Diversity Best Practices and Business Women's Network Hosts Annual Diversity and Women's Leadership Summit & Gala.Motivational Speaker Les Brown, NAACP NAACP in full National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Oldest and largest U.S. civil rights organization. It was founded in 1909 to secure political, educational, social, and economic equality for African Americans; W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Head Bruce Gordon and Judge Glenda Hatchett among Keynote Speakers; Top Chief Executives Honored for Diversity Leadership WASHINGTON -- Diversity Best Practices (DBP DBP Diastolic Blood Pressure DBP Development Bank of the Philippines DBP Database Project (Visual Studio File Extension) DBP DNA Binding Protein DBP Disinfection Byproduct DBP Deutsche Bundespost ) and the Business Women's Network (BWN BWN Business Women's Network BWN Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam - Brunei International (Airport Code) BWN Beast Wars Neo (Transformers cartoon) BWN Basement Waterproofing Nationwide, Inc. ) will host its 13th annual Diversity and Women's Leadership Summit, which also includesCofor the sixth year in a rowCothe 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. Leadership Gala, Oct. 25 and Oct. 26, 2006 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. This two-day event for entrepreneurs, corporate executives, government officials and university administrators includes panel discussions, informational breakout sessions and keynote addresses on diversity and inclusion and their positive impact on America's workforce and marketplace. For more detailed agenda information, log on to: http://www.summit.bwni.com. Among the high-profile guests are renowned motivational speaker and author Les Brown, NAACP President and Chief Executive Officer Bruce Gordon and noted jurist and bestselling author Judge Glenda Hatchett. Representatives from such global brands as MGM MIRAGE, the Coca-Cola Company, Walt Disney Co., Deloitte & Touche, the Eastman Kodak Co. and countless others will be among the more than 1,500 expected participants. As in previous years, the event culminates with the CEO Leadership Gala, on the evening of Oct. 26, at which eight chief executive officers are honored for their roles in weaving diversity throughout the fabric of their respective corporate cultures: * Allstate Insurance Company, CEO and Chairman: Edward M. Liddy Edward M. Liddy is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Allstate Corporation. He is currently on the Board of 3M, Goldman Sachs and The Kroger Company. • • * Colgate-Palmolive Company, CEO and Chairman: Reuben Mark * Ernst & Young, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer: James S. Turley * Hewitt Associates, Chairman and CEO: Dale Gifford * The Home Depot, Chairman, President and CEO: Robert (Bob) L. Nardelli * Lucent Technologies, Inc., Chairman and CEO: Patricia F. Russo * Time Warner Chairman and CEO: Richard D. Parsons * Weyerhaeuser Company, Chairman, President and CEO: Steven R. Rogel Immediately prior to the Leadership Gala, these top executives will participate in a CEO Forum at which they will examine and discuss the issues of the day as they relate to diversity and inclusion. Moderated by Judge Hatchett, the CEO Forum also includes special remarks from Barry Salzberg, chairman, DBP CEO Initiatives and managing partner, Deloitte & Touche USA LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol ; Antonio M. Perez Antonio M. Perez is the current CEO of The Eastman Kodak Company, based in Rochester, NY. Perez has been part of Kodak since 2001. In February 2007, he led a launch event at Studio 8H in New York City to support the launch of the new Kodak EasyShare all-in-one printers supported by the , vice chair, DBP CEO Initiatives and chairman and CEO, The Eastman Kodak Company; Barbara Krumsiek, CEO, Calvert Group Ltd., and Richard Macedonia, CEO, Sodexho Inc. "In the today's business environment, more and more corporate leadersCoand their stakeholdersCoare acknowledging that building a diverse workforce that connects to an ever-changing marketplace and global community is more than a social imperative," said Edie Fraser, DBP and BWN founder. "It makes good business sense." Sponsors for the 2006 Diversity and Women's Leadership Summit & Gala: Allstate Insurance Company, AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , AT&T, BellSouth, Calvert Group Ltd., Chevron Corp., Cingular Wireless, Cisco Systems Inc., Colgate-Palmolive Co., Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, DuPont, The Eastman Kodak Company, Ernst & Young, Express Personnel Services, Fish Window Cleaning Services Inc., Goldman Sachs, Hewitt Associates, Hudson Highland Group, L'Oreal, Merrill Lynch, Monster, Moran Industries Inc., Office Depot, Office Max, Paragon Slate LLC, Progress Energy, SAIC SAIC - http://saic.com. , Sodexho USA, Southern Company, Sunlight Saunas, The Dwyer Group, The Home Depot, Time Warner, Two Men and a Truck, Verizon Communications, VISA USA, Wachovia, Wal-Mart and Weyerhaeuser Co. About DBP and BWN Diversity Best Practices (DBP) (www.diversitybestpractices.com) and Business Women's Network (BWN) (www.bwni.com) are membership-based organizations for senior diversity practitioners, women business owners Many online and offline organizations have been created to collect information about businesses around the world owned and operated by women. Many other organizations have been created to assist the women that own and operate those businesses. and entrepreneursCoproviding leadership options, best practices, counsel, in-depth-research and reports, benchmarking tools and forums necessary to create sustainable diversity solutions for all levels of their organizations. Both organizations are subsidiaries of iVillage, the #1 Internet destination for women, which was recently acquired by NBC Universal. |
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