AZIGG Events
Monthly AZIGG events provide information and resources for Arizona-based business owners as they look to grow globally. Our meetings are typically on the first Monday of the month, but please check out our blog site for the latest information http://growglobally.blogspot.com/ or www.growthnation.com/azigg/upcoming-events.
Previous AZIGG Events
Read more about past AZIGG events at the Grow Globally blog or at the Arizona International Growth Group Facebook page <Click Here>. Also see the summary below.
December 5, 2011: “Arizona-Mexico Business Opportunities”
November 7, 2011: “A Most Interesting Global Journey (Rowpar)”
October 3, 2011: “Grow Globally Phoenix Fair III”
September 12, 2011: “Grow Globally, Responsibly (Freeport McMoRan)”
August 1, 2011: “Green, Global and Greek” Annual Luncheon at Greekfest
June 6, 2011: “AZIGG International State of the State”
April 28, 2011: “Homerun Networking, D-backs vs. Cubs” w/ CEO-CFO Group
April 4, 2011: “International Logistics”
March 7, 2011: “Cross Cultural Success”
February 7, 2011: “Cold Weather, Hot Business: Arizona-Canada”
January 19, 2011: “World Trade Forum III”
December 1st,
2010: “Global Arizona 100”
This
special event brought together Arizona leaders to assess the state’s
strengths and identify concrete steps to enhance the state’s global
competitiveness. The conference employed interactive discussions, panels,
and action groups to help set the agenda and better position Arizona for
global readiness as it approaches its 2012 centennial. Doug Bruhnke of
AZIGG was a moderator. Two keynote speakers were James Fallows and Clyde
Prestowitz. The half-day event was sponsored by Science Foundation Arizona
and presented by ASU Morrison Institute for Public Policy.
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October 26th, 2010: “AZIGG Grow Globally Phoenix Fair”, the 2nd Annual Special Signature Event. It featured 230+ top global executives in Phoenix. The AZIGG Grow Globally Phoenix Fair is a unique walking tour of global business, organization and government resources - all together in one place one time a year. It’s a “Who’s Who” of global business in Arizona. Thank you to our host Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., the top international law firm in Arizona, for hosting the event. Click here for pictures.
September 27th,
2010: “The
September 14th,
2010 – “Iraqi Rule of Law Reform: Untold Reflections of Risk and Promise”,
Featuring Dean Hiram Chodosh, Dean of the University of
August 9th, 2010 – “Bond, James Bond” at Greekfest Restaurant in Phoenix. The topic was global spying and surveillance and featured experts Bill Papazian (Lightstone Solutions), Bill Williams (KDI Systems) and Brett Johnson (Snell & Wilmer).
June 7th, 2010 – “Products the World Wants, from Arizona” at ASU-SkySong.
New product design and development experts Jim Foxworthy, President of Pragmatic Marketing, David Zuckerman, President of Raytech Corporation and Hamid Shojaee, CEO of Axosoft discussed developing new products for the global market.Click Here for Pictures
May 25th,
2010 - “The Green Business Forum: How Arizona Business Is Growing with
Green” at National Bank of Arizona.
Presented by Greater Phoenix SCORE with AZIGG, Arizona Technology Council,
Arizona Chamber, SRP, APS, AZ4Solar and others. The event featured Dr. James
Powers of ilinc, Patrick O’Grady of The Business Journal, Lynn Paige of
Perfect Power, Craig Hughes of Total Transit, Glenn Hamer of the Arizona
Chamber, Steve Zylstra of Arizona Technology Council, Lynn Singleton of SRP,
and many others.
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May 19, 2010 - “Phoenix Forum: Business Beyond Our Borders”, by the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce. Featured Kai Ryssdal, Host of Marketplace; Dr. Angel Cabrera, Thunderbird School of Global Management; Margie Emmermann of Arizona-Mexico Commission and Doug Bruhnke of AZIGG.
April 5, 2010 – “The World’s Data Is Coming to Phoenix: Data Centers in
Arizona”
Rick Crutchley – VP and GM of CoreLink DataCenters
Brad Smidt – Vice President of Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC)
Greg Davit – Channel Business Development Officer of i/o Data Centers
Dave Rice – CEO of TrueCloud
Joe Ingram – Partner at Tenzing Corporation
Sponsored by Snell & Wilmer, ServerLIFT Corporation and SRP
Telecom
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March 1, 2010 – “O Canada. Arizona-Canada Trade Successes and Opportunities”
Glenn Williamson, CEO of NestVentures and Founder/CEO of Canada Arizona
Business Council; Rick Stephenson, Consul and Senior Trade Commissioner of
Consulate of Canada; and Chantal Ramsay, Consul at the Ontario International
Marketing Centre in the Canadian Consulate General
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February 1, 2010 – “Education in Arizona Can Compete Globally If…”
Don Burton, President of Dunlap-Stone and Int’l Import-Export Institute
Special Update on AZ Education by Suzanne Taylor, Sr VP Public Policy, AZ
Chamber
Special Update on Thunderbird School of Global Management by Erin Wilson
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January 11, 2010 – “Manufacturing in Arizona Can Compete Globally If…”
Phil Clouse, President and Stanton Knight, Director of Manufacturing
MTD Products and MTD Southwest, Chandler, Arizona
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December 7,
2009 – “Hola Arizona: Technology Business Accelerator (TechBA)”
Haru Yamasaki, CEO of TechBA,
Hector Correa of
Orinoco Systems. Leonardo Hernandez (Grupo Hergo), Arturo Freydig (ECN
Automation) and Maryanne Weiss (Gustare Ltd and Greater Phoenix SCORE)
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Here for Story and Pictures
November 2, 2009 – “Finding and Serving Clients from Arizona”
Jon Enwiller, Executive Director of The AIT Group, Shashi Jasthi, President
of Solugenix Corporation and Susan Cordts, CEO of Adaptive Technologies, Inc
(ATi)
October 5, 2009 - "Raising Arizona: Growing Globally - A Status Report"
Rod Miller, CEO at The Jiao Group
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September 17-18, 2009 – US-Asia Expo Arizona. Presented at the Camelback
Inn in Scottsdale, Arizona.
August 3, 2009 – Nurturing Sustainability in Arizona: a Panel Discussion
with Bob Shatz, Ron Richman and Rich McKinney (ITDC), Dee Harris (Arizona
Angels) and Chet S. Ross (SCORE).
At Greekfest in Phoenix
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June 26, 2009 – Homerun Networking Event: w/ Phoenix CEO-CFO Group and ACG
Arizona; Featuring Cullen Maxey, SVP of the Arizona Diamondbacks
Arizona Diamondbacks versus Anaheim Angels
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June 1, 2009 - Panel Discussion: Omar Sayed, CEO of Succeed Corporation; Lon
Safko, Author of The Social Media Bible; Vijay Kapoor, CEO of TCC247; Robert
Wilkinson, CEO of Abacus 247
“Growing Globally on the Internet”
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May, 2009 - Panel Discussion: John Balfour, President of Perfect Power;
Patrick O’Grady, Technology Reporter for the Phoenix Business Journal; Chris
Camacho, VP of Business Development for Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC)
“Global Solar in Arizona: The Future’s So Bright, If…”
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April, 2009 - Panel Discussion: Norman E. Clarke, Sr. Managing Partner of
Windstone Capital; Carlos Emmermann, International Banking at Sonoran Bank
NA; Chet S. Ross, Director of SCORE Arizona and Chair, Greater Phoenix
SCORE; and Sy Rotter, Founder and President of Washington Liason Office
“Funding Your Global Growth”
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March, 2009 - Jeff Morhet, Chairman and CEO of InNexus Biotechnology
“Building Biotech: The Science of Doing Business Internationally”
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February, 2009 - Colin Christie, CEO of MxSecure
”Doing Business in Asia: Crossing the Cultural Divide”
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January, 2009 - “AZIGG Global Business Fair”
A unique walking tour of local government and business resources that help
companies grow globally. Hosted by Squire, Sanders and Dempsey L.L.P.
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December, 2008 - Panel discussion featuring 5 top executives: Dave Rice, CEO
of TrueCloud, Abhay Jajoo, Managing Director of Eupath, Cliff Schertz,
President and CEO of Tiempo Development, Sharad Mankapure, Director of
BizLogic Technologies and Sarit Kommineni, CEO of SLK Holdings
”Scaling Your Business Internationally”
November, 2008 - Panel Discussion: Jon Hobgood (Honeywell) and faculty and
management from Thunderbird School of Global Management
“Education Supports International Growth”
Joint Program with the Phoenix Alumni Chapter of the Thunderbird
October, 2008 - Rod Miller, Vice President of International Economic
Development
Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC)
“Annual State of the State – How Are We Doing Internationally"”
Click here for Rod’s Presentation.
August, 2008 - Panel Discussion: Gunnar Light (Melbourne IT), Oystein Konsmo
(The York Group) and Joe Gold, Global Sales Exec
“Growing
Sales Globally – The Ins, Outs and In-Betweens”
Location: Headquarters of Kahala Corporation, Scottsdale
July, 2008 - Derrick Hall, President of the Arizona Diamondbacks
Networking with the Diamondbacks at Chase Field
June, 2008 - Panel Discussion: Omar Sayed (Succeed), Steve Hill (Kyocera
Solar) and Niels Chris Jorgensen (Center for Modern Design)
“Going Global: Risks and Rewards”
Joint Program with the Scottsdale Chamber
May, 2008 - John Barry, Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport
“Here’s How Arizona Can Win Globally”
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April, 2008 - Roger Philips, Concordia University
Author of Guide to Software Export: A Handbook for International Sales
“Growing Your Business Internationally: Where Do I Start"”
March, 2008 - Panel Discussion on Creating Cross-Cultural Success
Lisa Koss, International Advantage
Dr. Jean McFarland, Fifth Dimension Strategies
Cory Kahabka, Absotively
“Establishing a Great Company Culture for International Success”
February, 2008 - Susan Shultz, Global Practice Leader – Board of Directors
Practice, Partner,Oakbridge inc./SSA Executive Search International Ltd
Board Chair, Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations
CEO, The Board Institute
“Creating Global Connections for Success”
January, 2008 - Omar Sayed, Founder and CEO
Succeed Corporation (#50 fastest-growing US company in Inc.500)
”You Can Succeed in Arizona – A Global Story”
December, 2007 - Donna Kent, Senior Vice President of Global Services
Televerde
”Growing Beyond Our Borders”
Click here for Donna Kent’s Presentation
November, 2007 - Lee Knowlton, President of International
Kahala Corp
”The Why and How of Going International”
October, 2007 - Rod Miller, Vice President of International Economic
Development
Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC)
”Prospects for Future Growth”
Click here for Rod Miller’s Presentation
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