Miguel "Mike" Fernandez, chairman of MBF Healthcare Partners and one of South Florida's leading serial entrepreneurs, will give the keynote address at the Miami Herald's Small Business Forum Feb. 23. Read a recent Miami Herald profile of him here. (Photo of Fernandez by Peter Andrew Bosch/Miami Herald)
Reserve your space now for the forum, sponsored by Florida International University’s Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center and the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship South Florida. This year’s forum will feature business experts who have been in the trenches with small businesses, either as entrepreneurs themselves or as consultants and agency leaders who work with small businesses every day.
The forum, which will be held at College of Business Complex on FIU’s South Campus, will be Feb. 23 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tickets cost $25 and include a continental breakfast and lunch. Advance reservations are required, and Small Business Forums have sold out in the past.
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Find the full agenda here.
Hear from the leaders of South Florida businesses big and small talk about how they got started and overcame challenges to make their companies successful.
Entrepreneur panelists include Frank Ununue, president of Goya Foods of Florida; CEOs Devon Rifkin of Great American Hanger Co.; Birame Sock of Third Solutions, David Clarke of BGT Partners, Valerie Holstein of CableOrganizer.com, Manuel Montero of Safetypay and Vince Virga of Skill Storm; Bill Hansen, owner of Bill Hansen Catering; and others. Panels on international business, web-based businesses and financing your business will also include Althea Harris of the U.S. Small Business Administration, Rafael Cruz of the Florida Small Business Development Center in Broward, Melissa Krinzman of Venture Architects and Brandon A. Dorsey of BacklogCapital.