Tuesday — The Society for Emerging Networkers & Serial Entrepreneurs will hold a pitch night at 7 p.m. at the Lyceum downtown. Panelists will include Todd Graves, founder of Raising Cane’s; Jennifer Fowler of LSU’s Louisiana Business & Technology Center; Terry Jones of Dean Capital; and Eiad Asbahi of Prescience Investment Group. For more information, click here.
Wednesday — The Baton Rouge Association of Women Attorneys will host a judicial forum at noon in the Camelot Club, featuring the four Court of Appeal candidates. Judges John Michael Guidry, Wilson Fields, Toni Higginbotham and Tim Kelley are scheduled to participate. Admission is $30. To RSVP, call 767-1003.
Thursday — The League of Women Voters of Baton Rouge will hold a public forum on the downtown library branch at noon in Drusilla Place. Participants include Library Board member Stan Bardwell, Tom DuBose, a member of the Greater Baton Rouge Federation of Civic and Homeowners Associations and John Barry, president of Citizens for Main Library Independence. Admission is $25. For more information or to register, go to lwvbr@lwvbr.org.
Thursday — The seventh annual Louisiana Looking Up program, which showcases successful entrepreneurs, will be held at 1:30 p.m. at LSU’s Lod Cook Alumni Center. Participants include Randy Ewing, owner and president of Ewing Timber Company; Holly Clegg, president and CEO of Holly Clegg Inc.; Perry Franklin, president of Franklin Industries; Tony Simmons, executive vice president of McIlhenny Company; and Thomas Teepell, chief marketing officer for Lamar Advertising. Louisiana Looking Up is sponsored by the Flores MBA Alumni Association and supported by Baton Rouge Business Report and Stonetrust Commercial Insurance. Admission is $50 for alumni association members and Flores MBA students, $75 for non-members. To register online or for more information, click here.
Thursday — The Power of HOPE, a benefit to help HOPE Ministries, will be held at 7 p.m. at the Baton Rouge Marriott. The event, co-sponsored by Blue Cross of Louisiana, will feature a speech from Liz Murray, who went from homeless teen to Harvard graduate. A Lifetime TV movie has been made about Murray, and she recently published the memoir Breaking Night. Tickets are $50 each. To register or for more information, go to hopebr.org.
Sept. 21 — Bill Leach Jr., chief executive officer and president of TEKton Executive IT Group, will be presenting at LSU Executive Education’s Breakfast to Business at 7:30 a.m. in Café Américain on Jefferson Highway. Registration is $25. For more information or to register, click here.
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