WEEKEND SCHEDULE

All events to be held at Market Creek Plaza and the Joe and Vi Jacobs Community Center

345 Euclid Ave, San Diego CA, 92114

9am - Networking & Welcome  (all morning sessions are free)

9:30 - 10:30   Session A

• Doing Business with the City of San Diego

• Cross Border Opportunities

• Working Capital
  

10:30 - 11:30 Session B

• Doing Business with the City of San Diego

• Cross Border Opportunities

• Preparing for Capital

12:00pm - 1:45:pm Urban Economic Luncheon ( $50 )

Success and Sustainability

• Welcome , Mayor Jerry Sanders

• Acknowledgments - Eddie Price , SDUEC

• Opening Speaker -  Mitch Mitchell, Sempra Energy

• Keynote -  Dr. E.Lance McCarthy    Click for Bio

1:45 - 2:00pm Closing Remarks

2:30 - 4:30pm  Sustainability Session -

AB32 and Beyond

CONFIRMED SUSTAINABILITY SESSION KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Virgil Welch
 Special Assistant to the Chairman
California Air Resources Board.

4:30 - 7:30 Legislative Business Mixer

Location: Magnolias Fine Dining

Hosted By the National Black Contractors Association

Saturday, September 20

Urban Community Breakfast 

7:30 - 9:30

Location: Magnolias Fine Dining

Black Business BBQ, Urban Resource Fair
International Market Place

11:00am - 5:00 pm

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       12:30pm - 5:00pm

After "Q" Event  ( TBD )

September 19th

Business Development Sessions & Keynote Luncheon

Keynote Luncheon Speaker –

DR. E. LANCE MCCARTHY

ECONOMIST SCHOLAR SPEAKER

A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED ECONOMIST
AND INVESTMENT ADVISOR

WITH A SPECIALTY IN URBAN DEVELOPMENT.

Dr. E. Lance McCarthy is President and CEO of the Metropolitan Orlando Urban League. As a nationally recognized economist and investment advisor with a specialty in urban development, he has assisted non profits, churches, corporations, professional athletes and cities with their economic development and financing plans. His public policy research, Fortune 100 experience, entrepreneurial endeavors and non profit programs give him insight into our nations'

most pressing problems. His theme is "Wall Street to Main Street". Within the first year of his administration, Dr. McCarthy has nearly doubled the annual budget, negotiated 3 new offices including a Mobile League Bus, chosen as only one of 5 affiliates nationwide to distribute $127 million in new market tax credit financing for small business, developed an entertainment division, started the Urban League Training Institute, a Professor at the National Urban League

Economic Opportunity Institute, and co produced "Three Mo Tenors" Nite at the Opera".

Morning Business Development Session speakers include: Arman Walker, President of Bedford Commercial Capital and previous President of OneUnited Bank.  Lanz Alexander is a modern day “Renaissance Man”.  Business owner, college professor, movie producer, independent record company executive and establishing two manufacturing plants in Baja California-Norte are part of Mr. Alexander’s distinguished career. The City of San Diego will also be on hand. Topics will include : Understanding Capital, Cross Border Opportunity, Doing Business with the City of San Diego .

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