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EXPO AGENDA
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Welcome & Opening Prayer
Mistress of Ceremony – Ms. Lillian McMorris
Dr. Robert Fowler, Victory MB Church
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM
Welcome - NLV City Attorney
Sandra Douglass Morgan
9:35 AM -10:30 AM
Dr. Charles Okeke PHD
Economic Overview of Africa
10:35 AM-11:30AM
Andrew Edlefsen
Nevada Director/U.S. Commercial Services
BREAK
12:00 PM
LUNCH - Senator Dean Heller
Candice Shriver, Special Assistant to the National Director MBDA
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
International Financing Panel
Jean Baquidy, MBDA/U.S. Dept. of Commerce
Chris Sanchez, State of Nevada
BREAK
3:15 PM - 5:00 PM
State of Nevada Exporting/Importing Panel
5:00 PM
Closing Remarks - Mr. Ernest Fountain, President
Closing Prayer - Pastor Willie Jacobs
5:30-8:00 PM
Reception
The agenda is tentative and subject to change as speakers are invited and not yet confirmed.
EXPO AGENDA
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
9:00 AM- 9:20 AM
Welcome – Lillian McMorris
Prayer - Pastor Jean Marrimon
9:30 AM- 10:30 AM
The Role of Black Media & Empowerment
Moderator, Lillian McMorris
Ramon Savoy, Sentinel Voice
Craig Knight, General Manager, KCEP Radio
Brenda Ward, Determined Grandmothers Magazine
Kimberly Bailey, Turead/Black Image Magazine
Peggy Dobson, UBC-TV
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Access to Capital
Moderator, Ernest M. Fountain, NVCDC
Leann Jenkins, VEDC
Erin McDermott, Accion
William Arent, CLV Redevelopment
Grenell Martin, Bank of the West
Michael Edwards, East West Bank
Otis Harris, Founder & CEO, Unibex Global Corp
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Lunch - Keynote Speaker
Robert Holguin, Nevada District Director, Small Business Administration
Honoree - Ed Brown, Retired Former Chief Director SBA
BREAK
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Contracting Opportunities in Nevada
Moderator, Jo Cato, Perwinkle
Johnny Shaw, LVCVA
Lynn Cichon, State Procurement Outreach
Adleen B. Stidhum, Clark County
Nanette Randolph, SBA
Sonnie Braih, NDOT
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Black Organizational Unity
Moderator, Jerrie Merritt, Bank of Nevada
Ken Evans, President, Urban Chamber of Commerce
Katherine Duncan, Ward 5 Chamber
Sylvia Allen, President, National Coalition 100 Black Women
Joe Jones, President, 100 Black Men of Las Vegas
Greg Glover, Vice-President, Black Business Council
Roxanne McCoy, Vice President, NAACP
BREAK
5:30 PM -8:00 PM
Entertainment
The agenda is tentative and subject to change as speakers are invited and not yet confirmed.
EXPO AGENDA
Thursday, May 28, 2015
9:00 AM
Mistress of Ceremonies – Ms. C. C. Spencer
Welcome & Opening Prayer
Pastor Jean Marrimon
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Black Women in Business
Moderator, Vershaun Ragland, MBDA Business Center
Gwen Chaney, CEO,Expertise
Brenda Walls, CEO, Walls Gourmet Foods
Kimberly Bailey Tureaud/Black Image
Joyce Dawson, CEO, Sonitrol
Jo Cato, CEO, Periwinkle
Peggy Dodson, UBC-TV
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Black Economic
Ernest M. Fountain, President, Black Business Council
BREAK
11:30 AM- 12:25 PM
Black Men in Business
Moderator, Greg Glover
John McDonald, JW Enterprises
John Edmond, Nucleus Investments
Oscar Kyles, Weseri
Mel Green, KME Architects
Stephen Thomas, TPT GLOBAL TECH
12:30 PM
Luncheon/Keynote Speaker
Commissioner Lawrence Weekly
1:30 PM- 2:30 PM
Role of the Black Church in Economics
Moderator, Commissioner Lawrence Weekly
Dr. Robert Fowler, Victory MB Church
Pastor Willie Jacobs, True Love BC
Supt. Bill McDonnell Jr., Ebenezer (COGIC)
Dr. Ralph E. Williamson, FAME
BREAK
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Emerging Markets of Africa
LaVerne Adekunle/Nigeria
Sarah Sarayi/Zimbabwe
3:30 PM- 3:45 PM
State Legislative Update - Ernest Fountain
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Brian Harris
Las Vegas Black Book
4:00 PM – 5:25 PM
Entrepreneurship - The Future of the Black Economy
Moderator, Ernest Fountain
Byron Goynes, Nevada Job Connect
Ocie Burton, OBE Corporation
Larry Lovelett, Help of Southern Nevada
5:25 PM
Youth Entrepreneurs Panelist
William McCurdy, Former CCSN Student Body President
DeAndre McGee
Amanda T. Staten
Closing Prayer - Pastor Jean Marrimon
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Entertainment
The agenda is tentative and subject to change as speakers are invited and not yet confirmed.