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NASDAQ Exec To Keynote Expo
October event will highlight technology,
sales and small business success
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Business New Haven
8/21/2000
By: BNH
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The Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce and corporate 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 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 NASDAQ stock exchange, will be the keynote speaker. According to Marc Sherer, president of Event Management, the company producing the event, “The high-profile choice of the keynote speaker underlines the commitment of the chamber and our sponsors to making the Southern Connecticut Business Expo a major business event.” Fleet Bank will sponsor the keynote address.
Adds Sherer, “Along with a terrific program of speakers and exhibitors, we'll also defy a basic business tenet by proving there is such a thing as a free lunch - several thousand, in fact.” The free lunch is being served up to expo attendees by Milford-based Subway. Also free will be parking, exhibit hall and seminar admission. Business New Haven is quarterbacking the business educational component of the event, to be known as Tek Xchange 2000. Explains BNH publisher Mitchell Young: “Typically, the educational component of a business trade show consists of vendor-driven seminars. Our goals were to provide clear value to attendees and to create an event that would demonstrate the economic diversity and vitality here in the region and across Connecticut. We also wanted an environment that would include and attract leading business people.”
Business New Haven will present six seminars and a special presentation, “FutureShock,” featuring three of Connecticut's most innovative and successful business people. Jonathan Rothberg, CEO of CuraGen Corp., the pioneering New Haven biotech 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 trio will address the future of their companies and the technology industry.
In a seminar entitled 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 accomplished marketing executives will participate in a panel discussion on “Technology's Impact on Marketing.” They include Karen Dawes, senior vice president for marketing and sales at Bayer Corp. in West Haven; 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 book, 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 human-resources professionals to help attendees better understand successful recruiting, retention and training strategies.” A seminar on “Employing in the New Economy” will include panelists Michael Dimmenstein, 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, says 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.
For more information on the Southern Connecticut Business Expo contact Event Management at 860-232-6230.
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