Small Business Conference Thursday At UNO

Chris Genteel, Google's head of diversity markets, and other people from the Internet giant will join bankers, investors and federal officials at the Southeast Louisiana Small Business Conference this Thursday at the UNO Lindy Boggs International Conference Center.

Other speakers include Pellsom Lau, regional manager for the Small Business Administration's office of international trade, and Paul Satenstein, chief financial officer of The Online Incentives Exchange. Satenstein will talk about Louisiana's online exchange for state tax credits.

The one-day conference is organized by the Southeast Louisiana Alliance for Economic Inclusion, created to improve access to the U.S. banking system for low- and moderate-income individuals and families, and the Good Work Network, a nonprofit set up to help small community-based businesses.