Road to Banff Venture Forum
SEPTEMBER 26 & 27, 2013 |
FAIRMONT BANFF SPRINGS | BANFF, AB
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After over a decade of dedicated
development, the Banff Venture Forum (BVF) has built an outstanding
reputation for attracting investment and investment seekers, first
in Western Canada and now expanding across the Canada and into the
United States. The Road to Banff Venture Forum (RTBVF) is
part of a national and international strategic campaign to build
awareness, participation, deal flow and greater investment
opportunities at the BVF and to further enable the development of
smaller technology companies and investors.
Within Canada, there are many
existing entrepreneur training programs, from business plan
preparation to investor pitch coaching to product development and
marketing seminars. The difficulty encountered by most
entrepreneurs is the lack of awareness as there is currently no
central database of information regarding these programs. Knowledge
throughout the community is fragmented, therefore inhibiting access
by many entrepreneurs. The RTBVF program goal is to work with other
key groups to improve cooperation between existing programs, to
stimulate the development of the necessary new programs and to
improve the efficiency of the programs to help to increase
presenting company quality by ensuring more companies are able to
participate in existing training activities.
The RTBVF is apartnering
initiative, whereby communications partners, program partners and
Forum sponsors use the new RTBVF brand to co-promote and increase
awareness of existing entrepreneur and investor training events, as
well as the annual BVF main event. The key objective of the RTBVF
initiative is to assist in the creation of stronger local and
regional groups and to develop alliances within these groups
towards the common goal of increasing access to capital for early
and growth stage technology companies.
For further information regarding
the RTBVF initiative, please contact:
Erynn Shannon
Associate Executive Director
Banff Venture Forum
Direct: (587) 350-3308
Email: erynn@criticalpathgroup.com