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Next LIVE Mentor Seminar
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May 25, 2012 12 :00 pm EST

Next LIVE Q&A Seminar
with MATTHEW LESKO

Friday, May 25th, 12 pm To 1 pm

Start or Expand A Business In Idaho

Susie Davidson
Manager- Business Attraction Group
Idaho Dept of Commerce
208-334-2650 x 2146
http://commerce.idaho.gov/

Highlights From Speakers:

Tod Schwarz

College of Southern Idaho

Idaho has been the #1 or #2 producer of patents in the last 10 years.
Fastest growing patent producers are small businesses of 1 or 2 people
Because they live in Idaho they want to do things better and faster
Idaho has one of the lowest costs for doing business; there are only 4 other states that are lower

Steven Aumeier

Idaho National Labs

The first light bulb powered by nuclear power was done in 1951 in Idaho National Labs
They are not industry and are not university
There are 13 national labs in the country and focus on energy security
They provide innovation and produce a lot of patents and open sourcing
They also provide risk reduction to help speed products to markets
Their roots are in the nuclear energy business and now do a lot of renewable energy
They are close to $1 billion a year
They are big in bio energy, wind energy, geothermal and energy storage
They do a lot of work in private sector in battery systems

Tod Schwartz

College of Southern Idaho (CSI)

They get workforces trained
The campus is geothermal heated
Dell computer put up a facility there and has a training facility on their campus
They provide companies with a full time person to do employee screening
They provide trainers on site for companies to train their employees
They established apprenticeship programs to help food processing energy
They developed a program to train wind energy technicians
Their philosophy is that "there really are not green jobs there are green projects and green skills"
They development people with all kinds of skills including wind, solar, bio fuels and recycling

Jana Chalfant

Boise Valley Economic Development

They have a lot of geothermal in their area
Tn their region they have a partnership with Micron who have buildings that can be used for solar and other renewable energy manufacturing

Cliff Long

Director, Economic Development Director for City of Napa