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Small Business Innovation Summit and Expo

Submitted by: Emily Watts on Oct 21, 2009 at 3:33 pm Tagged with: Entrepreneur, Innovation, Small Business, Thinktec Source: Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce

The Small Business Innovation Summit & Expo is the premier event showcasing small business in the Charleston region. The event will provided business to business connections, celebrate entrepreneurialism, and present topics from expert speakers on issues important to small business.

This is an opportunity to showcase your products and services and display your leadership. Researchers, venture and angel capitalists, service providers, business executives and owners, entrepreneurs and many more are part of this highly recognized annual conference drawing participants from across the Southeast. By participating in this event, you will tell the business community that projects going on in today's economy are truly driving tomorrow's growth.

Highlights of the Small Business Innovation Summit & Expo include:
Rieva Lesonsky, GrowBiz Media and former editorial director of Entrepreneur Magazine. She is nationally known speaker and authority on entrepreneurship, Lesonsky has been covering America’s entrepreneurs for more than 25 years.
Noah Everett, founder of TwitPic will discuss his journey in creating this high profile application for Twitter and his future business plans.
Breakout sessions on a myriad of topics including: starting, growing and exiting a business, franchising, funding, marketing, branding, innovation, human resources, healthcare, workforce development and much more.
An exhibition hall featuring companies large and small, start-up to mature, showcasing their products and services.
The "Resources Roundtable" will feature interactive roundtable discussions with experts answering questions related to all aspects of business.
A culinary showcase featuring an interactive display of the local world-class talent who have turned the region into an exciting culinary destination.
The announcement of the winners of the New Ideas SC contest.
The ThinkTEC award recipient will be honored.

For more information www.thinktec.org.