Dive Right In!

Incubation industry professionals from around the world congregated in Baltimore, Maryland, May 15-18, for NBIA’s 19th International Conference on Business Incubation. This year’s event marked the association’s 20th anniversary, and everyone had a chance to reflect on how far the incubation industry and NBIA have come in the last two decades.

In addition to celebrating past accomplishments, conference-goers learned new information and techniques in more than 60 educational sessions and roundtable discussions. Attendees also took advantage of numerous networking opportunities, from the opening reception to the incubator tour to refreshment breaks.

We're still compiling final attendees lists and overall conference statistics, but please check back soon for more details about this year's conference.

Click on the links below to view photos from the conference:

• Conference Kickoff
• Networking Dinner
• Opening Reception
• Keynote Addresses
• Sessions
• Luncheon Events
• NBIA Awards Ceremony
• Venture Capital Showcase
• Special Activities
• Emerging Technology Center Tour
• International Reception
• Overall Conference
• Exhibits and Networking
• Interacting with Colleagues
• NBIA Bookstore

The NBIA staff thanks all of you who helped make the 2005 conference a success. We look forward to seeing you at future events!

If you were unable to attend conference, or if you were there and want to hear sessions you missed or particularly enjoyed, audio recording service AVEN recorded all sessions and is making them available in audiocassette, CD and MP3 format. Click here to order.

We want to hear your thoughts! Please help us make next year’s conference even better by taking a few minutes to fill out the online evaluation forms, made possible by one of the conference sponsors, IOTA Solutions. If you include your name and contact information on the overall evaluation, you could win a $75 gift certificate for the NBIA Bookstore. Click here to view the evaluations.

Thanks to Our Host

NBIA thanks this year’s conference hosts, the Maryland Business Incubation Association, for helping to make NBIA's 2005 conference a success. Staff members from MBIA and several of its 13 member incubators dedicated their time and effort to provide on-site support throughout the conference.