Qcc

Founded in 2003, the Quebec City Conference (QCC) is a private, invitation-only, not-for-profit annual meeting whose mission is to support private market investment activities that produce societal benefit, in a format intended for high-level exchange and reflection. Guests are leading members of the international private market investment ecosyste... m: pension plans, endowments, family offices, venture capital and private equity firms, industry experts and leading academics. Except for a limited number of sponsors, service providers are not invited to the QCC. The last edition of the Quebec City Conference was attended by 450 participants from 30 countries. Speakers have included Stephen Schwarzman, Co-founder and CEO of Blackstone; Michael Spence, the 2001 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences; VC and private equity pioneer Alan Patricof; Henry Kravis, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR); David M. Rubenstein, Co-founder of The Carlyle Group; Glenn Hutchins, Co-founder of Silver Lake; James Coulter, Co-founder of TPG Capital, Charles R. (Chip) Kaye, Co-President, Warburg Pincus; Josh Lerner, Professor at Harvard Business School; and former Prime Ministers of Canada Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien. In addition to the main conference, the QCC also comprises special invitation-only forums, which are held the day before the official opening of the Conference. QCC is a not-for profit corporation supported by the Governments of Canada, Quebec and Ontario, and by private sponsors, including Business Development Bank of Canada, Investissement Québec and National Bank.Read More