Concept to Creation to Consumer: The Road to Entrepreneurship
About this Event
Co-sponsored by:
Business of Fashion Program
Student Affairs
Institutional Advancement
Agenda
🕑: 12:00 PM - 12:10 PM
Welcome Remarks:
Host: KCC President Suri Duitch
🕑: 12:10 PM - 12:25 PM
Keynote: #RockstarConfidence: Selling Brand YOU!
Host: Precious L. Wiliams
Info: Whatever you want in life—an internship, a scholarship, a career, a promotion—you're going to need to be able to identify and define your unique value to get it. But how do you go
about that work? Shark Tank alum, 13-time national elevator pitch champion and author Precious L. Williams comes to Kingsborough to show you how to find and express your voice and seize that next opportunity. Because whatever idea, service or product you're selling—the brand is always you.
🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
How They Did It: 6 Brands That Have Impact
Host: Ayana Archie, Moderator
Info: How do you take your good idea for a business, product or your own personal brand and develop it into something people want? Our panel of makers, shakers, marketers, and entrepreneurs will cover each step—from concept, to creative, to consumer—of the product development journey and share what works, what doesn’t and what it takes to stand out in any industry or marketplace.
Panelists: Everick Brown, founder and principal, Everick Brown Design; Thomas Dima, head of global communications, UWG INC.; Gabrielle “Gabby” Napolitano, director of partnerships and communications, Brooklyn Made Stores, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce; Giella Poblocki, founder and owner, GIELLA custom blend cosmetics; Michael Zamora, production and VIP alterations team, Vera Wang; Jonathan Zimmerman, digital marketing consultant, artist and serial entrepreneur.
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