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2014 Program
Tentative Agenda
7:30 a.m.
Registration Opens
8:00 — 8:20 a.m.
BONUS OPTION: Maximizing Today's Investment
A networking primer with master connecter Mary Anne Kennedy, Primary Source.
8:30 a.m.
Summit Welcome
With Lt. Governor Kim Reynolds
National Anthem sung by Kristen Sharma
8:45 a.m.
Morning Keynote
Balance, Sanity and Prosperity for the Female Entrepreneur
Kristen Sharma, recipient of the Iowa SBDC's 2010 Deb Dalziel Woman Entrepreneur Achievement Award, has worn numerous entrepreneurial hats: singer, songwriter, speaker, co-author, life coach, marina owner and interior designer. She's the owner of a massage therapy school and company with massage services at hospitals, within corporations and on university campuses around the nation.
9:45 a.m.
Lagniappe Presentation
9:50 a.m.
ISED's Women's Business Center
Amelia Lobo, Director
Hear from the Summit's philanthropic partner for 2014 regarding that non-profit's work to mentor and provide classes for aspiring women business owners.
9:55 a.m.
Maximize Relationships
Put your speed networking skills to their best use in this session led by Shari Naughton, Your Clear Next Step
10:30 a.m.
Lagniappe Presentation
10:35 a.m.
Break
10:50 a.m.
Transformational Lab Series #1
Choose one of the following:
• Show Me The Money — Jennifer Gibson, Two Rivers Bank and Trust, and Amelia Lobo, ISED Women's Business Center
• Fireworks Marketing on a Sparkler Budget — Dr. Heather Yost, Yost Family Chiropractic
• Managing the Myth: Work/Life Balance — Kristen Sharma (Summit keynote speaker) and Dr. Sunil Sharma, co-founding president of the Meditation Institute
11:40 a.m.
Luncheon
11:45 a.m.
Meet an ISED Women’s Business Center Success Story
Ini Augustine, SocialWise Media Group
11:50 a.m.
Luncheon with Keynote Presentation
The Technology Revolution: Our Mothers, Our Daughters, Ourselves
Maureen Collins-Williams is a national speaker and consultant in the area of entrepreneurship and innovation. In 2014 Collins-Williams founded The Entrepreneurial Communities Project, LLC, and she’s the author of the upcoming book WE: Women Entrepreneurs. She previously spent 16 years at the University of Northern Iowa in such positions as regional director of the UNI Small Business Development Center, interim director of Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship Outreach director.
12:50 p.m.
Lagniappe Presentation
12:55 p.m.
Break
1:00 p.m.
Transformational Lab Series #2
Choose one of the following:
• Websites that Work — Bobbi Segura, B.Segura Consultants; Kathryn Towner, WinCommunications; and Phyllis Kline, KLC Property Management
• Psychology of Pricing for Profits — Michelle DeClerck, Conference Event Management, and Katie Roth, Portico Staffing
• Smart Women-Smart Money — Maureen Collins-Williams, Entrepreneurial Communities Project, LLC (Summit keynote speaker)
1:45 p.m.
Lagniappe Presentation
1:50 p.m.
Break
2:00 p.m.
Meet LIFTIowa
Carole Chambers, Director of Strategic Partnerships, the Business Record
2:10 p.m
Women Business Owner Panel
Key Decisions That Drive Business Viability
Featuring Emma Peterson of Tikly, Erin Rollenhagen of Entrepreneurial Technologies and Jane Whalen of Midwest Project Partners and Midwest Procurement Partners
Moderator: Janette Larkin, Publisher, Business Record and dsm Magazine.
3:15 p.m.
Break
3:30 p.m.
Lagniappe presentation, passport prize presentations, exhibitors' prize drawings and silent auction announcements.
4:00 p.m
GIIPTPYB Panel
Translated: "Get Involved In Politics To Protect Your Business"
Hear from a panel of women elected officials and get ready to network with them at the reception that follows.
Moderator: Lydia Brown, president and CEO, Ascent
4:30 — 6:00 p.m.
Cocktail Reception Sponsored by 50-50 in 2020 and Ascent
Jean Lloyd-Jones of 50-50 in 2020 and Lydia Brown of Ascent
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