Company Presentations

Unleashing Global Youth Entrepreneurship

Limitless Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

Promoting youth Entrepreneurship and Investment

The International Diaspora Youth Leadership Conference 2010 in Toronto will include fifteen-minute company presentations that will take place on Saturday, March 20, 2010.

Is your company interested in raising capital, partnering your products or technologies, or developing strategic alliances in Canada and internationally? If so, submit an application to present your company at The International Diaspora Youth Leadership Conference 2010 in Toronto.

Presenting companies will have the opportunity to make their pitch to an audience of business development executives, investors, CEOs, and other industry executives. It is an excellent opportunity to find potential partners for your products, initiate strategic alliances or tap into the international financing network. Your presentation should focus on your company’s mission, technology, milestones, achievements, and the types of opportunities you are pursuing.

The application deadline for company presentations is January 15, 2010. All applications will then be reviewed by a selection committee to determine acceptance status. Companies will be notified when they are selected to present.

Presentations must be given by the company CEO or a designated executive. The cost for presenting is the full symposium registration, plus the presentation fee outlined below. All symposium attendees have access to the company presentations at no additional fee.

Presentation Fee per company in addition to the applicable

Registration Fee ( Canadian dollars)

Early Registration Fee $800 until January 15, 2010

Regular Registration Fee $1000 after January 15, 2010

On-Site Registration Fee $1200

Submission Form Instructions

There is no charge to apply. Copy the section below, and include answers under each section. Submit a one page email with the below information and send to tijana.arnautovic@futuregloballeadership.com or call 1 613 255 0279

Pitch Details

1. Company name and website
2. Company address
3. Contact Person name, title, phone and email
4. Funding Stage
   Founders, Number of Employee, and Management Team Bios
   A full time passionate and committed management team that has invested their own capital in addition to their career opportunity cost. While it is not expected that the company have a complete management team, the current team should have minimum of two individuals. Additionally, the assembled team should identify which members they are missing and be prepared to discuss identified candidates
5. Company Formation Date
6. Proposed Presenter
7. Complete Description of Product or Service and Business Model
8. Identification of business model and description of how the company makes money.
9. Market Potential and Benefits to Industry:
   A large addressable market and clearly stated pain/problem for this market.
   Give evidence of customer demand through active sales prospecting and funnel management, purchase orders, letters of intent, letters of commitment, or actual shipped/invoiced sales supported by market research.
10. Benefits to Industry
    Where Product Fits In with Existing Market
11. Partners or Customers:
    A contract, agreement, relationship, joint venture, partnership or capacity to manufacturer or distribute the product or service.
12. Key Investors, Amounts Funded, Current Funding Status and Amount Sought
    Summary of status of Proforma financial statements
13. Potential Competitors
    Competitor Analysis and documentation of competitive differentiators. Please do not say you dont have any; every company has some form of competition.
14. Exit Strategy
    A defined exit strategy/return for the Angel Fund including but not limited to share repurchase, rents, dividend, principal and interest payments, merger/acquisition or IPO.

We are looking for the following companies

Digital Media/Consumer Electronics
Digital media: content, games, mobile, IPTV, web services, software, hardware, social media, devices, music, video, consumer electronics, TV, film, networking and applications, ecommerce, web services

Information Technology
Infotech: services, software, internet, communications, hardware, enterprise services, business products and services, financial services

Cleantech and Energy
Energy: production, capture, conversion, storage, transmission
Cleantech and Greentech: efficiency, renewable, recycling, pollution reduction

Biotech and Life Sciences
Life science: biotechnology, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, health care services, nanotech, therapeutics, agriculture, drug development, bioIT, testing

Communications
Communications: Mobile and Wireless, telecom, telephony, unified communications, VOIP,
consumer and enterprise software, applications, networks, hardware.

Investors: Want to be a judge?

We are now accepting judges for our venture forums. Judges must be engaged in investing their own funds or funds from their organization for these categories:Send email to tijana.arnautovic@futuregloballeadership.com

We seek judges from these categories: Venture Capitalists; Angel Investors; High net worth investors; Corporate strategic partners; Private equity investors; Small business investment companies; Government; Academic

Sponsors may also have an opportunity to speak and give a presentation. If that interests you, please visit our sponsorship page.

Benefits include:

You select guests which we will invite from your prospective clients. We use our own large database to target companies and execs which your firm wants to meet. You bring your staff and seat them with target leads. Your speaker gives demo and you can speak on panel with senior level executives. You receive the full attendee list for lead generation.

For Exibitors: Click here to Reserve Your Space Today!

About

The International Diaspora Youth Leadership Conference 2010 gather more than 20,000 contacts from private companies, academic institutions, governments and related organizations across the and 19 countries. Our objective is to organize a series of events that will bring together participants from all sectors of the Serbian Diaspora to dialogue on issues that impact on leadership and economical development.

Upcoming Events

The International Diaspora Youth Leadership Conference 2010 March 20, 2010 Toronto, Canada

The International Diaspora Youth Leadership Conference 2010 July 15-16, 2010, Serbia

Past Event

The International Diaspora Youth Leadership Conference 2009, July 9-10, Belgrade, Serbia