Michigan State University's president, Lou Anna K. Simon, will speak.

Daniel J. Vandenberg and Thomas A. Koster will present "IC-DISC Tax Planning - The Last U.S. Export Incentive"

Bjorn Stigson is President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. He serves on the boards of or on committees advising the Chinese government, the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, the Clinton Global Initiative and the Global Reporting Initiative. He is a graduate of the Gothenburg School of Business Administration, the Swedish Management Institute and Harvard Business School.

Dave Brandon, CEO of Domino's Pizza, is the keynote speaker.

Charles "Chuck" B. Bird, Director of International Sales, Food Safety Diagnostics at Neogen Corporation, will be speaking to the Global Business Club of Mid-Michigan about how to source and sell products in China.

Phil Power, President of the The Center for Michigan, will speak.

On Saturday, April 17, 2010, MSU will again invite hundreds of high school students, teachers, administrators, and parents to campus to explore a world of languages during the Sixth Annual World Languages Day. Free to all participants, this day-long conference will focus on the experiences that languages offer, and highlight the opportunities available for language and international study at MSU.

Evan Elenbaas, President, and Troy Schmaker, CFO, of Walters Gardens will speak on the topic of "Exporting Successes: Tools, Lessons, and Advice from the Ag Exporter of the Year.

This meeting of the Lansing Economic Club will be a regionalism forum.

Join Coface North America for our seventh annual country risk meeting. Our panel of economists and business leaders will address the short-term economic outlook for the second half of 2010, with a special focus on how the credit crisis has affected North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America.