Louisiana Looking Up! 2007

When: Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007, 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Where: Lod Cook Alumni Center, 3838 West Lakeshore Dr., Baton Rouge

Cost: $40 - $50

Age limit: 18+

Categories: Lectures

Description: Louisiana Looking Up! 2007, an annual afternoon business seminar, sponsored by the LSU Flores MBA Alumni Association – Louisiana Chapter will be held Thursday, September 13, 2007 at the Lod Cook Alumni Center from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The theme of this year’s event is "Celebration of Entrepreneurship in Louisiana".

Rolfe McCollister, publisher of the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report will be
moderator.

This year’s exchange of new business ideas will be segmented into two panel presentations
– "Getting Started and Overcoming Adversity" and "Going National
and Going Global"

Panelists include David Blossman, CEO of Abita Brewing Company; Boysie Bollinger,
CEO of Bollinger Shipyards; Louis DeAngelo, CEO of DeAngelo’s Pizzeria Company; Chris Ferrara, CEO of Ferrara Fire Apparatus David Fluker, president of Fluker Farms; John Douthat, CEO of AllBrands; and Chris Russo Blackwood, publisher of InRegister magazine.

LSU Chancellor Sean O’Keefe and Mark Weaver, director of the Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute, will serve as featured speakers.

A cocktail reception will follow the event.

All proceeds will be used to meet the LSU Flores MBA Alumni Association’s scholarship pledge to the E.J. Ourso College of Business

Cost for the event is $40 for members of the MBAAA and $50 for non-members. Corporate sponsorship opportunities for Louisiana Looking Up! 2007 are available as well.

Contact Michele Avery at mavery@laporte.com for registration and/or sponsorship information.

http://www.bus.lsu.edu/alumni/mbalouisiana/lalookingup/LLU2007.asp