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April 7 Conversation on High Impact Entrepreneurship

Please join New Carolina and partners for our annual entrepreneurship event, and gain an inside look at the issues, expansion, and future of high impact entrepreneurship in South Carolina.

April 7, 2011 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Columbia, South Carolina Midlands Technical College
Harbison Campus Theater

REGISTER: http://newcarolinahighimpact.eventbrite.com/

WHO:
Economic development, university, college, government and business leaders who are interested in promoting the growth of South Carolina’s homegrown firms are encouraged to attend.

WHAT'S ON THE AGENDA:
• Hear results from a just-completed University of South Carolina research project on types of entrepreneurial firms creating jobs in South Carolina.
• Participate to identify opportunities for promoting growth of South Carolina’s homegrown firms.

• Help define the next steps in creating a stronger entrepreneurial economy in South Carolina.

AGENDA

10:00 AM

Welcome
Dr. Sonny White
President, Midlands Technical College

10:20

What Will We Accomplish Today?
Garry Powers
Director of Economic Development Initiatives, CTC Public Benefit Corporation
Chair, New Carolina Entrepreneurship Task Force

10:20

Who’s Creating Jobs in South Carolina?
Results from the USC market research report

Doug Woodward, PhD
Director of Division of Research & Professor of Economics, University of South Carolina

11:00

The Expansion of High Growth Firms
Challenges and Opportunities:
What high growth firms are saying

PANEL with South Carolina High Growth Entrepreneur Rock Stars
Moderator: Hunter Howard, Upstate Managing Partner, Scott and Company
Rock Stars: Peter Waldschmidt, Gnoso, Inc. AND Brent Yarborough, Team IA, Inc.

11:45

EAT and GREET

Representatives running incubators in South Carolina will meet during lunch to discuss forming a South Carolina Incubator Association.

12:30 PM

Promoting Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century

KEYNOTE

Kurt Dassel PhD, Partner, The Monitor Group

1:30

TAKE A SHORT BREAK

1:40

SWOT Analysis
Building Regional and Statewide Entrepreneurship Networks

Moderator: Don Herriott, Director of Innovista Partnerships, USC Innovista

Facilitator: Jordy Johnson, Chief Executive Officer, Microburst Learning

3:45

What’s Next?

4:00 PM

Thank you for coming!