Agenda

AIM Executive Forum
Sept. 16: Ralph de la Torre, chairman and CEO of Steward Health Care Systems, will be the guest speaker at the Associated Industries of Massachusetts Executive Forum at the Waltham Westin Hotel. He will discuss how his organization has grown into the largest integrated community health care organization in New England and its plans to reshape the health delivery landscape. Registration, which includes breakfast, is $55 per person, $90 for non-members, for the 7:45 to 9:15 a.m. program. To register, visit www.aimnet.org or call Julie Fazio at (617) 262-1180.

Classic Car Show
Sept. 18: The Chicopee Rotary Club will sponsor its 10th annual Classic Car Show in the Big Y parking lot on Memorial Drive in Chicopee. The event, staged from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., recognizes over 30 different classes of cars with awards. The committee is soliciting for sponsorships as well as car registrations. Preregistration is $10, while registration that morning is $15. Trophies will be given in all categories, and all presenters will receive a dash plaque. Admission to the car show is free to the community and includes an airbag-deployment demonstration at noon. Refreshments will be available throughout the day. As a fund-raising event, the show raises money for the club’s many projects, including its Helping Hands Program, which provides holiday meals to economically disadvantaged families, and also supports the Polio Plus Project, which fights to eliminate polio throughout the world. Proceeds from this event will also directly benefit the Chicopee Elks Club’s annual Veteran’s Day Dinner. For more information or to obtain a registration, call Don Roy’s Auto Body at (413) 593-5010.

Trademarks Webinar
Sept. 20: Donald Holland, Esq. will present a webinar titled “Protect Your Trademarks” beginning at 11 a.m. for approximately 40 minutes. He is the senior partner at Holland & Bonzagni, P.C., based in Longmeadow. Webinar attendees will have the opportunity to ask specific questions at the end of the presentation. For more information or to register, visit www.hblaw.org/webinars or call (413) 567-2076.

STCC Ovations Series
Sept. 21: Mime Robert Rivest will lead off the Ovations special-events series at Springfield Technical Community College with performances scheduled at 10:10 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. in Scibelli Hall Theater. For more information or to bring a group, contact Ovations coordinator Phil O’Donoghue at (413) 755-4233 or [email protected].

Instant Issues Lunch Series
Sept. 21: The Hon. Patrick Binns, Canadian consul general to New England, will be the guest speaker at the Instant Issues Brown Bag Lunch Series, sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Western Mass. His noon lecture is titled “Beyond the Border: Canada-New England Relations.” Before coming to Boston in 2010, he served as Ambassador of Canada to Ireland. The event is planned at One Financial Plaza, community room, third floor, at 1350 Main St. (corner of Main and Court), Springfield. The cost is $5 for members, $15 with lunch; or $10 for nonmembers, $20 with lunch. For reservations prior to Sept. 19, call (413) 733-0110.

Filmmaker at STCC
Sept. 23: Lawrence Hott, documentary filmmaker, will talk about his upcoming work, The War of 1812, as part of the Ovations special events series at Springfield Technical Community College. His presentations are scheduled at 10:10 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. in Scibelli Hall Theater. In describing this war, Hott will also bring attendees into the world of the documentary film and its process. For more information or to bring a group, contact Ovations coordinator Phil O’Donoghue at (413) 755-4233 or [email protected].

Patents Webinar
Oct. 4: Donald Holland, Esq. will present a webinar titled “The Basics of Patents” beginning at 11 a.m. for approximately 40 minutes. He is the senior partner at Holland & Bonzagni, P.C., based in Longmeadow. Webinar attendees will have the opportunity to ask specific questions at the end of the presentation. For more information or to register, visit www.hblaw.org/webinars or call (413) 567-2076.

Western Mass. Business Expo
Oct. 18: Businesses from throughout Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire counties will come together for the premier trade show in the region, the Western Mass. Business Expo, produced by BusinessWest, and staged at the MassMutual Center in Springfield. The show will feature breakfast and lunch programs arranged by the Affilaited Chambers of Commerce of Greater Springfield, nearly two dozen seminars on the business issues of the day, several presentations in the Show Floor Floor Theater on timely topics, and the sophisticated networking program known as Mine Your Business. The day will conclude with a networking social from 2 to 4 p.m. The cost for a 10-by-10 booth is $700 for members of all area chambers, and $750 for non-members; corner booths are $800 for all chamber members and $850 for non-members, and a 10-by-20 booth is $1,200 for all chamber members and $1,250 for non-members. For more information, log onto www.businesswest.com or www.WMBExpo.com, or call (413) 781-8600, ext. 100.

Trade Secrecy Protection Webinar
Oct. 20: Donald Holland, Esq. will present a webinar titled “Trade Secrecy Protection” beginning at 11 a.m. for approximately 40 minutes. He is the senior partner at Holland & Bonzagni, P.C., based in Longmeadow. Webinar attendees will have the opportunity to ask specific questions at the end of the presentation. For more information or to register, visit www.hblaw.org/webinars or call (413) 567-2076.

Cartoonist Lecture
Oct. 21: Cartoonist Leigh Rubin, renowned for the comic strip Rubes, will be the featured speaker as the Ovations special-events series continues this fall at Springfield Technical Community College. Rubes is syndicated in more than 400 newspapers and publications worldwide. His presentations, at 10:10 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. in Scibelli Hall Theater, will cover art, satire, and communication. For more information or to bring a group, contact Ovations coordinator Phil O’Donoghue at (413) 755-4233 or [email protected].

Entrepreneurship Lecture
October 27: Sue Morelli, chief executive officer and president of ABP Corp., will be the guest speaker at Bay Path College’s Innovative Thinking & Entrepreneurship Lecture Series in Longmeadow. Since joining Au Bon Pain in 1988, Morelli has worked her way up the ranks of the Boston-based, fast-casual bakery and café to become president and CEO in 2006. Under her leadership, the company now has more than 300 store locations, with almost 200 in the U.S. and the remainder in Thailand, India, South Korea, and the Middle East. She is currently leading a redesign of store interiors, a major menu transformation, and the opening of more than 30 new cafés per year. The lecture begins at 8:15 a.m.; a networking continental breakfast starts at 7:30 a.m. For more information, visit www.baypath.edu.

Serious Fun Event
Nov. 10: MassINC and CommonWealth magazine will host a seriously funny look back at the year in politics and media with pols, pundits, and the press. All proceeds will support MassINC’s CommonWealth Campaign for Civic Journalism as well as a scholarship program for those who are entering the field. The event is planned at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, with cocktails at 6 p.m. and dinner and the program starting at 7:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.seriousfun2011.org or contact Lauren Louison at (617) 224-1613 or [email protected].