October 13 - 16, 2010
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
2233 S. Martin Luther King Dr.
Chicago, IL 60616
To make a hotel reservation: https://resweb.passkey.com/go/ffi2010

EVENT INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION HERE

To download a pdf of the brochure, click here.

The 2010 Conference

Why should you participate?

• To enhance your presence and demonstrate your commitment to the family business and family wealth fields
• To network with premier professionals in the fields
• To participate in a conference that is the largest gathering of these professionals in the world
• To interact with keynote and workshop presenters addressing the latest topics and research in the family business and family wealth fields 
  

In business, change is ubiquitous. The impact of the biggest economic calamity in 80 years precipitated changes that will ripple forward for the foreseeable future. There is conversation in the economic world not just of recovery, but of an adjustment to a “new normal.”  Will family enterprises need to adapt? If so, how? What are the new and different roles of family enterprise professionals and academics in helping clients and those engaged in educational studies adjust to and create this “new normal? What new research is needed towards this end and how can findings from current research enable smooth adjustment to the new game and new rules?

Wednesday: Opening Keynote: The Predictioneer's Game:   Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, uses game theory and its insights into human behavior to predict and even engineer political, financial, and personal events.  His forecasts, which have been employed by everyone from the CIA to major business firms, have an amazing 90% accuracy rate.  His recent book is The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future

Thursday Publishers Lunch: Virginia Heffernan, New York Times internet columns, is the featured speaker.  She writes the newspaper's most popular articles with columns about the iPhone, Facebook, Ali G, YouTube.

Thursday: When the Business is a Game:  buying, selling, investing and owning in professional sports:  Panel of family business members who own professional sports teams: moderated by Bradley M. Rangell, Citi Private Bank 

Friday: Closing Keynote: Moments of Clarity:  Christopher Kennedy Lawford, author of Moments of Clarity, illuminating the spiritual epiphanies that occur in peoples lives enabling them to move from addiction to recovery.  Lawford is the firstborn child of Patricia Kennedy Lawford and Rat Pack actor, Peter Lawford.

EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS

Wednesday pre-conference

• The Launching Pad: For those new to interdisciplinary consulting in family business (full day)
• Family Wealth Advising :  A multi-disciplinary approach to consulting and advising families of wealth (full day)
• Practice Development:  Build your client base by effectively communicating your firm's value (full day)

Read a full description of each full day session here.

Thursday & Friday Sessions

There are over 30 concurrent workshops and additional breakfast forums to choose from.  For a list to date, click here.

SATURDAY - EDUCATION DAY:  NEW THOUGHTS, NEW THINKERS

A one-day symposium on family business education will be held on October 16.   The focus is on family business education. The overarching aim is to learn from and with family business education thought leaders whose pedagogical innovations have been developed, tested, and refined in classrooms and in the field, around the globe. Etablished program developers, teachers, and thought provoking management educators will shae insights on new themes emerging in family enterprise education.

Opening Keynote:  Leashing the powers of technology in family business education:  Patti Green, Babson College
Closing Keynote: :  Innovation amidst diversity of Family Business education, educators, and institutions: Lloyd Steier, University of Alberta

To see the full schedule of sessions, click here.

EVENTS

• Wednesday Opening Reception
• Thursday Publishers Lunch
• Friday Gala Reception and Dinner

SPONSORS

Current sponsor opportunities can be found here.  For any questions, contact Jerry Kaplan, Chicago Advisory committee chair or Judy Green or Janet Horton at the FFI office.  If you are interested in our Breakfast Forum on Minority Private Equity & Mezzanine Investors, click here. If you have a book recently published, we have sponsor opportunities for the Publishers Lunch on Thursday.

If you are interested in advertising in the conference program book, exhibiting in the bookstore or ensuring your collateral reach registrants, check out the advertising opportunities.

2010 PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Scott Budge, RayLign Advisory, LLC
Jennifer East, ONIDA Coaching, co-chair
Mario Mahler, Inter-American Investment Corporation
Pramodita Sharma, Education Day chair, Concordia University
Domingo Such, McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Mark Voeller, OMBI/ Dialogue Solutions, co-chair

2010 EDUCATION DAY COMMITTEE

Pramodita Sharma, Concordia University, chair
Guido Corbetta, Bocconi University, Italy
Justin Craig, Bond University, Australia
Ann Kinkade, Family Enterprise USA (FEUSA)
Leif Melin, Jonkoping University, Sweden
Lloyd Steier, University of Alberta

CHICAGO ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Daniel Bayston, Cognient Group, LLC
Barry Cain, Blackman Kallick
Stuart Duhl, Harrison & Held, LLP
Joseph Ginsburg, Levin Ginsburg
Ken Hoganson, Hunter Wise
Mary Josephs, Evergreen Private Capital Advisors
Jared Kaplan, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, chair
Daniel Pansing, Merit Capital Partners
Timothy Regnitz, Crowe Horwath LLP
Craige Stout, Stout Risius Ross, Inc.
Domingo Such, McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Mark Taylor, The Capital Group Companies, Private Client Services
Michael Whitty, Vedder Price

Robert Buchsbaum, Dick Blick Holdings, Inc.
M. Sheldon Cohen, Magid Glove and Safety Manufacturing LLC
Michael Hennessy, Lovejoy, Inc.
Rob Jessup, Jessup Manufacturing Company
Craig L Mathis, G. E. Mathis Co.
Douglas C. Perks, Eclipse, Inc.
Julie Smolyansky, Lifeway Foods, Inc.
Jeff Wisdom, Wisdom Adhesives

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