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December
10, 2008
Foley's Emerging Technologies Conference: Perspectives on Growth
Location: Boston, MA
The conference will explore important issues facing emerging technology companies today, and is aimed at entrepreneurs, executives of start-up companies, managers responsible for growing technology businesses, and investors in and advisers to technology companies.
December 9, 2008
Web Innovators
Location: Cambridge, MA
The Web Innovators Group (WebInno) is comprised of people engaged in internet and mobile innovation in the Boston area. Early stage start-ups and individual innovators will briefly demo their product/service.
November 3-6, 2008
Ad Tech New York
Location: New York, NY
Join us on Election Day, November 4, as Jonathan Klein, President, CNN/U.S. opens ad:tech New York with a captivating keynote presentation. Jonathan's pedigree in television and experience at CNN is sure to give us some interesting insight into Election Day and how digital is transforming the television experience.
October 21-23, 2008
Mobile Internet World
Location: Boston, MA
Mobile Internet World showcases the mobile Internet technologies and business trends paving the way to the future delivered by the innovative pioneers of today. Attended by all the major leading companies and industry experts, it’s the best place to learn directly from the application developers, service providers, device manufacturers, content providers and entrepreneurs behind the future of the mobile Internet in a relaxed and fun environment.
September 25, 2008
ACG Deal Makers Breakfast - The Business of Sports:
The Economics of the National Football League
Location: Boston, MA
Jonathan A. Kraft is President and Chief Operating Officer of The Kraft Group. The Kraft Group is a private holding company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The Group is comprised of companies in the paper and packaging industries, sports and entertainment, real estate, and private equity investing.
September 24-25, 2008
Ad Tech - London
Location: London, United Kingdom
A unique, interactive conference experience. Bringing together visionary thinkers and opinion-formers, the ad:tech London conference programme has been expertly forged by our appointed industry advisory board.
September 23, 2008
myDNA: How My Media Defines Me
Location: New York, NY
Media Contacts and Yahoo! will host a breakfast followed by a presentation of their joint research project, myDNA: How My Media Defines Me. The event will open with Arianna Huffington as the Keynote Speaker. After the Keynote concludes, the research will be unveiled and then a CMO Panel, featuring Ed Montes, will explore and discuss it. Study sets out to explore the connections consumers form with media to understand unique places where relevancy, consistency, familiarity, and heightened engagement intertwine.
September 22-26, 2008
Advertising Week V
Location: New York, NY
Annual gathering of industry decision makers. Advertising week integrates multiple constituencies cutting across traditional and digital; creative and media; CEO’s and CMO’s.
September 18-19, 2008
OMMA Global –Platform Wars
Location: New York, NY
Great platforms build empires. Microsoft was able to create and control an enormous market for nearly two decades through its Windows operating system. Google has become the platform for the world of search marketing. Now, in countless Web sectors, the race is on to provide the next great platform on which consumer applications are built. Everyone from Google and Microsoft, to Facebook, Apple and Verizon, is entering the Platform Wars, and the stakes are high. Can the search and desktop monopolies be repeated in the mobile, social, advertising, computing services and other sectors? What are the stakes, who are the players? What are the different approaches? How will the "Platform Wars" shake out?
September 16 – 19, 2008
Web 2.0 Expo
Location: New York, NY
Web 2.0 Expo was launched to connect the builders of the web with the brightest minds, hottest ideas, and most valuable tools - and with each other. New York has long been where the world's biggest industries go online, and as Web 2.0 grows up and gets serious, the time is right to convene the East Coast web communities under the umbrella of the next generation web. It's time to come together to learn, share and network. And it's time to celebrate the size, power, and innovation of the East Coast web industry.
September 16, 2008
Davis Cup Challenge – 2nd Annual VC’s vs. Entrepreneurs Davis Cup Challenge to benefit Tenacity
Location: Longwood Cricket Club, Chestnut Hill , MA
Progress Partners is a proud sponsor. BSG Team Ventures is hosting the event.
Transforming Youth and Building Community Through Literacy, Life-Skills & Tennis Founded in 1999, Tenacity has served over 20,000 Boston students who otherwise would lack a safe, productive, and healthy after-school and summer environment. Our high-quality literacy and tennis programming not only build academic skills and improve fitness, they also foster the development of strong bonds between our students and caring staff, which instills the resilience needed to succeed in school and life
August 5-7, 2008
Digital Hollywood Building Blocks 2008
Location: Marriott, San Jose, CA
Progress Partners’ Sam Thompson is a Panel Moderator for Track IV: Technology Redefining the Future II: The Emerging Laws of Wikis, Blogs and Social Networks and Its Impact on Technology, Media and Entertainment
Digital Hollywood, Inc. is pleased to announce that the CEA Consumer Electronics Association, producer of CES, the largest trade show in the United States has joined Digital Hollywood in the sponsorship and production of Building Blocks in 2008 and each year into the future. Building Blocks 2008 is the Premier Event for Transforming the Consumer Electronics, Entertainment, Social Media & Web Application Technologies & the Global Communications Network: TV, Cable, Telco, Consumer Electronics, Mobile , Broadband, Search, Games and the Digital Home. Is Your Company a Building Block of the Industry?
June 25, 2008
New York Venture Summit
Location: New York, NY
his summer, hundreds of venture capitalists, angel investors, executives of early stage and emerging growth companies, incubators, investment bankers, successful entrepreneurs, premier service providers and industry leaders will gather in New York City for the 8th Annual New York Venture Summit.
June 4-5, 2008
Advertising 2.0
Location: New York, NY
Global brands, global vision, global community. The strategic advantage: Television, Broadband, Social Media, Mobile, Radio, Publications, and Marketing. Transformation + Innovation = The Global Media & Communications Revolution
June 3, 2008
Boston Entrepreneurs’ Network (ENET)
Location: Waltham, MA
Progress Partners’ Chris Whalen is participating in the “End Games – Cashing In” panel
The Boston Entrepreneurs' Network provides early stage technology based Entrepreneurs with information and the resources necessary to transform an idea into a successful product or service business.
Meeting Overview: Creating a business so that it will become well positioned to be acquired is a smart plan and a very well-regarded business model that is highly attractive to investors. Mergers and acquisitions are the dominant path to liquidity for most companies. Being able to plan for this exit requires market and business insight and a path for technical accomplishment that will be compelling to leading commercial partners as acquirers. Tonight our speakers will talk about what companies have done early on to "position" for their exit and how they appealed to the right buyer. They will emphasize the preparation, structuring, and negotiations and how to make the best possible deal.
June 3, 2008
2008 What's Next Forum & Technology Awards Ceremony - MITX
Location: Cambridge, MA
Progress Partners’ Chris Whalen is a judge for the Social Media participants.
The 2008 What's Next Forum & Technology Awards will recognize and celebrate innovative technologies developed in New England . Winners will be announced in nine categories. The ceremony will be preceded by the What’s Next Forum. The topic, Is Advertising the Model of the Future?, will be a forward-looking discussion on whether online advertising is the winning model of the future for more than just content.
May 20-21, 2008
Streaming Media East
Location: New York, NY
The Streaming Media East show is the number-one place to come see, learn, and discuss what is taking place with all forms of online video business models and technology. Content owners, viral video creators, online marketers, enterprise corporations, broadcast professionals, ad agencies, educators and others all come to Streaming Media East to see and hear the latest online video technology but, more importantly, to discuss the business models that are coming of age.
Postponed
Next Media 2008
Location: Boston, MA
Progress Partners, K&L Gates, and UK Trade & Investment present Next Media 2008.
Cross border investing in next media. This exclusive, invitation-only event will feature today’s most influential industry leaders, venture capitalists and media giants, as well as tomorrow’s rising stars. Details to follow.
April
24, 2008
Media Magazine Outfront 2008
Location: New York, NY
MediaPost's 2008/2009 Outfront conference is the premier event focusing on television's most important event. This conference places the 2008/09 upfront buying market in context with the overall media mix, allowing media buyers and planners to enter the traditional TV and digital video upfront with their eyes wide open.
Top advertisers, agencies, and network executives will discuss and debate the shape of the biggest advertising market of the year.
April 14-17, 2008
National Association of Broadcasters (NABShow)
2008
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
The NAB Show™ is the ultimate destination for a global audience of media professionals who seek to deliver enriched content from concept to consumption. From Broadcasting to Broader-castingSM, the NAB Show™ has evolved over the last eight decades to continually lead this ever-changing industry. And while the solutions at your fingertips have changed to keep pace with consumer lifestyles, habits and technologies, your aspirations to produce and deliver memorable content have remained consistent. From conception through distribution, the NAB Show has proudly served as the incubator for excellence – helping to breathe life into content everywhere.
April 8-9, 2008
Venture Summit East – AlwaysOn
Location: Boston, MA
Progress Partners is a Proud Sponsor of AlwaysOn VentureSummit East.
Progress Partners' Nick MacShane is a speaker on the “Why Take VC Money at All?” Panel.
Venture Summit East is a two-day gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and technology trends impacting the global growth investor. Venture Summit East features the most influential institutional investors, venture capitalists, corporate buyers, investment bankers and research analysts in the Eastern US in keynote presentations and panel debates.
April 1-3, 2008
CTIA Wireless
Location:
Las Vegas, NV
CTIA WIRELESS® is the world’s largest technology event dedicated exclusively to wireless, broadband convergence and mobile computing technologies, covering the entire industry from network infrastructure to microprocessors to applications to content.
March 12-13, 2008
Digital Hollywood Media Summit
Location: New York, NY
The 2008, Media Summit New York is the Premier International Conference on Media, Broadband, Advertising, Television, Cable & Satellite, Mobile , Publishing, Radio, Magazines, News & Print Media and Marketing
March 12, 2008
Media and Investment Dinner
Location: New York, NY
Progress Partners is co-hosting this invitation only event with Goodwin Proctor
March 7, 2008
AlwaysOn Breakfast Salon
Location: Waltham, MA
Progress Partners is a proud sponsor.
The AlwaysOn Breakfast Salon is a networking opportunity for Boston VC’s, CEO's, and Managing Partners in Law Firms and Accounting Firms, etc. to meet and discuss themes in regards to the investment in technology in the Boston Market and beyond.
March 3, 2008
AlwaysON
CEO Panel
Location: Boston, MA
Progress Partners' Nick MacShane will be serving on the CEO Panel for AlwaysOn.
February 28, 2008
Mass Technology Leadership Council: Entrepreneurial Series “Common Angels”
Location: Lexington , MA
Progress Partners' Nick MacShane will be serving on the panel.
So you have a good idea. Now what? Everyone has at least one good idea for a new business. The key is knowing how to get started. In this installment of the
Entrepreneurial Series, our panelists will share what they have learned - sometimes the hard way - about the first and foremost things you must do to get moving in the right direction.
February 28, 2008
ACG Dealmakers
Location: Boston, MA
February's DealMakers Breakfast features William Weld, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery and former governor of Massachusetts.
February 15, 2008
14th Annual Columbia Business School Private Equity
& Venture Capital Conference
Location: New York, NY
This year’s conference focus is on reevaluating the risk-reward value proposition, given the myriad of changes facing the private equity and venture capital industries today. Among others, panel topics will include timely discussions of the credit crunch and its impact, recent regulatory changes, labor issues, sovereign and other emerging players, and the surge in international deals.
February 12, 2008
Internet Video: What’s Next
Location: Cambridge MA
MITX presents a panel discussion moderated by Boston Globe columnist Scott Kirsner on “What’s Next in Internet Video.” What kinds of videos are people watching online—and how will viewing habits change in the months ahead? How can you measure viewer engagement, and get viewers to take action? The panel will look at both content-oriented videos and marketing-oriented videos, and ask what makes them successful, and how producers of video will need to adapt to new dynamics.
January 28-30,
2008
AlwaysOn OnMedia NYC
Location:
New York, NY
OnMedia NYC is where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meet the global advertising and media establishment. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations industries. At OnMedia, our editors will also honor the OnMedia 100 Top Private Companies. Fifty of the top CEOs from the OnMedia 100 will pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in our “CEO Showcase.”
January 15,
2008
AlwaysOn OnMedia
Location:
New York, NY
Progress Partners' Nick MacShane will be serving on the CEO
Panel for AlwaysOn.
January 7-9, 2008
Consumer Electronic Show (2008 International CES®)
Location: Las Vegas , NV
The world's largest consumer technology tradeshow, the 2008 International CES®
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