31st Annual Small Business Week Celebration
Honoring North Florida’s Small Business Leaders, Champions and Top Lenders!
Network with North Florida’s small business leaders, lenders and supporters as the U.S. Small Business Administration presents the Small Business Week Awards and Top Lender Awards!
In recognition of the small business community’s contribution to the economy and society, the President of the United States designates one week each year as National Small Business Week. The U.S. SBA, in conjunction with the FSBDC at UNF, will host this special event at the local level to honor and present awards to local entrepreneurs and those who support and advocate for small businesses
Keynote Presentation: “Who’s Going to Do the Work? How the Demographic Drought Will Reshape Small Business in America”
Presented by Ron Hetrick, Senior Labor Economist with LIghtcast, a global leader in labor market analytics. Ron brings nearly 30 years of labor force economic experience to Lightcast. Ron was a
senior and supervisory economist for 8 years with the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington D.C. and had a 20 year stint as the advising chief economist for the largest staffing company in the
U.S. Quoted by CBS, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and numerous nationally syndicated news channels and magazines on a near weekly basis, Hetrick has provided analysis for prior
Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, The Council of Economic Advisors to the President, Congress, and numerous Fortune 100 companies and trade associations. Ron was lead author of “The Demographic Drought” and co-lead author of the recently released article “Who is going to do the work?” He keynotes at conferences around the country on the current labor situation.
Sponsored by:
121 Financial Credit Union
Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship
Agenda:
11am | Registration & Networking Open
11:30am | Program Begins
If you have any trouble with registration, please contact Ali Stephens – 904-620-2441 or ali.stephens@unf.edu
Date/Time
Date(s) - May 5, 2023
11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Location
UNF Herbert University Center
12000 Alumni Drive Jacksonville Florida 32224 Duval County
