Annual Program Lineup

Thought Leadership  |  Deal Flow  |  Showcase

MAVA provides a wide range of public and closed door programs designed to stimulate revenue and company growth, facilitate quality deal flow, encourage collaboration, and foster relationships among entrepreneurs, investors, strategic partners and customers.

MAVA Champions Thought Leadership

Our members regularly speak on a wide variety of topics and MAVA supports these members by amplifying their message. Additionally, MAVA has a rich history of bringing industry leaders and policy shapers to speak to our community at pivotal moments, including:

  • Adena Friedman, CEO, NASDAQ
  • Vivek Kundra, First U.S. CTO
  • Walter Isaacson, Author
  • Carly Fiorina, CEO, HP
  • Carey Kolaja, SVP, PayPal
  • Alan Greenspan, Former Fed Reserve Chair
  • Biz Stone, Co-Founder, Twitter
  • Ron Shapiro, Negotiations Expert, Sports Agent
  • Stan Brand, President, Minor League Baseball
  • Tom Wheeler, Chairman, FCC
  • John Sculley, CEO, Apple

Additionally MAVA has brought to the stage recent business authors, researchers and historians including:

  • Malcom Gladwell, 5x New York Times Bestselling Author
  • Liza Mundy, New York Times Bestselling Author, Code Girls
  • Alec Ross, Distinguished Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and New York Times Bestselling Author

Current Programs & Benefits

Forefront provides a unique opportunity for industry leaders to expand upon existing efforts to provide support of entrepreneurship across all founder groups.

With a keen eye towards building sustainable solutions for inclusion, Forefront has been thoughtfully designed for leading industry partners and accredited investors who seek positive returns and who share a commitment to building more inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems. Learn more.

SURGE returns in January 2021. Building upon the national success of TechBUZZ, SURGE advances business conversations, showcasing innovation, and accelerating commercial company growth. The program features senior executives and product leaders from corporations and growth companies, active institutional investors, leading university and industry researchers, plus competitively-selected startups. Learn more.

In response to the current environment, MAVA has launched Digital – a series of webinars and private calls connecting our members and the greater community.

Launched in 2014, the CEO/C-Suite Summit is specifically designed to support the C-Suite leadership of high growth companies with top caliber content focused on successful growth, best practices and planning for successful exits. Learn more about 2019’s program.

MAVA’s Crystal Ball Breakfast program offers two unique opportunities to hear directly from our community’s most active investors as they look ahead to the New Year. At each event, a rapid fire series of 5-7 investors will share their insights into the specific sectors that they actively track and invest in. The format is snappy “TED-talk” style, and the content is unparallelled. Don’t miss these first events of the New Year – these events are informative and valuable for CXOs and advisors who work with growing companies, and of great interest to investors across all sectors. Learn more.

Additional Programs

Private Dinners have been paused due to COVID-19. We look forward to resuming them once it is safe to do so.

MAVA Private Dinners offer closed-door opportunities for Members to interact with one another. These events include our signature series, Investor/CEO Dinners.

Featuring representatives from various Institutes within the NIH, MAVA’s Partnering Forum will provide an overview of how a wide range of stakeholders can work with NIH, as well as the value-add it brings to advancing cutting-edge research to the patient and marketplace with drugs, med-tech (including wearables), diagnostics, digital health and combination products. Learn more.

The Vanguard Roundtable events are closed-door, roundtable discussions designed to provide a forum for MAVA members to engage in peer-to-peer discussion around selected business topics of shared interest. This approach provides in-depth content, offering our members the opportunity for a more concentrated sector-specific study and discussion on any given topic.

MAVA celebrates an exciting and vibrant year for our members and the innovative companies we support by reflecting on the year’s major milestones and by shining the spotlight on several of the stellar company-builders and entrepreneurs at the heart of our community.

A half-day forum designed specifically for the investing community to come together around thought leadership focused on the latest financial and global market and investing trends.   Consistent with Capital Connection’s 25-year reputation for quality and innovation, the 2017 edition of Capital Connection brought together a diverse group of investors and LPs from the US and Canada with interests across industry sectors.  Learn more here.

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