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BNH publisher to present speakers at May 23 Hartford Business Expo
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Business New Haven
5/13/2002
By: BNH
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The publisher of Business New Haven will present a speaker program at the Business Exposition May 23 at the Hartford Civic Center.
Second Wind Media, which publishes the biweekly BNH as well as a soon-to-be-launched statewide Web site, CONNTACT.com, will present a program of speakers and seminars aimed at business owners and managers.
The event is organized by Event Management of West Hartford, the same organization that stages the Southern Connecticut Business Expo in October, sponsored by the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce and Business New Haven.
The Connecticut Business & Industry Association (CBIA), the Metro Hartford Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) are co-presenters of the Hartford event, which is also supported by Connecticut Telephone, the Design Company, WTIC-AM radio, WVIT-TV, Fleet Bank, the Connecticut Small Business Development Center, the Connecticut Minority Supplier Development Council Bank, Connecticut Public Radio and the Hartford Business Journal.
University of Connecticut head men's basketball coach Jim Calhoun will be the kickoff speaker, sponsored by the Metro Hartford Chamber of Commerce, at the breakfast session beginning at 7:30 a.m. The luncheon program, sponsored by the SBA, will feature the presentation of the SBA's annual Connecticut Small Business Awards.
Explains Second Wind Media Publisher Mitchell Young, "In late June we'll be launching a new business Web site, CONNTACT.com, Connecticut's Business Address, that will feature extensive business news, events and data resources from across Connecticut.
"CONNTACT.com," says Young, will also be the home of Business New Haven's online Book of Lists and will be our presenting vehicle for the Book of Lists Connecticut which we'll publish in September. With this new digital and print footprint in the pipeline we have organized a dynamic speaker program to highlight some very innovative Connecticut entrepreneurs and business leaders."
Seminars and panel discussions, which run from 9:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Civic Center, include:
* “Street Fighters,” featuring three entrepreneurs who have created business success the old-fashioned way. They are Stephen Campo, director of Hartford's TheaterWorks, Andrea Obston, president of Andrea Obston Communications in Bloomfield, and Stephen Glick, president of the Chamber Insurance Trust and Coordinated Financial Resources in Orange. The session will be moderated by Michael C. Bingham of CONNTACT.com and editor of Business New Haven.
• “Getting On the Fast Track” features CEOs from four of Connecticut's emerging companies, each backed with venture-capital financing: Jon Wheeler, CEO of Axiom 8 in Middletown; Brian Hollander, CEO of Hartford's DirectAdvice; CEO Charleen Ernst of the Farmington-based Cardium Health; and Fred Geyer, CEO VBrick Systems in Wallingford.
• “Employing Tomorrow Today,” featuring insights from three of Connecticut's leading human-resources authorities: Shaun Cashman: commissioner the state's Department of Labor; John Madigan, vice president of corporate HR for The Hartford; and David L. Rainey, acting vice president and chairman of the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer at Hartford. Session will be moderated by Wayne Vaughn of Fuscient Technology.
• “Change Agents,” at which attendees can discover how dynamic entrepreneurs have built successful businesses by making change work for them. They include: John D. Pearse, president and CEO of the Farmington-based DISC; CEO Bryn Tindall of Horizon Marketing, founder of the New England Exchange; and Mitchell Young, publisher CONNTACT.com and Business New Haven and co-founder of the Hartford Advocate. Moderated by Angelo Rosetti, director of Silicon Sound.
“Part of the goal of CONNTACT.com will be to help start-up companies get connected with the resources they need,” Young says. “To highlight that effort we're also presenting three how-to sessions including writing a business plan, accessing capital and doing business with federal, state and municipal governments.”
Also presenting a speaker series is CBIA, the state's largest business organization. Connecticut 2020 A vision of the Future will include eight sessions on a variety of topics including Connecticuts's economy, marketing to Latinos, Connecticut development, workforce development, jump-starting business and more.
More information about the Business Exposition is available by calling 866-44-EVENT.
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