Just got finished wrapping up 2 new event themes for Oregon Entrepreneurs Network ( OEN ), the first one is for the OEN Tom Holce Entrepreneurship Awards held every year. The Awards honors the skill, and the courage, it takes for entrepreneurs to create a business out of an idea. They are intended to not only celebrate entrepreneurs, but to highlight their importance to the region’s economy. The Awards are a highly competitive process and it is a significant achievement just to be named as a finalist. In honor of that, OEN not only produces a gala celebration focusing on excellence in entrepreneurship, but also presents awards to the winners that are true works of art. The OEN Entrepreneurship Awards were designed by the world-renown company Ziba Design, founded by local entrepreneur, Sohrab Vossoughi.
This year we played off of the enormity of the event by incorporating the host OEN into the theme. We created such words as OENormous, OENtrepreneur, OENthusiasm, and OENjoyable. This idea lent itself to a fun lighthearted graphic sure to grab attention.
The second theme was for OEN’s Venture Northwest , an annual Portland-based conference that draws institutional investors and investment bankers from across the US and Western Canada, who are interested in early and growth stage companies. On November 3, 2011, plot your course to direction opportunity and hear from ten exciting Northwest companies. This years event will include business leaders from the NW who will talk about trends in social media and mobile computing, as well as hear why some leading venture firms are plotting their course to the Northwest to find real opportunities.
