The Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting will be held as always in Omaha Nebraska. The date of the meeting is Saturday April 30th2011. While, the event gets a lot of publicity for all thinking of attending there is a very exciting event before the shareholder meeting. It is a great event to attend for the event itself, plus the event provides an excellent opportunity to network.
Although it is not highly publicized, Robert Miles organizes a fantastic conference on the Thursday and Friday before the conference. There will be some famous value investors speaking including Tom Russo. Another exciting event is that people who attend the conference will be able to speak personally and meet with some famous authors including; Roger Lowenstein, Pat Dorsey and Doris Buffett.
See the exciting details below:
8th Annual Value Investor Conference 2011 Agenda:
Date: Thur – Fri, Apr 28 & 29, 2011
Location: University of Nebraska at Omaha, College of Business, Mammel Hall
Address: 6708 Pine Street, Omaha, NE 68106 Map and Directions
Thursday, April 28, 2011
4:00 pm – 4:15 pm Robert Miles, Author & Conference Organizer
Topic: Welcome and Introductions
4:15 pm – 5:00 pm Tom Gayner, President & CIO, Markel Corp
Topic: Challenges in Investing
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Charles Brandes, Founder & Chairman, Brandes Investment Partners, and Author
Topic: Value Investing Today
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Welcome Reception in Atrium
Friday, April 29, 2011
8:00 am – 9:30 am David Sokol, Chairman, NetJets, MidAmerican Energy Holdings, & Johns Manville; CEO, NetJets (all wholly owned subsidiaries of Berkshire Hathaway); Director, BYD; Author
Topic: Pleased But Not Satisfied
9:40 am – 10:40 am Robert Hagstrom, Author & Portfolio Mgr, Legg Mason Growth Trust
Topic: “Go Big: The Investment Case for US Multinationals”
10:50 am – 11:50 pm Chuck Akre, Managing Member & CEO Akre Capital
Topic: “Finding Outstanding Investments”
11:50 am – 12:50 pm Networking Lunch – Executive Deli Sandwiches in atrium
12:50 pm – 1:50 pm Pat Dorsey, Author , CFA, and Director of Equity Research at Morningstar
Topic: TBA
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tom Russo, Partner, Gardner Russo & Gardner
Topic: “Global Value Equity Investing“
3:10 pm – 4:40 pm Bill Child, Chairman, R.C. Willey Home Furnishings (a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway)
Topic: “How to Build a Business Warren Buffett Would Buy: The R. C. Willey Story”
Other UNO Mammel Hall Events (FREE):
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Robert Miles,University Lecturer
Topic: “The Genius of Warren Buffett: The Science of Investing and the Art of Managing (FREE, limited seating, RSVP and for more information: http://robertpmiles.com/events.html#gen)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Distinguished Author Reception
Topic: Meet and greet over a dozen authors of books related to Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, investing and management. Books available of purchase. Free ice cream with annual meeting credentials. FREE, More information: http://robertpmiles.com/events.html#odqr
Authors:
- Glen Arnold, The Financial Times Guide to Value Investing (FT Press)
- Peter Bevelin,*Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger (PCA Pub)
- Charles Brandes,* Value Investing Today (McGraw-Hill)
- Doris Buffett,* Giving it All Away: The Doris Buffett Story (The Permanent Press)
- Robert Cialdini,* Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Harper)
- Bill Child, How to Build a Business Warren Buffett Would Buy (Shadow Mountain)
- Patrick Dorsey, The Little Book That Builds Wealth (Wiley)
- Robert Hagstrom,* The Warren Buffett Way (Wiley)
- Prem Jain, Buffett Beyond Value (Wiley)
- Vitaliy Katsenelson, The Little Book of Sideways Markets (Wiley)
- Andy Kilpatrick, Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett (AKPE)
- Bud Labitan, The Four Filters Invention of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger (Acalmix)
- Janet Lowe, The Triumph of Value Investing (Penguin)
- Roger Lowenstein,* Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist (Random); The End of Wall Street(Penguin)
- Jeff Matthews, Pilgrimage to Warren Buffett’s Omaha(McGraw-Hill)
- Robert P. Miles, The World’s Greatest Investment; Warren Buffett CEO; Warren Buffett Wealth (Wiley)
- Scott Phillips, Buying at the Point of Maximum Pessimism (Pearson)
- John Price, The Conscious Investor (Wiley)
- L.J. Rittenhouse, Buffett’s Bites: Buffett’s Shareholder Letters(McGraw-Hill)
- Lauren Templeton, Investing the Templeton Way (McGraw-Hill)
- Timothy Vick,* How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett (McGraw-Hill)
*Unconfirmed
Register Today: www.valueinvestorconference.com/register.html
