PUBLISHER OF FORBES MAGAZINE TO KEYNOTE ANNUAL BUSINESS SUMMIT
November 5, 2009
Contact: Julie Scott 803-799-4601
julie.scott@scchamber.net
(Columbia, S.C.) – Richard Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes magazine, read by 4.5 million each issue, will join more than 250 business leaders at the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce’s 30th Annual Summit, South Carolina Business: Leading the Economic Evolution. The Annual Summit, presented by Milliken & Company, is November 12 at Wild Dunes on the Isle of Palms.
Karlgaard, who will speak to the state’s business community at 7 p.m. during the Annual Summit Banquet, writes a column featured in each issue of Forbes that focuses on technology, entrepreneurship, regional and economical development, and the future of business and work. The South Carolina Chamber’s Annual Summit Banquet will honor South Carolina’s Business Leader of the Year, Emerson Gower, recently retired executive of Progress Energy, and South Carolina’s Public Servant of the Year, Dr. Barry Russell, president of the South Carolina Technical College System.
From 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m., the Annual Summit will present a compelling symposium featuring a federal update on healthcare, energy and the dangerous Employee Free Choice Act from Jay Timmons of the National Association of Manufacturers. The new leader of the South Carolina State Ports Authority, Jim Newsome, will discuss his role in the state’s competitiveness and a new perspective for the port. Ken Wingate, of Sweeny, Wingate and Barrow P.A., and Garrison Walters, of the Commission on Higher Education, will lead discussion on the knowledge network in the state.
A noon luncheon will announce South Carolina’s 25 Fastest-Growing Companies presented by The Capital Corporation. The Sgt. William Jasper Freedom Award winner, Major General Robert E. Livingston, Jr., will be honored for his heroic service to South Carolina. In addition, two scholarships will be awarded to bright young students who attended the prestigious South Carolina Business Week this summer.
The Chamber’s 30th Annual Summit, South Carolina Business: Leading the Economic Evolution, will bring together the state’s most powerful business leaders to discuss future goals to increase South Carolina’s global competitiveness. There is still time to register for this exciting day! For more information about attending this year’s festivities and a full agenda, please visit www.scchamber.net, or call Tish Anderson at 800-799-4601.
The South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s first state chamber
Accredited with Distinction by the U.S. Chamber, is the state’s largest
statewide broad-based business and industry trade association representing more
than 6,500 member companies and more than 600,000 member employees, with 90
percent of membership comprised of small businesses. As the unified voice for
business and industry, the Chamber is a catalyst for increasing per capita
income and enhancing the state’s global competitiveness in order to improve the
quality of life for all South Carolinians.