2021 Entrepreneurship/IT Conference Webinar
Entrepreneurs & Economic Recovery
A New Model for 2021

In Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month
Friday, Sept. 17th, 2021
1:00pm - 3:30pm
a Zoom webinar hosted by Dialogue on Diversity
This Third Webinar in the series on the struggles and the recovery in the face of the peculiarly devastating COVID sickness sweeping across countries and continents — offers a glimpse of the hopeful images of recovery and the re-building of social structures and broken bridges and decaying factories and shows in formerly busy towns. A sense of random menace, brings into focus the slowdown of economic activity, sending a half of the workforce into a thankless closed world of waiting, freighted with a numbing sense of loss and want of direction but resolving, for all the hurt, to call the architect and the carpenters for the rebuilding, and the technical guys for assurance that no trick of contemporary engineering is left unplayed.
The exact shapes of the resurrected city, the modes of transport and the styles of consumption and industry all are up for grabs in the confusion of cultures that follow the mega-disruption that a brave but ever fragile society is heir to.   
The Urgent Questions — Friends of the Dialogue and our cohort of doughty social justice partisans are putting this Webinar, the third in the 2021 series, on the calendar for Friday, September 17th. The topic is the somber one of the viral sickness and a grinding struggle to keep afloat and upright – will it ever be over over? ? And here the painful economic fall-out, and the much sought for magic of recovery. All are invited to register for this idea-packed Two and a half Hours, starting at 1:00 pm. Some of the chief queries posed to us as we presume – the political catchwords of the moment – to build back something better than ever before.
We want to list some of the divisions of the larger topic that we have invited our panelists to analyze and dissect and submit to sharp commentary. Will we be able and shrewd in building the hardware and the institutions of a decent recovery? We may hope so. Our experts, at bottom as puzzled as we, will suggest how this may be. A thought agenda may be essayed —
  • The State of Small Business Enterprise,  Maximizing the Future: Investment Name of the Game
  • Creative Destruction in Economics: The New Insights in the Old Science
  • Inter-Island Trade and Inter-Continental Commerce: Insights from the Caribbean
  • Management Teams, the Silent Key to Enterprise Success
  • Business Planning – a Critical Approach for New and Established Businesses
Webinar Agenda
1:00pm -- Welcome & Opening Remarks
Ma. Cristina Caballero, President/CEO, Dialogue on Diversity

1:10pm -- Opening Address
Hon. Alejandra Y. Castillo
U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Economic Development Administration
Q&A Session

1:30pm -- The State of the Small Business Enterprise
Ms. Heidi Sheppard, Project Director
D.C. Women's Business Center
Q&A Session

1:55pm -- New Lessons in Economics
Ms. Brigitta Toruño, Founder/CEO
UNO Translations and Communications, LLC
Q&A Session

2:20pm -- International Business and Trade
H.E. Thelma Phillip-Browne
Ambassador to the United States of America
Embassy of Saint Kitts and Nevis
Q&A Session

2:45pm -- Management Teams for the Newly Reconstructed Enterprise
Mr. Michael Veve, Esq.
Lasa, Monroig, Veve, LLP
Q&A Session

3:10pm -- Business Planning - a critical growth tool for new and established businesses
Ms. Kristin Sharpe, SCORE Mentor
Q&A Session

3:40pm -- Closing Remarks
Ma. Cristina Caballero, President/CEO, Dialogue on Diversity
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