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Thursday, February 18, 2010
7:30 AM	Breakfast, Welcoming Address, Michel Lacasse
9:00 AM		Gaylene Xanthopoulos President, The Leadership Edge CEO Magnetism: Attracting Great Ideas, People and Investors
10:30 AM		Mark Herndon President, Parkwood Advisors, LLC Do You Grow or Do You Go? … Do You Need an Exit Strategy?
11:45 AM	Networking Lunch - Meet your Peers
1:45 PM 2:30 PM and 3:15 PM	Platinum Breakout Sessions (other subjects to be defined) BCF - Conventions entre actionnaires à toutes les étapes de votre croissance Marc Philibert & Guy Rouleau BDC – Re-inventing Venture Capital Jacques Dénommée Borden Ladner Gervais - Aspects juridiques incontournables d'une stratégie de sortie réussie Jonathan Dorval & Patrice Martin Heenan Blaikie - 10 écueils à éviter dans vos négociations commerciales Carl Bélanger & Michel Généreux MAECI – 150 bureaux canadiens à l’étranger…une porte d’entrée Lucie Roy RBC - Le RRI comme stratégie d'accumulation de patrimoine pour les dirigeants et le SFE comme stratégie d'amélioration du rendement financier de votre entreprise! Johanne Claveau & Carole Hamel
4:00 PM	Workshops - Exclusive to CEOs (Topics to be defined)

6:30 PM	Networking Cocktail SGF CEO of the Year Award - Presentation of the 3 finalists to the "SGF CEO of the Year Award" - Participants vote to elect the SGF CEO of the Year Welcome to Spouses

Friday, February 19, 2010
7:30 AM	Networking Breakfast
7:45 AM		Jean-Daniel Brisson Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton Comment tirer profit de la relance ?
8:45 AM	CEO's Panel : Luc Filiatreault (Nstein), Gilles Pepin (Humanware) et François Rainville (Eloda). Moderator : Mike Perrault (SolPowered Energy) Coach, advising committee or board of directors ? What choice to make at each stage of growth ?
10:00 AM	VIP Lounges: Meet with Special Guests to Initiate Business Opportunities Among our VIP Guests, representatives from Accenture, DMR and Telus.
11:45 AM		René Vézina Columnist and blogger for "Les Affaires" Rebondir après la crise
1:30 PM	VIP Sports & Friendly Competitions
6:00 PM	Cocktail & Networking Dinner Prizes: Winners of Friendly Competitions Welcome to Spouses

Saturday, February 20, 2010
8:00 AM	Networking Breakfast
8:30 AM		Bud Taylor Consultant and Author of "Customer Driven Change: What Your Customers Know; Your Employees Think; Your Managers Overlook" You’ve cut costs & protected your cash & balance sheet? Now isn’t it time for some new ideas?
9:30 AM	Workshops - Exclusive to CEOs (Topics to be defined)
11:15 AM
		Reese Bacon Principal, Mercer Business Context for Designing and Managing Sales Compensation Plans
12:00 PM	Conclusion Remarks