A third conference session will look to the future of secondary markets for private companies and other ways to get liquidity.
The tsunami of new entrepreneurs looking for seed capital presents a problem: How do you do due diligence on 200,000 startups? A fourth conference session will address curation, or mechanisms that make the task more manageable. Perhaps most promising are new entities called accelerators, which rigorously screen new companies, then whip a select few into shape to present to potential investors.