The Time Has Come! Dick Kramlich, Co-Founder of New Enterprise Associates, to receive 2010 Special Achievement Award on June 9th during the 21st Annual Venture Capital Investing Conference! This honor is extended by IBF to investors who, during their lifetime and career, have made notable contributions of outstanding significance to the VC industry. Others include the following distinguished venture capitalists: David Morgenthaler, Irwin Federman, John Mumford, Reid Dennis, and William Draper III.

Fireside Chat confirmed with Mark Leahey of MDMA and Stephen Ubl of AdvaMed will discuss with Kevin Wasserstein of Versant Ventures the View of Public Policy & Regulatory Issues. They will address physician relationships, Regulatory path's (510k), Changing reimbursement guidelines, Patent Reform, Sunshine Act, Device Tax, and Comparative Effectiveness.

We are very excited about the 6th Annual Clean-Tech Investor Summit and have already confirmed our first keynote presenter, Mr. Craig Venter, founder of The Institute for Genomic Research and co-founder of Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI), a privately held company applying genomic-driven commercial solutions to address a variety of global challenges including energy and the environment, who recently announced a multi-year, 300+ million research and development agreement with ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (EMRE) to develop next generation Biofuels using photosynthetic algae.