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Karl talks about the importance of pre-qualifying your sales prospects, and creating intelligent lead campaigns to maximize your closing efficiencies 

In this weeks segment, Karl talks to Terry Toomey on the status of business resources that are designed to help businesses grow and thrive, especially in rural America.

Business Class News has partnered with The Industry Hub to help new and existing businesses grow and scale.  Each month in 2023, BCN will showcase businesses that are either growing or just launching.  The Industry Hub will share tips and advice on how to succeed in business.  We will be giving you an advanced preview to an interactive program that is being launched, which has been developed for all types businesses from the start-up to the mature and ready to grow.

SPONSORED BY THE INDUSTRY HUB

Terry Toomey, the Executive Director of The Industry Hub will be a regular contributor on BCN and our podcast shows.

We are also inviting business owners to register their business for consideration in our series “Business Sunrise”.  These are 3 minute snapshots that allow the business owners and leaders present there companies.

Karl spoke to Janie Bordner, Executive Director of New Horizons and talked about the amazing vision and mission of the organization.

Janie talks about their goals, and objectives and also about the amazing Celebrity Chef Smackdown event they are holding to raise funds so that they can achieve them.

You can get more information by visiting their website

Celebrity Chef Smackdown Event - https://newhorizonsofntx.org/celebrity-chef-smackdown-2022/

About New Horizons

In 2002, Bob and Ellen Nichols saw a need to reach children with the message of Jesus Christ in a small neighborhood in Bonita Springs, FL. Ellen was local elementary school teacher, and Bob was a professional boat captain. They began their ministry by going door to door inviting kids to come to the “Super Kids Church,” which would meet every Sunday morning at Manna Christian RV Park. This kids-only church became a huge success!

The Nichols’ began praying for God’s direction on how to reach more children. Seeing the problems in the neighborhoods and recognizing the tremendous need to help the children from non-English speaking homes with their school work, Bob and Ellen were led to find a place to provide free after school tutoring.

In January 2003, they opened the first Super Kids Club in Rosemary Park and also founded New Horizons of Southwest Florida, a non-profit organization. From its first day with 20 children meeting on Wednesday afternoons, New Horizons Super Kids Club has expanded to four locations open Monday through Thursday. The Super Teens Club opened in 2006 in order to continue meeting the needs of students through high school graduation.

As the impact in Southwest Florida expanded, New Horizons Programs, Inc. was created in 2015 to launch the first affiliate location – New Horizons of North Texas. The visionary efforts of Tom and Nancy Cooper were instrumental in bringing the affiliate organization to their home town of Dallas to create faith-based after-school programs throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

By God’s amazing grace, New Horizons now includes eight different programs that operate throughout the year providing more than 60,000 hours annually of tutoring, mentoring, and faith to over 500 at-risk youth in Southwest Florida and North Texas.

Entrepreneurs designing solutions utilizing technology can get feedback, recognition and $20K from Tech Titans and enterprise companies on the cutting edge. In a new Grand Challenge, entrepreneurs submit an application which will be judged by representatives of technology companies, and finalists will be showcased for a virtual pitch in front of a panel of celebrity judges on Thursday, October 13, 2022.

The challenge will be open to entrepreneurs nationwide.  The 2022 Tech Titans Innovation Collider Grand Challenge is seeking innovation solutions, systems or applications that advance sustainability and drive technology innovation for one or more of the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs  https://www.sdgactioncampaign.org/17goals/) that you believe are most important for America.

Entrepreneurs, start-ups, small and MBE/WBE-certified technology companies should be pre-revenue to revenue less than $2 million. There is no cost to participate. Participating companies can be located anywhere in the United States, and do not have to be Tech Titans members. Deadline for applications to be submitted is September 5, 2022 at 5:00 pm CT.

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Last year’s Grand Challenge recipient, Dr. Corey Clark,  CTO of BALANCED said, “As a result of winning the Grand Challenge we were able to push further into our research and development for a distributed privacy preserving machine learning platform.  We expanded our work within the area, bringing on more researchers and developers to further our capabilities in this space.  We have made significant progress in developing a fully privacy preserving machine learning infrastructure that is capable of scaling and training a neural network within a volunteer distributed grid environment while maintaining privacy of data and the model being trained.  The support from Tech Titans and the Grand Challenge award allowed BALANCED to move toward creating a commercial model that brings privacy preserving machine learning to our proprietary HEWMEN platform.”

Awardees will receive:

• A minimum cash award of $20K
• An invitation to the Tech Titans Awards Gala on October 27, 2022
• Enterprise-level mentoring that could include access to technology resources and potential customers/partners
• Introductions to funding resources

The hope is that the entrepreneur/start-up will negotiate some form of:

• Technology licensing
• Funding
• Customer/supplier relationships
• Strategic partnerships
• Other business relationships

The Tech Titans Innovation Collider offers myriad services that enable large companies to partner with entrepreneurs, university researchers and thought leaders to collide, connect, collaborate and create groundbreaking solutions that accelerate business value. These services include providing executive e