Events
WES 08 - Reduced price for Friends of Ariadne Capital
The World Entrepreneurship Summit enables business leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, policy makers and academics from around the world to set the 2008 agenda on how entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship help drive sustainable economic development. WES08 is an action-oriented event to put entrepreneurs, whether from the smallest community in sub-Saharan Africa or the largest multinational firm, together to form enduring partnerships. Around 600 of the world’s most distinguished thought-leaders, business practitioners and policy makers will gather in central London to speak, to debate, to share experiences and to develop enduring actions that make a difference on the ground.
To view the latest programme go to http://www.wes08.net/content.php?51~Programme+%26+speaker.
To book your place go to http://wes08.eventbrite.com or email info@deltaeconomics.com.
Confirmed speakers include:
Christian Thommessen (Director), Private Sector Programme, UNDP
John Elkington, Founder and CEO SustainAbility
David Pitt-Watson, Managing Director, Hermes
Molly Bedingfield, Global Angels
Lord Karan Bilimoria, Founder Cobra Beers
Alpesh Patel, Founder Traderminds and Chairman UK TiE Group
Lord Charles Powell, Chairman, UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Entrepereneurship
Duncan Grossart, Founder and CEO Image Source
George Dragnich, US State Department
Andrew Bainbridge, Bank Muscat International, Bahrain
Beatrice Gakuba, CEO and founder, Rwanda Flora
Jan Muehlfiet, Chairman, Microsoft Europe
Caroline Jenner, CEO, Junior Achievent, Young Enterprise, Europe.
Places are filling up fast for what promises to be a fantastic event!
The Friends of Ariadne Capital discounted rate is £250 + VAT for the two days plus £80 for the Gala dinner (The full price is £350 + dinner)
Ariadne’s 2nd Investor Forum - 15th January - Going Platinum
Ariadne Capital will be hosting its next Investor Forum on the 15th of January 2008 in London, UK. Its purpose is to create the opportunity to showcase its portfolio companies, to engineer connections for them with target partners, investors, acquiors and talent, and to drive the dialogue on the way industries of tomorrow will be shaped.
The Forum will focus particularly on the Advertising and Search, Digital Music and Content, Life Services [e-Health, Digital Home and Consumer Financial Services] and Communications Technologies and Applications.
Amongst those invited will be 250 leading investors, both venture capital firm partners as well as the investment directors of family offices, and leading private investors, as well as the media and analysts, and other leading entrepreneurs.