Opening Plenary
9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Minority Participation: Corporate, Public and Institutional Pension Plans.
A discussion of efforts to increase public and corporate pension fund asset investment with minority-owned financial services firms
Moderator: Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Founder & President, Rainbow PUSH
Speaker: John Rogers, Chairman, Ariel Capital confirmed
Invitees: Jeff Beasley, Treasurer City of Detroit confirmed
Jim Reynolds, President, Loop Capital*
Emma McIntosh, Progress Movement*
Location: 1st Floor – Washington Room
Concurrent Sessions
11:45 AM – 1:15 PM
Marketing Uprising: The New Media Explosion
Session I New media can be defined as a non-traditional way of delivering advertising and promotion messages (anything from text messaging to the Internet.) The popularity of social networking sites, such as LinkedIn, MySpace, and Facebook, has set new precedent for doing business. In this session we will discuss the added benefits of “New Media” and how you can implement them in your business to increase your company’s bottom-line and exposure.
Moderator:
Panelists: Tai Foster, Edelman*
Janice Bond, Rainbow PUSH Coalition*
Kevin Donahue, YouTube*
Jeff Karnes, Yahoo*
Guhan Selvaretnam, Reuters*
Location: 3rd Floor – Rm. 301
Session II Economics & Our Economy
The housing crisis turned credit crunch is sending shockwaves through the economy, reaching way beyond the sub-prime home lending sector where the trouble began. From apprehensive lenders, suspended deals and declining profits to CEO’s bowing out for the final act, everyone is feeling the results of the flailing housing market. In this session you will hear from industry experts on possible strategies to reduce perfusive losses and methods on reducing the pain.
Moderator: Anita Kelley, Harold Washington College confirmed
Panelists: Carol Brown, Liehman Brothers*
Location: 3rd Floor – Rm. 302
Session III Contracts and Procurement Opportunities
This session will cover strategies for securing contracts, expanding business through procurement opportunities and the value of being certified.
Moderator: Roosevelt Martin, Greater Southside Entrepreneurship Center confirmed
Panelists: Mark Hands, Chicago Dept. of Procurement Services*
Warren Thompson, President, Thompson Hospitality *
Location: 3rd Floor – Rm. 303
Session IV Community Excellence: Fostering Partnerships Between Professional Athletes and Corporate America
This session will discuss ways that corporations can work with the community through the efforts of professional athletes.
Moderator: Floyd Keith, Executive Director, Black Coaches & Administrators confirmed
Panelists: Laurence Holmes, The Score*
Jim Rose, ABC*
Location: 3rd Floor – Rm. 304
LUNCHEON
1:30:00 PM – 3:30 PM
The Sub-prime Lending Crisis: A New Call to Action
The sub prime mortgage crisis has the potential to rival just about anything in recent financial history from the savings-and-loan crisis of the late 1980s to the post-Enron turndown at the beginning of this decade. Political leaders, industry practitioners, and community leaders come together develop practical solutions to the melt down in the financial markets which has far reach to mainstream America.
Keynote Speaker: Alexi Giannoulias, Illinois State Treasurer confirmed
Martin Grienberg, Vice Chairman, FDIC confirmed
Honoree: Cirilo McSween, BMOA*
Location: 1st Floor – Washington Room
5:00:00 PM – 8:00 PM RECEPTION
* means that the person has been invited and has not responded.
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