Calendar

Calendar

NOV. 13: Maximizing Your Staff Productivity: The Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce will hold a free 60-Minute Success Seminar from 10:45 to noon in the LCF conference room at the Naples Chamber of Commerce building, 2390 Tamiami Trail N., Naples. Libby Anderson, president of EDA Human Resource Services, will discuss: how to set a standard for a productive workday, common employee time-wasters and how to prevent them and how to raising the bar on performance outcomes and motive employee productivity. For more information or to RSVP visit www.napleschamber.org and click on its event calendar or e-mail [email protected].

NOV. 15: Trends in IT staffing - 2008 industry outlook: The Tampa Bay Technology Forum will hold a CIO/CTO Network Meeting for corporate IT officials from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at The Centre Club, 123 N. Westshore Blvd., eighth floor, Tampa. Dan Rodriguez of Veredus Corp. will discuss hiring trends in the information sector in Tampa Bay. November CIO/CTO Network Meeting Rodriguez plans to offer techniques that can be used to identify, pre-screen, and select the right candidates for contract and permanent positions. For more information or to RSVP e-mail Lori Taylor at [email protected] or visit www.tbtf.org and click on the event calendar.

NOV. 27: Strategies for growing your business by marketing to existing customer: The Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce will hold a Building a Better Business Workshop from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the conference room in the chamber office, 2390 Tamiami Trail N., Naples. Cost is $20 for members and $30 for nonmembers. The meeting will feature a panel discussion with Blase Ciabaton of Naples PrintSource, Cindy Dobyns of Above Water Public Relations and Marketing, Newt Barrett, and Lisa Sparks. For more information or to RSVP visit www.napleschamber.org and click on its event calendar or e-mail [email protected].

NOV. 28: Attracting, Retaining, Motivating and Compensating Key Employee: The Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce will hold a business leaders roundtable from 7:45 to 9:15 at the chamber office, 615 Channelside Drive, Suite 108, Tampa. The speaker will be Gil Gonzales, founder and CEO of Mission Critical Solutions. Cost is $10 for members and $20 for nonmembers. For more information or to RSVP visit www.tampachamber.com and click on the events calendar or e-mail [email protected].

NOV. 29: The Urban Land Institute's Southwest Florida District Council is hosting a program to discuss regional and local transportation issues. Speakers will include Tom Conrecode of Collier Enterprises, Nick Casalanguida of Collier County Transportation Services and Janet Watermeier of Watermeier Property Services. The program will take place at Colonial County Club in Fort Myers from 8:30 a.m. until 11 a.m. To register, call 800-321-5011.

DEC. 4-5: Third Annual Florida Medical Manufacturers' Consortium Symposium: The Florida Medical Manufacturers' Consortium will present a symposium for medical device companies at the Lakeland Center. The event will include educational presentations, legislative updates, regulatory compliance issues, international trade, vendor presentations, and networking opportunities. For more information call (813) 716-2554 or visit www.flamedmfg.org. and find it in the events calendar.

JAN. 29-30: 2008 Florida Venture Capital Conference: The 17th annual Florida Venture Capital Conference will be held at the Renaissance Vinoy, 501 5th Ave. N.E., St. Petersburg. During the Conference, 20-25 Florida-based private companies looking for venture capital funding will make presentations to a national audience of venture capitalists, investment bankers and private equity investors. Seminars for entrepreneurs and venture capitalists will focus on various aspects of the venture capital industry. For more information visit www.flvencap.org and click on the forum event calendar or contact Robin Kovaleski [email protected] or Pat Schneider [email protected] or call 813-335-8116.