Workshop A: Negotiation Nora Madjar

The goal of this interactive training workshop is to improve  participants’ skills in deal making and dispute resolution through hand-on experiences designed to build confidence and allow experimentation with different influence and persuasion techniques. Read More

In this workshop, participants will discuss how to capitalize on export opportunities into emerging markets. These emerging markets are currently predicted to approach 35% of world-wide consumer spending by 2020.  In that time, a total of 270 million new households will enter the global consumer class.

Workshop C: Empathy in Innovation & Entrepreneurship Peter Barkman

In this workshop participants will engage with empathy as the most important tool for value creation in today’s innovative businesses. This hands on workshop will start it’s participants down the road to understanding why empathy is so important and how something that soft and fluffy became a hard business variable. Read More

This panel will address the rise of alternatives to traditional angel and venture capital investments in early stage startups, including accredited crowdfunding, strategic corporate venturing, and micro-VC investment. Read More

The goal of this workshop is to teach you how to use the power of networking to surround yourself with a network of professionals that you can leverage to help grow your business, your career, or other future goals. Read More

The workshop focuses on the challenge of diagnosing a given problem – such as, ‘what is preventing us from making progress‘ – and then challenging and reframing people’s initial perception of that problem. Read More