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Written by Rebecca LaPole, for NEXTnc
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Wednesday, 13 September 2006 |
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Where can you find a Moose, Blue Ocean and an entrepreneur mom?
The answer is none other than this year’s Bixpo 2006 at the Budweiser Events Center. With more than 200 exhibit booths featuring thriving regional businesses, and five talented speakers in leading industries, it is the perfect place for professionals to network.
Terry “Moose” Millard
8:30 a.m., Sept. 14
www.washingtonspeakers.com
He is a former Southwest Airlines Pilot and Expert on Corporate Culture. He was diagnosed with cancer and told he only had two years to live in 1990, according to the Washington Speakers Bureau’s Web site.
“It’s years later now and “Moose” keeps on going and going and going!” He tells the story about his cancer-conquering journey and how to live with “realistic optimism” when there seems to be little hope.
Blue Ocean
8:30 a.m. today
www.viassociates.com
It is a business strategy based on best seller, “Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant” by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. Experienced speaker and executive Ralph Trombetta will lead.
“Ralph Trombetta offers a wonderful experience for executives, with tremendous expertise in Value Innovation coupled with strong applications into industry,” said Richard Walsh, executive director of The Center for Leadership & Executive Development at the University of Dayton. “We’ve worked with many of the top thought leaders from across the globe, and I would place Ralph in the top tier,” Walsh is quoted as saying on Value Innovation Associate’s Web site.
Mother Lucinda Yates
10 a.m. today
www.lucinda.com
She “was always — and still is — known to be a uniquely creative person with strong sense of purpose and self direction.” She created pins that companies now use as fundraisers to help herself out of a very unfortunate situation years ago. Now her company thrives.
BIXPO SCHEDULE
Today
11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Exhibition open
8:30 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
Blue Ocean Strategy, Ralph Trombetta
10-11:15 a.m.
Lucinda Yates, entrepreneur
11:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
Lisa Ford, customer-service guru
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Chamber Business After Hours
Sept. 14
11 a.m. -5 p.m.
Exhibition open
8:30-9:45 a.m.
Terry “Moose” Millard
10 a.m.-Noon
“Freakonomics” author, Steven Levitt
Tickets
Exhibition Pass, Free
Speaker Series/One Day Tickets, $99
Speaker Series/Two Day Tickets, $198
Speaker Series/ Corporate Table $4,000
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