ACBC's Business Roundtable and 6th Annual Winter Awards Dinner: The Challenge of Building Resilient Infrastructures for Africans and Caribbean

Date: 
Saturday, November 7, 2015 - 6:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: 
Hilton Double Tree Philadelphia Airport Hotel, 4950 Island Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19153
United States

You are cordially invited to attend the African & Caribbean Business Council 6th Winter Awards Dinner and Business Roundtable.
ACBC is made up of 3000 strong African and Caribbean Businesses and Professionals representing over 80,000 African and Caribbean Immigrant Communities in Philadelphia.

This event has about 500 people capacity.

Ten Ambassadors from Ghana, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Liberia,Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Uganda, Dominica and Sierra Leone are confirmed to attend.

The day will kick off with a business roundtable forum for trade and investment organized in collaboration with the City of Philadelphia’s Commerce Department and the State of Pennsylvania at 9:00 am. Presentations will be made by Ambassadors, Pennsylvania State Secretary of the Department of Community and Economic Development and The City of Philadelphia Commerce Department.

There will also be a VIP reception to allow one-to-one meeting with the Ambassadors, Governors, invited dignitaries and State Executives. African and Caribbean Business Council in Association with the Coalition for African and Caribbean Communities

The African & Caribbean Business Council, a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation was founded in 2006 with the mission of promoting & preserving the business interests of African and Caribbean entrepreneurs in the Greater Philadelphia area while bridging the cultural divide between member countries and the larger community through education and the encouragement of mutual tolerance.

The Objectives of ACBC are to:
Promote international trade and investments between Africa, the Caribbean and the Greater Philadelphia region
Promote community and economic development and Organize global & local training workshops and events
Engage city, state, and federal government officials, through partnership and advocacy, to make available necessary infrastructures for the development and maintenance of viable African and Caribbean business communities.

 

Awards will ve presented in the following areas:

-ACBC Award for Excellence

-ACBC Award for Innovation

-ACBC Award for Leadership

-ACBC Award for Service

-ACBC Award for Entrepreneurship

-ACBC Medal of Honor

-ACBC Person of the Year

 

The day will kick off with a business roundtable forum for trade and investment organized in collaboration with the City of Philadelphia's Commerce Department and the State of Pennsylvania at 9:00 am.

VIP Reception 6-7 pm

Dinner &Awards Event 7-10 pm

Categories
Event Type: 
GlobalPhilly 2017 events
Topic: 
GlobalPhilly™ 2015
Topic: 
Business and Commerce
Topic: 
International Commerce
Global Region: 
Africa
Global Region: 
Burkinabe
Global Region: 
Ghanaian
Global Region: 
Liberian
Global Region: 
Liberian
Global Region: 
Motswana (Botswana)
Global Region: 
Nigerian (Nigeria)
Global Region: 
Sierra Leonean
Global Region: 
Tanzanian
Global Region: 
Ugandan
Global Region: 
Jamaican
Global Region: 
Trinidadian/Tobagonian