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07:30 am
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Registration
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07:30 am – 08:30 am
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Networking/Continental Breakfast
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08:30 am – 09:00 am
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Welcome/Opening Remarks
Cheryl Gentry, Executive Producer, The DANDI Awards
Sherry Snipes, Executive Producer, The DANDI Awards
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9:00 am – 09:20 am
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DANDI Talk “Disruptive Change”
Let's talk about disruptive change, innovation ... typically an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network. Listen to this IBM executive's DANDI talk about how disruptive change shaped his life, and also how this concept continues to add market value to IBM from a diversity perspective as IBM continues to shape and innovate how business is done globally.
Speaker:
Anthony Tenicela, Global Leader and Business Development Executive, Workforce Diversity and LGBT Markets, IBM Corporation
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9:20 am-10:05am
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DANDI Conversation “Race to the Top”
We are all in a race and sometimes it seems like we never stop sprinting. So how do you navigate the rat race in your race to the top? Corporations, executives and entrepreneurs have figured out how to gain the "diversity" competitive advantage to get to the top of their game! In this session, we'll keep it real by discussing real experiences, real challenges, opportunities and successes with real people.
Host:
Cheryl Gentry, Executive Producer, The DANDI Awards
Speakers:
Christian Baldia, President, Constellation Strategy & Analytical Services
Jerry Bias, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Sugarleaf Vineyards
Graciela Meibar, VP Global Diversity, Mattel
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10:05 am – 10:55 am
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DANDI Conversation “Marketing to the Market, Engaging Emerging Markets”
This is an intimate conversation with the experts, on how they engage multi-cultural markets. Organizations that understand diverse marketing strategies are ahead of the curve in their client base, consumer markets and/or globalizations strategies. These industry leaders will divulge what it takes to research, analyze and tap diverse markets and avoid major cultural faux pas.
Host:
Mark Szollar, Advertising Director of Diversity and Recruitment, The New York Times
Speakers:
Suzette C. Bather, Director, MBDA Business Center
Singleton Beato, SVP, Diversity & Inclusion Strategy and Talent Development, 4 A’s
Christina Schelling, Vice President, Global Diversity & Inclusion, American Express
Navarrow Wright, CTO, Interactive One
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10:55 am – 11:05 am
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Break
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11:05 am – 11:35 pm
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DANDI Chat “Visionary Inclusionary”
Yes, we created a new word because the leaders on this panel are driving forth with strategic visions that are changing the way diversity has typically been implemented. Our DANDI Chatters are not afraid to take risks, have authentic conversations to shift the diversity landscape for their organizations or others. Listen to two major players in the diversity space to hear the current state, but more importantly their visions for the future state of inclusion.
Speaker:
Dr. Lapchick, Director, Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport
Wendy Lewis, SVP of Diversity & Strategic Alliances, Major League Baseball
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11:40 pm-12:00 pm
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DANDI Talk The Research “Goods”
Hear from an organization that has a foundation based on surveys. Universum works with diversity research and help employers to understand a diverse workforce. Today conducting more than 80 extensive, detailed, independent surveys in 30 countries and surveying over 400,000 students and professionals globally. This DANDI talk will cover information that organizations need to know, particularly related to aspirations, job market perceptions and employer brand image opinions of professionals and students. Learn what employers can do to improve their appeal and attractiveness. Discover interesting relevant information on over 25,000 students with diverse backgrounds.
Speaker:
Camille Kelly, Vice President, Employer Branding, Universum Group
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12:05 pm – 1:15pm
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Box Lunch/ Lunch Keynote
Remarks:
Reverend George E. Holmes
DANDI Chat “Impacting Communities through STEM!
Let's Talk about STEM! American students score 23rd in math and 31st in science when comapred with 65 other top industrial countries.
The Department of Labor estimates there will be more than 1.2 million job openings in STEM - related fields by 2018, but not enough people to fill them.
This important DANDI Chat will focus on corporations, non-profits and private industry utilization of technology and the current/futue intersect with diversity initiatives. Are diveristy teams a part of STEM initiatives?
Speakers
Edie Fraser, CEO, STEMconnector.org
Shari Slate, Chief Inclusion and Collaboration Strategist, The America’s Cisco
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1:20pm – 2:15 pm
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DANDI Talks All Angle D & I Leadership
Effective D & I leadership starts from the top, engages the middle and moves the needle from all angles. Organizations that have figured it out will share their strategies to create D & I champions at all levels of their organizations- top-down, bottom-up, middle-down, etc.
Host:
Marsha Haygood, President, Stepwise Associates
Why are minority males last in, first out?
Bob Ingram, Publisher, Uptown Professional
This DANDI Talk will keep it real by discussing the realities facing diverse men. Do current realities contribute to the stereotypes/biases surrounding diverse males and do they impact how corporations view diverse males? What role do the media play or should they play and how can "WE" collectively shift this paradigm and reshape this image?
To Hair or not to Hair
Sherry Snipes, Executive Producer, The DANDI Awards
In this instance, it's all about hair. Today, women have many style options and today more than ever women of color are embracing culture and diversity through their hair expressions. During this DANDI Talk, the presenter will explore questions such as:
- Are corporations really accepting of various expressions of individuality?
- Can you lock up the job with locks?
- Does "natural" hinder natural career growth?
- How can organizations create a culture of hair acceptance?
Inclusiveness: “and all others”
Jonathan Kaufman, Founder & President, Disability Works
Typically when people think about diversity, the first characteristics that come to mind are race and gender. Let's talk about "all others" which in many instances refers those other differences such as differently-abled, disabled and accessibility issues. This engaging talk will challenge the norms, discuss solutions and share success stories. Let's break the image paradigm related to these differences.
Are Women Really from Venus?
Janet Salazar, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Foundation for the Support of the United Nations
According to bestselling author and relationship coach, John Gray most of common relationship problems between the sexes are a result of fundamental differences between the genders, which the author exemplifies by means of the book's eponymous metaphor: that men and women are from different planets, – men from Mars and women from Venus – and that each gender is acclimated to its own planet's society and customs. These concepts manifest themselves in communication styles and how stress is handled. During this DANDI Talk the speaker will tackle gender differences in relation to workplace relationships. Are gender differences really that different and if so how can gender differences be leveraged to support advancement of women, Or can they?
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2:20pm –3:00pm
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Game winning strategies to access talent, period!
Create your own best case scenario for locating, hiring and retaining the best and brightest. You will hear from organizations with access to talent and the organizations that are tapping hidden talent pools with game winning strategies.
Host:
Paul Lachhu, Chairman & CEO, Diversity Global Magazine
Speaker:
Dr. Bill Crouch, President, Georgetown College
William Rolack, Director of Global Diversity and Inclusion, Adecco
Nadine Vogel, President, Springboard Consulting LLC
Anthony Junior, Director, Department of the Navy’s
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3:00pm-3:05pm
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Closing Remarks
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