International Business Summit

9th Annual International Business Summit

Uniting Tampa Bay for Global Business

Collaboration • Diversity • Prosperity

Registration link

March 23, 2015
11:15 am to 8:00 pm
Hilton St. Petersburg Carillon Park

Agenda:
11:15 am–Noon: Registration and Networking
12:00 pm: Welcome and Opening – Grant D. Petersen, President of TBIBC
12:05-1:15 pm: Lunch, Keynote Speaker, and Bright House Diversity Awards, Iris Gonzalez
Director of Multicultural Relations of Bright House will be presenting the Individual Award (TBD)
and Company Award (TBD); Jack Mariano – recipient of the Individual Business Diversity Award; Scand-America International, Inc. – recipient of the Business Award
1:15-1:30 pm: Break
1:30-2:20 pm: Two Workshops (simultaneously)
    – Managing a Global Workforce – Kelley Rexroad, SPHR and founder of Keyconsulting
    – 45 Minutes that might change your investment portfolio forever by – Helge Oeren, Registered Representative Agent, New York Life Insurance Co. and Frank P. LaValla, Jr., CLU, ChFC, RICP, CLTC, Corporate Vice President, Regional Sales Manager South Central Zone, New York Life Insurance Co.
2:20-2:30 pm: Break
2:30-3:30 pm: Global Business Panel – Promoting International Trade and Investments Moderator – Deborah Wilkinson, Executive Director of Tampa Bay Trade and Protocol Council; Panel: Carlos Buqueras Port Manatee Executive Director; Rick Homans, President and CEO for the Tampa Hillsborough Economic Development Corporation, Chris Minner; VP of Marketing at Tampa International Airport; Robert Blumel, Senior Director Business Development Invest in France, and Sareet Majumdar, President of ICTC Headquarters
3:30-3:40 pm: Break
3:45-4:35 pm: Two Workshops (simultaneously)
    – International Investment in Tampa Bay Real Estate – Moderator Yakhin Israel, Vice President, Fifth Third Bank and President, Florida CCIM West Coast District 3 – Panel: Steve Morey, Director of Business Recruitment for the Tampa Hillsborough Economic Development Corporation; Santosh Govindaraju, Convergent Capital Partners LLC; Erma Charles, Managing Director and President of Corinth Global Investments & Capital Solutions, L.L.C.; and G. Richard Hostetter, President, CommerCenters, LLC (Orlando EB5 Investments)
    – Sustainability for Global Business (TBD): Vinny Tafuro, President & CEO of Conscious Capital of Florida
4:35-4:45 pm: Break
4:45-5:45 pm: Speed Networking
5:45-6:00 pm: Drawings and Closing
6:00-8:00 pm: Cocktail Reception & Business Networking
Uniting Tampa Bay for Global Business
www.tbibc.org