FountainBlue

FountainBlue Events

Convening Decision-Makers for Educational and Networking Events

FountainBlue offers a series of networking and educational opportunities on leadership and technology and business trends for high-tech, life science and clean-tech decision-makers in Silicon Valley. FountainBlue consistently stimulates professional advancement and personal growth by providing quality interactive programs to high-integrity, high-impact senior professionals featuring engaging panelists and covering hot topics and their implications for decision-makers.

Events for Entrepreneurs

FountainBlue's Entrepreneurs' Forum offer networking, education and support for high-tech, clean-tech and life- science entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley. Each group meets monthly over lunch to share successes and challenges on a pre-set theme, moderated by experienced colleagues, in a safe environment, focused on helping fellow members run and grow their entrepreneurial ventures. These luncheon roundtables are open to entrepreneurs & their teams with a wide range of entrepreneurial experience, at various stages of growing or supporting a new or existing entrepreneurial venture.

• High Tech Entrepreneurs include: Hardware, software, semiconductors, communications, telephony, wireless, etc.,
• Life Sciences Entrepreneurs include: Medical devices, pharmaceuticals, bio-nano, etc.,
• Clean-Tech Entrepreneurs include: Solar, geothermal, renewable energy, etc.,

Events for Executives

FountainBlue’s executive events cover today’s business, technology and leadership issues for high-tech, clean-tech and life-science decision-makers. It is our intent that FountainBlue events 1) foster deeper relationships between fellow professionals and 2) stimulate critical thinking on leadership and business issues, which directly and positively impact a leader's decisions and results.

• Connections: This monthly event features business and technology trends of interest to senior-level entrepreneurs and corporate executives. Topics of interest range from management, policy and business trends to emerging technology and investment trends, all designed to educate and support decision-makers in high-tech, clean-tech and life science industries within Silicon Valley.
• Transitions: This monthly networking, education and peer-to-peer support group is designed for senior executives in career transition as well as those seeking networking and educational opportunities with fellow senior professionals. The monthly topics for these events generally extend on the conversations initiated with the Connections event and feature interactive discussions with an industry expert, drawing on the collective experience of the group.
• When She Speaks: This Women-in-Leadership Series highlights the stories of influential Silicon Valley women and provides opportunities to celebrate leadership, share best practices, and forge bonds with fellow professionals in support of women in leadership positions. Our intent is to stimulate critical thinking on the social and business issues of the day, to build support networks for like-minded professionals and even to mobilize leaders to take specific action and achieve tangible results.

Workshops for Decision-Makers

FountainBlue conducts educational workshops on leadership, diversity and creativity in three-hour sessions over several months for today’s decision-makers.

• Our six-month Leadership series of workshops may include: 1) Your Own Brand of Leadership, 2) Broadening Your Communication Styles, 3) Power and Influence; 4) Effective Decision-Making and Follow-Through, 5) Fostering a Culture of Innovation and Leadership and 6) Building Consensus, Resolving Conflict and Renewing Your Fire.
• Our three month Creativity series of workshops may include 1) Awaken Your Intuition, 2) Welcoming Creativity in Others; 3) Balance the Creative and the Practical.
• Our three month Diversity series of workshops may include: 1) Why Diversify? 2) Increasing Tolerance in Individuals and Teams; 3) Celebrating Differences.

Event Registration Policies

FountainBlue is pleased to provide online registration prior to each of our events.

Registration Hours: Please note that online registration closes at 5 p.m. the night before for a Tuesday-to-Friday event and on Friday the night before for a Monday event.

Register for No-Cost Events Online: To help us manage our space and food requirements, you must register for events, even if they are no-cost events.

On-Site Registration: Limited on-site registration may be available for a fee of about $40 and about $20 for entrepreneur events. We strongly encourage pre-registration.

Confirmation: A confirmation e-mail will be sent the day prior to the event, typically after 5:00 p.m. when the online registration closes. If you are no longer able to attend the event, please indicate that by reply e-mail to the confirmation e-mail and we will transfer your ticket to a future event.

Refund Policy: Although FountainBlue does not provide refunds for event, event fees are fully transferable to other events or to other professionals.

E-mail us at info@FountainBlue.biz if you should have any questions about our event payment policies.

Professional Standards for Event Attendees

Consistent with its mission to support high-integrity, high impact professionals, FountainBlue encourages all attendees to adhere to the highest professional standards. We ask that you do the following to support these standards, which benefit us all:

Registration:

Please pre-register for FountainBlue events, even if it's a free event, even if you are given a comp pass. Let us know if you will be assuming someone else's ticket as well. If you are pre-registered and can no longer attend, please notify us as soon as possible so that we can plan the space and food accordingly. Those who are pre-registered and do not show up will not be sent follow-up notes. See above for more information about registration policies.

Arriving at the meeting:

We respect everyone's time by starting and ending our meetings on time, so please plan accordingly. Please notify us prior to the meeting if you need to arrive late or leave early, and if you must be delayed due to unavoidable circumstances, please enter the room with the minimum of disruption.

Dress Code at the meetings:

Business casual is fine, but show your professionalism, good sense and good judgement by dressing in a professional manner.

For notification on upcoming events and for discounted tickets, please join FountainBlue's Entrepreneurs' http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/SVEntrepreneurs or Executives' http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/C-LevelExecs mailing lists.