Rm D. 180

This four-hour workshop welcomes all women to learn from top female leaders, network with their peers, and engage in the future of the industry. Speakers include Rohini Dey, founder of Let’s Talk Womxn and owner of Vermilion Restaurant (Chicago), Kutina Ruhumbika, CPO of Levain Bakery (NYC), Britney Ruby Miller, president of Jeff Ruby Culinary Entertainment, and Rachael Bernstein, co-owner of Red Feather and Dutch’s (Cincinnati).

Workshop Agenda:

• 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. – Workshop Welcome & Keynote Presentation: Rohini Dey
• 11 a.m. – Noon – Talking Shop – a discussion between Britney Ruby Miller and Rachael Bernstein
• Noon – 1 p.m. – Lunch, small group discussion
• 1p.m. – 2 p.m. – Women in Leadership panel discussion – moderated by Kutina Ruhumbika with Lisa Gutierrez, Chef Linda Berry,  Malika Kidd, and Jera Niewoehner-Green
• 2pm – close of workshop

*Lunch Provided

Felecia Hatcher, The Center for Black Innovation

Short North Ballroom

In this unforgettable session, Felicia Hatcher shares key strategies on how to show up and play full-out in the innovation economy.

Dr. David Staley, PhD | Associate Professor of History, Design, and Educational Studies, The Ohio State University

D 182

If the experience of the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that change is perpendicular.  The pandemic upended our beliefs about how the future was going to progress. From early reports of a new respiratory illness in Wuhan in January 2020, all of a sudden the economy was shut down by April.  Change at a right angle to the trendline: that is perpendicular change.  What we have learned over the last two years is that the unexpected deviation from the trendline is not the exception, but the rule: the way the world actually operates.   It is not the pace of change or the acceleration of change that we must prepare for: it is the unexpected change that must guide our strategic thinking.   This session will explore the unexpected, perpendicular change should we be on the lookout for.