10:10- 10:30 am

Workshop Leaders

Small Business Ignite: Sunnyvale Are you a small business owner who could use expert advice to create a marketing plan? Are you curious about Social Media and how it can help you grow your customers?

Attend free workshops facilitated by experts from ZealMark, Hootsuite & Aruba Networks.

May 7, 2015: Event Agenda

What is Small Business Ignite? Small Business Ignite is a free series of in-person trainings, networking and mentoring sessions for small business owners to accelerate the success of their businesses in Sunnyvale.

7:45- 8:00 am

8:00- 8:05 am

8:05- 8:10 am

8:10- 8:20 am

Registration

Welcome & Introductions

-Lea King, Exec Director, SVTP

Opening Remarks

-Mayor of Sunnyvale, Jim Griffith

-City Manager, Deanna Santana

Workshop Overview: 1. Marketing:

-Juan Carlos Velten, CEO, ZealMark

2. Social Media:

-Elizabeth Houston, Director, Community, Hootsuite

-Pegah Kamal, Social Media & Marketing Manager, Aruba

8:40- 10:10 am

8:20- 8:40 am Quick intro from participating

small businesses

Workshops:

1. Marketing 2. Social Media

Location: 860 West California Ave Sunnyvale CA- 94086

Juan Carlos Velten, CEO, ZealMark is a serial tech entrepreneur and has founded several startups. He is an expert marketer with 25 years of experience in marketing & branding. Twitter: @jvelten1

Elizabeth Houston, Director, Community, Hootsuite. She has close to 20 years of experience in marketing communications, community- building, communities and social media. Twitter & Pinterest: @ellhoust

Pegah Kamal, Social Media Marketing Manager, Aruba Networks. Pegah has over a decade of social media experience elevating online digital presence of renowned tech companies like Microsoft, Intel, and IBM. Twitter: @PegahKamal

Conclusion:

Presentation from Small businesses

Registration:

To Register: Eventbrite: http://bit.ly/1GWiZPR

Light breakfast provided.

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Walmart's eCommerce division provides online retailing for Walmart, Sam's Club, ASDA and all other Walmart brands. The mission is to combine technology and world-class retailing to provide seamless online shopping experience through websites.

Learn more: http://corporate.walmart.com | Twitter: @WalmartHub | Facebook: Walmart

Aruba Networks designs and delivers Mobility-Defined Networks that empower a new generation of tech-savvy users. Known as #GenMobile, they demand to stay connected to everything all the time, no matter where they are.

Learn more: http://www.arubanetworks.com/ |Twitter: @ArubaNetworks | Facebook: Aruba Networks Inc

Zealmark is a brand agency that helps companies engineer outstanding brands. Zealmark works with venture firms like Mayfield, Lightspeed and Sequoia to help their portfolio companies craft a story worthy of their amazing products and spread it to the world. The

firm is the possibly the only brand agency in Silicon Valley run by tech entrepreneurs with deep marketing roots.

Learn more: http://www.zealmark.com |Twitter: @zealmark | Facebook: ZealMark

Small Business Ignite-Sunnyvale Brought to you in partnership with:

Silicon Valley Talent Partnership (SVTP) creates, sources and manages innovative and meaningful pro-bono partnerships between private-sector volunteers and public-sector workers, capitalizing on the unique opportunity to restore local government

and public agencies’ capacity to innovate, enhance service delivery and ultimately improve the quality of life of residents and communities across Silicon Valley.

Learn more: www.svtpca.org. | Twitter: @svtpca | Facebook: Silicon Valley Talent Partnership

A social relationship platform for businesses and organizations to collaboratively execute campaigns across social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ Pages from one secure, web-based dashboard.

Learn more: https://hootsuite.com/ |Twitter: @Hootsuite | Facebook: Hootsuite

The City of Sunnyvale’s Office of Economic Development works directly with Sunnyvale businesses as their first link to City government. The Economic Development office anticipates the needs of businesses and supports processes and technologies to help businesses bring their products to market in a timely manner.

Learn more: EconDev.inSunnyvale.com| Twitter: @CityOfSunnyvale| Facebook: City of Sunnyvale, California

For More Information: Srijana Angdembey

Engagement Manager Silicon Valley Talent Partnership

(408) 326-2348 or srijana@svtpca.org

Learn more about Small Business Ignite

Maria Rodriguez Economic Development Specialist

City of Sunnyvale (408) 730-7702 or mrodriguez@sunnyvale.ca.gov

Facebook page: www.tinyurl.com/smallbizignite

Sunnyvale Downtown Association is a non-profit membership based organization whose mission is to promote, advocate and enhance the vitality of downtown Sunnyvale. SDA is the voice of downtown Sunnyvale.

Learn more: http://www.sunnyvaledowntown.com/ | Facebook: Sunnyvale Downtown Association