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Hoosier business owners share success stories at Entrepreneurship and Technology Conference
August 8, 2003 | |||||
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[NOTE: WIS Sheet Metal (2nd graph) and infotex (2nd to final graph) are spelled correctly. WIS is all uppercase. infotex is all lowercase.]
KOKOMO, Ind.—In the early 1990s, Deborah Wood started a one-person medical education and information business. Today, Deborah Wood and Associates, a Carmel-based firm with 90 employees, serves preferred customers such as Eli Lilly. In that same decade, R. Birch Dalton of Kokomo diversified WIS Sheet Metal, Inc., launching four new companies for high tech production of medical devices with a number of patents pending. Inventor Tasha Phelps of Fishers started an e-business, Phelco, Inc., to promote her first patent pending technology product in the music industry. These business owners will share their success stories during the Third Annual North Central Indiana Entrepreneurship and Technology Professional Development Conference October 2 on the campus of Indiana University Kokomo. The conference runs from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m and is co-sponsored by IU Kokomo’s Division of Continuing Studies and School of Business, along with the Purdue University School of Technology at Kokomo and numerous commercial and development entities with local and statewide ties. Other conference highlights include: • Keynote address by Kevin Sheehan, managing general partner with CID Equity Partners, a major venture capital firm in Indianapolis. Sheehan has been instrumental in developing a major incubator program in Charleston, South Carolina, and leading the worldwide operations of Cummins Company, Inc., including nine companies with combined revenues of $790 million. • Insights into Indiana’s economic development from State Senator David Ford, chair of the Senate Committee on Economic Development and Technology. Two other key opinion leaders in technology policy and finance will join Ford—Mark Shublak, a partner with Ice Miller Legal Services, and Tony Armstrong, executive director of Indiana’s 21st Century Research and Technology Fund. • News of how university studies can benefit business technology, presented by the Indiana University Advanced Research and Technology Institute. • Mentoring advice from top area business and economic development leaders. The day is capped off with a reception in the IU Kokomo Art Gallery and a Market Place, where conference participants can learn more about business development opportunities and support. The reception is sponsored by Bucheri, McCarty and Metz Certified Public Accountants and infotex, information architects. The advanced program registration fee—available through September 19—is $49. After that day, registration is $59. To receive a full agenda and registration form, visit www.iuk.edu/scs or call (765) 455-9395 or 800-991-1459.
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