"No other event in the state offers this caliber of programming," said Heather Bricetti, president and chief executive of the Business Council.

HOT PERCOCO: Joseph Percoco isn't running for anything but you can expect to hear his name plenty of times before November.

The former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo — whom the governor once likened to a brother — was sentenced to six years in federal prison on Thursday for a bribery scheme related to state economic development funding.

Cuomo's general election opponents, including Republican Marc Molinaro and independent former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, are seizing on the case and Cuomo's defense that he didn't know about the misdeeds as evidence that the governor has failed to deliver on promises to address Albany's chronic corruption problem.

Cuomo tried to turn the tables with a new campaign ad released the same day as Percoco's sentencing. The spot accuses Molinaro of doing favors for a local architecture firm that donated to his campaign and briefly hired his wife. The total of the contributions? Just over $5,500 over several years.