Convention: Innovation, inspiration, opportunities... and more
"There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier."
- Charles F. Kettering - American engineer, inventor of the electric starter, 1876-1958
MEDA's annual Business as a Calling convention Nov. 5-8 in San Jose, CA – with the theme of New Frontiers: New Solutions – is offering up some new perspectives for addressing new global realities.
Whether you are dealing with environmental changes and challenges on a personal, community or corporate level, New Frontiers: New Solutions will help you discover answers, within the context of your faith and values.
This year's convention features an exciting line-up of plenary speakers on alternative energy innovations and business adaptations, meeting the world’s growing food needs and meeting a quadruple bottom line. A diverse selection of seminars and workshops are sure to provide you with new ideas, insights and opportunities to explore the frontier.
Here are just a few highlights that you won’t want to miss:
• Hear Hans Rosenberger of Altadena Energy & Solar LLC make the case for renewable energy at your facility, and factors involved in making those decisions – your carbon footprint, return on investment, and risk analysis.
• Then, Wilbur Bontrager, chairman and CEO of Jayco, will describe critical strategic decisions made during Jayco’s first 40 years of operation that moved the company into the number three position in the recreational vehicle industry.
• Learn about the Green Revolution in Indian agriculture from Usha Barwale Zehr, who will address issues of food security with a focus on the role of the private sector.
• Brent Alderfer, executive vice president of Iberdrola Renewable Energies, will facilitate a discussion with entrepreneurs who have developed businesses in solar power, wind energy and small hydro power.
In addition, we will share exciting developments regarding MEDA programs in Pakistan, Peru, Morocco and Ukraine, and we’ll have updates on MEDA Investments:
• Listen to Helen Loftin, MEDA’s regional project manager in Pakistan, talk about how MEDA is unleashing entrepreneurship 120,000 times over.
• Catch Sonia Dominguez, country manager of MEDA Peru, as she discusses a project to bring environmentally friendly electricity to remote river basins in the Peruvian Amazon.
• Hear how MEDA is leading the way to help Moroccan youth build a better future through training and access to financial products.
• And learn more about how MEDA is helping small farmers in former Russian Mennonite communities in Ukraine find business solutions to poverty in a difficult agricultural environment.
Go to www.businessasacalling.org to learn more. Register early and save!
"We always come home with hope and feel so uplifted!"
"I found it amazing that, in the midst of the current economic situation, the mood was so upbeat – when it could have easily been the opposite."
- From 2008 convention evaluations
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