Manufacturing experts, business professionals and Scheinfeld Center alumni shared valuable advice and resources with local entrepreneurs, educators and students at the October 27 Scheinfeld Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation Global Manufacturing for Startups Summit. (Left to right) Guest experts and panelists: Frances Harder, Owner of Fashion for Profit Consulting; Robert Herr, co-founder of FuelBox (Scheinfeld Center alumni); Django Dexter, international manufacturing executive and Senior Director at MMI Holdings; Julie Samson, Executive Director of the Scheinfeld Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation; Lou Izzo, Owner/Consultant of Coherent Business Development Consulting; Rashelle Smith, founder, Umbii (Scheinfeld Center alumni); Judith Shelling, patent attorney and SBCC adjunct faculty; Ray Bowman, Executive Director of the Small Business Development Center of Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. Courtesy photo.
SANTA BARBARA — The SBCC Scheinfeld Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation hosted its first Global Manufacturing for Startups Summit on Friday, October 27 at the Fess Parker Resort. Side by side, local entrepreneurs, students and regional community college and high school educators engaged with experts to understand the global manufacturing landscape and how to avoid the most common points where startups can stall out when trying to navigate the manufacturing process.
“We are thankful to our Summit presenters for sharing their real-world expertise and mentorship,” said Julie Samson, Director of the Scheinfeld Center. “Their contributions will help our regional students, educators, and entrepreneurs become increasingly skilled and competent in navigating our global economy.”
Those in attendance received valuable business and manufacturing insights from the impressive lineup of presenters and panelists, including manufacturing executives, educators and intellectual property experts, and the entrepreneurs behind local success stories Fuelbox and Umbii.
Scheinfeld Center has produced three thematic Summits since the 2016 launch of its Global Competence Initiative, which offers a fresh approach for helping community colleges and high schools support the development of global competence among students and educators by integrating global concepts into their curricula.
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About the Scheinfeld Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation: The SBCC Scheinfeld Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation is a hub for entrepreneurial development within the South Central Coast community and is a resource for model programs for other California community college districts. The Scheinfeld Center, part of the Jack & Julie Nadel School of Business & Entrepreneurship at SBCC, trains global entrepreneurs using a comprehensive approach to academics, hands-on experience, and support. Participants can build their business in the classroom and shore up gaps in their entrepreneurial skill set through the Scheinfeld Center’s distinctive combination of coursework, business plan and pitch competitions, industry internships, no-cost business consulting, mentoring, networking, and post-start-up support through the Small Business Development Center. To learn more, visit www.scheinfeld.sbcc.edu or call 805.965.0581 ext. 3643.
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