2012 Preliminary Agenda
USBLN® 15thAnnual Conference & Expo
Disability Inclusion Driving Success in a Competitive Business Environment
October 1-4
Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
The 2012 USBLN®15thAnnual Conference & Expo is pleased to presentthree (3) separate educational tracks: Workplace, Marketplace and Supply Chain. JAN’s AccommodationSolutions for Business sessionsare included within these tracks.These tracks will best accommodate the varied professional and educational needs of our attendees. Feel free to mix and match. You do not need to select your choice of seminar in advance.
Subject to Change: Please note that the following agenda is a listing of confirmed sessions and speakers to date. Please check back for the latest updates. Speaker availability and programming are subject to change without notice.
Monday, October 1, 2012: USBLN® Pre-conference Meetings
Start / End / Description / Room7:30 AM / 6:00 PM / Registration Open
8:00 AM / 2:45 PM / USBLN® Affiliates Meeting
9:00 AM / 2:45 PM / USBLN®Student Advisory Council Meeting – by Invitation
9:00 AM / 2:45 PM / USBLN®Disability Supplier Diversity Program® (DSDP) National Certification Committee Private Meeting – by Invitation
10:00 AM / 12:00 PM / ODEP Circle Meeting – by Invitation
12:00 AM / 1:00 PM / Mentoring Meeting and Lunch Hosted by Wells Fargo – by Invitation
12:00 PM / 1:00 PM / Meeting Participants Lunch - On your own
1:00 PM / 2:45 PM / USBLN®Corporate Advisory Board Meeting – by Invitation
2:45 PM / 3:00 PM / Break
3:00 PM / 5:00 PM / USBLN®Board of Directors Meeting – by Invitation
6:00 PM / 8:30 PM / Off-site Evening at AMC Theatres at Downtown Disney: Veterans Community Service Project followed by a “Night at the Movies”
Master of Ceremonies:
- *Keith Wiedenkeller, SPHR, SVP & Chief People Officer, AMC Entertainment Inc.
- David E. Storto, President, Partners Continuing Care & Spaulding Rehabilitation Network
- Eric Neudel, Director, Lives Worth Living, Founder, Storyline Motion Pictures
- Alison Gilkey, Producer, Lives Worth Living
Join us in preparing personal care packages that will be distributed at Department of Veterans Affairs’ Stand Down events throughout Florida. Stand Downs provide services to homeless Veterans such as food, shelter, clothing, health screenings, VA and Social Security benefits counseling, and referrals to a variety of other necessary services. This service project is supported by the Florida AmeriCorps program through the Governor's Commission on Volunteerism & Community Service - Volunteer Florida. It will provide conference attendees an opportunity to make a contribution to the local community and to learn more about service as a road to employment for people with disabilities.
Immediately afterwards, there will be screenings of the Campaign for Disability Employment (CDE) PSA, the USBLN®PSA and the main feature movie, Lives Worth Living.This film is an oral history of the disability rights movement as told by the pioneers who fought tirelessly for decades for equal rights, access, and opportunities.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012: Opening Day
Start / End / Description / Room7:30 AM / 5:00 PM / Registration Open
8:00 AM / 5:00 PM / Speaker & Press Room
8:30 AM / 10:00AM / Opening General Plenary Session - Breakfast served
Hosted by Walgreens - Emerald Partner
Welcoming remarks delivered by *Deb Russell,Corporate Manager, Diversity and Inclusion, Walgreens, Board Chair, USBLN®
Keynotes:
- The Honorable Tony Coelho, Immediate Past Chair, AAPD Disability Rights Advocate
- Joyce Bender, Board Chair, AAPD Founder & CEO, Bender Consulting Services, Inc.
- Signing of Alliance between ODEP and the USBLN®with remarks from Assistant Secretary Kathy Martinez, U.S. Department of Labor‘s Office of Disability Employment Policy
10:00 AM / 10:15AM / CoffeeBreak
10:15 AM / 11:30 AM / Breakout Sessions
10:15 AM / 11:30 AM / Breakout Session: Marketplace
Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
10:15 AM / 11:30 AM / Breakout Session: Workplace
The ABC’s to Becoming “A Business that’s Competitive and Compliant”
Speakers:
- Kathleen West-Evans, MPA, CRC, Director of Business Relations, Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation
- *Beth Butler, JD, Manager, Centralized Leaves and Accommodations, Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
- John Evans, Business Development Executive, IBM Research
Lowe’s and IBM will share strategies that they use to effectively partner with the National Employment Team (The NET) to access the national VR talent pool and resources that support the successful employment and retention of candidates with disabilities. The NET makes us Competitive and Compliant!
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the elements of a company based strategic plan focused on increasing the representation of employees with disabilities in the workplace
- Use model practices developed within businesses that are nationally recognized as being “thought leaders” in driving strategies that support their employees and customers
- Understand how these practical strategies may satisfy compliance requirements for federal contractors while enhancing overall corporate culture
10:15 AM / 11:30 AM / Breakout Session: Workplace
Beyond the Rainbow: Lessons from the LGBT Community
Speakers:
- *Lori Golden, AccessAbilities Leader, Ernst & Young (Moderator)
- Chris Crespo, Inclusiveness Director, Americas People Team, Ernst & Young LLP
- *Deborah Dagit, Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, Merck
- The Honorable Kathleen Martinez, Assistant Secretary for Disability Employment Policy, U.S. Department of Labor
The communitiesof people whoidentify as LGBT and thoseliving with a disabilityhave much in common,but they are far apart when it comes to societal inclusion and respect.Join this provocativedialogue andexplore how LGBT successful inclusion workplace and societal practicescan be applied to achievingfull inclusion for people with disabilities.The panel will alsodiscuss how LGBT and PWD communities can collaborate to be even more effective going forward.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how LGBT leaders build executive and middle manager support and how these strategies can be utilized for people with disabilities
- Learn how LGBT leaders effectively identify and include allies in their strategies and community
- Learn how LGBT inclusive employers leverage LGBT inclusion to enhance their business outcomes and ways people with disabilities can mirror these efforts
10:15 AM / 11:30 AM / Breakout Session: Workplace
Disability is Diversity: Employment Programs That Work
Speakers:
- Carol Glazer, President, National Organization on Disability
- Meg O’Connell, Vice President, Corporate Programs, National Organization on Disability
- Jeff Kellan, VP Distribution, Toys R Us
- Tim Carson, Diversity Manager, Rockwell Collins
- Kelley Johnson, Sr. HR Manager, Diversity and Inclusion, JCP
NOD will share best practices in developing a disability employment strategy that successfully integrates into existing corporate diversity programs – and pre-empts proposed regulations from the Department of Labor’s OFCCP setting a 7% minimum hiring requirement for new recruits.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify what makes an effective disability employment program, understand some common mistakes and pitfalls, and how to avoid them
- Learn how to assess your company’s disability program, accommodations processes, ERG’s, disclosure, and self-identification policies and learn how to incorporate best practices into your company’s diversity initiative
- Learn the top 5 steps to advance your disability employment program no matter where your program is today
10:15 AM / 11:30 AM / Breakout Session: Supply Chain – Disability Suppliers
Networking for Success
Speaker:
- Richard Moore III, C.P.M., Manager of Supplier Diversity, Southwest Airlines, Supply Chain Track Chair, USBLN® (Speaker/Facilitator)
How many times have you heard networking is the key to success in getting business contracts? Have you been trying without success to create successful connections/relationships and feel like you are in the game? Are you ending up with lots of business cards following an event, but not one real lead? Do you know which events offer the best investment of your time? This session will help define how networking can work for you and help market your company more effectively.
10:15 AM / 11:30 AM / Breakout Session: Youth
Alliance Mentoring Program
Description:
The Alliance Mentoring Program is a collaborative pilot project between the US Business Leadership Network® (USBLN®), the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) and the Employer Assistance and Resource Network (EARN). The program aims to provide career mentoring opportunities to college/university students and recent graduates with disabilities through linkages to business professionals. Mentors from companies such as Bender Consulting, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Highmark, Microsoft, Northrop Grumman and WellPoint, are matched up with students and recent graduates from the Workforce Recruitment Program. In addition to an overview of the program, this session will also feature participants who will share their experiences.
11:30 AM / 11:45 AM / Break
11:45 AM / 1:15 PM / General Plenary Session - Lunch served
Reaching the “Disability Market”: How Companies Are Approaching This Business Opportunity
Keynotes:
- *Susan Mazrui, Director, Global Public Policy, AT&T (Moderator)
- Avalyn Jackson, Associate Director, Disability and Mature Product Marketing, AT&T Mobility
- Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Senior Director of Accessibility, Customer Partner Advocacy, Microsoft
- Ron Pettit, Senior Specialist, Access Trade Support & Services, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
- David E. Storto, President, Partners Continuing Care & Spaulding Rehabilitation Network
Representatives from different industries will discuss how their companies approach marketing to the disability community, family and friends. Topics will include the business case for targeting this community and some of the strategies that are used.
Learning Objectives:
- An understanding of the spending power and growth potential of the disability community
- How companies approach serving the disability community, through both targeted efforts and broader change within the company
- How to develop marketing that will target the disability community, families and friends, both advertising and other tactics
1:15 PM / 1:30 PM / Break
1:30 PM / 2:45 PM / Breakout Sessions
1:30 PM / 2:45 PM / Breakout Session: Industry Sectors Roundtable – by Invitation
Hosted by Nordstrom - Emerald Partner
1:30 PM / 2:45 PM / Breakout Session: Workplace
Networks Benefit Our Employees and Our Business
Speakers:
- Barbara Wankoff, Director, Workplace Solutions, KPMG LLP (Moderator/Presenter)
- Chris Pulley, Chairperson of Charlotte DAG (Disability Affinity Group), Bank of America
- Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Senior Director of Accessibility, Customer Partner Advocacy, Microsoft
- David Nail, Project Manager, Frito-Lay, Inc, PepsiCo
Employee or Business Relations Groups support educational, recruiting, retention and professional development efforts. As importantly, they create business development opportunities for the company firm while providing career-enhancing experiences for employees. Learn from companies from diverse sectors how to leverage your disability affinity group.
Learning Objectives:
1.Understand how employee networks can enhance the work environment for people with disabilities
2.Drive an environment of inclusion
3.Positively impact the business results in the workplace and marketplace
1:30 PM / 2:45 PM / Breakout Session: Affiliates
1:30 PM / 2:45 PM / Breakout Session: Workplace
Inclusive Social Business: Leveraging the Power of One to Drive Innovation
Speakers:
- *Frances West, Director, IBM Human Ability & Accessibility Center, IBM
- Peter Fay, Advocacy and Outreach Manager, IBM Human Ability & Accessibility Center, IBM
Social business is people business. Technology solutions that fall short of including every individual in an enterprise ecosystem perpetuate environments in which ideas, insight and opportunities are left on the table. In this session, learn how inclusive social collaboration platforms like IBM Connections 3.0 accelerate value creation.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will understand how inclusive social collaboration platforms like IBM Connections 3.0 accelerate value creation
- Participants will understand how integrating advanced accessibility technologies across enterprise solutions can help expand market reach
- Participants will understand how integrating advanced accessibility technologies across enterprise solutions can drive innovation and competitive differentiation
1:30 PM / 2:45 PM / Breakout Session: Workplace
Add Us In – Collaboration Mechanisms in Diverse Communities
Speakers:
- *Keith Wiedenkeller, SPHR, SVP & Chief People Officer, AMC Entertainment Inc. (Moderator and Speaker)
- Day Al-Mohamed, J.D., Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Disability Employment Policy, U.S. Department of Labor
- Derrick Willis, Research Associate, Institute for Human Development, University of Missouri Kansas City
During this session Add-Us-In Kansas City shares their business-led replicable model for developing a continuum of career opportunities for urban youth with disabilities through a business led network that creates jobs and markets workforce training and services to prospective employers.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand best practices to build close collaborative relationships that result in hires of workers with disabilities in diverse communities
- Identify and work with other groups to ensure the preparedness for work of youth and students with disabilities will meet their business needs
- Utilize business engagement strategies resulting in effective partnerships, business-to-business mentoring opportunities, and increased communication between business partners and individuals with disabilities
1:30 PM / 2:45 PM / Breakout: Supply Chain – Corporate/Government Representatives and Disability Suppliers
How to Market Your Company & DOBE®“Entrepreneurial Idol” Competition
Description:
So you have your USBLN® certification, now what? What is marketing and how does it differ from advertising? Use this session to understand, select and benefit from top marketing tools available today and learn more about how to get organizations to help you in your marketing efforts. It’s a competitive world and supply chain leaders are looking for suppliers who can add value and articulate that value convincingly. How do you differ from your competitors? How do you progress from that initial meeting with a corporate or government representative to knowing the person who is developing a bidders list for an upcoming requirement? What are your capabilities and how closely do they align with the needs of your potential client? How can the Disability Supplier Diversity Program® (DSDP) help you? This session will feature the first level of competition for USBLN® certified suppliers vying for the title of “Entrepreneurial Idol.”
2:45 PM / 3:15 PM / Afternoon Break
3:15 PM / 4:30 PM / Breakout Sessions
3:15 PM / 4:30 PM / Breakout Session: Speed Networking and Business Card Exchange #1
Hosted by Healthcare Service Corporation (HSC) - Emerald Partner
Join us for this dynamic and fast-paced networking session which encourages you to meet and speak with several new people in a structured setting. Participants will have five minutes to connect and exchange business cards before the bell rings, attendees rotate and you meet someone new! Participants are encouraged to bring plenty of business cards and will have the opportunity to meet and chat one-on-one during this exciting session.
3:15 PM / 4:30 PM / Breakout Session: Supply Chain – Diverse Suppliers and Corporate Representatives
The Value of Certification – Making Certification Work for You
Description:
The need for and value of certification is often questioned by the very groups it is intended to support. By certifying as a disability entrepreneur (includes service-disabled veteran) woman, or LGBT owned firm, businesses are able to address concerns of qualifiers and business legitimacy and concentrate their efforts on discussing their business capabilities and proven performance with corporate decision-makers. Three nationally recognized third-party certifying organizations will explain. This session will explain 1) the certification process including required documentation; and, 2) how to use certification as a tool in your marketing arsenal and the benefit of multiple certifications. Learn how peer businesses are making certification work for them!
3:15 PM / 4:30 PM / Breakout Session: Workplace
Workplace of the Future
3:15 PM / 4:30 PM / Breakout Session: Affiliates
BLN Affiliate Start-Up: The 101 of BLN Development
Description:
Are you thinking of starting a Business Leadership Network (BLN) and becoming an affiliate? Or maybe you are in the early stages of development? This session is for you to learn the philosophy of the BLN movement and guiding principles to launch a BLN. We will cover starting a BLN in rural, mid-size and metropolitan communities.
3:15 PM / 4:30 PM / Breakout Session: Workplace
FOCUS On My Abilities, the Journey Continues
Speaker:
- *Keith Wiedenkeller, SPHR, SVP & Chief People Officer, AMC Entertainment Inc.
AMC’s FOCUS Program creates disability-friendly workplace where all individuals can contribute as visible, vital, and valued associates. Learn how this ground-breaking employment outreach program continues to change the workplace landscape for AMC – and for hundreds of communities across the country.
Learning Objectives:
- Best practices for grass roots employment programs
- Selecting the right partners for your organization
- Measuring program success beyond the financial return on investment (ROI).
3:15 PM / 4:30 PM / Breakout Session: Workplace
Non-Profit Organizations Developing Effective Workforce Through Commercial Partnership
Speakers:
- Kevin A. Lynch, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Industries for the Blind
- Robert A. Council, General Manager, 3M
- Gidget Hopf, Ed.D., President and CEO, Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Through the utilization of successful business cases, Kevin Lynch will highlight existing partnerships between commercial businesses and nonprofit agencies that increase workforce productivity by tapping into a skilled, diverse, workforce that adds to the bottom line.
Learning Objectives:
- Create opportunities to work with the AbilityOne Program
- Achieve partnerships that produce results
- Tap into a skilled, stable, underutilized workforce
5:00 PM / 6:00 PM / USBLN® Disability SupplierDiversity Program® (DSDP) Private Reception – by Invitation
Hosted by Ernst & Young – Ruby Partner
Welcoming remarks by Ernst & Young representative and Jill Houghton, Executive Director, USBLN®
6:00 PM / 8:00 PM / Expo Hall Opening Event and Welcome Reception & Mixer
Hosted by McKesson - Sapphire Partner
As an entertaining way to open the Exhibit Hall we welcome you to attend this special Welcome Reception. Start the conference off right while getting a first look at our valued exhibitors and meet your peers while enjoying this exciting mixer. Begin some of the strong connections that our previous USBLN® conference attendees have established over the years. / Exhibit Hall
Wednesday, October 3, 2012: