By registering for this webinar, you will also be registered for the remaining three in the series – April 24, May 1, May 8, each featuring different prominent CEOs from across Wisconsin.

The COVID-19 pandemic poses unprecedented challenges to all types of Wisconsin businesses whose operations are impacted by disruptions to their supply chains, demand for their products and worker unavailability. As members of the Wisconsin business community, we want to help you address your company challenges by engaging, collaborating and communicating with you and our thousands of valued businesses across Wisconsin.

Join our CEO Leadership Series webinars to hear from state business and health leaders on the latest medical updates, insights into how companies are adapting their operations to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how these best practice examples might apply to your business.

AGENDA

Welcome – Missy Hughes, Secretary & CEO, WEDC
Medical Updates – Dr. John Raymond, MD, President & CEO, Medical College of Wisconsin
Executive Leadership Update – Dan Ariens, Chairman & CEO, AriensCo., Brillion, WI
Executive Leadership Update – Greg Frank, Vice President, Food Fight Restaurant Group, Madison, WI

 

You need a plan. Several weeks into the worst public health crisis in generations, with several weeks likely remaining, the global economy is reeling. What is to come will be a complex series of response and recovery stages, and decisions you make now will have a lasting impact. Richard Florida and Steven Pedigo will discuss their ten-point action plan for economic developers to help you and your community mobilize. Our third free webinar in the COVID-19 series will outline a path forward that could help your economy come back stronger, more inclusive and more resilient.

Moderator: Tracye McDaniel, President, TIP Strategies, Inc; Austin, TX — and Past Chair of IEDC Board of Directors

Speakers:

• Richard Florida, Professor, Rotman School of Management and School of Cities, University of Toronto; Toronto, ON

• Stephen Pedigo, Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin; Austin, TX

Instructions and Technology
Instructions and dial-in information will be sent up to three days in advance and a minimum of two times. If you do not receive an email from IEDC or GoToWebinar 24 hours prior to the start of the web seminar, it is your responsibility to email webinar@iedconline.org. No refunds or credits will be given for not receiving the dial-in information for the webinar.

Audio

• Using a telephone: A touch-tone telephone
• Using Desktop VoIP: A computer equipped with the following:
— a supported sound card
— speakers or headphones

— a microphone (for speaking during the conference)

Web

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, Mozilla Firefox 1.5 for Windows/Mac/Linux, or Safari 2.0 for Macintosh
• Broadband Internet connection

Questions? Please contact webinar@iedconline.org

Madison College Pitch is a business planning competition for area high school students. Students create and submit a video to explain their business idea, which can earn them a chance to “pitch” at the event before a panel of judges for cash and prizes.

By participating in The Pitch, students will learn effective communication and problem solving skills, and how to think in creative and innovative ways.

Students, teachers or mentors can send email to MadisonCollegePitch@madisoncollege.edu or like the Facebook page  for more information.

**Update**
Given the current situation with COVID-19, The Pitch at Madison College has been slightly changed and altered to a virtual format. We highly encourage students who have not already submitted their videos to still submit by the new deadline of Friday, April 17.

Please note that the video submission deadline has been extended a week to allow students more time to complete their videos.
After April 17th judges will view student’s videos and a selected amount will move on to the final round.
All teachers who registered as a class will still receive the $50 Visa Gift card to celebrate as a class.

Notes, advice and resources from the Food Finance Institute, including knowing when to hit “pause” on your business.

Food Finance Huddle Notes from 3/23/20

Next Huddle: The Food Finance Institute will be holding its next Huddle on Monday, March 30^th. Huddles occur on a recurring weekly basis at 1:00 pm (see below).

Meeting Link for Monday, March 30: Food Finance Huddle 3/30/20

Join by phone: +1-415-655-0003

Access code: 793 406 275

You may need to call multiple times to get through as phone service is receiving a higher demand than normal. 

Treatment for addiction, depression and post-traumatic stress are among the targets of research into psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient found in so-called “magic” mushrooms. Learn how the Madison-based Usona Institute is a part of a worldwide research trend by attending the March 24 Tech Council Innovation Network luncheon in Madison.

The luncheon will be held at The Coliseum Bar & Banquet on E. Olin Ave. Registration and networking begin at 11:30 a.m., lunch at noon and the presentation at 12:30 p.m. The cost is $10 for students and returning veterans, $25 for individual members, $35 for non-members and included for Tech Council corporate members.

Counter-culture excesses of the 1960s led to psychedelic therapy research being outlawed in the United States for decades, but respected medical institutions such as Johns Hopkins University, New York University, the University of California-Los Angeles and London’s Imperial College have all conducted clinical trials of late for therapies derived from psilocybin.

The Usona Institute was co-founded in 2014 by Bill Linton, chief executive officer and founder of Fitchburg-based Promega, and Dr. Malynn Utzinger, to study the therapeutic effects of psilocybin. In 2019, Usona Institute received breakthrough therapy designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Providing an overview of Usona’s work will be Tura Patterson, senior director of strategic partnerships, and Dr. Charles Raison, Usona’s director of clinical and translational research and a UW-Madison psychiatrist.

“We’ll hear how derivatives of psilocybin are producing clinical results that have already prompted a surge of investments and may, in time, lead to FDA-approved therapies,” said Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council.

This luncheon is in partnership with the Wisconsin Healthcare Business Forum. The Wisconsin Technology Council is the independent, non-profit science and technology adviser to the governor and Legislature, with events, publications and outreach that contribute to Wisconsin’s tech-based economy. To join, go to www.wisconsintechnologycouncil.com or call 608-442-7557.