Southport,
CT, February 16, 2016 / -- DiversityBusiness.com, the nation's leading
business internet portal will be hosting its "16th Annual National
Business Summit"
on April 26, 2016 at Time Warner Center in New York, New York.
Produced for business owners and the corporations, government agencies
and educational institutions that utilize their services, the
DiversityBusiness.com summit offers a solid platform for the kind of
interactivity, exchange and networking that is usually missing from daily
business life, due to physical distance, busy work schedules and other
factors.
The summit is expected to draw together a strong mix of entrepreneurs,
mid to senior level executives from Fortune 500 corporations, government
agencies, and educational institutions, hr and diversity and inclusion
practitioners and social media and tech enthusiast from all over the United
States.
Proceeding with the theme of ensuring attendees walk away with key
takeaways that inform, motivate and inspire, the event will address a wide
range of topics which include: motivation, leadership,
entrepreneurship/innovation, technology/social media and diversity.
Michelle Van Otten, Founder and Managing Director of Profit Ventures, LLC;
Aisha Bowe, Co-Founder & CEO of STEMBoard and Tiffany Pham, Founder & CEO of
MOGUL will be kicking off the event with keynote presentations.
The event will also feature a Chief Diversity Officer "town hall" forum
discussion which will be given by some of the world's leading brands which
include: Time Warner Cable, MetLife, MasterCard, Metropolitan Transportation
Authority, Ingersoll Rand, American Red Cross, and NYC Department of
Information Technology. Jennifer Brown, Founder, President & CEO of Jennifer
Brown Consulting will be moderating the discussion.
Rounding out the event, the gala will also feature companies being
formally recognized for their hard work and commitment to multicultural
markets in the United States. Companies formally honored at the
conference will be winners of the Div50 and the Div500 listings, which
honor, respectively, the Fortune 500 companies and government agencies most
dedicated to supporting diversity and the nation's top diversity-owned
businesses.
"We're looking forward to another dynamic, successful year of celebrating
entrepreneurship and multiculturalism," said Kenton Clarke, CEO of
DiversityBusiness.com. "The U.S. is so vast and diverse, and business moves
so fasts, that were it not for events such as this one, the key underpinning
of lasting, rewarding business relationships-face-to-face contact-would
slowly fade into the background. Each year we see new faces, engage in new
vibrant presentations that bring fresh ideas and new perspectives to
business world and applaud remarkable leaders who continue to drive our
economic landscape into the future.
Major Sponsors for the event included: U.S. Postal Service, Wal-Mart, Apple,
Northrop Grumman, Time Warner, Hilton, Raytheon, and Colgate Palmolive.
About The Summit
This is a summit for any person with an interest in, and concern for
building our economy, educational system and society through innovation,
diversity and inclusion. As the summit enters its 16th year, central focus
remains the same. To ensure attendees walk away motivated, inspired and
fired up by the key takeaways given by the strong mix of influential and
well-renowned business leaders gathered to lead this invigorating event.
Addressing topics which include: motivation, leadership,
entrepreneurship/innovation, technology/social media and diversity; the
summit offers a rich spectrum of perspectives that are pertinent to all
business professionals. In addition, the summit offers a solid platform for
the kind of interactivity, exchange and networking that is usually missing
from daily business life due to physical distance, busy work schedules and
other factors.
Now a major national business summit, DiversityBusiness.com first annual
summit was held in Fairfield University in Connecticut during 2001. The
summit has a history of bringing together entrepreneurs, corporate supplier
diversity and procurement executives, chief diversity officers, diversity
and inclusion and hr practitioners, government agencies and
college/university practice-based participants with an interest in the
issues of multicultural business and community. The summit examines the
concept of entrepreneurship and multiculturalism as a positive aspect of a
global world and globalized society. Diversity is in many ways reflective of
our present world order. Diversity as a mode of social existence can be
projected in ways that deepen the range of human experience. The summit will
seek to explore the full range of what diversity means and explore modes of
diversity in real-life situations of living/working together in community.
The summit supports a move away from simple affirmations that ‘diversity is
good’ to a much more account of the effects and uses of diversity on
differently situated communities in the context of our current epoch of
globalization. The summit looks at the realities of diversity today,
critically as well as optimistically and strategically. The summit will be a
place for speaking about diversity, and in ways that range from the ‘big
picture’ and the theoretical, to the very practical and everyday realities
of diversity in organizations, communities and civic life. The annual
national summit is a participants’ event, including numerous parallel
sessions. Summit attendees have benefited from the numerous networking and
educational sessions. The summit also has a special focus on forging long
term relationships for businesses and major corporations. Attendee’s have
reported millions of dollars in contract awards from attendance at the
summit.
The Div50
The Div50 is a listing of the top 50 corporate and organizational buyers of
diversity products and services throughout the country. It represents the
voices of over 1,500,000 diversity-owned businesses in the U.S., in sectors
such as technology, manufacturing, food service and professional services.
The Div50 is produced annually by DiversityBusiness.com, the nation's
leading multicultural B2B Internet portal that links large organizational
buyers to multicultural product and service suppliers. Over 1,500,000 women
and diverse-owned businesses had the opportunity to vote in the 2016 online
election. A complete list of the winners is available at:
www.DiversityBusiness.com/Div50.
The Div500
The Div500 List honors the nation's top diversity-owned businesses. It is a
classification that represents the top 500 U.S. diversity-owned (Small
Business, Women, African American, Hispanics, Asians, Native Indian and
other diverse groups) businesses in sectors such as technology,
manufacturing, food service and professional services. Ranging in revenue
size from $1 million to over $2 billion, these companies represent the
nation's top multicultural earners and challenge the long-held notion that a
diversity-owned business is small or insignificant. The Div500 is produced
annually by DiversityBusiness.com, the nation's leading multicultural B2B
Internet portal that links large organizational buyers to multicultural
product and service suppliers.
Press Contact: | Quantise Rodgers | DiversityBusiness.com |
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About DiversityBusiness.com
Launched in 1999, DiversityBusiness is the largest association of privately
owned businesses throughout the United States that provide goods and
services to Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, and colleges and
universities. DiversityBusiness provides research and data collection
services for diversity including the "Top 50 Organizations for Multicultural
Business Opportunities", "Top 500 Diversity Owned Companies in America", and
others. Its research has been recognized and published by Forbes Magazine,
Business Week and thousands of other print and internet publications. The
site has gained national recognition and has won numerous awards for its
content and design.
