Seminar Agenda
- 8:30 a.m.
- Registration and refreshments
Forum Hall, lower level
- 9:00 a.m.
- Welcome and opening remarks
M. Duane Nellis, Provost, Kansas State University
- 9:30 a.m.
- Entrepreneurial Leadership: Creating a Culture of Opportunity
Jeffrey Stamp, Chair of Entrepreneurship and Innovation,
University of North Dakota, Fargo, N. D.
- 10:30 a.m.
- Break
- 10:45 a.m.
- From the Boardroom to You — panel discussion tying entrepreneurial ideas to everyday life
Facilitator: Jeffrey Stamp
- Panelists:
- M. Duane Nellis, representing Entrepreneurship in Education
- David Dreiling, founder and owner, GTM Sportswear, Inc., Manhattan, Kan., representing Entrepreneurship in Business
- Cy Moyer, farmer, businessman, and community development volunteer highly involved in "Discover Phillips County," from Phillipsburg, Kan., representing Entrepreneurship in Community.
- David Procter, Director of the K-State Center for Engagement and Community Development, representing Social Entrepreneurship
- 11:45 a.m.
- Buffet lunch (included in registration)
- Celebrating Entrepreneurship at K-State
Vincent Amanor-Boadu, Professor of Agribusiness in the Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture
- Stephen A. Dyer, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
- 1:15 p.m.
- Choose one of four sessions to learn more - or try out - the creative entrepreneurial process:
- Entrepreneurship in Academia
Facilitated by Sue Maes, Interim Dean of the Division of Continuing Education and featuring Virginia Moxley, Dean of the College of Human Ecology, and Fred Cholick, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of K-State Research and Extension
- Entrepreneurship in Business
Facilitated by Jeffrey Stamp
- Entrepreneurship in Community
Facilitated by Ron Wilson, director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development, and featuring Shelly Buhler, Rossville, Kan., community volunteer and current chairwoman of the Shawnee County Commission; Cy Moyer, Phillipsburg, Kan., representing Discover Phillips County; and Jim Davis, Hutchinson, Kan., representing the Reno County 2020 Growth Coalition, Inc.
- Social Entrepreneurship
Facilitated by David Procter
- 2:15 p.m.
- Break
- 2:30 p.m.
- Greensburg, Kan.: When change isn't a choice
- Carmen Stauth, Greensburg resident, K-State Research and Extension Agricultural and Natural Resources agent in Kiowa County, and Extension spokesperson following the tornado
- Darin Headrick, Greensburg resident and USD 422 superintendent
- Kim Gamble, Greensburg resident, community volunteer, business owner, farm wife and mother
- 3:00 p.m.
- Summing It Up
Jeffrey Stamp
- 3:15 p.m.
- Break
- 3:30 p.m.
- Provost's Lecture Series – Forum Hall
- Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Mindset
Jeffry Timmons, Professor at Babson College, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, Babson Park, Mass.