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Thursday, May 6

7:30 – 8:30

Breakfast Buffet

8:30 – 10:00

The Greening of Your Community

Learn how to successfully leverage funds from several sources. Clean up and stimulate private investment in environmentally contaminated sites – everything from small single lots to multipleacre industrial sites. Diversify and reposition your community in response to changing regional economies.

Beverly Craig, Consultant, Milwaukee Economic Development Corporation

Matt Didier, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

John Peck, Economic Development Agency, USDOC

10:00 – 10:20

Break / View Exhibits

10:20 – 11:45

Revitalizing Area Businesses:
Improved Products, New Federal Contracts,
and Grants for Workforce Development

Learn how to tap into federal funds to support your economic development efforts. This panel of experts will offer insight and direction to fund opportunities for product research and development, secure federal contracts, and retool the workforce. Learn how Wisconsin communities have benefited from federal workforce development grants.

Brian Curry, SBIR

Aina Vilumsons, Wisconsin Procurement Institute

Pat Schramm, Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin

Cheryl Welch, Northeast Wisconsin Workforce Development Board

11:45

Conference Wrap-Up