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Saturday- June 17 Activities/Locations Presenters
8:00 – 8:45am Registration and Continental Ms. Ann Smith, Chair,
Breakfast – T.T. Allain Hall Southern University System,
Lobby (College of Business) Board of Supervisors
9:00-10:00 Panel Discussion: How Do We James A. Joseph Former, U.S.
Move Forward from Here in Ambassador to South Africa
Building Resilient Communities Lt. General Honore’ (Retired)
Dr. Byron Clayton,
Moderator: Ms. Marla President/CEO Research Park
Newman, Blueprints Consulting Corporation
Ms. Hermione Malone, Executive
Director, Good Work Network
Mr. Dennis Blount, Partner
Phelps Dunbar LLP and Board
Chair BRAF
10:00 – 11:20am Resources for Economic, Mr. John Matthews, Director,
Entrepreneurial and Community Small Business Services Louisiana
Development Economic Development
Mr. Ralph Hennessy, Interim
Panel Discussion Director
Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport
Economic Development at the Mr. Jeffrey Thomas, Executive
Community Level: Challenges Director, Strategic Action Council
and Successful Programs Minority Supplier Institute
Shreveport, LA
Moderator: John Pierre, Messrs. Adam Knapp and
Chancellor Southern University Jonathan LeMaire, Baton Rouge
Law Center (SULC) Area Chamber
Mr. Will Campbell,
Vice President Essential Federal
Credit Union
11:20 – 11:30am Break
11:30 – 12:45 pm Entrepreneurship and Mr. Eric Porter, ComNet, LLC
Economic Development in Ms. Lacey Baaheth, Baaheth and
Action: What is Being Done. Associates and Member Louisiana
Moderator: Ms. Agnes Real Estate and Commission
Mr. Casey Philips, The Futures
Andrews, President, Fund
NAREB Ms. Shakita Billups, TruFund
Mr. Sherman Pittman, North
Baton Rouge Chamber of
Commerce
Mr. Jason Sampey, Insurance
Specialist Office of Consumer
Advocacy, Louisiana Department
of Insurance
