Location: Palo Alto, California, UNITED STATES
Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012
IR Magazine Think Tanks are complimentary, invitation-only events for a select group of senior-level IR professionals.

Format
Participant-driven and highly focused, our think tanks embrace an interactive format where you and your peers engage in heated debate over timely topics.
Between three and four industry leaders will introduce the topic before participants break out into small roundtable groups to discuss the issues. Each session concludes with a room-wide discussion.
Switching tables at the start of each session ensures maximum interaction and networking opportunities with all participants.
Event features
Participants
Attendees are leading IR practitioners, many of whom have been highlighted in our IR Magazine Awards research over the years. Each participant is someone with an established track record and a strategic IR role within his or her company.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch focuses on middle-market and large corporations, institutional investors, financial institutions and government entities. It provides innovative services in M&A, equity and debt capital raising, lending, trading, risk management, research, and liquidity and payments management. It serves clients in more than 150 countries and has relationships with 99 percent of the US Fortune 500 companies and nearly 96 percent of the Fortune Global 500.
Broadridge Financial Solutions is the leading provider of investor communications and technology-driven solutions for broker-dealers, mutual funds and corporations globally. Broadridge’s investor communication, securities processing and operations outsourcing solutions help clients reduce their capital investments in operations infrastructure and increase their focus on core business activities.
With 50 years of experience, Broadridge’s infrastructure underpins proxy voting services for more than 90 percent of public companies and mutual funds in North America, processes more than $4.5 tn in fixed income and equity trades per day, and saves companies billions annually through its technology solutions.
Broadridge employs approximately 6,200 full-time associates in 11 countries. For more information about Broadridge, please visit www.chartingthecourse.ca
Ipreo is a global leader in the provision of market-leading intelligence, robust technology, and superior customer service to publicly listed companies and investment banks around the world. Built on a legacy of experience and a thorough understanding of the capital markets, Ipreo provides critical insights and flexible solutions to help our clients run better investor relations programs. Ipreo’s investor relations products and services include: global market intelligence, shareholder identification and analysis, institutional investor targeting, investment community perception studies, online investor relationship management software.
Marketwire electronically delivers news and information to media and financial communities around the world via traditional and social media channels including newspapers, magazines, databases, analyst terminals, online portals, blogs, and more. Leveraging the latest in search engine optimization (SEO), multimedia, social media, monitoring and reporting, Marketwire maximizes the power and reach of its clients’ communications. Sysomos, a Marketwire company, provides unparalleled business intelligence for social media through advanced monitoring and analytics. Serving more than 12,000 clients worldwide through 20 offices on four continents, Marketwire is a dominant distributor of company news releases and other communications. For more information, visit us online at www.marketwire.com and blog.marketwire.com, or on Twitter @marketwire.
StockTwits is the leading communications platform for the financial community, and the creator of the $(TICKER) tag for identifying and following investing ideas and information across the web. StockTwits provides a specialized environment created specifically for investors, institutions, and market analysts where they can contribute, find and follow ideas about stocks, markets, trends, and more. In addition, StockTwits’ integration with leading social networks and financial sites, including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo Finance!, CNN Money and Reuters, allows users to reach the broadest audience of viewers.
StockTwits Investor Communications Solutions allow public companies and professional market participants to monitor, manage and disseminate information over the StockTwits Distribution Network – an audience of more than 40 million comprised of users across the StockTwits community, broad social networks and the financial web. Public companies can also directly communicate with investors, analysts and other key constituencies in real-time, append disclaimers to social messages and links to third party sites to ensure compliance, and also access performance metrics to measure the reach, impressions, and click-through activity of their communications.
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