Greener Ventures |
GV2004 Conference on Entrepreneurship
Greener Ventures (GV) is an annual one-day conference on entrepreneurship for students, faculty, researchers, alumni, and staff at Dartmouth and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. GV helps encourage entrepreneurship in the Dartmouth community by bringing nationally recognized entrepreneurial leaders - many of whom are alumni - to campus to discuss what is involved in turning a good idea into a successful business.
GV2004: Trends & Opportunities
GV2004 will focus on how to identify trends and extract the opportunities they present. Speakers and panelists will consider all kinds of business environments - from the earliest stage start-up to the largest, most mature companies. The conference will also include workshops, networking events, and a $5,000 business plan competition for Dartmouth-based start-ups. (The winners of the 2002 and 2003 GV business plan competitions have all gone on to find funding.)
Keynote: Jeffrey Immelt '78
President James Wright and New Hampshire governor Craig Benson will open GV2004. Jeffrey Immelt '78, chairman and CEO of General Electric, will deliver the keynote speech and lead a fireside chat after lunch. The ninth chairman in the company's 125-year history, Mr. Immelt began his GE career in 1982. Following a brief assignment with corporate marketing, he held leadership roles in sales, marketing, and global product management with GE Plastics. He later served as president and CEO of GE Medical Systems, an $12 billion segment of the General Electric Company and the global leader in medical diagnostic technology and information systems. Read more about Jeffrey Immelt.
Premier Sponsors
Premier sponsors for GV2004 are Advanced Technology
Ventures, Bain Capital, Borealis Ventures, and Prism Ventures.
Workshop sponsor
Workshop sponsor is Devine Millimet
Support sponsor
Support sponsor is Mike Gonnerman, Inc.
2002: Act Like an Entrepreneur
The inaugural conference in 2002 focused on entrepreneurial behavior. Highlights included a keynote address by Brent Frei '88, CEO and co-founder of Onyx Software, and panel discussions with the founders of Flagship Ventures, Freemarkets, Village Ventures, South Beach Beverage Company, Experience.com, and others. The conference attracted more than 350 attendees.
2003: Innovation to Commercialization
Last year, GV focused on commercialization of research innovations, and attracted more than 450 people. New Hampshire governor Craig Benson, a co-founder of Cabletron Systems, opened the conference. Sherri Oberg '82, TU'86, CEO and co-founder of Acusphere, a venture-backed drug-delivery company in Watertown, Massachusetts, was the keynote speaker. Other speakers included Paul Ferri, DP'95, co-founder and partner, Matrix Partners; David Mott '86, CEO, MedImmune; Terry McGuire TH'82, Polaris Ventures; Lita Nelsen, MIT, director of Technology Licensing; Mike Carusi TU'93, Advanced Technology Partners; Mike Krupka '87, Bain Capital; and Robert Fleming '79, co-founder and partner, Prism Venture Partners. Dartmouth alumni and friends from IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun, Cisco, and Pfizer also participated.
Organizers
GV2004 is presented by the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network. Other organizers of the conference include the Tuck School of Business, Tuck Center for Private Equity & Entrepreneurship, the Thayer School of Engineering, the Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and the Norris Cotton Cancer Center.
For more information please contact:
The Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network
14 South Main Street, Suite 2F (above the Gap store)
Hanover, NH 03755
(603) 646-0295
greener.ventures@dartmouth.edu |
