December 13, 2011- MMIC Speaker Series Presents Michael A. Finney-Join us Michael A. Finney of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation

November 15, 2011 - 

October 18, 2011 - MMIC Speaker Series Presents Donna Rae Smith & Chad Cook--Join Donna Rae Smith, CEO and Founder of Bright Side, Inc. and Chad Cook, President of Bright Side, Inc., for a dynamic and interactive presentation on creating and growing a self-renewing business through innovation.

September 20, 2011 - MMIC Speaker Series Presents Terry Cross--

August 16, 2011 - MMIC Speaker Series Presents Tammy Bernier--The Road to Unstoppable. According to Dun and Bradstreet, 33% of new businesses fail in 6 months, 50% within 2 years and 75% within 5 years.  Don’t be one of them!

July 19, 2011 - MMIC Speaker Series Presents Tricia Crivac--Avoiding Common Bookkeeping Mistakes in Small Business.  Trica will share ways to avoid employee misclassification, ensure that your company is handling mileage and auto expenses correctly, and other common mistakes found in small businesses.

June 21, 2011 - MMIC Speaker Series Presents Morrie Stevens--Criteria for Business Success/Survival. Morrie will share his thoughts  on how to incrementally  plan, finance, and grow a new business into a successful enterprise using his experience of 40 years building a local  family moving business into the country’s 8^th largest agent van line.

April 19, 2011 - MMIC Speaker Series Presents Scott Patchin--Resilience is an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change, AND we all know that entrepreneurs need an overabundance of RESILIENCE to last through ups and downs of starting a business.  Join us for lunch and a spirited discussion to understand yourself and how your natural strengths will help you.  Scott Patchin of the trU Group will share his experience based on a successful model created by the US Military.  Learn a fast and easy way for you to leverage the same process and build your own resilience for you and your team.

March 15, 2011 - MMIC Speaker Series Presents Mark Groulx--Join us for a lively discussion on the importance of "Reading Your Market”. ·Mark Groulx, President and founder of Falcon Road Maintenance Equipment, will share his thoughts on creating an unfair competitive advantage.

February 15, 2011 - MMIC Speaker Series Presents David M. Hall--Does your business purchase materials or services? Do you offer goods and services? Are you an entrepreneur or start-up company? If you answered “YES” to any of these questions you should join us at the MidMichigan INNOVATION Center Tuesday February 15^th, 2011 for our lunch time Seminar Series.

January 18, 2011 - MMIC Speaker Series Presents Ken Kousky

November 16, 2010 - MidMichgian Innovators Speaker Series Presents: From Caltech® to Clorox™ - Join Cal Goeders and Cathy Anders, former Managing Directors of Caltech Industries Inc. as they share insights from their journey through stages in the Company’s life cycle - from start up through small business to national scale competition with leading companies to eventual sale of the company to The Clorox Company, a key competitor.  Cal, company founder and general manager from 1980-1997, will share key learning from the formative years; Cathy will share insights from the Company’s rapid growth years.



October 19, 2010 - MidMichigan Innovators Speaker Series - Horror Stories of Intellectual Property

September 21, 2010 -MidMichigan Innovators Speaker Series-Aegis Presented by Curt White, successful founder of AEGIS Environmental. AEGIS’s germ-killing surface treatment, used in a variety of applications from socks to surgical drapes, became the foundation for AEGIS Environmental. Come listen and learn from this amazing 20-year success story of leaving the security of working for a major organization and growing their small start-up company into a global company, and ultimately guiding it right through to the sale of that company.  It’s an entrepreneur’s dream come true and you can hear how they did it, where they got support, how FORTUNE 500 companies, our economic development organizations and the Great Lakes Bay Region supported their efforts.