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Coastal Social 2010

September 29, Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge Social Media Club, the official social media networking and professional development organization for Baton Rouge, will host “Coastal Social” at the Baton Rouge River Center. Coastal Social 2010 is a one-day social media summit featuring social media elites from around North America including Julien Smith, New York Times Best Selling Author of “Trust Agents.” For more information, visit coastalsocial.com.

First Annual Green Legal Matters Conference "Green Cities, Business and Beyond"

October 13-15, New Orleans
New Orleans Convention Company, Inc. and the Alchemy Group, Inc. today announced the First Annual Green Legal Matters Conference "Green Cities, Business and Beyond,” held at the Westin New Orleans Canal Place. This conference is an innovative and timely opportunity to participate in cutting edge dialogue among government representatives; law firms/law departments, real estate, construction, architectural and engineering professionals and green business owners on emerging issues in the green sector of the economy. Conference tracks will include Sustainable Business; Legal; Green Economic Development; and Smart Cities. For more information, visit greenlegalmatters.com.

Centrallia 2010

October 20-22, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
The International Center of the Lafayette Consolidated Government is cordially inviting the private sector to be part of its delegation to Centrallia 2010, a conference offering small- to medium-sized companies the chance to network and develop partnerships with other enterprises from around the world. Centrallia will bring together over 500 companies from all parts of the world, resulting in some 3,000 one-on-one scheduled meetings. To facilitate communication, interpretation services will be available in French, English and Spanish. Ideal candidates for this conference include businesses looking to export or import in the following industries: advanced manufacturing, transportation and logistics, transportation equipment, manufacturing, aerospace, life sciences and biotechnology, information and communications, technology, film, new media, gaming and the arts, tourism, energy and environmental industries, building products and mining and minerals. For more information on this event, please contact Le Centre International de Lafayette at (337) 291-5474 or lecentre@lafayetteLA.gov, or visit centrallia.com.

New Orleans Investment Conference

October 27-30, New Orleans
The 37th annual New Orleans Investment Conference at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside features a blockbuster agenda with some of the biggest names in economics, geopolitics and investing. This year’s conference will include a special “Summit on America’s Future” — an elite panel featuring Newt Gingrich, Charles Krauthammer, Dick Armey and Robert Ringer. For a complete agenda, list of speakers, exhibiting companies and other conference information, visit neworleansconference.com, or call the New Orleans Investment Conference at 800-648-8411.

BizTech Expo

October 6-7, Baton Rouge
Join Business Report for the annual BizTech Expo from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Baton Rouge River Center. There will be a Top 100 luncheon held on Wednesday October 6, and the Louisiana Leadership Forum on Thursday October 7. Contact Valerie Huntley at vhuntley@businessreport.com for more information. For more information about the BizTech Expo, click here.

1012 Corridor Weekly

Corridor dominates fastest-growing firms list

All but one of the 41 Louisiana firms that made this year’s Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America are along the 10/12 corridor.

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