Lansing Mayor, Andy Schor will discuss his first few months in office and changes to occur.

The Entrepreneur YOU conference is designed to educate women with a passion for owning their own business about the challenges and opportunities inherent to the endeavor from planning through launch to growth. The conference provides a broad overview of topics such as marketing, finance, legal issues, business funding and more. In addition to sharpening skills, you will gain powerful contacts and learn new information to drive successful business results.

The NASBITE International Annual Conference, March 22-23, draws educators, exporters, specialists, and students from all across North America. The Conference offers a variety of education and networking opportunities and seeks to recognize outstanding and innovative developments in the area of international trade education, counseling, training, and research. The National Small Business Exporter Summit on March 21 showcases best-in-class exporters from around the country who share their expertise in exporting excellence.

By integrating global business coursework and modules into the class curriculum, students will begin to have a firm understanding of the inter-connectivity of global commerce and its implications in their daily lives. Join us and find out how.

Former MSU and NBA basketball player, Andre Hutson, discusses success on and off the court. He is the owner of a few local small businesses.

Patti Poppe, President & CEO, Consumers Energy

It is a pleasure to announce the 5th Annual MSU Interdisciplinary Conference on Cybercrime will be held April 19th and 20th, 2018 at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center, Auditorium room, on the Michigan State University Campus in East Lansing (https://kelloggcenter.com/). This flagship event, sponsored in part by the MSU School of Criminal Justice, seeks to draw world class social and technical science researchers together and present their work in order to promote collaboration between the disciplines and identify new avenues of research to enrich both fields. In addition, the conference links both fields to industry and policy-makers to transform the landscape of cybersecurity, policy, and practice.

Speaker Protecting Your Brand Globally The Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection (A-CAPP) and Global Business Club of Mid-Michigan (GB Club) are pleased to present the 1st Annual World IP Day Michigan: Protecting Your Brand Globally. World IP day is celebrated every year on April 26 in order to remember the role that intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, industrial designs, copyright) play in encouraging innovation and creativity. Join us for a half day interactive program discussing how Michigan companies can play in a vital role in the world economy and share their best practices on how they protect their intellectual property. Our three panels will focus on: Packaging Challenges & Opportunities, IP Issues in E-Commerce, and Emerging Markets: Best practices for IP issues. We will finish our program with a networking lunch. Check our agenda for updated speakers list as they are confirmed. Who should attend: businesses, policy makers, academics, and students interested in learning how to protect intellectual property while growing globally in an ever-more connected world. The Global Business Club of Mid-Michigan focuses on global issues of interest to the mid-Michigan business community. The monthly GB Club luncheons provide outstanding speakers and relaxed networking opportunities. With extensive international experience, the speakers wrap personal insights around a practical and up-to-the-minute approach to conducting international trade.

Rob Spohr (Montcalm Community College) and Sarah Singer (MSU-CIBER) will present on the 2017 FDIB program to SE Asia that resulted in a Fulbright award for Montcalm to develop a partnership withManado State Polytechnic,North Sulawesi Province, Sulawesi Island, Indonesia.

Featured speakers will be Mike and Denise Busley, Owners, Grand Traverse Pie Company.