Aspiring and Existing Veteran Business Owners
2013 Summer Speaker Series via Webinar
Los Angeles SBA District Office hosts 2nd Annual Summer Speaker Series featuring private sector, government, higher education & non-profit business resources

LOS ANGELES – Aspiring and existing veteran business owners around Southern California are invited to participate in an upcoming Summer Speaker Series via webinar. This webinar series is also open to all veteran and military technical assistant providers who would like to learn about various veteran business resources.
The Summer Speaker Series will feature a variety of topics presented by: industry experts, government small business advisors, higher education program directors and non-profit executives who will speak on their subject matter expertise – all of them focusing on aspiring and existing veteran business owners.
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| WHAT: | “Veteran Business Webinar - 2013 Summer Speaker Series" |
| WHO: | WEEKLY GUEST SPEAKER |
| WHEN: | Wednesday, June 5, 2013 -- 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. PST |
| HOW: | Connect to weekly webinars at: https://connect16.uc.att.com/sba/meet/?ExEventID=84148387 |
| NOTE: | Webinars are online and via telephone and allow two-way communication between presenter and attendee. You will be asked to input your name and email address then AT&T Teleconference program will request a phone number to call you. |
- TBD, Social Media (June 5)
- Tina Kapral, Institute of Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University/UCLA Anderson School of Business (June 12 – Veteran Business Education)
- Larry Broughton, former Special Forces, Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur (June 19 – Motivational Speaker)
- Noah Harris, Veteran Business Outreach Center (June 26 – Veteran Business Technical Assistance)
- TBD, Lender (July 10 – Access to Capital)
- David Poulin, U.S. Department of Labor (July 17 - Veteran Employment Training for Small Business)
- Debbie Cabreira-Johnson, LA County and SBA Procurement Technical Assistance Center (July 24 – Government Contracting Assistance)
- TBD, Microlender (July 31 – Access to Capital)
- Pam Smith-Cressel, General Services Administration (August 7 – Government Contracting)
- Susan Lamping, CDC Small Business Finanance (August 14 – Access to Capital)
- Vic Scimo, FranNet of Southern California (August 21 – Veteran Friendly Franchising)
- Mark Steiner, MA Steiner Construction (August 28 – Veteran Business Owner and Success Story)