About the Women’s Private Equity Summit

A conference to enhance networking, fundraising, and deal-making opportunities for senior-level women in private equity.

Thursday and Friday, March 12 - 13, 2009

Game Change: Leveraging the New Reality

As we come to grips with the current volatile financial market environment, now — more than ever — is the time to convene to examine fresh ideas, build trusted networks, and participate in substantive, in-depth conversations about how to raise funds, generate deals, manage the portfolio, and realize exits.

The 2nd Annual Women’s Private Equity Summit brings together senior-level women in private equity and venture capital to facilitate sharing of hard-to-get information; encourage women to widen their network and do business with each other; and increase their access to information.  Last year's dynamic Summit brought together nearly 250 women from across the private equity spectrum – limited partners, general partners, and advisors to the industry.  Join us in 2009 on Thursday and Friday, March 12-13 to participate in this one-of-a-kind, international conference bringing together an influential and powerful inner circle of alternative investment professionals.

• Learn from private equity pioneers the lessons from past downturns we can apply today
• Examine innovative deal strategies that tackle the new economic reality
• Meet top LPs allocating alternative investment dollars in the current climate
• Hear from leading GPs which sectors and geographies hold the best opportunities  
• Discover how industry veterans are bullet-proofing their portfolios for all economic environments
• Hone in on best practices in fundraising, deal-making, investment, due diligence, firm management, and more
• Network with influential women not generally part of the conference circuit
• Make new contacts for future access and intelligence
• Nurture existing relationships to generate new opportunities
• Gain access to influence, information, and inner circles