What Recession?

OTEF would like to welcome LifePilot and Peter Thomas as our reception sponsor for AZEC09. Peter, the founder of Century21 Canada, has been a lifelong advocate for entrepreneurship, and travels the world with his inspirational LifePilot program. His latest book, BeGreat, is launching in the US on Nov. 17, but we get a sneak preview because he now maintains a winter residence in Arizona. Thank you, Peter.

Arizona has a vibrant entrepreneurial community that has hardly noticed the recession, because most of its bright stars aren’t in real estate.  They are busy changing the world and growing their companies, bootstrapping, borrowing, begging — as entrepreneurs do in good times and bad. Each year, we like to showcase our own companies and bring in some out-of-towners to see what we’re doing.

This year, we will highlight four entrepreneurial growth segments you need to know about:
Digital Media Entrepreneurship, Health 2.0, Cloud Computing, and Sustainability.

Confirmed keynote speakers include:
-Tara Hunt, founder of Horse:Pig:Cow and author of “The Whuffie Factor”
-Michelle Robson, founder of EmpowHer.com, women’s health 2.0 site
-Kevin Surace, Founder and CEO of Serious Materials, green building technologies
-Howard Lindzon, co-founder, StockTwitS

Also, Pam Slim, author of “Escape from Cubicle Nation,” Merlin Mann, founder of 43Folders

and some wonderful workshops that will help you sell, raise money, take your business to the cloud, or participate in the next wave of digital media.

Where does the money from your ticket go? It goes to help entrepreneurs who are disadvantaged receive training and resources to continue the tradition of entrepreneurship. The Opportunity Through Entrepreneurship Foundation, a 501 (c)3, was founded in 2005 to help grow the community by growing our entrepreneurial culture. Every penny above our costs goes to fund programs.  There is no overhead and no administration in this organization. Visit the OTEF blog to see the results of our previous programs.

Passing the Torch

AZEC09 is the place where entrepreneurs gather to

Connect,  Share ideas, and Be Inspired.

We hope to see you there.

Even if you can’t make it, you still have the opportunity to participate by passing the entrepreneurial torch and sponsoring a student.  (Simply click REGISTER NOW up above) and select “Sponsor a Student”.

Each student is asked to complete a short essay after the event on their Three Best Take Aways from AZEC09 and share it with their sponsor.

 

Want to see what people are saying at #AZEC09? 

You can follow the tweet stream at http://twubs.com/AZEC09 or view the stream on the webpage – just click here.