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Boone Pickens Keynotes InvestSW Summit in Dallas Nov. 4, 2004.


DALLAS Dallas, city (1990 pop. 1,006,877), seat of Dallas co., N Tex., on the Trinity River near the junction of its three forks; inc. 1871. The second largest Texas city, after Houston, and the eighth largest U.S.  -- Legendary Texas businessman Boone Boone.

1 City (1990 pop. 25,186), seat of Boone co., central Iowa, on the Des Moines River; inc. 1865. It is a railroad and industrial center with plants making machinery, steel fabrications, and plastic signs.
 Pickens Pickens is the name of several places in the United States of America:
  • Pickens, Mississippi
  • Pickens, Oklahoma
  • Pickens, South Carolina
  • Pickens, West Virginia
  • Pickens County, Alabama
  • Pickens County, Georgia
  • Pickens County, South Carolina
 headlines a roster of nationally recognized speakers slated for the second InvestSW Summit, presented by Austin's CN Group, a leading provider of venture capital and private equity events.

"InvestSW is specifically designed for the investment community, delivering compelling content that will have equal benefit to the growth company senior executives and service provider organizations they work with," says Craig Biddle, CN Group Executive Vice President. "Following our inaugural event in May, we continue our reinvention process to deliver an effective and efficient platform of delivering timely and relevant content with a focus on business development and networking. Our fall event in Dallas speaks directly to those needs."

As Biddle explains, "The Dallas Summit will be highly interactive. This won't just be speakers giving prepared remarks. We want to promote dialogue and exchange between the executives who attend and the speakers. The event will take on more of a town hall meeting kind of look and feel, capturing the energy and following the interest areas of those in attendance within designated subjects."

Those who attended the spring summit also expressed an interest regarding strategic investment priorities and initiatives of corporate investors Noun 1. corporate investor - a company that invests in (acquires control of) other companies
company - an institution created to conduct business; "he only invests in large well-established companies"; "he started the company in his garage"
. November's event features investment professionals from Microsoft, Siemens, SAP and Intel in a discussion entitled en·ti·tle  
tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles
1. To give a name or title to.

2. To furnish with a right or claim to something:
 "Strategic Investors are back: What's different this time?"

Other issues which will be covered include some of the nation's leading experts discussing evolving trends impacting Outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. , new challenges within the Open Source Software landscape and their prospective influence on the marketplace as a whole, and an analysis of trends and events impacting the Dallas-Fort Worth regions investment community and economy. In addition, the CFO See Chief Financial Officer.  of the Texas Governor's Office will give an overview of "Job Creation in Texas: The Texas Enterprise Fund The Texas Enterprise Fund is a business incentive fund that was created by legislation in 2003. The fund, which had an initial $295 million investment, is used for insuring the growth of Texas business.  and Texas Economic Development Bank."

"This is a best of breed event," Biddle states, "designed specifically with the interests of investors, senior management of growing companies and service provider organizations. Building on the success of our spring InvestSW Summit, CN Group intends to remain the premiere information source for the investment and executive communities."

Online registration for the InvestSW Summit, and further information regarding the event, are available at www.cnevents.com. A discount is available for those who register prior to Oct. 1. For more information on CN Group, visit www.cngroupllc.com.
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