Morning Sessions: 10:45 - 11:45 a.m.

Planning for Growth

• What areas of your business do you need to focus on to excel in your industry? How can you most effectively shape your business plan, use research, and optimize operations? This session explored strategies for analyzing growth opportunities, making critical decisions, focusing your organization - and much more.

Panelists:

• Moderator: Stewart Friedman, Professor of Management at the Wharton School of Business
• George Cloutier, Founder, Chairman and CEO of American Management Services
• Shari Misher Stenzler, Co-Founder of Kidville
• Alfredo Molina, Chairman & CEO of The Molina Group
• Martha Soffer, Development Specialist for the U.S. Small Business Administration

The New Marketing Landscape

• Attendees learned how to broaden their marketing perspectives in this wide-ranging discussion of emerging marketing strategies, techniques and tools. This session provided valuable insights into viral marketing, social networking and new ways to have your business play a pre-eminent role in extending brand and elevating results.

Panelists:

• Moderator: Allen Cohen, Professor of Global Leadership at Babson College
• Jennifer Appel, Co-Founder of Buttercup Bake Shop and original Co-Founder of Magnolia Bakery
• Steve Kane, Senior Vice President of Spafinder.com
• Shenan Reed, Founder of Morpheus Media

Speed Networking

• Facilitated by: Marcy Shinder, Vice President of Brand Strategy and Marketing, American Express OPEN^SM
• Take advantage of this opportunity to meet like-minded entrepreneurs during this interactive Speed Networking session. Connect with a potential new client, supplier or business partner. Find solutions to current business problems. Uncover opportunities. Or just practice your elevator pitch. It's amazing what you can accomplish in 5 minutes.

Afternoon Sessions: 2:15 - 3:15 p.m.

Strategies for a Tough Economy

• Many business leaders are facing the challenge of navigating through a difficult economy. This session focused on strategies to help you manage opportunities and risks in the face of uncertainty, including ways to keep employees at the top of their game and find out how others have met such challenges.

Panelists:

• Moderator: Dawn Fotopulos, Founder of DF Consulting and Faculty Member of King's College
• Alan Beaulieu, Senior Analyst, Economist & Principal, Institute for Trend Research
• Philip Clements, Managing Director of Cathedral Consulting
• Nina Kaufman, Esq., Ask The Business Lawyer,^sm President of Wise Counsel Press
• Nell Merlino, Founder & CEO of Count Me In for Women's Economic Independence

Empower Your Team for the Future

• How do you develop a team to build on the foundation you established? How do you lead a staff that may be diverse in background and age, with different approaches to achieving your business goals? This session focused on stepping back from the nuts and bolts of your business to take your company to the next level with advice from successful business leaders who made such critical decisions.

Panelists:

• Moderator: Ernan Roman, President of ERDM
• Maureen Kelly, Founder & CEO of Tarte Cosmetics
• Shane Hedges, President of Envision EMI
• Sarah Endline, Mastermind and Chief Rioter for sweetriot

The New Marketing Landscape

• Attendees learned how to broaden their marketing perspectives in this wide-ranging discussion of emerging marketing strategies, techniques and tools. This session provided valuable insights into viral marketing, social networking and new ways to have your business play a pre-eminent role in extending brand and elevating results.

Panelists:

• Moderator: Allen Cohen, Professor of Global Leadership at Babson College
• Jennifer Appel, Co-Founder of Buttercup Bake Shop and original Co-Founder of Magnolia Bakery
• Steve Kane, Senior Vice President of Spafinder.com
• Shenan Reed, Founder of Morpheus Media

Speed Networking

• Facilitated by: Marcy Shinder, Vice President of Brand Strategy and Marketing, American Express OPEN^SM
• Take advantage of this opportunity to meet like-minded entrepreneurs during this interactive Speed Networking session. Connect with a potential new client, supplier or business partner. Find solutions to current business problems. Uncover opportunities. Or just practice your elevator pitch. It's amazing what you can accomplish in 5 minutes.