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Business panel builds international connections

Private and public sector leaders from North Dakota and Norway will convene during Norsk Hostfest to build on business opportunities.

Minot Area Development Corporation and Minot State University will host a business event following Tuesday’s noon Joint Service Club Luncheon at the Grand Hotel in Minot with the theme “Economic Development Entrepreneurship: Local, State, National, and International.”

Speakers are Jay Schuler, North Dakota Department of Commerce commissioner; Chuck Barney, director of MSU’s Severson Entrepreneurship Academy, and former City of Minot mayor; Jessica Ackerman, managing member of Aksal Group; John Zakian, City of Minot Disaster Resilience Grant Program manager; and Stine Aasland, founder and CEO of Nordic Waffles. The panel will be moderated by Jacek Mrozik, associate vice president at MSU.

The annual networking event is intended to build on established business connections and bolster cross-Atlantic interaction and investment.

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