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Business Connections blends structured networking, resource sharing and focused connection-building conversations. Make new business connections and grow your business.

Membership and Attendance:
The Alliance is a membership-based organization so attendance at Alliance events is a benefit of membership. It is Alliance policy to welcome first-time, non-members to attend up to two networking events (ShopTalk, and Building Business Connections) without charge. You must RSVP by calling Rebecca McCulloch at 503-552-6759 by 2:00 p.m. on Friday, August 24th.

Event Sponsor: AVAILABLE
Series Sponsor: Oregon Business Magazine

If you arrive after 8:00 a.m., we will not be able to seat you in the structured networking portion of this event.

Free parking in the Garden Garage attached to the Moda Center: located on Winning Way

New to Alliance events? Look for Ambassadors wearing a blue ribbon to greet you, answer any of your questions and introduce you to other members.

Connect with us on Twitter at Alliance events using #pbaevents and tagging @PDX_BizAlliance.

How can public trust funds and private citizens make a difference in an era of upheaval?

Please join Treasurer Tobias Read for the 2018 Sustainable Investing Summit in Portland. The event will bring together state and national finance leaders to highlight how Oregon Treasury — while first achieving its fiduciary obligation to maximize long-term, risk-adjusted performance — is helping to lead as a responsible shareholder, engaging to enhance climate-related disclosure and action, managing for ESG risks, and investing strategically for a cleaner future.

The Summit also will highlight ways the public and other investors can make a positive difference. The event will include a networking welcome reception on Sept. 5 and a conference on Sept. 6 at the Leftbank Annex, 101 North Weidler Street.

Greater Portland Inc’s signature event celebrates GPI’s role as the region’s premier public-private partnership and shines a spotlight on our region’s competitiveness in a global economy.

This year, the Summit highlights our region’s most valuable resource – our people. With conversations led by nationally recognized experts, we will explore how our entrepreneurs, educators, business and community leaders, and innovators are driving returns to our region’s growing economy.

The Summit is the one event of the year that brings hundreds of key decision-makers from different parts of the region and different industries together in one room. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with the leaders shaping our community’s future. The morning begins with a networking breakfast in the Sunken Ballroom. After breakfast, an exciting program will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Kridel Grand Ballroom.

Topics covered: create an “avatar” of your perfect client. Develop a plan to reach them.

In this workshop series you will learn the keys to building a successful solo business. Solo businesses are the fastest growing model of the 21st Century, but solo businesses are distinctly different from other small businesses and there are some things you must do to create the financial success you are seeking.

These classes will be high energy, fun, interactive, and practical. You will learn skills you can use immediately as you create your encore business. Your instructor, Jackie B Peterson, is a national thought leaders on solopreneurship and will share many ideas, client stories and ideas for creating a viable solo enterprise.

Schedule:
8:00 – 8:50 Coffee and Registration
8:50 – 9:00 Introduction, Welcome

Got Know-How?
9:00 – 9:30 Use What You Know – Increase Income Through Self-Employment – Jackie B. Peterson of Better, Smarter, Richer

Got Equity?
9:30 – 10:00 Use the Equity in Your Home – Strategic Use of Your Asset – Rachel Hemmingson NMLS# 1502324/1169 Home Equity Conversion Mortgage Specialist

Got Space?
10:00 – 10:30 Use Your Home to Provide Income & Share Costs – Anne L. Andler of Let’s Share Housing

Got Questions?
10:30 – 11:00 Questions and Answers – panel with Jackie, Rachel and Anne
11:00 – 12:00 One on One conversations, appointment setting, other

Every September, innovators from across the Pacific NW come together at VertueLab Impact Summit (formerly BEST FEST), the Pacific Northwest’s premier cleantech innovation conference. Now in its10th year, VIS2018 brings together the doers, thinkers, and innovators working in clean technology across the region. VIS2018 is about learning, inspiring, networking, sharing ideas, and shaping our future. We convene a diverse audience of business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, partners, corporates, university researchers, students, and scientists— who have the common goal of accelerating solutions to environmental challenges, then create opportunities to engage.

The Portland Creative Conference is an exploration and celebration of the creative process across all creative industries. This single-track event features presentations from leading creatives who take you inside their creative process and talk about their projects, challenges, influences and inspirations; showing samples of their work along the way.

For complete details, including this year’s amazing presenters, visit http://cre8con.com

This is an opportunity for attendees to network with other creative industries professionals, get inside the heads of visionary speakers and to be inspired and motivated in entirely new ways, viewing their own world with a fresh perspective as a result. All while raising money to support K-12 arts education in Oregon.

Many companies send teams of people to this conference so we have team discounts available.

Doors open @ 8:00am for Check-in / Registration and Networking (get there early if you need to register still)

Program starts @ 9:00am and ends at 5:00pm.

Wrap Party! Receptions for all attendees will take place at Wieden+Kennedy and the Wacom Experience Center from 5:30pm – 7:30pm. You must have a badge to attend the conference and the reception.

Benefits of attending:

• Learn from our creative industries-leading speakers
• See samples of their work and hear the stories behind it
• Network with other creative industries professionals
• Leave inspired and motivated in new and unxpected ways, with fresh ideas
• Proceeds go to provide financial support to various K-12 arts education programs in Oregon through Keeping the Arts, a non-profit organization.

Thank you to our Sponsors: Wacom, Oregonian Media Group, Ideas Collide, City of Hillsboro, Cambia Health Solutions, Art Institute of Portland, Charles Schwab, and Oregon Film.

To see the most up-to-date speaker list, visit http://cre8con.com

PLEASE NOTE: Registration is final and no refunds will be processed. However, you can transfer a registration to a different person.

Learn how to translate your speaking into sales and impact, without compromising who you are (in a radically supportive community of coaches and experts seeking greatness)…

Intuitive Speaking is an interactive, experiential public speaking event that will give you lots of opportunities to practice and play.

You’ll have the opportunity to speak in group settings as well as ON STAGE (if you choose). Plus, you’ll watch your colleagues and new friends make huge transformations in their speaking, too.

Either way, this is not merely about KNOWING, but learning through SEEING and DOING and BEING.

At Intuitive Speaking LIVE, you’ll learn how to:

• be irresistible and magnetic on stage, without trying to be different, clever, or forcing yourself to use popular scripts or structures that don’t work for you

• say goodbye to unnecessary stress and second-guessing whether you are standing up at a networking meeting or preparing for the biggest speaking opportunity of your life

• thrive in any speaking setting, whether you are presenting online or offline, doing keynotes, workshops, online courses, or live streaming

• be the kind of speaker who builds a reputation and word-of-mouth buzz

• allow the message that wants and needs to be shared to flow through you, effortlessly

Would you LOVE to attract more (or all) of your clients from speaking? Would you love your speaking to be magnetic and effortless? Then this event is for YOU.