As Attendees check in and pick up their badges, a speaker's orientation meeting is held outlining the agenda format and answering last minute questions. Speakers may verify their PowerPoint presentations have been pre-loaded into the AV system and ready to go.

Exhbitors also use this time to set up tabletop exhibits in the Networking Suite.

A warm and relaxed enclave of elegance, the Networking Suite facilitates private conversations between Attendees, Exhibitors, Guest Speakers and Sponsors.

Tabletop exhibits provide convenient access to Exhibitor's promotional materials.

Comfortable residential furniture and complimentary refreshments create an upscale Business Club atmosphere.

No Exhibit Booths ~ No Breakout Sessions ~ No Appointments Required ~ Attendees sit comfortably in the General Session and evaluate fast-paced alternating Exhibitor PowerPoint presentations.

Originators (Brokers & Syndicators) describe their markets and provide valuable access to new business origination channels.

Funding Sources describe their buy/sell investment strategies, removing the guess work about who you should be working with on a direct basis.

Technology Resources & Service Providers introduce resources enhancing equipment lease origination, funding, distribution and administrative networks.

The Networking Suite facilitates private access to Exhibitor representatives and their promotional materials.

Speaker - Lisa A. Levine, CAE | Ex Dir | Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation
Speaker - Joseph Lane | Vice Chairman | Bay4 Capital, LLC

Gather information on the current state of the equipment financing industry including a look at major industry segments and markets.

Discover and explore current industry trends, their impact you and future opportunities they may present. Find out how to measure your company's performance against the industry. In addition, discover the wealth of research studies and reports available through the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation. As the only non-profit, future focused organization studying this industry, the Foundation is your eye on the future -- take advantage of the resources available to you.

Speaker - Rick Reekie | Partner | PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

The IRS recently clarified like kind exchange ("LKE") guidelines on long standing rules that allow you to indefinitely defer federal and state income tax due on the sale of off lease assets. Here is how it works. For every leased asset that is sold and replaced, you treat the sold asset as if it had never been disposed and continue to depreciate it for its remaining life. Any additional funds (over the sales proceeds) needed to acquire the new asset are then depreciated under a separate schedule. To determine depreciation for the exchange, the two layers are combined. The deferral of the gain on the sale of the old asset reduces the basis in the acquired property.

PricewaterhouseCoopers Like-Kind Exchange Services group offers a full-service like-kind solution for the leasing industry. Most lessors pay 40% of the sales proceeds in federal and state tax because they are unaware of these rules and fail to properly structure the sale and replacement of their off lease assets to qualify as a like-kind exchange.

In effect, LKE turns the temporary timing difference afforded by accelerated tax depreciation into a permanent interest free loan on your portfolio costs. With the successful implementation of an LKE program, our clients indefinitely defer recognizing the tax gain on disposition of their leased property for as long as they continue to replace leases.

PwC's LKE solution is a comprehensive approach that addresses both the operational procedures and systems issues inherent in establishing and maintaining an LKE program in a cost efficient manner.

LKE Advantages:
• Increased cash flow
• Debt reduction
• Business expansion
• Stakeholder distributions
• Pricing/competitive advantages
• Outsourced tax compliance for all leased assets

Moderator - Bruce Kropschot | President | Kropschot Financial Services
Speaker - Steve Hamilton | EVP, Director/Acquisitions | CSI Leasing, Inc.
Speaker - Phil Cooper | President & CEO | American Industrial Finance, Inc.

This program will be moderated by Bruce Kropschot, President of Kropschot Financial Services of Vero Beach, Florida. His firm is an M&A advisory firm that has initiated the sale of over 150 equipment leasing and specialty finance businesses in the past 21 years and also helps equipment leasing and finance companies find sources of debt and equity. He will talk about the current M&A market and capital availability for equipment leasing and financing businesses.

The panel will include Steve Hamilton of St. Louis based CSI Leasing, Inc., one of the largest independent information technology leasing companies in the world, with assets in excess of $1 billion and operations in more than 17 countries. Mr. Hamilton, who is CSI's Executive Vice President for acquisitions and international operations, will talk about his experiences in acquiring computer leasing businesses in the U.S. and internationally.

Also on the panel is Philip Cooper, who has recently formed American Industrial Finance, Inc. and is currently pursuing financial backers for this new business. Mr. Cooper is the former Chairman, President and CEO of ORIX Credit Alliance, Inc., a company that he was with for 29 years and that he helped grow to total assets of $3.6 billion. He will talk about his capital raising efforts and why he believes there is a market niche where his new company can be successful.

Moderator - Stephen Bisbee | CEO | eOriginal, Inc.
Speaker - Dina Moskowitz | Assistant General Counsel | Standard & Poor's
Speaker - Joseph Lane | Vice Chairman | Bay4 Capital, LLC
Speaker - Allan Levine | Chief Operating Officer| Madison Capital, LLC
Speaker - Denise Thompson | Sr. VP - Operations| CIT Group

A panel of industry experts will discuss the benefits, barriers, and implementation requirements of going paperless in 30 days. Discover how to leverage the competitive advantages of going paperless, and what barriers must be overcome in order to do so. We will discuss how the secondary market handles fully electronic contracts, the issues of legal compliance, and getting the necessary departmental buy-in in order to implement. You'll also hear from companies with eLeasing in production, and will watch a step-by-step demonstration of an eContract being electronically signed and vaulted. Paperless is the way of the future, and savvy leasing professionals are already enjoying the benefits of a fully electronic leasing process. Learn how you can, too.

Topics:

• Introduction to Paperless Leasing
• Participant Overview
• Leveraging Paperless as a Competitive Advantage
• Barriers to eContracting in Lease
• Selling eContracts on the Secondary Market
• Demonstration of eLeasing Implementation
• Getting Cross-Departmental Buy-In
• Q &A

Speaker - John O. Semon | Founder | The Lessors Network

Tour the Lessors Network's online resources enhancing equipment lease origination, funding, distribution and administrative networks. See how the Lessors Network can connect your company with a global equipment leasing and finance community.

Delivering a new standard in distinctive elegance and business sophistication, the Networking Reception represents a key networking opportunity where private dinner plans often originate.

Tabletop exhibits provide convenient access to Exhibitor's promotional materials.