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Save the date for our next Wilkes-Barre Connect Spotlight! The Spotlight program features quarterly events that provide an opportunity for industry leaders and entrepreneurs in NEPA to meet, discuss and identify potential partnerships. Each event features a fifteen-minute presentation from an entrepreneur with regional ties, as well as shorter spotlights featuring local entrepreneurs, students, and non-profits. Spotlight is a Wilkes-Barre Connect program coordinated by the Diamond City Partnership and sponsored by Penn State Wilkes-Barre, through the Invent Penn State initiative.

Family-owned businesses have a tremendous impact on our communities in Northeastern Pennsylvania. In the first Spotlight event of 2024, we want to give some of our area’s brightest family business owners a platform to talk about their ongoing journey, sharing the challenges they have overcome, and lessons learned along the way.

Join us to hear from featured speaker Austin Shission, Co-Owner of Abide Coffeehouse, as well as spotlight speakers Al and Troy Everetts, Co-Founders of Mt. Everetts Frozen Creations; Danielle Mimms, Owner of The Bearded Ladies & Co. and Operating Manager of Big Ten Sub's & Pizza; Delia Ramos, General Manager for La Cantina Amigon; Lauren Sacco, Chief Operations Officer for Vito's Lawn Care & Landscaping Inc.!

The Spotlight program features quarterly events that provide an opportunity for industry leaders and entrepreneurs in NEPA to meet, discuss and identify potential partnerships. Each event features a fifteen-minute presentation from an entrepreneur with regional ties, as well as shorter spotlights featuring local entrepreneurs, students, and non-profits. Spotlight is a Wilkes-Barre Connect program coordinated by the Diamond City Partnership and sponsored by Penn State Wilkes-Barre, through the Invent Penn State initiative.

About Wilkes-Barre Connect: The Wilkes-Barre Connect program helps businesses grow in NEPA. Powered by the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business & Industry, Connect features partnerships among the Small Business Development Center at Wilkes University, the Diamond City Partnership, the Institute for Public Policy & Economic Development at Wilkes University, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania, the Family Business Alliance at Wilkes University, and the Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship at Wilkes University. Wilkes-Barre Connect is housed in Wilkes-Barre’s T.H.I.N.K Center, a space made possible by the Invent Penn State initiative. For more information about the Wilkes-Barre Connect Program please visit http://www.wilkesbarreconnect.org/