Local Food Means Business is back for a third year! This is a business to business meeting for local food buyers and suppliers to meet. This year the Institutional Food Market Coalition and Something Special from Wisconsin™ are partnering with the Isthmus Food and Wine Festival. This meeting will be a special session that takes place before the Food & Wine Festival begins. Attendees will get a sneak peak of the Isthmus Food & Wine Festival show floor prior to the show opening to the public.

How it works: At Local Food Means Business, buyers and suppliers will have the opportunity to network during organized small group networking time and during open meeting time. About 100 attendees are expected. This event will take place in a meeting room right above the Isthmus Food & Wine Festival show floor. Suppliers include farmers, value added food businesses, and distributors. Buyers include restaurant chefs, food service directors from institutions, grocery store buyers, and distributors.

After networking, attendees will have the opportunity to preview the local food exhibitors at the Isthmus Food & Wine Festival and taste their products before the show is open to the general public (many of the suppliers who attend Local Food Means Business will have exhibitor booths at the Isthmus Food & Wine Festival).

Attendees are then welcome to stay and enjoy all the fun of the Isthmus Food & Wine & Wine Festival once it is open to the public on Friday (or select a ticket type below to attend the Food & Wine Festival on Saturday as well!).

Learn more and register online. For questions, please contact DATCP’s Lois Federman at 608.224.5124.

Join the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and Food Export Midwest to discuss why U.S. food suppliers should export and what it takes for a company to become export ready with this free seminar.

Information includes:

• Steps you should take to develop your international business
• State and Federal services available for your company to export
• Success stories from Wisconsin companies currently exporting
• Opportunities for exporters of food and agricultural products

Who should attend: Food and agricultural companies that are not currently exporting, but interested in exploring opportunities.

Learn more and register online; pre-registration is required. For more information, contact Lisa Stout at 608.224.5126 or Ashwini Rao at 608.224.5119.

 

Ever want to know more about the growing entrepreneurial community in Madison? All doors are open on October 24! From 10am-1pm the doors of 100state, Sector67, Horizon, and Bendyworks will be open to the public. Madison Magazine is hosting a crawl of these spaces on that day (with a TV crew, too) and wants the whole community to attend!

The day will end later that evening at the Majestic Theatre with Hugh Forrest, director of South by Southwest Interactive, giving a keynote speech.

Learn more and get tickets to the keynote speech.

On October 25, development companies in Madison including Bendyworks and Hardin Design and Development will be joining forces for a Madison hackathon session.

The goal: work on day-long projects that make Madison a better place to live.

Who: Developers, graphic artists, and tinkerers teaming up with anyone present.

No RSVP required.

Join MITA for this second meeting in an ongoing series with the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce, to learn about the local resources available to do business internationally.

Attendees will learn from international development professionals about the benefits and challenges of going global. Featured speakers include:

• Stanley Pfrang, Market Development Director – India, the Middle East, and Africa; Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation
• Jen Pino-Gallagher, Bureau Director, Agricultural Market Development, Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection
• Teri Anderson, Senior Manager, International Channel Marketing, Promega Corporation
• Nick Kiernan, Executive Vice President for Media, TrafficCast
• Zach Brandon, President, Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce

Register online.