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Women
& Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century
Congressman Tom DeLay, Honorary Conference Chair
August 15, 2002
Houston, TX
Overview
| Agenda | Cosponsors
| Speaker Bios | Speaker
List
Sponsors
| 9:00a |
Welcome
& Opening Remarks
Congressman Tom DeLay |
| 9:15a |
Introduction
Jonathan Ortmans, President, The Public Forum Institute |
| 9:30a |
Changes in the tax code
Congressman Tom DeLay
Keith Hall, CPA, National Association for the Self Employed,
Tax Talk Service |
| 10:15a |
Access
to Capital
Jasmin
Rodriguez, Manager, Women's Entrepreneurship Initiatives,
Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
Misty Tippen, Fort
Worth Business Assistance Center
Terry Bodiford, J.P. Morgan Chase
Marc Geller, Sternhill Partners |
| 11:00a |
Keeping
Health Care Insurance Affordable
Tom Sullivan, Chief Counsel, U.S. Small Business
Administration Office Of Advocacy
Mary Joyce Murray, RHU, Owner, M.J. Murray, RHU &
Associates
Mike Rivera, RHU, REBC, Northwest General Insurance |
| 11:40a |
Business
Ethics
Linda L. Lipps, Manager of Corporate Ethics, Waste
Management |
| 12:15p |
Lunch |
| 1:00p |
Keynote
Presentation
Melanie
Sablehaus
, Deputy
Administrator
United States Small Business Administration |
| 1:30p |
Getting
the Contracts
Darcy
A. Baron, Executive Director, Women's Business Enterprise
Alliance
Valerie
J. Coleman, Procurement Center / Commercial Market
Representative, U.S. Small Business Administration
Fred
Lona, Supplier Diversity Manager, AT&T
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| 2:30p |
Concluding
Address: Empowering Women Entrepreneurs
Susan Wilson Solovic,
Syndicated Columnist & Author, "The Girls' Guide to
Power & Success" |
| 3:00p |
Plenary
Session Adjournment
Participant Networking & Expo visits
EXHIBITORS:
AT&T
Association
of Small Business Development Centers
CIGNA
The
DeLay Foundation for Kids
Internal
Revenue Service
Kauffman
Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
Mary
Kay
National
Association for the Self-Employed
National
Federation of Independent Businesses
Women
Impacting Public Policy
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