Celebrated Business Leaders, Seminars, and Networking Highlight the 2008 Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Conference Hosted by General Motors.Our World with Black Enterprise to Conduct Live Town Hall Television Forum; Pursuit of Happyness Author Chris Gardner Interviewed Live on Stage NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- The Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Conference + Expo hosted by General Motors features four days of business, motivational, and leadership seminars designed to empower and profit emerging and established minority businesses. The conference, May 14-17 and at the Charlotte Convention Center The Charlotte Convention Center opened in 1995 and attracts more than half a million visitors each year. It was designed by Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates (TVS). in Charlotte, North Carolina “Charlotte” redirects here. For other uses, see Charlotte (disambiguation). Charlotte is the largest city in the state of North Carolina and the 20th largest city in the United States. this year, consistently attracts up to 2,000 of the nation's most prominent business power players. This year's conference highlights: * Earl G. Graves Sr., BLACK ENTERPRISE chairman and publisher, kicks off the conference. Remarks from Edward T. Welburn, VP of Global Design, General Motors, will follow. * Legendary business mogul Michael Lee-Chin, executive chairman of AIC Limited, and chairman of Portland Holdings Inc., will deliver the keynote address. Lee-Chin grew AIC AIC Association des Infermières Canadiennes. from $1 million in assets under management Assets Under Management (AUM) is a term used by financial services companies in the mutual fund and money management or investment management business to gauge how much money they are managing. to $8 billion in assets under management. * Chris Gardner, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Christopher Gardner International Holdings and author of The Pursuit of Happyness shares his incredible rags-to-riches story in a one-on-one interview during the Black Enterprise Small Business Awards hosted by Ariel Investments. * The BE Small Business Boot Camp hosted by Sam's Club provides attendees with the foundation for starting a business. * The Elevator Pitch Competition hosted by American Express asks entrepreneurs to take their best two-minute shot at selling a million-dollar idea. * Our World with Black Enterprise continues its exceptional second television season with a live Town Hall taping. Hosted by Emmy Award-winning journalist Ed Gordon, the forum will take an in-depth look at the challenges facing African American's in today's society. Panelists include Rev. Al Sharpton, president, National Action Network; Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor, Department of Politics, Princeton University; Roland Martin, broadcast journalist and author; Chuck D., rap artist, author, producer, social activist; and Kimberly Osorio, executive editor, BET.com. * Grammy Award winner Kirk Franklin will perform his urban gospel hits during an evening of networking hosted by Pepsi. * The Kidpreneur/Teenpreneur Conference presented by Wendy's International takes place May 15-17. * Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Inc. will be named Company of the Year at the BE100s Awards Dinner hosted by ExxonMobil. For registration and schedule information, visit www.blackenterprise.com/beec. The 2008 Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Conference + Expo hosted by General Motors is presented by Aetna, OPEN from American Express, Ariel Investments, Cadillac, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , ExxonMobil, Frito-Lay, Pepsi, SAM's CLUB, and Wachovia. Platinum sponsors include American Airlines, FedEx, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , State Farm([R]), Wendy's International, and Verizon Wireless. Corporate sponsors include Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. and Kodak. |
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