112th Annual Meeting & B2B Expo

BRING YOUR TEAM – GAIN INSIGHT, BE INSPIRED!

Join us on Wednesday, November 19th for the 112th Annual Meeting and B2B Expo at the Multipurpose Auditorium at Adult & Teen Challenge, 1315 Main Street in Brockton. The Expo is free to walk the floor, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM & 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM. The luncheon takes place from 12:00 PM – 1:45 PM. Registration is required.

Meet other business people & community leaders by attending the Annual Meeting to celebrate businesses working together for the future of the Metro South Region. The Annual Meeting will feature an interesting guest speaker, as well as networking, and awards. Attendees will receive a special gift bag.

Featured Speaker: Dr. Erik Noyes, Director of “The Generator – Interdisciplinary AI Lab” at Babson College – training 1,000 Small Business Owners in AI for business growth.

An expert in innovation, growth strategy, and AI, Professor Noyes is the Michael London ’92 and Stephen H. Kramer ’92 Term Chair in Entrepreneurship. His research examines entrepreneurial thinking, AI-enabled innovation, and disruptive innovation in both startups and new corporate ventures.

Dr. Noyes led the creation of “The Generator”, Babson’s interdisciplinary AI lab whose mission is to empower innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing AI capabilities. The Generator supports an interdisciplinary community of innovators, provocateurs, and boundary-spanners from across diverse industries to seize upon transformative opportunities enabled by the AI-age. In connection with the Lab, he teaches the MBA course AI Pioneers: Creating the Future of Business and Entrepreneurial Opportunities in AI, among other graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurship courses.

Professor Noyes is the founding Faculty Director of the Weissman Foundry, an interdisciplinary venture and innovation-space shared by Babson College, the Olin College of Engineering, and Wellesley College. Recognized as a “Top 50” business professor in the United States by Poets & Quants, Noyes was awarded Babson’s College-wide Teaching Excellence Award in 2023 and Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award in 2010. Noyes co-led Babson’s award-winning Foundations of Management & Entrepreneurship (FME) program, rated the most innovative undergraduate entrepreneurship course in the U.S. by the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE). He also co-founded Affordable Design & Entrepreneurship (ADE), a collaboration between Babson College and the Olin College of Engineering.

Prior to joining Babson, he consulted for companies such as Nokia, BMW, Hewlett-Packard, New Balance, and Motorola to identify and evaluate new growth businesses in diverse areas such as healthcare, mobile computing, consumer products, sensing systems, and automotive design.

Professor Noyes is a Founding Editor of the journal Entrepreneurship Education & Pedagogy (EE&P). His research has been published in the Journal of Small Business Management, Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth, Entrepreneurship Education & Pedagogy, the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Frontiers in Entrepreneurship Research, multiple books, and the Harvard Business School case collection. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, USA Today, The Chronicle for Higher Education, and international press.

To learn more, visit babson.edu/thegenerator

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE TO FIT YOUR BUDGET! CONTACT HANNAH FOR DETAILS.

The cost to attend is $129/members and $159/non-members. Tables of 10 are available for $1290/members and $1590/non-members. Contact Hannah for expo booth reservations: $499/members and $599/non-members. For more information, contact Hannah McGuire at events@metrosouthchamber.com or call (508) 586-0500 ext. 231.

Registration is required, sign up now!