White House Urban Entrepreneurship Forum

Posted by on August 01, 2011

You are invited to a:

WHITE HOUSE URBAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP FORUM
in Philadelphia

Co-hosted by: The White House, The Office of Mayor Nutter, U.S. Departments of Commerce, Energy, Labor, Treasury, Education, and several federal, state, and local agencies.

Monday August 8, 2011 – 8:00 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Registration 8 a.m. to 9 a.m.

Temple University Fox School of Business
Alter Hall, 1801 Liacouras Walk

President Barack Obama has laid out a vision to win the future by out-innovating, out-educating, and out-building the rest of the world. Recognizing the critical role that entrepreneurship plays in creating jobs and economic opportunity for people in the private sector, the Administration is committed to creating public-private partnerships to support current entrepreneurs and spark a new generation of urban entrepreneurs. The work of these urban entrepreneurs will strengthen the core of our economy, reset urban communities as future job factories, and attract emerging markets for investment. The result will be a new era of sustainable economic opportunities for not just urban America but the entire country, and a new culture of prosperity shared by all.

The purpose of this event is to discuss best practices with urban entrepreneurs and hear their feedback on how the Administration and the private sector can best support their growth and success in the global economy.

Please forward invitation to your members and business leaders contacts

The format of the event will be panels/roundtables in the morning followed by breakout working groups and closing with a reception and resource fair.

Focus Areas:
• Unleashing Ideas: Stimulating Innovation, Barriers, and Challenges to Urban Entrepreneurs
• Investing in Urban Entrepreneurs: Creative Funding / Financing Urban Entrepreneurs
• Better Together: Public-Private Partnerships to Accelerate Urban Entrepreneurship and Startups
• Developing an Urban Entrepreneurship Fund
• “Generation Urban Entrepreneurship” – Creating a Financing Literacy Entrepreneurship Corps
• Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships to Increase Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprises; Rethinking Government Rules, Policies, and Regulations
• Creating Evidence-Based Research Model for Growing Urban Enterprises
• Manufacturing and International Market Opportunities & Trade
• Regional Innovation Acceleration Network (RIAN)
• Strong Cities, Strong Communities Initiative (SC2)

The Forum will also feature a live 60-Second Pitch Event hosted by 100 Urban Entrepreneurs ($10,000 startup grants and admission into 100UE’s eight-week business-mentoring program will be awarded. Click here to participate in the Pitch event)

http://www.100urbanentrepreneurs.org/the-program/thecashflow-startup-program/

Please RSVP

http://whitehouseurbanetrepreneurshipforumphiladelphia.eventbrite.com

The event is free. Pre-event registration will be required and space is limited. If you are interested in being a sponsor and/or partnering please email me at natalia@ecolibriumgroup.com so we can add you to the program.