Kate Naborneta, DST Systems; Josete Wright–Lacy, President/CEO NMSDC; and Consuella McCain, Market President, Mountain Plains Minority Supplier Development Council-KS/MO.
Annual Conference Highlights, San Diego, CA. The National Minority Supplier Development Council’s (NMSDC’s) Annual Conference and Business Opportunity Fair is the nation’s premier platform for minority supplier development. For five days, more than 5,000 corporate CEOs, procurement executives and supplier diversity professionals; as well as leading NMSDC Certified Minority Business Enterprises, (MBEs) convened in sunny San Diego, California to attend the Business Opportunity Exchange, content rich workshops, and industry focused meetings. The goal in mind was to ensure a continued commitment and singular focus of providing enhanced opportunities for our businesses to compete and succeed in contracting opportunities across America.
The 2015 National MED Week celebration, recognized at the NMSDC Conference, featured several Powered by MBDA workshops and seminars with a focus on federal programs. MBDA also hosted a reception to present the 33rd Annual National MED Week Awards.
For more than forty years the NMSDC, through its affiliates, has been progressively increasing supplier diversity initiatives as we remain at the forefront of connecting Certified MBEs and Corporations together.