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Innovation & Black Entrepreneurship Series
BACKGROUND
The Innovation & Black Entrepreneurship Series seeks to spotlight, endow, and uplift Black professionals and burgeoning entrepreneurs with the strategic tools to explore and launch new ventures through featured keynotes, interactive workshops, dynamic panel conversations, and peer-to-peer learning and networking opportunities.
Conference participants will learn from prominent business leaders (e.g., venture capital practitioners, successful entrepreneurs) and esteemed Wharton faculty about best practices on how to strategically explore and launch their own ventures.
WORKSHOP MODULES
The Series will have two keynote speakers and four core modules focused on design-thinking, product development, capital fundraising, and growing and scaling ventures.
- Module 1 | Innovating by Design: Developing the Next Big Idea
- Module 2 | Inclusion in Tech: Product Development, Team Building, & Investing
- Module 3 | Securing the Bag: Bootstrapping, Angel Investors, & Venture Capital
- Module 4 | Beating the Odds: Growing & Scaling your Venture
Carla Harris
Vice Chairman & Managing Director
Morgan Stanley
Ryan Williams
Founder & CEO
Cadre
Stacy Brown-Philpot
Former CEO | Advisor | Board Director
TaskRabbit | SoftBank Opportunity Fund | HP Inc, Nordstrom, Black Girls Code, & The Urban Institute