Entrepreneurship -- with a special emphasis on funding – will be the focus of the 2014 Fullsail Conference, which takes place Tuesday afternoon at the Delta Beausejour Hotel, Moncton.

Titled "Capital Connections, the half-day conference is being organized by the New Brunswick Financial and Consumer Services Commission (which now has the duties of the New Brunswick Securities Commission) and Venn (formerly Tech Southeast), the organization that promotes technology in southeastern New Brunswick.

The get-together begins with a discussion of new programs, followed by two panel discussions, one on entrepreneurs and the other on funding. The goal is to help educate entrepreneurs and connect them with the people who can help them succeed, and there will no doubt be some overlap in the discussions.

The Entrepreneurs panel, which I will moderate, features an interesting range of New Brunswick founders:  Russ Mullard, Managing Partner, Mallard & Associates; Melani Flanagan, Co-Founder and CEO, Kinderguardian; Paul Gunn, President and CEO, Soricimed Biopharma Inc.; and Pablo Asiron, CEO, RtTech Software.

Planet Hatch Executive Director Sally Ng is the moderator of the Funding panel. The panelists will be: Calvin Milbury, CEO, New Brunswick Innovation Foundation; Rob Barbara, Partner, Build Ventures; Todd Marshall, Royal Bank of Canada; Louis Jaillet, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency; and Mathieu Brideau, Department of Economic Development.