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GREAT PLAINS PRO-BIZ SUMMIT
Time Day 1 Day 2
  Track 1- Bear Butte Track 2 - Badlands Track 1- Bear Butte Track 2 - Badlands
8:00 AM Breakfast/Networking opportunity/ Registration    Washington Room Breakfast - Update on Suriname - Lt. Col. Tracy Settle;      Washington Room
9:00 AM Welcome 
Cultural Etiquette - Suzi Aadland  Washington Room
Black Hills Business Development Center - Jim Mirehouse & USDA Rural Development - David Adrian Small Business Loans and Bonding - Corrie Stevens, Great Western Bank & Rod Cowling, Western Dakota Insurors
9:30 AM Hiring and Firing Employees Legally - James Marsh, Division of Labor and Management Leveraging Advantages for Native American  & Tribal Businesses -  Clarence O'Berry, Mandaree Enterprises 
10:00 AM Walking in Two Worlds - Laurette Pourier Doing Business with the DOT - Denise Rodriguez-Lopez & Jana Weitkamper, USDOT
10:30 AM Federal Government Contracting Panel - DOD - Ellsworth AFB and FE Warren AFB, USFS, GSA,  - Washington Room
11:00 AM GSA -   Pennie Estrada, Denver, CO Medical Contracting - John Blankenship VA, Washington DC  
11:30 AM
12:00 PM Luncheon with John Caporal, Department of Defense
Air Force Office of Small Business "Reaching Beyond Goals"
Washington Room
Luncheon with Steve Yellow Hawk - Native American Dance and Customs     Washington Room 
 
1:00 PM Networking/Round tables  Washington Room Networking/Round tables  Washington Room
1:30 PM  Research Grants - Gary Archamboult, SBDC, Sioux Falls, SD Special Programs - SBA, DBE, PTAC, SBDC & PLAINS State Government Contracting Panel - SDDOT, OPM, GOED, City of Rapid City, SDANG Washington Room
 
2:30 PM Apprenticeship & Hospitality - Daphne Richards Cook  Wind Energy - Pat Spears, ICOUP Quality Control Programs - Tony Root, EAFB Contracting DUSEL Lab - Dr. Bill Roggenthen, SD School of Mines
 
3:30 PM "The Tipping Point" - Maximizing Your Marketing - Don Frankenfeld - Washington Room The Next Step - Tanka Bar - Karlene Hunter Northrup Grumman
 
4:30 PM Networking/Round tables  Washington Room Networking/Round tables  Washington Room
Registration and booths will be held in Washington Hall. Booth set-up will be after 5:00pm on Monday, March 10th. Breaks will be held in Washington Hall.

 

Sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce

Cultural Diversity Committee