Meetings & Events

Greater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce will hold a business connections breakfast on Friday, Feb. 15, at 7 a.m., at Mirabeau Park Hotel & Convention Center, 1100 N. Sullivan. Spokane County Commissioner Al French will speak. The cost is $25 for members and $35 for others. To register, go to www.spokanevallychamber.org.



Gonzaga University, Whitworth University, and Leadership Spokane will host jointly the first event in the Spring Leadership Connection Series: Rising Stars in Leadership at a breakfast meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 7:15 a.m., at the Lincoln Center, 1316 N. Lincoln. Tyler Lafferty, a principal with Seven2, will facilitate the discussions. The cost is $30, or $15 for students. For information and to RSVP, contact [email protected] or call 321-3639.



The Spokane chapter of the Accounting & Financial Women's Alliance will hold its general meeting on Thursday, Feb. 21, from 5:30 to 8 p.m., at the Lincoln Center, 1316 N. Lincoln. The topic will be an update on international financial reporting standards. Jeffery Waybright, accounting instructor at Community Colleges of Spokane, will speak. The cost is $15 for students, $22 for members, and $27 for others. To register, email [email protected].



The National Association of Women in Construction will hold its membership meeting on Thursday, Feb. 21, at 5:30 p.m., at Inland Northwest Associated General Contractors, 4935 E. Trent. The topic for discussion will be sexual harassment, presented by Erika Grubbs, of Winston & Cashatt Lawyers PS. The cost is $20. RSVP to [email protected].



Visit Spokane will hold a Spokane Regional Tourism Ambassador class on Monday, Feb. 25, from 1 to 5 p.m., at the Quality Inn 4th Avenue, at 110 E. Fourth. The cost is $25. For information and to register by Feb. 18, email [email protected] or call 744-3340.



Gonzaga University will hold an informational meeting about its MBA program on Monday, Feb. 25, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., in the Jepson Center, 502 E. Boone. For information and to RSVP, go to gonzaga.edu/infomtg.



The Spokane-Kootenai Real Estate Research Committee will hold the 2013 Real Estate Market Forum on Thursday, Feb. 28, from 7:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m., at the Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. Alvin J. "Fritz" Wolff, Jr., chairman of The Wolff Co., will be the keynote speaker. The cost is $50 until noon, Feb. 22, and $65 thereafter. To register and for information, go to skrerc.com or call 326-9222.



Workshops & Seminars

Tincan, the nonprofit organization that uses information technology and interactive media for education and community development, will offer the following free technology training workshops: Photoshop 101, Friday, Feb. 15, from 1 to 2 p.m.; Basic Windows OS, Monday, Feb. 18, from noon to 1 p.m., Blogging Basics, from 3 to 4 p.m., and Basic Video: Editing, from 4 to 6 p.m.; Intro to Game Design, Wednesday, Feb. 19, from 4 to 5 p.m.; Internet Basics, Thursdays, Feb. 21 and 28, from 10 to 11 a.m.; Growing Your Business with Twitter, Thursday, Feb. 21, from 4 to 5 p.m.; Basic Video: Exporting & Uploading, Monday, Feb. 25, from 4 to 5 p.m.; and Open Computer Lab, Monday through Friday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Workshops will be held at 1317 W. Second. For information and to register, go to www.tincan .org.



Associated Industries, of Spokane, will hold an Affirmative Action Compliance—New Challenges workshop on Tuesday, Feb. 19, from 8:30 a.m. to noon, at 1206 N. Lincoln. The workshop is free for members of Associated Industries' AAP Annual Update Service, $85 for members, and $140 for others. AI also will hold a two-part workshop, Introduction to Management Leadership, on Wednesdays, Feb. 20 and 27, from 8:30 a.m. to noon, at Esterline Interface Technologies, 600 W. Wilbur, in Coeur d'Alene. The workshop is $170 for members and $280 for others. To register or for information, call 326-6885 or email [email protected].



SCORE will hold a Small Business Marketing and Sales workshop on Wednesday, Feb. 20, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and a Small Business Financial Management workshop on Wednesday, Feb. 27, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The workshops will be held at the Spokane Regional Business Center, 801 W. Riverside. The events are $40 pre-registered, $50 at the door, and $15 for an additional person from the same company. To register and for more information, call SCORE at 353-2821 or go to ScoreSpokane.org.



Greater Spokane Incorporated's BizStreet program and Numerica Credit Union will hold I'm Not HR But Play One at Work...Help Me! on Thursday, Feb. 21, from 8 to 11:00 a.m. Lori Hammerschmidt and Mark Qualley will teach about human resource challenges. The cost is $30 for members and $50 for others. GSI and the Eastern Washington Procurement Technical Assistance Center will hold a free Building a Capabilities Statement seminar on Friday, Feb. 22, from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Both events will be held at 801 W. Riverside. For information and to register, go to greaterspokane.org.



The Inland Northwest chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners will hold a Marketing: Referrals and Retention workshop on Monday, Feb. 25, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., at the Lincoln Center, 1316 N. Lincoln. Tony Rubleski, president of Mind Capture Group, of Spring Lake, Mich., will teach. The cost is $19 for members and $29 for others before noon on Monday, Feb. 25, and $25 for members and $35 for others thereafter. RSVP to [email protected] or call 731-3309.



Conferences & Shows

Washington State University will hold a Women in Agriculture Conference on Saturday, Feb. 23, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 5720 S. Perry. The theme of the conference is "Growing your Successful Farm Business." The cost is $20 for students and $25 for others until Feb. 18, and $35 thereafter. For information, call 745-8531 or go to womeninag.wsu.edu.