The Business Report calendar is open to events of general interest to the Capital Region business community. Items must be submitted no later than noon the Friday before the event occurs. Email ssanoski@businessreport.com with information.
Tuesday — Tech Tuesday, a networking opportunity for the Baton Rouge area’s technology community, takes place from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Glen’s Bar, 5110 Corporate Blvd. More details and online registration are available here.
Thursday — The 2012 Good Growth Awards Gala, presented by the Baton Rouge Growth Coalition, will be held at the Renaissance Hotel, 7000 Bluebonnet Blvd., beginning at 6 p.m. Cost is $85 per person or $750 for a table of 10. More info and registration are available here.
Thursday, Friday — The second annual Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations Public Policy Institute will be held at the Louisiana State Museum, 660 North Fourth St., in conjunction with the Louisiana Family Impact Seminar, a national model educational series organized locally by the Louisiana Child Poverty Prevention Council and the LSU School of Social Work. The fee for LANO’s Public Policy Institute is $25 for LANO members and $75 for the general public. Online registration, a presentation schedule and a list of speaker bios are all available here. The Family Impact Seminar, scheduled from noon to 4 p.m. on Friday, is free and open to the public.
March 15 — Mass transit will be the topic of discussion at the monthly meeting of the League of Women Voters of Baton Rouge at Drusilla Seafood, 3482 Drusilla Lane, beginning at 11:30 a.m. Cost is $25, with LWVBR members receiving a 20% discount. Reservations are suggested and can be made here.
March 15-16 — The Louisiana Small Business Development Center at Southern University is holding free business development seminars focusing on marketing, international trade and exporting. A “Marketing 101” seminar will take place at 10 a.m. on March 15 at the Louisiana Technology Park, 7117 Florida Blvd. On March 16, the LSBDC will conduct the “Step Up to Exporting Summit” at 9 a.m. in the Global Conference Center, room 313 in T.T. Allain Hall on the Baton Rouge campus. More info and registration are available here.
March 20 — The 29th annual Business Awards & Hall of Fame banquet, presented by Business Report and Junior Achievement, will be held at 7 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 4728 Constitution Ave. Individual tickets are $80, and tables for 10 are available. Register online here.
March 22 — SeNSE hosts a special film industry pitch night event from 6-8 p.m., during which three area entrepreneurs will each have 10 minutes to pitch their respective business plans to a panel of judges and a live audience. Complete details and submission info are available here.
March 22 — BRSocMe, or the Baton Rouge Social Media Association, holds its monthly meeting at noon at the Louisiana Technology Park, 7117 Florida Blvd. Robin Schooling, vice president of human resources at the Louisiana Lottery Corporation, is guest speaker. Lunch will be provided and is free for professional level members, $5 for nonmembers.
March 22 — A public hearing will be held by the Louisiana Workforce Commission at 9 a.m. at the LWC Administrative Office Auditorium, 1001 N. 23rd St., to announce substantive changes to the proposed utilization review rules for workers’ compensation. The proposed amendment to the utilization review rules will establish the process and procedures by which utilization review is conducted in light of the recently enacted state laws mandating the use of a medical treatment schedule.
March 22 — The LSU College of Education Department of Kinesiology and the LSU Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs will present “Healthy Community Design: A Local Policy Playbook for Health, Economics and the Environment” from 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the Holliday Forum of the Manship School of Mass Communication on campus. The event is free. For more information contact the College of Education Department of Kinesiology at 578-2913.
March 22-23 — The LSU Law Center will host the 59th annual Mineral Law Institute, featuring keynote speaker John Hofmeister—founder and CEO of Citizens for Affordable Energy and retired president of Shell Oil Company—in the McKernan Auditorium at the law center on campus. Hofmeister will present “Growing Hydrocarbons in an Anti-Hydrocarbon World” on March 23 at 1:30 p.m. For more information and registration information, click here or contact the law center at 578-5837.
March 23 — LSU and the Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute will honor those included on the second list of the LSU 100: Fastest Growing Tiger Businesses from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at a Renaissance Hotel, 7000 Bluebonnet Blvd. The LSU 100 celebrates the success of former LSU students and recognizes the impact they’ve had on the local, regional and national economies. See this year’s complete list of honorees here. Full ticket details and online registration are available here.
March 26 — LSU Career Services and the College of Education will host Teacher Interviewing Day at the Carl Maddox Field House on campus from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The event connects recruiters from across the country with LSU students and alumni seeking full-time positions in the teaching, counseling, library and social work fields. Educators and administrators representing 75 recruiting schools and school districts will participate. For more information, click here.
March 29 — Baton Rouge Green hosts a “Plant Smart” seminar from 6-7:30 p.m. at LSU AgCenter’s LaHouse, 2858 Gourrier Ave. Speakers will be Betty Miley of Maypop Hill nursery and Dana Brown of Dana Brown & Associates landscape architecture firm. The event is free. For more information, contact Baton Rouge Green at 381-0037.
March 31 — The Corporate Cup 5K run/walk begins at Fourth Street and North Boulevard at 9 a.m. Get all the info and register online here.
April 3 — The Academic Distinction Fund welcomes Charles H. Zeanah Jr. as guest speaker for its Distinguished Speaker Series 2012. Zeanah, who is executive director of Tulane University’s Institute for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, will give a presentation titled “Mental Health in Young Children: Why Early Experience Matters” from 4:30-6 p.m. at the Renaissance Hotel, 7000 Bluebonnet Blvd. Registration begins at 4 p.m. There is no admission charge. Register online here.
April 10 — The Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center will hold its eighth annual Connecting Businesses with Contracts Procurement Conference from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Smith-Brown Memorial Union, 500 Jesse N. Stone Ave., on the Baton Rouge campus. The event is free and open to all small-business owners, contractors and the public, but registration is required. More information, as well as participant and exhibitor registration, is available by contacting Gloria London at 771-4107 or Eual Hall at 771-4105.
April 19 — The LSU Flores MBA Alumni Association–Louisiana Chapter will host its first annual Demo Night from 6-9 p.m. at the Lod Cook Alumni Center on campus. Demo Night is designed for current students in the LSU Flores MBA Program and alumni of the program. Those wishing to participate should submit via email an executive summary for their business, not exceeding two pages, to natalie@infiniedge.com by Monday, March 19. Plans will be reviewed and winners will be notified. More information is available here.
