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Area Executives To Speak at Expo
October 18 event will showcase technology, sales and small-business success
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Business New Haven
10/16/2000
By: BNH
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The Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce and sponsor DSL.net will present the Southern Connecticut Business Expo October 18 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in New Haven.
“The Better-Way-To-Do-Business Expo” will open with the annual Chamber Awards Breakfast beginning at 7:15 a.m. The day-long exposition will highlight companies with expertise in technology, staffing, education, marketing, accounting, financial and other business needs.
Gregor Bailar, chief information officer and executive vice president of the Trumbull-based NASDAQ stock exchange, will keynote the expo at 1 p.m.
Business New Haven has designed the business educational component of the event, to be known as “Tek Xchange 2000.” BNH will present six seminars and a special presentation, FutureShock, featuring three of Connecticut's most innovative and successful entrepreneurs. Executives from CuraGen Corp., the pioneering New Haven genomics firm, will be joined by Susan Strausberg, CEO of Edgar Online of Norwalk, one of the nation's leading suppliers of financial information on public companies, and Paul Sun, inventor, chairman, chief technology officer and a founder of New Haven's DSL.net. The speakers will address the future of their companies and the technology industry.
In a seminar called “Small Biz, Big E-Commerce,” three small Connecticut businesses will outline how they are growing their businesses using technology. Fred Giampietro, president of e-Hammer, an online auction company, Al Guthrie, president of Cookie Bloomers, which sells gift baskets online, and Frank Nevins, president of Logosoftwear, will explain how their companies created and are employing sales-generating e-commerce sites. David Struwas, president and CEO of DSL.net, will moderate the panel.
Three of the region's most successful marketing executives will participate in a panel discussion on “Technology's Impact on Marketing.” They include Peter Tracey, CEO of Neato and a former BNH Innovator of Year Winner, Jeffrey Turner, senior vice president of marketing for Swiss Army Brands Inc. in Shelton; and Charles Mason, president of Mason & Madison Advertising in Bethany.
Adds BNH's Young: “We've also invited Esther Wachs, a nationally recognized business writer and author of the new bestseller, Why the Best Man for the Job Is a Woman, to lead a discussion on women in technology management. That panel will include Patricia Liebler, executive director of new product development for SNET, as well as other Connecticut technology executives.
“In the past three years concerns about hiring and retaining high-quality employees has been become one of the greatest challenges for Connecticut companies of all sizes,” Young says. “So we asked three seasoned HR professionals to help attendees better understand successful recruiting, retention and training strategies.”
A seminar on “Employing in the New Economy” will feature panelists Michael Dimenstein, vice president of human resources for the Saint Raphael Healthcare System, Nick Lavorato, manager of education and training for Applied Engineering of New Haven, and Wayne Szmyt, vice president of human resources for the Wilton-based Greenfield Online, one of the nation's emerging online market-research companies.
Also included are two programs designed to help small businesses develop important tools. “Grow Your Business” will be led by Marie Record, Connecticut director of the U.S. Small Business Administration, who will show business people how to access needed capital. Record will be joined by Zaiga Antonetti, associate state director of the Connecticut Small Business Development Centers, who will outline the business-planning processes small businesses need to guide their growth.
In addition, explains Young: “New technology and a more business-friendly approach on the part of many government entities is opening the government market to more businesses. The problem has been understanding the changes and accessing the resources to make sales happen. For the 'Selling to Government' seminar, we have assembled a panel that is absolutely committed to communicating how small business can reach this market.”
That panel includes Elizabeth Horton, director of the Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) at the University of New Haven, Michael Fumiatti, purchasing director for the city of New Haven, and James Passier, director of procurement services for the state's Department of Administrative Services.
To learn more about the Southern Connecticut Business Expo, contact Event Management at 860-232-6230.
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