MainEvent is an annual multimedia program that delivers the world's top business leaders to companies and colleges around the world. Participants in this program will actively engage in life-enhancing and company-changing dialogue with speakers via satellite.

"We really wanted to bring something of a global level to campus to get both men and women of the community involved," said Patricia Brock, director of continuing education.

Topics to be discussed include New Strategies for Igniting Innovation, Distributing the Equilibrium of the Past: Winning Strategies for Life in Challenging Times, The Ultimate Paradox: Becoming More Adaptable in Order to be Resilient, Making Global and Local Work Both Personally and Professionally and Is Ethical Business an Oxymoron? How Should Business be Done?

Forum speakers will include Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO; Margot Cairnes, Change Dynamic CEO; Carla Cico, Brasil Telecom CEO; Maxine Clark, founder and chief Executive Bear of Build-A-Bear; Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings; Joe Forehand, Accenture CEO; Jamie Gorelick, vice chair of Fannie Mae; General James Jones, US Marine Corps Commandant; Ellen Kullman, Dupont Group vice president; Mary Minnick, Coca Cola Asia Group president and COO; Luciano Respini, Dow Europe president; Yakako Uchinaga, IBM Japan's managing director and Theodore Zedlin, dean of St. Anthony's College and Oxford University author.