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Home • 2019 ESSENCE Festival

ESSENCE Festival 2019: Get Ready For Our First-Ever Global Black Economic Forum

Get your tickets now for this meeting of the minds unlike any other that you can only experience at ESSENCE Fest!
ESSENCE Festival 2019: Get Ready For Our First-Ever Global Black Economic Forum
By Essence · Updated June 19, 2019

Hear from some of today’s most seasoned business moguls, inspiring entrepreneurs and dynamic thought leaders in an exclusive ESSENCE Festival experience with our first-ever Global Black Economic Forum.

Click HERE To Get Your Tickets For Our Exclusive Global Black Economic Forum Experience Now!

Through interactive conversations, these influential power players will illuminate the road ahead towards building economic empowerment and generational wealth within our communities.

ESSENCE Festival 2019: Get Ready For Our First-Ever Global Black Economic Forum
ESSENCE Festival 2019: Get Ready For Our First-Ever Global Black Economic Forum

“ESSENCE® is proud to announce the Global Black Economic Forum, set to empower and ignite Black entrepreneurs and business executives everywhere,” said ESSENCE Chief Executive Officer Michelle Ebanks. “With the inception of this forum, we are bringing together the best and the brightest to sit before our community and have a much-needed discussion on leveraging globalization trends and building generational wealth within our communities.”

ESSENCE Festival 2019: Get Ready For Our First-Ever Global Black Economic Forum
ESSENCE Festival 2019: Get Ready For Our First-Ever Global Black Economic Forum

Event highlights include: panel discussions with today’s leading cultural, societal and economic voices to address the state of the Black economy; conversations with today’s most innovative globalization and technology leaders; networking among corporate executives, business moguls, venture capitalists and more.

Global Economic Forum speakers scheduled to attend include: Founder and President of the National Action Network Reverend Al Sharpton, Mayor of Gary, Indiana Karen Freeman Wilson, President and Founder of The Raben Group Robert Raben, Chief Executive of CHASE consumer banking Thasunda Duckett, Co-Founder of Andreessen Horowitz Ben Horowitz, Founder of LISNR Rodney Williams, Director and Producer Sidra Smith, President of the National Urban League Marc. H Morial, Managing Director of Double Impact at Bain Capital Greg Shell, Chief Executive Officer of Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson and more.

ESSENCE Festival 2019: Get Ready For Our First-Ever Global Black Economic Forum
ESSENCE Festival 2019: Get Ready For Our First-Ever Global Black Economic Forum

For more information, including a look at the full list of speakers and to purchase tickets, visit the official Global Black Economic Forum website HERE.

See you in NOLA!