Session Recordings
Main Stage Sessions & Equity Honors
Speaker(s):
Ying McGuire, president and CEO, NMSDC
Firoz Lalji, chairman & CEO, Zones, LLC.
Bruce Harrell, mayor, Seattle
Moderator:
Rhett Buttle, Founder, CEO, Public Private Strategies
Speaker(s):
Joseph Seydl, senior markets economist, J. P. Morgan Private Bank
Moderator:
Kevin Simmons, partner - power, utilities, & renewable sector leader, Deloitte
Speaker(s):
Ralph Cleveland, president and CEO, American Association of Blacks in Energy
Natalie King, founder and CEO, Dunamis Charge, Inc.
Stanley Porter, vice chair, global energy, resources, & industrials leader, Deloitte
Moderator:
Patricia Miller, director of profitable and responsible buying, Accenture
Speaker(s):
Saad Ayub, chief digital and innovation officer, Zones, LLC.
Sal Companieh, chief digital and information officer, Cushman & Wakefield
Moderator:
Ying McGuire, CEO and president, NMSDC
Speaker(s):
Frank Sanders, corporate vice president, global supply chain, Intel Corporation
Moderator:
Norman Chen, CEO, The Asian American Foundation
Speaker(s):
Joseph Bae, co-CEO, KKR
Moderator:
James Lowry, CEO, JHLA
Speaker(s):
Jim Connell, head of global supplier services and chief procurement officer, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Heather Ostis, chief procurement officer, Starbucks
Celeste Warren, vice president, global diversity & inclusion center of excellence, Merck
Emcee:
Mona Lee Locke, Emmy-award-winning journalist and former First Lady of Washington State
Main Stage Sessions
Speaker(s):
Kala Gibson, NMSDC Board Chair and EVP chief corporate responsibility officer, Fifth Third Bank
Moderator:
Katie Mehnert, founder and CEO, ALLY Energy
Speaker(s):
Donald Cravins Jr., head of government affairs and outreach, Williams
Tanya Skilton, executive director global purchasing and supply chain - strategy, innovation & customer care, General Motors
Maru Suarez Williams, ESG Manager for Supply Chain Management, Chevron
Ryan Spies, managing director, sustainability, Alaska Airlines
Moderator:
Jaime Mendez, owner, Se Habla Media
Speaker(s):
William Bradford, emeritus dean, University of Washington, Foster School of Business
Moderator:
Ruth Umoh, leadership editor, Fortune
Speaker(s):
Erin Abrahamson, chief of staff, The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development
Merisa Heu-Weller, general manager, Microsoft
Sulay Sandy, partner, QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey
John Yang, president & executive director, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC
Moderator:
Mona Lee Locke, Emmy-award-winning journalist and former First Lady of Washington State
Speaker(s):
Nestor Cano, executive vice president, transformation & chief information and digital officer, T-Mobile
Moderator:
Ruth Umoh, leadership editor, Fortune
Speaker(s):
Jessica Fulton, vice president of policy, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
Ying McGuire, president and CEO, NMSDC
Ramiro Cavazos, president and CEO, United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Eric Morrissette, acting undersecretary, Minority Business Development Agency, Department of Commerce
Moderator:
Mike Fong, director, Washington State Department of Commerce
Speaker(s):
Sam Cho, commissioner, Port of Seattle
Roger Millar, secretary of transportation, WSDOT
Joan M. Mooney, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management, and Budget (PMB), U.S. Department of the Interior
Lynne Robinson, mayor, City of Bellevue
Moderator:
Frank Hodge, dean, University of Washington Foster School of Business
Speaker(s):
Laurel Blatchford, chief implementation officer, IRA, United States Department of Treasury
Moderator:
Janice Bryant Howroyd, founder and CEO, ActOne Group
Speaker(s):
Ben Carson Jr., co-founder and partner, FVLCRUM
Richard Glenn, executive vice-president (retired), Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
William Wang, founder and CEO, VIZIO
Speaker(s):
Ying McGuire, president and CEO, NMSDC
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