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SUMMARY:Lunch with the Experts: Harnessing AI for Business Growth with Deborah Garry
DESCRIPTION:  \nLunch with the Experts\n \nTuesday May 13th\, 2025\n12:00pm–1:00pm ET \nUnleash the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to streamline your business. This program will explore how generative AI helps create content like marketing materials\, while predictive AI forecasts trends and drives data-informed decisions. Together\, these tools can revolutionize how businesses operate and achieve success. \nDuring this program\, you will learn to: \n Transform your Marketing and Beyond \nDiscover how AI elevates branding\, optimization\, and conversions using innovative tools like ChatGPT 4\, Jasper\, Fireflies AI\, and Adobe AI. Learn through real-world examples how these solutions streamline workflows\, inspire creativity\, and deliver tangible results. \nAI’s applications aren’t limited to marketing—it enhances sales through personalized outreach\, improves operations by automating tasks\, and supports HR with data-driven hiring and training strategies. \n Maximize AI Effectively \nMaster skills in crafting precise prompts\, leveraging high-quality data\, and following proven best practices. Align AI with your business goals\, protect intellectual property\, and strike the right balance between AI and human expertise for optimal outcomes. \n Build an AI Strategy \nThe program also guides participants in developing a comprehensive AI policy\, covering ethical responsibilities\, data privacy\, and integrating human oversight for long-term\, responsible AI adoption. \nBy the end of the program\, you’ll have practical tools and strategies to implement AI confidently and responsibly\, fostering creativity\, inclusivity\, and business success. Join us to take the next step in transforming your organization with AI’s limitless potential. \n  \n \nDeborah Garry \nThis program will be presented by Deborah Garry\, founder and CEO of BBG&G Integrated Marketing\, an award-winning agency specializing in branding\, digital strategy\, and storytelling. For over 27 years\, Deborah has positioned clients as industry leaders\, driving growth through innovative\, data-driven marketing solutions. With a Certified Account Planner and Marketing Automation Specialist designation\, Deborah combines technical expertise with creative vision to deliver significant business results. Recognized for her leadership and achievements\, Deborah is a past recipient of the Hudson Valley Women in Business award\, The Enterprising Women of the Year award\, and an honoree of the 2024 100 Women to Know in America. Her proven success and passion for marketing innovation make her the perfect guide for helping businesses integrate AI and achieve sustainable growth. \n  \n\n\nRegister Now!
URL:https://wbecnydmv.org/event/lunch-with-the-experts-harnessing-ai-for-business-growth-with-deborah-garry/
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CATEGORIES:Lunch with the Experts,WBEC Greater DMV Events
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SUMMARY:Lunch With the Experts: Meet NYPA: Empowering Opportunities for New Yorkers
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 20th\, 2025 \n12pm to 1pm EST | Virtual Session\n  \nJoin the New York Power Authority (NYPA) and the NYS Canal Corporation on Tuesday\, April 22nd at 12:00 p.m. for “Empowering Opportunities for New Yorkers.” Hosted by WBEC Metro NY\, this entry into the Lunch With the Experts series will provide: \n• Insight into upcoming procurement opportunities\n• Coaching on how to engage with NYPA and Canals procurement professionals\n• Information on clean energy renewable generation projects that will help maintain an adequate and reliable supply of electricity for the State\n• Support for New York State’s renewable energy goals\, including what Woman Business Enterprises (WBEs) need to know to be procurement-ready Attendees will also:\n• Acquire information about new clean energy initiatives through NYPA’s Supplier Diversity Program\n• Learn from experts about specific business issues relevant to WBEs\n• Navigate the procurement process• Network with other WBEs Register now for this informational webinar designed to provide you with the information and access your business needs to unlock opportunities. \nThe New York Power Authority (NYPA) is America’s largest state power organization\, with a mission to lead the transition to a carbon-free\, economically vibrant New York State through customer partnerships with other state and local entities\, innovative energy solutions\, and responsible supply of affordable\, clean\, and reliable electricity. As part of our organization\, NYPA operates\, maintains\, and promotes the NYS Canal system through its subsidiary\, NYS Canal Corporation. New York’s Canal system includes four historic canals: the Erie\, Champlain\, Oswego\, and Cayuga-Seneca. Spanning 524 miles\, the canal waterways link the Hudson River with the Great Lakes\, the Finger Lakes\, and Lake Champlain. Following much of the original towpaths\, the Canal system also includes the 365-mile Canalway Trail\, which runs from Albany to Buffalo and from Albany to Whitehall and is all part of the 750-mile Empire State Trail—the nation’s longest multi-use recreational trail network.\nVisit nypa.gov for more information. \n \nGina Jackson\, Supplier Diversity Program Administrator\, LinkedIn \n                 \n \nKylie Murphy\, Category Manager (Renewables)\, LinkedIn \nRegister Now!
URL:https://wbecnydmv.org/event/lunch-with-the-experts-meet-nypa-empowering-opportunities-for-new-yorkers/
CATEGORIES:Lunch with the Experts,WBEC Metro NY Events
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SUMMARY:Lunch With the Experts: Developing Your Capabilities Statement
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 27th 2025 \n12pm to 1pm EST | Virtual Session\n  \nJoin WBEC Metro NY\, Baseline Group\, and Northwell Health for a hands-on session on crafting a stellar capabilities statement that speaks for your unique business strengths. Join Darcy Flanders\, Founder and Chief Brand Strategist of Baseline Group\, and Dawn Wells\, Assistant Vice President\, Supply Chain at Northwell Health\, for a workshop on how to design a capabilities statement that leaves a lasting impression on clients and collaborators. Through this Lunch With the Experts\, participants will gain the skills to develop a compelling digital bio that showcases your leadership and accomplishments. \n \n \nDarcy Flanders\, Founder / Chief Brand Strategist of Baseline Group \nAs founder and chief brand strategist of BaselineGroupNY\, Darcy is the visionary.\nHer strength lies in the ability to interpret clients’ goals and translate then into visually impactful and targeted printed and digital solutions. Her passion for design is contagious and her emphasis on teamwork leads to great collaborative solutions. Drawing on 35+ years of expertise\, you can count on Darcy to lead an information-oriented\, responsive and time-sensitive creative process that considers the big picture and instinctively understands the importance of the smallest detail and the strictest schedule. Darcy has envisioned and managed corporate branding initiatives for clients such as: Galliard Capital Management\, Citi Alternative Investments\, Citi Private Bank\, HSBC Private Bank and Rutgers Business School\, Wrigley\, and PSEG LI. Darcy is also passionate about helping her fellow MWBEs develop brands\, websites and marketing materials and has worked with: JURISolutions Legal (JSL)\, McKissack & McKissack\, Mrs. Paper\, Savoca Enterprises\, Winston Strategic Partners\, Pina Solutions\, Lob Planning and A\,& S Rebar – to name a few. Her work has received numerous awards from the Financial Communications Society\, Society of Technical Communication\, the Association of the Graphic Arts\, Graphic Design USA\, Step Inside Design and most recently Best of 2020 Manhattan for Branding and Digital Design.\n  \n \nDawn Wells\, Assistant Vice President\, Supply Chain at Northwell Health \nDawn Wells is supply chain professional with a public health heart.  She currently serves as Assistant Vice President of Supply Chain at Northwell Health\, New York’s largest healthcare provider\, serving NYC\, Long Island\, and Westchester.  In this role she leads supply chain operations for the Health Systems’ Ambulatory Care Network comprised of more than 830 physician practices and outpatient facilities.  In addition to these responsibilities\, Dawn takes an active role in championing and facilitating programs that impact all levels of the organization.  She has been a consistent champion of diversity; representing supply chain as a member of the diversity and health equity council and corporate social responsibility committee. In 2019\, she chartered the health systems supplier diversity council that is charged with creating a cross functional action plan\, ensuring that there is a system wide commitment to maintaining the diversity of the Health System’s suppliers\, putting in place standardized processes for measuring goals and success\, and partnering with external agencies to educate and deliver information to diverse suppliers within the communities served. Dawn joined Northwell Health in 2003 as a member of the project implementation team that established framework for integrating finance\, supply chain\, and human resources under a shared-services umbrella. Over the years she has defined and redefined her position and responsibilities in response to the organization’s rapid growth. Dawn currently serves on the board of the NYNJ Minority Supplier Development Council.  She holds a B.S. in Business and a Masters of Public Health from Adelphi University. \nRegister Now!
URL:https://wbecnydmv.org/event/lunch-with-the-experts-developing-your-capabilities-statement-3/
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