Each year high school students in southeast Michigan engage in an intensive, three-day, hands-on virtual learning experience that simulates an entrepreneurial and business international trade mission. Through this extraordinary opportunity, awareness is created around exciting careers in entrepreneurial and international business in high-tech industries; many in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields.

World Trade Week is a dynamic network of organizations supporting the West Michigan region to focus on international trade and business growth in foreign markets.For the past 31 years West Michigan trade organizations, businesses, and other community stakeholders have come together to promote and facilitate the importance of international trade.

Come join the Michigan Trade Summit Committee and global business leaders from across the State of Michigan to collaborate and learn about new trade opportunities.

This faculty development program is designed for business and foreign language faculty at community colleges. Sample sessions will include an overview of internationalization efforts at community colleges; resources and best practices for teaching international business and business language classes; and how to develop an international business certificate or degree program.

The 2016 Global Internship Conference, Internships: A revolution in global education?will be held in Boston, MA.

Join colleagues from Community Colleges across the Northeast for a full day of presentations designed to foster the development of curricular international business content across many academic disciplines. Global value chains will be the primary area of focus.

Annual Conference of the Academy of International Business (AIB); the leading association of scholars and specialists in the field of international business. The 2016 meeting will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA on June 27-30, 2016.

A 2-day training for international business professionals on the basics of global management, marketing, trade finance, and logistics.

This event features film and book promotion by the author(s) of Second Shift: The Inside Story of the Keep GM Movement book. The Lansing Works! Keep GM! movement was a victory of people over bureaucracy, of a can-do attitude over cynicism―a story rarely told in todays complex, technological, and often dehumanizing world of large business and out-of-control government. And the best part was that, in the end, both sides came away winners. Its proof positive that when the public and private sectors work together as equal partners, amazing things can happen.

Speakers Keith Granger, Glenn Granger, Granger Construction; Brig Sorber, Two Men and a Truck; Tom Archipley, Centurion Medical Products.