Ariadne Capital: Journal: Events

Event: Networks for Business
Date: 24-26 June 2003
Location: Birmingham

URL http://www.networksforbusiness.com/about_event.shtml

Networks for Business is an event that facilitates the presentation of technology and their business applications to all I.T. professionals. Exhibiting companies range from those whose products and partners span the entire communications spectrum, to companies providing a very specific component of the business I.T. solutions.

Event: IIR Seminar: Private Equity Deal Negotiation Skills
Date: 26-27 June, 2003

Location: London

URL: http://www.iir-conferences.com/

This interactive training course will guide you through all the stages of negotiating a private equity deal. You will participate in a variety of case study scenarios. You will benefit from an approach combining both technical and practical insight, presented by professionals with extensive private equity experience. You will learn negotiation skills and techniques in the specific context of the speciality areas that feature in a private equity deal.

Event: IIR Seminar: The Complete a-z of Outsourcing Contracts
Date: 8 July, 2003
Location: London

URL: http://www.iir-conferences.com/

Have you ever outsourced or considered outsourcing anything? Increasingly companies are looking at all non-core activities to see if they could be performed better and at lower cost by a specialist service provider, and the definition of non-core is growing all the time. Within this, the outsourcing contract provides the foundation for the success of the outsourcing project. Developing and then managing a ‘winning’ contract is no easy thing.

To this end, IIR and Orbys have developed this intensive and comprehensive one day training course, compromising nine distinct learning modules.

Event: The 2003 European Private Equity COO's and CFO's Forum
Date: 9-10 July, 2003
Location: London

URL: http://www.privateequityinternational.com/forum/

The 2003 European Private Equity COO's and CFO's Forum is the only event in the calendar devoted to the key operational challenges that face a private equity firm. A unique group of leading professionals, including seasoned COO's and expert advisors, will be talking about the issues they confront and the solutions they have deployed. This is your opportunity to learn from and network with your peers from across the European private equity industry.

The conference will cover: Optimising the fund structure: organising the partnership; Administering the fund: being timely, compliant and efficient; Private equity technology: evaluating the IT infrastructure; LP reporting: delivering what LPs need; and, People: recruitment, compensation, incentives, departure.

Event: AO2003: The Innovation Summit
Date: 15-17 July, 2003
Location: Palo Alto, USA

URL: http://www.alwayson-network.com/summit.php

Everybody is wondering what will drive the next tech boom. AlwaysOn believes that consumers have an insatiable demand to instantly communicate, access content, and conduct commerce from anywhere, at anytime, and on any device. In order to survive, businesses must prepare to serve customers 24/7. This is what AO2003 is all about.

This exciting new conference gives attendees an inside look at how these demands translate into new commercial opportunities, AlwaysOn has lined up an all star cast of executives and companies that it believes will lead the always-on revolution. Michael Dell, Dell Computer; Steve Jurvetson, Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson; Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com; Jeff Berg, ICM; Pekka Ala-Pietilä, Nokia; and Shimon Peres, Israel's former Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner are among the people featured at this event.