Entrepreneurs Invited to Conference in Pittsburgh March 12-13 to Learn About Services Available From U.S. Small Business Administration

The U.S. Small Business Administration will host a free two-day conference on March 12-13 at the University of Pittsburgh on ways that entrepreneurs and small businesses can make the most of government programs with the SBA's Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Winslow Sargeant, and representatives of local business development organizations.

Winslow Sargeant

Titled Small Business and Government: Maximizing Entrepreneurship, Driving Innovation, the conference will include sessions on a wide variety of topics, including:
· Engaging entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, government officials, angel investors, funding innovators and academics in a public-private forum.
· Generating bold ideas to advance the innovative entrepreneurial community.
· Identifying how to foster sustainable growth in Life Sciences, Health Care, Manufacturing, Energy, Young Entrepreneurship, High Tech Innovation, Information Tech and Urban Entrepreneurship, Advanced Materials, Women and Minority Entrepreneurship.
· Tools that optimize small business innovators / entrepreneurs and government relationships (eg. accelerators, emerging capital strategies etc.)

Where: University of Pittsburgh Joseph Katz Graduate School of Business
Mervis Hall Classrooms: 104 and 115 Mervis Hall
335 Mervis Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260

When: Tuesday, March 12 – Wednesday, March 13; 8:30am – 6:15pm

*Please register at http://www.showclix.com/event/SBAOfficeofAdvocacy

Schedule 

Sector/ Panel	Facilitator	Room Assignment	Time
Life Sciences	Lynn M. Brusco lbrusco@plsg.com	MH 104	March 12 9:45 -11:45A
Healthcare	Lynn M. Brusco lbrusco@plsg.com	MH 104	March 12 1:15 – 3:15P
Energy	Dr. Anthony Cujini, Thomas Feeley thomas.feeley@netl.doe.gov	MH 115	March 12 1:15 – 3:15P
Young Entrepreneurship	Jerry Cozewith and Dave Lishego jerryc@youthamerica.org, dlishego@tepper.cmu.edu	MH 104	March 12 3:30 – 5:30P
Advanced Materials	Leone Hermans-Blackburn leonehb@pananocenter.org	MH 115	March 12 3:30 – 5:30P
High Technology and Innovation	Terri Glueck tglueck@innovationworks.org	MH 104	March 13 9:45 – 11:45A
Manufacturing / Advanced Manufacturing	Steve Shivak steve@smc.org	MH 104	March 13 1:15 – 3:15P
Women and Minority Entrepreneurship	Rufus Idris, Ann Schlicht, Linda Handley ridris@usaceed.org, aschlicht@chatham.edu, handleyl@verizon.net	MH 115	March 13 1:15 – 3:15P
Information Technology and Urban Entrepreneurship	Rhonda Carson Leach, Robert Stein, Linda Handley rastein@katz.pitt.edu, rcleach@katz.pitt.edu	MH 104	March 13 3:30 – 5:30P
Social Entrepreneurship	Richard Overmoyer overmoyer@fourtheconomy.com	MH 115	March 13 3:30 – 5:30P