National Media Panel Headlines CED's Venture 2007.

Writers from Red Herring, Business 2.0, Marketplace, Motley Fool and AOL Money & Finance to Discuss Venture Capital Trends on April 24 at CED Conference in Durham, N.C.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) today announced details on a national media panel at Venture 2007. The plenary panel discussion - "Where is Venture Capital Headed?" - will take place on April 24 at the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club in Durham, NC.

Senior reporters and editors from Red Herring, Business 2.0, Marketplace, Motley Fool and AOL Money & Finance will describe what they are covering in venture capital and what is next on the horizon. Conference attendees will hear the latest trends in emerging VC-backed industries and how investors are adapting to the changing innovation economy.

Featured panelists include:

* Janet Babin, Innovations Desk Reporter, Marketplace

* Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer, Business 2.0

* Joel Dreyfuss, Editor-in-Chief, Red Herring

* Tom Taulli, Columnist, Motley Fool and AOL's Money & Finance

Janet Babin is the Innovations Desk Reporter for Marketplace, a nationally syndicated program based at the studios of North Carolina Public Radio-UNC in Chapel Hill and Durham. Babin has contributed to NPR shows and worked as a staff reporter in Washington and for NPR West. Her work has won awards from Associated Press, the Radio Television News Directors Association, and the Federation for Community Broadcasters.

Joel Dreyfuss is the editor-in-chief of Red Herring. Before coming to the magazine, Mr. Dreyfuss was a senior writer for Bloomberg Markets magazine. Earlier, he was editor-in-chief at Urban Box Office, an Internet start-up. He worked for Fortune twice, most recently as a technology columnist. Earlier, he spent eight years as a Fortune associate editor and was the magazine's Tokyo bureau chief from 1986 to 1988. He was the editor-in-chief of Information Week from 1993 to 1996, and the editor of PC Magazine from 1991 to 1993.

Michael V. Copeland joined Business 2.0 in April 2003 and now covers the venture capital community, new technology, and startups. Along with Andrew Tilin, Copeland's story "The New Instant Companies" was recognized by the World Leadership Forum as the best business story in a magazine in the 2006 Business Journalist of the Year competition. He was most recently a senior writer for Red Herring and authored features on venture capital, emerging technology, and management issues. Before that, Copeland served as a senior editor at the Venture Capital Journal.

Tom Taulli currently writes columns for AOL Money & Finance as well as the Motley Fool. Over the years, his work has appeared in publications like Business2.0, CBS MarketWatch, MSN Investor and Forbes.com. Taulli is also the author of seven books on finance. In addition to being a published author, Taulli often appears on television venues such as CNN, CNBC and Bloomberg TV, and is frequently quoted in the various print media sources such as the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, USA Today and LA Times. Taulli has a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Cal Poly, Pomona , and a law degree from Whittier School of Law.

In addition to the national media panel, Venture 2007 will feature previously announced keynote remarks from Marshall Phelps, corporate vice president of Microsoft. The conference will also showcase more than 50 companies from across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic, from pre-seed to mezzanine stage.

Visit www.cednc.org/venture for complete details on CED's Venture 2007.

About CED: The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high growth, high impact entrepreneurial companies and to accelerate the entrepreneurial culture of the Research Triangle and North Carolina. Headquartered in the Research Triangle with a divisional office in Wilmington, CED is the largest and oldest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 4,000 members representing over 1,100 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, seminars, workshops and programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. www.cednc.org