Update on 2011 FRED Conference and Reasons to Attend – Learn how to increase your innovation IQ

* Learn how to create and nurture an entrepreneurial ecosystem

* Learn about the power of the entrepreneurial class in transforming a community

* Learn about the most powerful economic gardening strategy and why every business and every community needs this important skill set: Asset Quilting

* The Lost of Art of Aales and How it Has Changed in the Internet Age – Alan Martin, Alan Martin and Associates.

* Marketectures: Business Pictures That Tell a Thousand Words – Bill Ryan, has helped create, shape and evangelize breakthrough ideas that define market landscapes and drive demand for companies like Apple and Yahoo!

* Visit some of the coolest economic gardening hot spots in one of America’s most entrepreneurial cities

* Find out what is the the fast growing segment of entrepreneurship

* Immigrants are part of the new entrepreneurial class: gardening as a mechanisms of social inclusion and building community capital – Dr. Corneila Flora, Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Agriculture and Life Sciences

* See what the Fairfield Digital Media and Natural Food Innovation Centers have to offer early and second stage businesses

* Micro-enterprise Financing – http://www.IowaMicroloan.org Story – Dr. Mark Edelman, Iowa Foundation of Micro-enterprise and Community Vitality Center

* Public-Private EG Partnership Model – Getting an EG Program Started Without Big Bucks – Sue Gleason of SyzyGy50, LLC, will share the story of how she and another consultant developed and launched a pilot program in Sauk County, Wisconsin, a rural county of 55,000.

* Obstacle Illusions for Entrepreneurs, Stephen Hopson, author of Obstacle Illusions – Transforming Adversity into Success

http://fredconference.com/FRED_Conference/Reasons_to_Attend.html

Burt Chojnowski

BrainBelt Consulting, Inc.

[email protected]

http://www.BrainBelt.com

(641) 919-2163

(415) 329-2163 – fax