Main | Agenda | Speakers | Directions | Sponsors | Registration |

Quick Pitch Contest | Whatchamacallit Invention Contest |

Exhibitors

 

7:45am - 8:45am Registration
8:00am Exhibit Hall Opens
8:45am - 9:00am Welcome
9:00am - 10:00am Keynote Speaker
Rich Karlgaard, Columnist & Publisher - Forbes
America's Coming Heartland Boom
10:30am - 11:30am Breakout Sessions:

1 - Growing Green

     Kevin Kephart - SDSU, Jim Doolittle - Sun Grant, Dave   

     Songstad - Monsanto, Paul Batcheller -Prairie Gold Venture

     Partner, Robert Nelson - VeraSun Energy

2 - Before You Negotiate
     Sherri Rotert - Boyce, Greenfield, Pashby, & Welk, LLC   

12:00pm Lunch (Exhibit Hall Closes for Lunch)
  Ready, Fire, Aim!!! - John Webster - Certus LLC
Spirit of Enterprise Award
1:30pm Exhibit Hall Opens for Afternoon
2:30pm - 3:15pm Breakout Sessions:

3 - Intellectual Property Strategy
     John Calvert, United States Patent & Trademark Office
4 -The Other Side of the Deal
     Gene McGowan - McGowan Capital Group, Rich Abild -
     Classified Verticals, Mike Jersted - Prairie Gold Venture

     Partner
3:30pm - 4:30pm Keynote Speaker
William Payne, Entrepreneur & Angel Investor
Angel Investing - How to Get Funded
4:30pm Door Prizes/Contest Winners Announced
5:00pm

Reception:  Wine tasting, cash bar, & hors d'oeuvres,

with music by The Great Unknowns

 

For a printable agenda click here.