2024 Business Opportunity Exchange
Resilient MBEs, refined supply chains, growing bottom lines — you can find this and more at our 2024 Business Opportunity Exchange (BOE).
About the Event
Spend the day with The Council, as we lay out a program jam-packed with sessions designed to expand your business relationships. From inspiring discussions to deep insights from leading diversity officers and minority suppliers, we’re giving businesses across our network the chance to Explore, Build, Succeed and Celebrate.
Network, Network, Network!
- Whether you’re representing a Fortune 500 company or a small MBE, this event is designed to help build connections.
- Meet diverse suppliers that bring innovative ideas to the table.
- Strengthen your knowledge of supplier programs from leading corporations and better understand how you can do business together.
- Market your products and services to hundreds of potential clients.
Registration is Now Closed
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Agenda
| 8:15 AM – 9:00 AM | Registration & Check-In Light breakfast available |
| 9:00 AM – 10:40 AM | Opening Session Terrence Clark | NY & NJ MSDC Oliver Gall | Prudential Jeanine Pedoto | Prudential Michael Gardner | NYC Chief Business Diversity Office Michelle Bodden | NJEDA Avis Yates | MBE Guest Speaker, Technology Concepts Group Javette Hines | Corporate Guest Speaker, Citi |
| 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM | MBE Workshop: Borrowing with Purpose and Confidence Ruben Rodriguez | Business Consortium Fund An Phan | Business Consortium Fund |
| Corporate Workshop: Communicating Your Supplier Diversity Story Jay Edwards | GSK Trung Tieu | Wells Fargo | |
| 12:00 PM – 1:45 PM | Luncheon & Keynote Speaker The Honorable Mayor Ras J. Baraka | Newark, New Jersey |
| 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM | MBE Workshop: Navigating the MBE Economic Landscape Cheryl McCants | Impact Consulting Enterprises |
| Corporate Workshop: Responsible Sourcing Dawn Wells | Northwell Health Punita Patel | Guardian Life Insurance | |
| 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Trade Fair |
| 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM | Closing Reception |
