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Quarterly Member Luncheon Meeting

Community Leadership Visit Membership Luncheon
Creating an Innovation Culture

Innovation and entrepreneurship have become effective economic engines for Boulder and Fort Collins, Colorado. Research, invention, and commercialization of new products and services fuel Boulder’s reputation as the country’s most successful progressive community and Fort Collins ranking as the best the place to live, work, and start a business.

The Chamber’s 2013 Community Leadership Visit (CLV) took 53 Santa Cruz executives, elected representatives, educators, and public administrators to meet with government, university and private sector leaders in these communitie to learn how they have nurtured innovation.

Join the Chamber May 22 to hear brief presentations from nine of participants about what we saw and learned. Participants will then be invited to discuss the effects of key elements of the entrepreneurial environment on Santa Cruz County’s evolution as an “innovation culture.”

Host:

Martina O’Sullivan, Director of Community Engagement, Dominican Hospital

Topics and Presenters:

• Vision & Purpose of the CLV
  Susan MacMillan, Dominican Hospital
• Pre-conditions of Innovation
  Matt Thompson, Thacher & Thompson, Architects
• Necessary Collaborations: public-private-university
  Donna Murphy, UCSC University Advancements
• Innovation Infrastructure: the physical environment of innovation
  Charles Eadie, Hamilton-Swift Land Use Consultants
• Technology Transfer: converting research and invention to product and service
  Arthur Ramirez, UCSC Baskin School of Engineering
• Entrepreneurial ecosystem: the culture of innovation
  Bonnie Lipscomb, City of Santa Cruz Economic Development
• Innovation Facilitation: mentoring & mediating startup companies
  Darrin Caddes, Plantronics
• Innovation Incubation: – access to facilities, equipment, and services
  Linda Gold, M3i Works
• The Innovative Community Brand: attracting talent and investment
  Hilary Bryant, City of Santa Cruz

Luncheon Attendee Discussion:

• The effects of success and failure in the development of key aspects of our innovation environment on Santa Cruz
  Peter Gaarn, Peter Gaarn and Associates

Luncheon attendees will also receive a copy of the report summarizing key observations from each of the sessions with photos of the experience.

Registration includes a delicious boxed lunch by Lifestyle Culinary.

Members: $37.50
Non-members $50
Member Table of 8: $285

Our quarterly member meetings in April, July, and October feature experts that keep members on top of current business trends in locally, regionally, and nationally. Chamber member breakfast and luncheon meetings are an opportunity to come together for conversation about community, economics, and key local issues.

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