COE 2001 Fall Call for Presentations Update

The Fall 2001 COE Conference "Call for Presentations" ended May 21. Thank you to all of you who submitted abstracts for consideration. All submissions will be reviewed by the conference scheduling committee in early June, and session schedule will be announced at the end of June. All scheduled speakers will receive their time assignments electronically.

If you are interested in speaking at the conference but missed the deadline, COE accepts papers to be used as alternates in the case that a session gets canceled. You may submit a session for this waiting list directly to the COE e-mail coe@sba.com, Be sure to include the following information about your proposed session: title, short abstract, speaker name, short bio, and PIC committee which the session falls under. You can reference a complete list of committees through the COE web site, http://www.coe.org/about/committees/pic.cfm.

Important Dues Notice

Thanks to all COE members, companies and individuals, who have paid their dues payments for 2001. At this time, all companies who have not paid dues for 2001 will lose their member benefits. If your company still owes dues and you would like to resolve this past-due payment, please contact COE Headquarters at coe@sba.com.