-mail conference@brai.com . |
| Mar 26, 2012- Mar 26, 2012 5:00pm-8:00pm |
Second Annual Trendlines U.S. Road Show: ChicagoHolland & Knight 131 South Dearborn Street, 30th Floor Chicago, IL5:00pm-8:00pm Second Annual Trendlines U.S. Road Show:
Chicago Monday, March 26, 2012 5:00
p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Don't miss this unique opportunity to invest in top early stage Israeli innovation companies from the portfolio of The Trendlines Group, Israel’s leader in the formation of new companies and the owner of Israel’s Incubator of the Year. Company executives from the fields of medical devices, biotech, information technology, cleantech and agritech will give five-minute company presentations to attending investors, and then participate in “speed-date” meetings with accredited investors. Attendees must register in advance here: http://itrade.gov.il/us-chicago/the-2nd-annual-trendlines-group-u-s-road-show/. |
| Apr 4, 2012- Apr 5, 2012 |
InvestMidwest 2012St. Louis InvestMidwest
Annually showcases 45 high-growth companies from throughout the Midwest in life sciences, technology and alternative energy/cleantech 300+ attendees, including investors from top venture capital firms in the Midwest Results–InvestMidwest has helped presenting companies generate over $850 million of investment in 12 years Applications for the 2012 InvestMidwest will be accepted starting October 20 For information, click here. |
| Apr 5, 2012- Apr 6, 2012 |
Share the Vision 2012 - UIUC Office of Technology ManagementiHotel & Conference Center University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign We invite you to join us for exciting and stimulating discussions of innovations in the pipeline in health, advanced materials, clean energy and sustainability, and information technology. Thursday, April 5th: Faculty presentations Friday, April 6th: Tours of UIUC's EnterpriseWorks and Research Park Faculty speakers, listed below, include winners of the MacArthur Fellowship, Lemelson-MIT Prize, NIH New Innovator Award, Korea’s Ho-Am Prize in Science, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scientist Awards, Humboldt Awards, and IEEE awards, among other national and international accolades. The University’s entrepreneurial momentum is high. Recent technology breakthroughs have launched startup companies such as ShareThis, mc10 Inc., Riverglass, Solarbridge, Semprius, ANDalyze, Nuvixa, Cazoodle, EdenPark, Xerion Advanced Battery, Hoowaki, Vanquish Oncology, ImmuVen, Diagnostic Photonics, Autonomic Materials, 4d Teleport Technologies, and many others. The Association of University Research Parks named the University’s technology park as the 2011 Outstanding Research Park, recognizing its excellence in transitioning technology from the laboratory to commercially viable businesses. The Research Park, currently home to more than 90 companies, was also named by Forbes in 2010 as one of "10 Incubators That Are Changing the World." For more information: http://otm.illinois.edu/Showcase To register: www.regonline.com/UIUCTechShowcase2012 (please note the deadline for registration is March 15, 2012) For questions, please contact Nicole Nair at nnair@illinois.edu |
| Apr 24, 2012- Apr 25, 2012 |
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| May 6, 2012- May 9, 2012 |
2012 Johns Hopkins University International ACG ConferenceBaltimore Marriott Waterfront – Baltimore, Maryland For information, click here. |
| May 8, 2012- May 9, 2012 |
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| Jun 21, 2012- Jun 21, 2012 5:30 pm |
2012 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of the YearHilton Downtown Chicago 720 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 606055:30 pmMore details and information will be available in early May. |
| Jun 22, 2012- Jun 26, 2012 |
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| Oct 8, 2012- Oct 14, 2012 |
Chicago Ideas Week 2012 is October 8-14Mark your calendars! Chicago Ideas Week 2012 is October 8-14. With 25+ CIW Talks, 4 Megatalks, and 75+ CIW Labs, CIW will again bring together world leaders, creators and innovators, and transform Chicago into a global hub of new ideas and an ecosystem of innovation. |