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Agenda
| Agenda: Day 1 - April 15, 2008 |
| 7:30 am |
Registration |
| 8:00 |
Grand Entry and Color Guard
Opening Prayer and Welcome Breakfast
Emcee: Lawrence Baker, Three Affiliated Tribes |
| 9:00 |
Welcome Address: Bruce Loudermilk, Deputy Director - Indian Services,
Great Plains Region |
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Setting the Stage:
JuniKae Randall, Executive Producer, Indian Pride PBS
A joint production of Circle of Nations Publishing and Prairie Public
Broadcasting |
| 10:00 |
Break |
| 10:15 |
Panel Presentation I: Stories of Great Plains Entrepreneurs
Karlene Hunter, Native American Natural Foods
Dave Archambault, Cannonball Pit Stop
Garan Coons, Many Mocassins Dance Company |
| 11:45 |
Lunch
Keynote: Creating Results in Indian Country - New Ways to Apply
Existing Resources - Bob Gauthier, Ahoy Consulting, Salish and Kootenai
Tribes |
| 1:00 pm |
Concurrent Sessions |
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Track One:
Federal and State Financial Opportunities- BIA, USDA, SBA, and
GOED
Stacey Johnston, Loan Specialist, BIA
Mike Jaspers, State Director, Rural Development, USDA
Mark Slade, Regional Director, Sioux Falls, SBDC
Mike Youngberg, Finance Manager, Governor's Office of Economic Development
Track Two:
Does Your Native Community Need a Community Development Financial
Institution (CDFI)?
Tracey Fischer, Manager of Institutional Development,
First Nations Oweesta
Clint Waara, Tribal Advocate
Wells Fargo Native American Banking Services
Tanya Fiddler, Director, Four Bands Community Fund, Inc.
Track Three:
Today's EDA - Opportunities in Indian Country
John Zender, Economic Development Representative
Economic Development Administration, Denver Regional Office
Arlene A. Lomax, Ph.D., Director, Rosebud Electronic Integration
Corporation
Eileen Little Thunder - Masquat, Director, REDCO
Track Four:
Business Plan Competition - High School
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| 2:45 |
Break |
| 3:00 |
Concurrent Sessions, continued
Track One: One-to-One Meetings with BIA, USDA, SBA, and GOED
Track Two: One-to-One Meetings with CDFI presenters
Track Three: Ho Chunk, Inc. - Keys to Success - Lance Morgan, CEO
& Pres.
Track Four: Business Plan Competition - High School, cont. |
| 5:30 pm |
Networking Reception and Refreshments
Entertainment - JuniKae Randall and Many Moccasins Dance Company
Awards Ceremony - Business Plan Competition
Regional Director Awards Ceremony
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| Agenda Day 2: April 16, 2008 |
| 7:30 am |
Registration |
| 7:30 |
Private Lenders Breakfast
Panel Presentation and Roundtable Question and Answer with Private
Lenders
Clint Waara, Tribal Advocate, Wells Fargo Native American Banking
Service
Mark Patterson, Business Development Officer, Native American Bank |
| 8:00 |
Opening Prayer and Welcome Breakfast |
| 9:00 |
Concurrent Sessions
Track One:
Financial Education: A Building Block for Development
Joanna Donohoe, Director of Financial Education and Asset Building
Tanya Fiddler, Director, Four Bands Community Fund, Inc.
Track Two:
Federal, Government, Tribal, and Corporate Procurement - Leveraging
Advantages for Individual Indian Businesses and Tribal Enterprises
Clarence O'Berry, Mandaree Enterprises
Shannon Ahhaitty-Whiteman, Procurement Specialist
NCAIED Native Procurement Technical Assistance Center
Alvin-o Williams, President,
Midwest Minority Supplier Development Council
Lisa Claassen, Business Development Specialist
Small Business Administration
Ed Beussink, Command Director of Small Business, Air Mobility Command
Kareen Dougherty, Program Director, SD Procurement Technical Assistance
Center
Gwendolyn Tillman, Corporate Manager, Socio-Economic Business Programs,
Northrop Grumman
Track Three:
Hunting the New Buffalo: Manager as Warrior
Tom Allen, Mitom Counsulting
Track Four:
Enterprise Facilitation - A Model for Growing Tribal
Economies
Ernesto Sirolli, The Sirolli Institute |
| 10:30 |
Break |
| 10:45 |
Concurrent Sessions
Track One:
Indian Country Networking - The SDIBA and MIBA Models
Dani Daugherty, SDIBA and BIA Great Plains Regional Office
Sandy Gerber, Senior Project Manager, SDIBA and Federal Reserve Bank
of Minneapolis
Kim Tilsen-Brave Heart, Mentor Networks Manager, SDIBA and First
Nations Oweesta
Major Robinson, MIBA and Redstone Consulting
Track Two:
Federal, Government, Tribal, and Corporate Procurement - Leveraging
Advantages for Individual Indian Businesses and Tribal Enterprises
Track Three:
Hunting the New Buffalo, Manager as Warrior, continued |
| 12:00 |
Lunch
Keynote: Selling Opportunity, Not Poverty - One Year Later
Elsie Meeks, CEO, First Nations Oweesta |
| 1:00 |
Panel Presentation II: Earth, Wind, and Fire
Energy and Mineral Opportunities for the Great Plains
Moderator: Bob Middleton, Director, Office of Indian Energy and Ec.
Dev.
Stephen Many Deeds, Division Chief, Division of Energy and Mineral
Dev.
Model Projects from the Great Plains Region invited |
| 2:15 |
Break |
| 2:30 |
Panel Presentation III: Tribal Leaders
Economic Accomplishments and Opportunities
Moderator: Ron His Horse is Thunder, Chairman, Standing Rock Sioux
Tribe
All Tribal Leaders Invited
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| 4:00 |
Closing Ceremony |
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