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Out For Business


Join LGBT entrepreneurs, business leaders, corporate decision makers, state and local LGBT chamber representatives and experts at the NGLCC's 5th Annual National Business and Leadership Conference: Out for Business!

Sessions will include:
  • Getting to Yes: How to Win the Contract
  • LGBT Supplier Diversity: Bringing Parity to Your Corporate Diversity Practices 
  • Strategic Growth & Development: Taking Your Business to the Next Level
  • LGBT Business and the 2008 Election: Why You Should Care
  • Women's Business Initiative: Women Leaders Roundtable
  • Perfecting Your Elevator Pitch
  • And Much More!

The preliminary agenda for the 2008 National Business & Leadership Conference is now available! Click here for more information!



Accommodation





The luxurious Hilton Minneapolis will host the NGLCC 2008 National Business & Leadership Conference. Click here for room and booking information. 


 

Conference Registration


Register now and save $50 with the NGLCC/Intel Business Development Scholarship!


For the last four years, Intel, an NGLCC Founding Corporate Partner, has helped make attending the NGLCC National Conference more affordable and accessible thorough a generous scholarship contribution. Register now and take advantage of this wonderful opportunity! Click here for a full list of registration packages.







Exhibit Space and Advertising


We invite you to connect with the nation's top corporations and business leaders! Don't miss this opportunity to "Make the Connection" at the NGLCC 2008 Marketplace Expo. This event will allow certified LGBT businesses and those considering certification as an LGBT business enterprise the opportunity to meet one-on-one with decision makers from corporations and government entities. Take advantage of this opportunity to gain valuable insights into bidding for contracts and to build relationships with supplier diversity professionals. Time is money and this will be time well spent!

Exhibitors will receive one full conference registration with purchase of exhibit space.

Click here to view Exhibit and Advertising information for the 2008 National Business & Leadership Conference

Plan to reserve early, as space is limited. "Make the Connection" will be centrally located in the hotel in close proximity to Conference Check-In and Registration. 



Flights and Travel


We are pleased to announce that American Airlines is the official airline carrier of the 2008 NGLCC National Business and Leadership Conference: Out for Business!

To fly with American Airlines and receive discounted flights, click here.






What is the Spoon and Cherry?


The centerpiece of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, and an icon of the city, is the Spoonbridge & Cherry Water Fountain.

Created by famed sculpture artists Claes Oldenburg and his wife and collaborator Coosje van Bruggen, the utensil emerged - in humorously gigantic scale - as the theme of the Minneapolis project. Van Bruggen contributed the cherry as a playful reference to the Garden's formal geometry, which reminded her of Versailles and the exaggerated dining etiquette Louis XIV imposed there. She also conceived the pond's shape in the form of linden seed. (Linden trees are planted along the allees that stretch before the fountain.)


The complex fabrication of the 5,800 pound spoon and 1,200 pound cherry was carried out at two shipbuilding yards in New England. The sculpture has become a beloved icon in the Garden, whether glaceed with snow in the Minnesota winters or gleaming in the warmer months, with water flowing over the surface of the cherry and a fine mist rising from its stem.


There are over 40 sculptures in the garden but the Spoonbridge & Cherry remains one of Mnineapolis' top attractions. The Sculpture Garden is an 11 acre park in Minneapolis and claims to be the largest of its kind in the country.

To learn more about Minneapolis, please visit our Minneapolis Information Page.



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