Friday, March 28

The 2014 ACA Summit will provide additional opportunities for networking and interactive discussions through five concurrent sessions arranged by topic "tracks", with many of the sessions offering lively debates.

7:30 - 8:30
Registration and Breakfast Briefings
8:30-12:00
Concurrent Tracks - New Early-Stage Landscape, Exit Best Practices, Angels & Ecosystem, Industry Sectors, Angel Innovations
12:00-1:30        
Keynote and Lunch
          

Track sessions include:

New Early-Stage Landscape/ Public Policy

  • The Impact of Angel Investing
  • Unaccredited Crowdfunding - The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning?
  • Accelerators - Friend or Foe?

Exit Best Practices

  • Corporate Acquirers - How to Engage, Deal Sizes, Common Errors, What Breaks Deals
  • Taking Some Chips off the Table (Creatively Finding Liquidity with in a Startup Portfolio)
  • Driving Lucrative Exits from the Boardroom

Angels and the Ecosystem

  • Angel Success Factors - Would I Walk Down the Aisle Again?
  • Post-Investment Monitoring - Building Portfolio Company Success
  • Co-Investment Funds

Investing in Industry Sectors

  • Future of Medical Care - A Look at Patient Care and Cyber Security Issues
  • Education Technology - What's Next?

Angel Innovations

  • Impact Investing - Partnering Angels with Foundations
  • Alternative Investing - Latest in "Safe" and Royalty Investing
  • Successful Exit Case Study - Cool Companies from DC