DUSABLE 2020: INVESTED IN US
Conference Agenda
Open Networking
Join all conference participants for open networking over drinks and bites!
Afternoon Keynote
Hear investor and visionary, Rashaun L Williams, discuss how he has built a career investing in himself and his passions, ultimately allowing him to pay dividends to his community.
Investing in Passions Panel
Engage in an inspiring, uplifting, and very real discussion highlighting how select professionals have invested in their passions and created a means to build wealth that align with their purpose, interests and overall life aspirations
Breakout: Planning for Purpose
Professionals & Student Track
Join Booth Alumna Taria Buchanan as she teaches attendees to break the current way they determine their goals, and begins to show attendees how to design their lives around their determined purpose. Attendees will learn how to align their actions with the true impact they want to make on the world, and the overall lifestyle they ideally want to live.
Breakout: Polsky Pop-Up
Business Owners Track
Join the Polsky Exchange and past participants of the Small Business Growth Program as they lead an interactive session for business owners, focusing on how they can determine how to self-invest in their own firms’ growth and sustainability. Are there skills needed to take the firm to the next level? Are new partnerships and alliances needed to move the firm forward? Is the goal even clear?
This session will allow attendees to walk away with new connections, new direction, and a refreshed commitment to pouring back into their firms.
Fireside Chat: Doing the Work
Hear from lawyer, real estate expert and Booth Alum Leon Walker and learn how he was able to leverage his resources to invest directly in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood and beyond!
Breakout: Attracting Investment
Business Owners Track
Join for a panel which will discuss the various opportunities that exist for business owners to attract outside investment to their businesses. Panelists will explore topics including, but not limited to, the following:
Where to go for loans and how to become “loan ready”
How to identify exit opportunities and create succession plans
Nontraditional sources of funding
Breakout: Investing in the Community
Professionals & Students Track
Join for a panel discussion discussing the various investment opportunities that exist within the black community and economy and how to access them. Opportunities include patronizing black businesses that provide necessary services, investing in the cannabis industry, and exploring other industries with huge market opportunities that black Americans have historically been excluded from. Opportunities also include investing in real estate and infrastructure around the city.
Panelists will discuss these opportunities and more and give tips on how to succeed.