ILBCC 3rd Annual State Convention

August 21-23, 2008

Renaissance Chicago Hotel

Thursday, August 21, 2008

5:00 PM – 6:45 PM       Convention Registration
                                         Outside Cuisines Room in Registration Area - 2nd Floor

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM       Welcome Reception - Skyline Terrace 3rd Floor
                                         (weather permitting or will be in Cuisines Room 2nd Floor)
 

Friday, August 22, 2008

8:00 AM – 10:30 AM      Let's Get Real About Energy - Morton’s The Steakhouse
                                          65 E. Wacker Place
                                          (1 ½ blocks from the Renaissance Chicago Hotel)
                                          Breakfast buffet 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM
                                          Panelist 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM
                                          With Com Ed, Nicor, Peobody, Ameren, Peoples Gas, and Exxon

 

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM    From Dream to Reality: Starting Your Own Business
                                          Bucktown Room 3rd Floor
 

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM    Black Wall Street - Gold Coast Room 3rd Floor

 

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM    Relationship Building - LaSalle Room 4th Floor

 

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM       Lunch Buffet - Skyline Terrace 3rd Floor
                                           (weather permitting or will be in Cuisines Room 2nd Floor)

 

1:45 PM – 2:45 PM         Government Procurement
                                           Gold Coast Room 3rd Floor
                                           With Central Management Services (CMS),

                                           the City of Chicago, Metra, Metropolitan Pier and Exposition
                                           and the Illinois Toll Highway Authority

1:45 PM – 2:45 PM         Website Development: How it Really Adds Value to Your Business
                                           Bucktown Room 3rd Floor

1:45 PM – 2:45 PM         Joint Venturing, Mergers, Acquisitions and Partnering
                                           LaSalle Room 4th Floor

3:15 PM – 4:30 PM         How to Successfully Market Your Company
                                          Gold Coast Room 3rd Floor

 

3:15 PM – 4:30 PM        What is Economic Development what it really means.

                                          Includes green and how to make it work for you.
                                          LaSalle Room 4th Floor


3:30 PM – 4:30 PM        Capital Access - Bucktown Room 3rd Floor

 

6:00 PM – 6:45 PM        VIP Reception with Donna Brazile

                                         
                                          Renaissance Ballroom D 3rd Floor - By Invitation Only


7:00 PM                          Gala Grand Ballroom 2nd Floor                                         

                                         Includes: Uganda Children’s Choir Performance
                                         Keynote Speaker: Ms. Donna Brazile
                                         Award Presentation
                                         Chamber Comments
                                         Entertainment

Saturday, August 23, 2008

8:30 PM – 10:30 PM    Breakfast with Media Panel
                                        Renaissance Ballroom A – B 3rd Floor
                                        With Mr. George Curry and black media from around the state.

8:30 PM – 10:30 PM    Insurance, Bonding and Financing
                                        Renaissance Ballroom C 3rd Floor

10:30 AM–12:30 PM   Estimating and Bidding
                                        Renaissance Ballroom C 3rd Floor
 

10:30 PM – 12:30 PM  Procurement - Renaissance Ballroom A – B 3rd Floor
                                        With Peoples Gas, Southwest Airlines, Exxon, ComEd, Ameren
                                        the Grand Victoria Casino, and Caterpillar

SIFA Children’s Choir from Uganda coming to the 2008 ILBCC 3rd Annual Convention!

The SIFA Children’s Choir (SIFA is Swahili for Praise) consists of 20 boys and girls, ranging in age from 6-18, who have been orphaned because of parents with AIDS and other disasters in their homeland.