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SUMMARY:** POSTPONED ** The Global Ambassadors Program
DESCRIPTION:A Vital Voices & Bank of America Partnership\n\n New York City\, USA\, Mon 4th to Fri 8th May\, 2020  \n The Global Ambassadors Program (GAP) is designed for women entrepreneurs and social  entrepreneurs – providing mentorship\, training and a network of support to help grow your business and your personal development. The program includes one-on-one mentoring sessions and strategic workshops focused on building organizational management\, financial acumen and leadership skills.  \n The program is a partnership between Vital Voices\, a leading NGO in women’s leadership and development and Bank of America\, based on a shared belief in the need to invest in women who are creating economic and social progress around the world.  \n The Global Ambassadors Program will take place from 4th to 8th May 2020 in New York City and will focus on women who are providing solutions to climate change and environmental sustainability such as renewable energy\, the reduction of greenhouse gases\, zero-waste products\, climate-resilient food production etc. \n For more information\, please contact: Zoë Dean-Smith\, Vice President of Economic Empowerment & Entrepreneurship at zoedean-smith@vitalvoices.org or (+1) 202.296.2735 \n Learn more about the Global Ambassadors Program \n  \n 
URL:https://www.ceg.org/event/global-ambassadors-program/
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SUMMARY:Webinar 5: Alternative Healthcare Funding for Employers with 20 - 20\,000 Employees. Bending Cost Curves Without Breaking Employees' Backs
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free webinar series offering insight on the \n COVID-19 pandemic’s affect on business and how we can move past it. \n\nNo cost to attend; please RSVP below.\n If you are unable to join\, select webinars will be recorded and available on our website. \n\n\n \nDate: Tuesday\, May 5 | 10:00 – 11:00am\n Presented by: Kurt Jaeger\, RHU\, ChHC\, Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer and Tom Healy\, CSFS\, Sr. Account Executive & Director of Product Development\, Jaeger & Flynn Associates\n  \nProgram Description:\n Since adding their “JFA Flex” suite of consumer driven healthcare accounts offerings in 2004\, JFA has evolved into being a market leader in upstate New York in the flexible spending account\, healthcare reimbursement arrangement\, health savings account\, and self-insured health and dental insurance plans markets\, as well as the self-insured health insurance plans markets. With over 300 employers and 40\,000 employees served\, including over 200 businesses with over 7\,000 employees utilizing health savings accounts\, JFA has saved their clients and client employees’ millions in health insurance premiums as well as state and federal business and personal taxes with the many creative health plan designs they administer. Join JFA’s Kurt Jaeger and Tom Healy as their provide an overview of the strategic approaches available to businesses from small to large\, and the cost reductions that can be realized from going down these paths (or further down those paths for those who may already taken a step or two in those directions). \nAbout Jaeger & Flynn:\n From their offices in Clifton Park\, Saratoga Springs\, and Glens Falls\, NY as well as their representatives in North Carolina and Florida\, JFA’s 85+ team members provide a full spectrum of products and services to their over 600 business clients with employees working across the U.S. and Canada. JFA’s broker\, consultant\, and administrative services offerings include insured and self-insured health and dental insurance; ancillary and voluntary employee benefits; HR consulting; wellness program support\, property & casualty insurance; and consumer driven healthcare accounts\, COBRA\, retiree\, and absence management administrative services. In addition to helping clients find innovative approaches to benefits cost control and reduction\, we also specialize in employee communication\, education and engagement through online benefits administration and HCM systems options\, customized videos\, worksite meetings and webinars. JFA’s cloud-based Human Capital Management (HCM) and TPA systems help their clients reduce the traditional “backroom” transactional workloads\, saving HR and accounting teams both time and money.
URL:https://www.ceg.org/event/webinar-5-alternative-healthcare-funding-employers-20-20000-employees-bending-cost-curves-without-breaking-employees-backs/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200506T083000
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SUMMARY:Webinar 6: Managing our Implicit Bias During Crisis: Why it is harder and what to do about it
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free webinar series offering insight on the \n COVID-19 pandemic’s affect on business and how we can move past it. \n\nNo cost to attend; please RSVP below.\n If you are unable to join\, webinars will be recorded and available on our website. \n\n\n \nDate: Tuesday\, May 6 | 8:30 – 9:30am\n Presented by: LB Hannahs\, Ph.D\, Inclusion Development Strategist\, Tangible Development \nProgram Description:\n Implicit biases are the unconscious positive or negative preferences for individuals or groups shaped through your individual experiences. The information\, attitudes\, and stereotypes that inform your unconscious dictate how you take the mental shortcuts required to process the abundance of information you receive at any given second. Managing our implicit biases requires work and daily practice to avoid acting on implicit bias. In moments of crisis the skills we use to manage implicit bias can be overrun by anxiety and stress. In this session\, participants will learn how stress and anxiety impact our ability to manage our implicit bias.  Facilitators from Tangible Development will provide tools and strategies for navigating potential mental traps that could lead to an increase in implicit bias based behaviors and decision-making. \nAbout Tangible Development:   \nBased in Latham\, New York\, we provide full-service customized diversity\, equity\, and inclusion solutions with measurable outcomes resulting in sustainable change. \nOur vision is to ignite individual potential\, humanize business\, and transform organizations. Our work is about real people\, authentic conversations about critical issues\, and innovative solutions that have tangible impacts
URL:https://www.ceg.org/event/webinar-6-managing-implicit-bias-crisis-harder/
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SUMMARY:Food for Thought #1 Virtual Series: Intellectual Property & Trademark
DESCRIPTION:The Manufacturing Incubator at Tech Valley Center of Gravity is pleased to announce “Food for Thought\,” our new business & product development virtual luncheon series.  \nIntellectual Property attorneys David P. Miranda and Matt Hulihan of Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti will discuss the basics of intellectual property law including patent\, copyright\, trademark and trade secret\, and how to protect and enforce one’s intellectual property. \nThe format will be an informal discussion\, with audience question and answer.  \nThe first restaurant to be highlighted will be Muddaddy Flats at 49 Third Street in Troy\, NY. Muddaddy Flats is a fast-casual eat-in\, takeout and delivery quesadillary with unique and delicious quesadillas\, tacos\, and bowls. Open Monday through Saturday from 11am to 8pm\, they offer variety of tortillas\, sweets\, and gluten-free options as well as choose-your-own ingredient meals. To order from Food for Thought #1’s featured restaurant\, go to muddaddlyflats.com. \nMeeting information will be sent to you on the evening before the event. \n  \nREGISTER HERE>> \n 
URL:https://www.ceg.org/event/food-thought-1-virtual-series-intellectual-property-trademark/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200506T140000
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SUMMARY:Understanding the implications of COVID-19 on the insurance industry: An update from Chief Economist Diane Swonk
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Grant Thornton\n  \nRecent events spurred by COVID-19 have created a new environment for the insurance industry. Understanding the economic impacts to the insurance industry\, specifically as it relates to evaluating pandemic risk\, understanding the tax implications of the CARES Act\, and driving business digitally can be challenging. Join our webcast featuring Grant Thornton’s Chief Economist\, Diane Swonk\, to learn about overall economic updates\, as well as a deep dive into the solutions and tactics to support the efforts of insurance businesses today.  \nSpeakers:\n\nDiane Swonk\, Chief Economist\nJohn Forni\, Insurance Practice Tax Lead\nAndree Bourgon\, Insurance Practice Strategy & Growth Lead\nJohn Swanick\, Insurance Practice Risk Lead\n\n\n More info/Registration >>\n 
URL:https://www.ceg.org/event/understanding-implications-covid-19-insurance-industry-update-chief-economist-diane-swonk/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200506T140000
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SUMMARY:Navigating Challenges and Opportunities in COVID-19 Grants Management
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Grant Thornton\n  \nOver the past month\, Congress approved unprecedented funding to support the nation’s medical and economic recovery from COVID-19. This funding delivers a range of relief\, including vital equipment\, services\, and loans to businesses across the country. It also provides grant funding through programs managed by multiple Federal agencies and designed to benefit a diverse set of recipients/programs.  \nAs agencies quickly shift to manage and distribute new levels of grant funding\, how prepared are grant makers and recipients to manage the funds and track performance? Do their stakeholders and potential sub-recipients understand the process\, from eligibility through reporting? What challenges are state and local governments in particular facing?  \nSpeakers:\n\nWendy-Morton Huddleston\, Principal\, Grant Thornton\nMerril Oliver\, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer\, eCivis\nDavid Barth\, Director\, Grant Thornton\n\n\n More info/Registration >>\n 
URL:https://www.ceg.org/event/navigating-challenges-opportunities-covid-19-grants-management/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200512T100000
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SUMMARY:Webinar 7: Extraordinary Resolve: How Capital Region leaders have positively disrupted the crisis
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free webinar series offering insight on the \n COVID-19 pandemic’s affect on business and how we can move past it. \n\nNo cost to attend; please RSVP below.\n If you are unable to join\, webinars will be recorded and available on our website. \n\n\n \nDate: Tuesday\, May 12 | 10:00 – 11:00am\n Presented by: Catharine Potvin of Stragility & CEG \nProgram Description:\n  \nMoving through this pandemic has been challenging for most businesses. Developing an offensive mindset that allows you to discover and implement new opportunities even during a tumultuous time is more important now than ever. Join this live panel discussion to hear the stories\, experiences and lessons learned of these Capital Region leaders as to how they have made positive\, forward-thinking changes in their organizations to succeed now and in the future.  \n\n\n About the Panelists: \nAndrea Crisafulli\n Andrea Crisafulli is Owner and President of Crisafullli Bros. Plumbing and Heating\, Contractors\, Inc.\, a NYS Certified WBE\, Mechanical Contracting company\, in Albany NY. Andrea is a member of the Women’s Presidents Organization\, the National Key 4Women Advisory Board\, an Albany Colonie Regional Chamber Board Member and several trade specific associations. Crisafulli Bros. has been voted Best Plumbing Company in the Times Union Readers Poll each year since 2007 and earns their place each year in the Top Mechanical Contractors list. \n  \nJoan Hayner\n Joan Hayner is the COO of Community Care Physicians\, a multispeciality medical group practice.  \n  \nDarrin Jahnel\n Darrin Jahnel is the co-founder and CEO of the Jahnel Group\, a 80-person software consulting company based in Schenectady\, NY. We develop web-based software applications that help businesses get things done more efficiently. Sometimes we design and build an entire application\, other times we augment a pre-existing team. Either way\, we’re maniacally focused on adding value for our clients and creating an amazing workplace for our employees. Whether you’re looking to scale your existing development team or you want to outsource an entire software project\, Jahnel Group can help. We have a proven track record of completing projects on time and within budget. \nDavid Dussault\n Passionate Founder CEO leading a growing\, diversified industrial engineering\, manufacturing and supply chain company. We are a values-driven business\, with an inspiring vision to Revitalize American Manufacturing Through Entrepreneurship. A core component to our growth strategy is utilizing our core capabilities (engineering+operations+supply chain) to actively launch new internally cultivated start-ups with key partners. We have launched two new ventures in 2017/2018 and intend to launch one per year. As a Founder CEO\, I am an accomplished visionary\, team builder\, strategist\, cultural architect and leader. My greatest strength is leading in an operational context with strong culture and strategy. I am a partner in a venture development company that is dedicated to building transformational companies with mission-driven Leaders and we are actively adding to our portfolio. We take a “nurturing” approach and engage operationally and strategically with leadership teams.\n  \nAbout the Moderator: \nCatharine Potvin\n Catharine E. Potvin is a NYS Certified WBE that works with forward-thinking leaders to achieve traction in their business by developing a simplified strategic plan that keeps the organization focused on achieving short and long term goals. With over two decades of strategic planning experience in a variety of leadership positions in the private and non-profit sectors\, Catharine is a trusted advisor on strategy\, leadership\, plan implementation and accountability. Catharine and her team are regularly sought out by business owners and executive teams to advance their companies to the next level of achievement. Her energy\, authenticity and healthy dose of humor sets her apart as well as her focused approach on achieving results.  Her unique and customizable solutions-based methodology is applicable across industries and accommodates organizations of all sizes.  \n 
URL:https://www.ceg.org/event/webinar-7-extraordinary-resolve-capital-region-leaders-positively-disrupted-crisis/
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SUMMARY:Which privacy framework is right for you? A comparison of NIST\, ISO/IEC 27701 & ISO/IEC 27018
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Grant Thornton\n  \n\n  \n  \nDescribe the NIST Privacy Framework\, ISO/IEC 27001\, and ISO/IEC 27018  \nIdentify the benefits and use cases for the NIST Privacy Framework\, ISO/IEC 27701\, and ISO/IEC 27018  \nApply how each framework can be implemented or leveraged within your organization  \nSpeakers:\n\nFiona Ren\, Experienced Manager\nGabrielle Eberhardt\, Senior Associate\n\n\n  More info/Registration >>\n 
URL:https://www.ceg.org/event/privacy-framework-right-comparison-nist-isoiec-27701-isoiec-27018/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200519T140000
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SUMMARY:Emerging Developments in International Tax
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Grant Thornton\n  \nJoin our webcast and learn about the latest international tax developments and significant tax issues that can affect your business\, including international tax aspects of the CARES Act\, OECD guidance on mobility and recent regulatory developments. Our team of tax professionals will discuss what these new developments mean for your business in the current climate. The regulatory discussion will focus on areas such as the final regulations under Sections 267A\, final regulations under Section 901(m)\, select foreign tax credit issues\, as well as transfer pricings and VAT developments.  \nSpeakers:\n\nDavid Sites\, National Managing Partner\, International Tax Services\, Washington National Tax Office\nDavid Zaiken\, Managing Director\, Washington National Tax Office\nSteve Wrappe\, Managing Director\, Washington National Tax Office\nFrank Sangster\, Managing Director\, Philadelphia\nCory Perry\, Senior Manager\, Washington National Tax Office\nMike Del Medico\, Manager\, Washington National Tax Office\nYasmin Dirks\, Manager\, Washington National Tax Office\n\n\n More info/Registration >>\n 
URL:https://www.ceg.org/event/emerging-developments-international-tax/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200519T160000
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SUMMARY:May VIRTUAL VentureB Presentation Event
DESCRIPTION:CEG coaches entrepreneurs in creating & delivering a presentation resulting in an open public pitch to regional investors & business leaders. \n  \nJoin us for a VentureB Virtual Presentation on Tuesday\, May 19th.   \n\n\nFeaturing Presentations by:  Gyvlink & EverHome Care Advisors\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nAgenda:\n4:00 – 4:10pm | Welcome & Panel Introductions: Michael Lobsinger\, CEG\n4:10 – 4:55pm | Presentations by Lou Pierro (EverHome) & Devvan Stokes (Gyvlink)\n5:00 – 5:35pm | Transition to Breakout Sessions (15 min each)\n5:40 – 5:45pm | Closing \n\nVirtual Panelists:\n1.  Anthony DeBonis\, President\, Troy Web Consulting\n2.  Tamika Otis\, Director\, KeyBank Business Boost & Build\, NY\n3.  Jackson Feder\, Investor\, Armory Square Ventures  \n\nAbout the presenting companies:  \nEverHome Care Advisors: ApolloCare\, LLC delivers to the consumer\, products and services that transform the home into a life-long environment in which to thrive during every stage of aging. Through EverHome Care Advisors\, experienced care managers provide a client-driven care coordination model that integrates in-home assessments\, plan implementation and monitoring. \nGyvlink: Hardships arise from many areas- from unpredictable fires & floods to seasonal needs for cold weather clothing\, boots & school supplies. Gyvlink makes it easy for your organization to highlight that need as a gift registry\, preserve the privacy of the recipient\, and share that verified need within minutes with your community. \n  \n  \n\nRegistration in advance is required for this event.  After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.  \n  \nVentureB is a quarterly program presented by the Center for Economic Growth (CEG) designed for entrepreneurs to gain visibility to the region’s angel and institutional investors\, business service providers\, advisers\, students\, faculty\, alumni and the early stage business community. \n 
URL:https://www.ceg.org/event/may-virtual-ventureb/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200521T120000
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SUMMARY:A Very Special BizLab-Clarkson Lunchtime Entrepreneurship Series - Part II
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, May 21 we will be hosting a very special virtual BizLab-Clarkson Lunch. The fact is\, we miss these monthly get-togethers. So we decided to check in with past BizLab-Clarkson speakers and hear from them and hear how they are leading in the midst of the #coronavirus crisis. \nJoin us when we launch the video on Thursday\, May 21\, 2020 on our YouTube channel and our Facebook page. That’s when our next BizLab-Clarkson lunch would have been. So\, grab a sandwich\, some chips\, veggies\, a soda or water\, sit back and enjoy. Hopefully\, you’ll be encouraged by this conversation that we held recently. \nJoining us on this panel are: \n* Lisa Avila of Kitware \n* Antonio Civitella of Transfinder and the New York BizLab \n* Dan Pickett of aptihealth inc. (former CEO of nfrastructure) \n* Craig Skevington of STEADfast IT and FMT \nThis discussion is moderated by Rick D’Errico\, the BizLab’s managing director and Transfinder’s director of public relations. \n  \n\n  \n 
URL:https://www.ceg.org/event/a-very-special-bizlab-clarkson-lunchtime-entrepreneurship-series-part-ii/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200528T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200528T150000
DTSTAMP:20260410T063700
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SUMMARY:Modernizing account reconciliation with intelligent process automation
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Grant Thornton\n  \n  \n  \n\nIn the wake of COVID-19\, illustrate the key concepts of account reconciliation that have an immediate impact for modern finance \nRecognize optimal accounts and rules to apply when automating the account reconciliation process \nDefine a reconciliation approach that addresses the current situational requirements and also meets the standards for compliance \nIdentify leading automation tools and considerations for choosing the right technology for your organization \n\n  \nSpeakers: \n\nJoseph Coniker\, Principal\nKevin Nodler\, Director\nSammy Haddad\, Director\n\n\n More info/Registration >>
URL:https://www.ceg.org/event/modernizing-account-reconciliation-intelligent-process-automation/
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