The 8th China Venture Capital and Private Equity Annual Forum, organized by Zero2IPO Group, a leading integrated service provider in the China venture capital and private equity industry, is to be ceremoniously held between Dec. 9, 2008 and Dec. 10, 2008 at Beijing Sofitel Wanda Hotel.
As the year of the 30th anniversary since the Reform and Opening-up, 2008 has witnessed the world-astounding rise of China throughout the past three decades. In the same year, the Beijing Olympic Games have brought us boundless passion and delight as well as boundless wealth and brand effect to China's enterprises. However, the year has also witnessed the termination of the high-speed growth of global economy and the full-scale escalation of the subprime mortgage crisis in the U.S. that has triggered an adverse domino effect on the financial investment sector. The aggravation of the global financial market has inevitably impacted on China's VC/PE market and caused a decreased number of exits. With the lowest number of IPO events throughout the past three years, VC/PE firms come to the most critical moment in recent years. All the investors and entrepreneurs are confronted with the inevitable concern of how to protect against the adverse effect by the global financial crisis on their enterprises, maintain their stable growth and get them through the frigid winter with the assistance of an optimized economic structure. In the face of the unstable economic climate, Zero2IPO Group again invites leading domestic & overseas investors, VC/PE capitalists and related professionals to this international forum for sincere resources sharing & exchange to live through such a financial crisis.
The forum is featured by four major highlights:
1. Capture authority information and investment strategies
Zero2IPO helps you at first place to interpret the trend of China’s VC/PE market in 2008 from the most authoritative perspective and forecast the development outlook of 2009 in this sector. Ten subjects are involved, covering VC, PE, LP and different topics of the enterprises’ concern, in this forum. Also included is an in-depth discussion on how the investors and enterprises interpret the depressed investment market and its opportunities and on how to cope with the global financial crisis for future development. The forum also highlights a discussion on investment strategies, participated by premiere investors and professionals who will analyze and predict the trend of investment in turbulent economic situations and teach you how to seize opportunity and manipulate financing cadence.
2. Dialogue with top-end investors and entrepreneurs
With a frontier interactive platform provided, this forum will be the most successful of its kind. Over 1,000 investors, entrepreneurs and professional service providers and nearly 100 leading investors and entrepreneurs will present as distinguished guests at the forum to give their individual views and share secrets of success.
Among the distinguished guests are Andrew Y. Yan (Managing Partner of SAIF Partners), Hugo Shong (Founding General Partner of IDGVC), Neil Shen (Founding Managing Partner of Sequoia Capital China), Joe Zhou (Founding Managing Partner of Keytone), Shangzhi Wu (Board Chairman of CDH Investments), Feng Deng (Founding Managing Director of Northern Light Venture Capital), Frank Tang (CEO of FountainVest) and a host of representatives from premiere overseas VC institutions.
3. Offer professional counseling on investment & financing
Entrepreneurs may submit their business plans to senior counselors from Zero2IPO's Financial Advisory Services for face-to-face financing proposals and recommending investors. Likewise, investors may refer the target programs to Zero2IPO, the organizer of the forum, who will arrange special meeting with enterprises based on the investors’ recommendations.
4. Witness the real time unveiling of "Ranking of China VC & PE Annual Forum 2008"
Who will be elected the Venture Capitalist of the Year on this annual great event? Who will be the PE Investor of the Year? Who will garner the prize of VC Fund of the Year? What cases will be VC/PE Exit of the Year and VC/PE Investment of the Year? All the answers will be unveiled one by one on the award ceremony of Ranking of China VC & PE Annual Forum 2008.
As the eighth one since its inception in 2001, the China Venture Capital and Private Equity Forum organized by Zero2IPO has grown into a prestigious professional forum brand in China VC and PE industry. This year, the primary organizational forms of the forum include keynote speech, round table forum, exhibition and presentation, investment conference. This event, which is customized for investors, entrepreneurs, academic and research institutions and related insiders, has been the most influential trading platform for investment and financing.
Find more details:
http://www.zero2ipo.com.hk/cvcf/bj2008/default.asp
