Black Entrepreneurship Week 2023 - Kansas City
Presented by EBB and Twenty53, Cedric & Kira Cobb
Black Entrepreneurship Week focuses the nation’s attention on the nation’s largest growth entrepreneur group. In observance of National Black Business Month, EBB launches, Black Entrepreneurship Week, July 31st – August 4th, 2023. BEW 2023 is a week full of events focused on Black entrepreneurship featuring panel discussions, workshops, pitch competitions, black entrepreneur tours and nightly networking events in 12-different cities across the United States.
“Black Entrepreneurs are statistically the fastest and largest growing segment of entrepreneurs globally in the small business sector, yet; Black Entrepreneurs are the most underserved group for business capital, credit, resources, training and mentorship,” states Kira Cheree Cobb, Founder, EBB. LOCATION: Keystone CoLab Space 800 E. 18th Street Kansas City, MO 64108 AGENDA:
Time
Session
Name
8:00am - 8:30am
BEW Purpose, Breakfast
Cedric and Kira Cobb
BEW Founders and Hosts
8:30am - 8:45am
Welcoming Remarks
Mayor Quinton Lucas
City of Kansas City, MO
9:00am - 9:15am
Opening Remarks
Craig Moore, II
City of Kansas City, MO
9:15am - 9:45am
Collaborative reThink Session One
Cedric Cobb
BEW Founder and Host
10:00am - 10:45am
Keynote Speaker - Virtual*
Melissa Bradley
Founder of 1863
11:00am - 11:30am
Access to Capital - Are You Really Ready?
Simone Curls
Exe. Director, Prospect Business Association
11:30am - 11:45am
Collaborative reThink Session Two
Cedric Cobb
BEW Founder and Host
12:00pm - 12:45pm
Chair Side Conversation w/Kira Cheree’
Nia Richardson
Managing Director, KCBizCare
12:45pm - 1:15pm
AI and Black Entrepreneurs
Burton Kelso
Founder, INTEGRAL!
1:15pm - 1:30pm
Collaborative reThink Session Two
Cedric Cobb
BEW Founder and Host
1:30pm - 2:00PM
Closing Keynote
Kim Randolph
President and CEO, Heartland Black Chamber of Commerce
Join us for a day of conversation, workshops, panels and keynotes from the regions biggest contributors of entrepreneurship.
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