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SUMMARY:MAPLE Winter Event - Orange County
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Winter Networking Event\nAs the cross-border business community for investment\, trade and entrepreneurship opportunities between Southern California and Canada\, we hope you can join us for our Winter Networking Event in Orange County. We are pleased to be returning to the conference center of MAPLE member Fabio Furlan at CSA Group.\n\n \nOur Presentations\nWe have three excellent presentations planned.\n\nMr. Stefan Joyner\, Business Development Manager at MAPLE member organization Armanino LLP\, will discuss tax opportunities available to businesses including:\n\n\n	R&D Tax Credits \n	R&D Payroll Tax Offsets\n	R&D Sales & Use Tax Partial Exemption (July 1\, 2014 to June 30\, 2022) \n\nArmanino LLP is the largest independent accounting and consulting firm based in California and one of the largest firms in the United States. They provide an integrated set of audit\, tax\, consulting\, business management and technology solutions to companies in the U.S. and globally with services to support U.S. and Canadian businesses\, high net worth individuals and employers.\n\nMr. James (Jim) Mayfield\, Director of the U.S. Commercial Service at the Orange County Export Assistance Center will be discussing the state of trade and export trends for Orange County including the region's ties to Canada. The U.S. Commercial Service is the lead trade promotion agency of the U.S. government. U.S. Commercial Service trade professionals in over 100 U.S. cities and more than 75 countries help U.S. companies get started in exporting or increase sales to new global markets. \n\nWe also have a cross-border success story to share within our MAPLE membership. Mr. David Gagnon\, President and CMO of allura printing\, inc.\, will be sharing how he and his brother Ren \, left Forestville\, Qu bec\, Canada to live in Orange County. Shortly thereafter they co-founded a successful commercial and book printing business that is now celebrating its 10th anniversary and is currently expanding to a larger location.\n\n \nMeeting Format\n7:30 - 8:30am Networking over a hot breakfast\n\n8:30 - 8:40am Report on MAPLE \n\n8:40 - 9:05am Armanino Consulting\n\n9:05 - 9:30am U.S. Commercial Service\n\n9:30 - 9:45am allura printing \n\n9:45 - 10:00am Concluding Remarks\n\n \n\nEvent Fee\n$30 payable in advance by credit card. No payments will be accepted at the door.\n\nFREE - MAPLE members\, partners and first-time guests to a MAPLE event\n\n \nThank You to Our Generous Host\nThank you to CSA Group for the opportunity to host our meeting in their conference center. CSA Group is an independent\, not-for-profit member-based association dedicated to advancing safety\, sustainability and social good. They are an internationally-accredited standards development and testing & certification organization. They also provide consumer product evaluation and eduation & training services. Their broad range of knowledge and expertise includes: industrial equipment\, plumbing & construction\, electro-medical & healthcare\, appliances & gas\, alternative energy\, lighting and sustainability. The CSA mark appears on billions of products around the world.\n\n \n\nWe look forward to a great evening of cross-border networking and insights!\n\n \n\nWe hope you can make it!\n\n\n\nKind regards\,\n\nMAPLE Business Council
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<h2><strong><span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;">Join us for our Winter Networking Event</span></span></strong></h2>\n<span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">As the cross-border business community for investment\, trade and entrepreneurship opportunities between Southern California and Canada\, we hope you can join us for our Winter Networking Event in Orange County. We are pleased to be returning to the conference center of MAPLE member Fabio Furlan at CSA Group.</span></span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;\n<h2><span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;">Our Presentations</span></span></h2>\n<span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">We have three excellent presentations planned.</span></span></span><br />\n<strong><span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">Mr. Stefan Joyner\, Business Development Manager </span></span></span></strong><span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">at MAPLE member organization <strong>Armanino LLP\, </strong>will discuss tax opportunities available to businesses including:</span></span></span>\n\n<ul>\n	<li style="color:black\;line-height:13.5pt\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">R&amp\;D Tax Credits </span></span></li>\n	<li style="color:black\;line-height:13.5pt\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">R&amp\;D Payroll Tax Offsets</span></span></li>\n	<li style="color:black\;line-height:13.5pt\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">R&amp\;D Sales &amp\; Use Tax Partial Exemption (July 1\, 2014 to June 30\, 2022) </span></span></li>\n</ul>\n<span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">Armanino LLP is the largest independent accounting and consulting firm based in California and one of the largest firms in the United States. They provide an integrated set of audit\, tax\, consulting\, business management and technology solutions to companies in the U.S. and globally with services to support U.S. and Canadian businesses\, high net worth individuals and employers.</span></span></span><br />\n<strong><span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">Mr. James (Jim) Mayfield\, Director of the U.S. Commercial Service at the Orange County Export Assistance Center</span></span></span></strong><span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;"> will be discussing the state of trade and export trends for Orange County including the region&#39\;s ties to Canada. The U.S. Commercial Service is the lead trade promotion agency of the U.S. government. U.S. Commercial Service trade professionals in over 100 U.S. cities and more than 75 countries help U.S. companies get started in exporting or increase sales to new global markets. </span></span></span><br />\n<span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">We also have a cross-border success story to share within our MAPLE membership. <strong>Mr. David Gagnon\, President and CMO of allura printing\, inc.</strong>\, will be sharing how he and his brother Ren&eacute\;\, left Forestville\, Qu&eacute\;bec\, Canada to live in Orange County. Shortly thereafter they co-founded a successful commercial and book printing business that is now celebrating its 10th anniversary and is currently expanding to a larger location.</span></span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;\n<h2><span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;">Meeting Format</span></span></h2>\n<span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">7:30 - 8:30am Networking over a hot breakfast</span></span></span><br />\n<span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">8:30 - 8:40am Report on MAPLE </span></span></span><br />\n<span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">8:40 - 9:05am Armanino Consulting</span></span></span><br />\n<span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">9:05 - 9:30am U.S. Commercial Service</span></span></span><br />\n<span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">9:30 - 9:45am allura printing </span></span></span><br />\n<span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">9:45 - 10:00am Concluding Remarks</span></span></span>\n\n<h2>&nbsp\;</h2>\n\n<h2><strong><span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;">Event Fee</span></span></strong></h2>\n<span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">$30 payable in advance by credit card. No payments will be accepted at the door.</span></span></span><br />\n<span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">FREE - MAPLE members\, partners and first-time guests to a MAPLE event</span></span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;\n<h2><span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;">Thank You to Our Generous Host</span></span></h2>\n<span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">Thank you to CSA Group for the opportunity to host our meeting in their conference center. CSA Group is an independent\, not-for-profit member-based association dedicated to advancing safety\, sustainability and social good. They are an internationally-accredited standards development and testing &amp\; certification organization. They also provide consumer product evaluation and eduation &amp\; training services. Their broad range of knowledge and expertise includes: industrial equipment\, plumbing &amp\; construction\, electro-medical &amp\; healthcare\, appliances &amp\; gas\, alternative energy\, lighting and sustainability. The CSA mark appears on billions of products around the world.</span></span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">We look forward to a great evening of cross-border networking and insights!</span></span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">We hope you can make it!<br />\n<br />\nKind regards\,<br />\nMAPLE Business Council</span></span></span>
LOCATION:CSA Group 34 Bunsen Drive Irvine\, CA 92618
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URL:https://app.greaterirvinechamber.com/events/details/maple-winter-event-orange-county-14256
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