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KEY NOTE SPEAKERS

Pamala Temple, founder of A Place For Mom, which became the largest elder care service in the United States and purchased by private equity giant Warburg Pincus.

Ken Grossman from Sierra Nevada Brewery, the nation's 6th largest brewery and powerhouse leader in green technology implementation.

Christian Friedland, founder of Build.com, the nation's largest online only home improvement retailer started in 2000 as a college project at Chico State University.

Victor Hwang venture capitalist, entrepreneur and author of the groundbreaking book "The Rainforest: The Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley" that proposes a radical new theory to explain the nature of innovation ecosystems: human networks that generate extraordinary creativity and output, which they call Rainforests.

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