The Black Business Students Association’s Annual Conference is the longest running student-led event in Columbia Business School’s history. This year BBSA is proud to celebrate the 30th anniversary of this event. To commemorate the great strides Blacks have made in business and industry, as well as the vast potential for future success, we have chosen the theme, “Looking Back, Moving Forward.”
To represent this year’s theme we have chosen the Adinkra symbol “Sankofa,” which means “go back and fetch it”. The Akan people of Ghana have used “Sankofa” to symbolize the proverb “it is not wrong to go back for what you have forgotten.” The symbol can be interpreted as taking all that is good from the past and bringing it to the present. It is in this spirit that we celebrate all of the accomplishments Blacks in business have made over the past thirty years, and strategize ways to move forward into an even brighter future.
***NEW DISCOUNTED TICKET PRICES***
The BBSA Conference Team is excited to announce that we have increased the conference capacity which allows us to reduce the price of tickets for both the 30th BBSA Conference and Gala.
Conference + Gala for Students: $75
Conference + Gala for Professionals: $100
Benefit Gala
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Helmsley Park Lane Hotel
Seven O’Clock Cocktails
Eight O’Clock Dinner & Program
Cocktail attire suggested
Conference Agenda
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Columbia University, Alfred Lerner Hall
09:30am – Breakfast and Registration
10:30am – Opening Address
11:00am – Panel 1: The Tech Sector and Entrepreneurship
12:15pm – Panel 2: Life Cycle of a Career
1:30pm – Lunch
2:00pm – Keynote Address
2:30pm – Panel 3: Black Spending
3:45pm – Panel 4: Impact Investing and Corporate Social Responsibility
5:00pm – Networking Reception OR Admissions Reception with Michael Robinson
9:00pm – After party
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