Events

REGISTRATION

November 17th -

Welcome Reception & Silent Auction 6:00-9:00pm

 Visit the auction gallery 

Crystal Lounge - 11th Floor

6:00pm - Registration

6:30pm - An Evening in Venice Silent Auction and Reception Begins

6:30pm - Harpist - Angel Entertainment

7:00pm - Welcome Remarks - AT&T

9:00pm - Reception Ends


November 18th -

7:00-8:00am Registration & Continental Breakfast 

8:00am - Welcome Remarks - Diane McClelland, Astra President/CEO and Arlene Inch, Trans-Pak, Inc.

WBE Workshop: Listening to Your Business A Kauffman Program
Presented by Ellyn McKay - CEO Vision, Inc.
8:10am - 11:30am (Commandants Ballroom)

Listening to Your Business provides you with the opportunity to:
* Examine your business today, including its strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities.
* Visualize your business three years from now.
* Formulate an internal planning process to establish interim goals and strategies.
* Identify resources to assist you in reaching your business goals.
* Examine and respond to challenges and transitions.

Corporate Workshop: Vested Outsourcing - 5 Rules that Will Transform Outsourcing
Presented by Kate Vitasek- CEO Vision, Inc.
9:30am - 11:30am (Commandants Ballroom)

Listening to Your Business provides you with the opportunity to:
* What is Vested Outsourcing?
* Why  the Vested Outsourcing approach works Ten "perverse incentives:" you likely have if you are using coventional outsourcing approaches
* When to use Vested Outsourcing vs. conventional approaches
* Five Rules that will transform how you outsource


November 18th -

11:30 am - Workshops End
11:30 am - Break
12 Noon - Lunch is served (Commodants Ballroom)
12:15 pm - The Women Owned Small Business Act - 2010 Presented by Brenda Gambaradella, U.S. Small Business Administration
12:45 pm - Astra Awards Presentation - Diane McClelland and Suzanne Lackman, Astra Co-Founders
1:45 pm - Break - Exhibitor preparation for show
2:00 pm - Tradeshow Begins
4:00 pm - Thank you for joining us

Register   - (Nov 17th & 18th) $150, Welcome Reception, Silent Auction, Workshop, Awards Luncheon & WBE Tradeshow

Register  - (Nov 18th only) $75 Workshop, Awards Luncheon & WBE Tradeshow