Alibaba Group Ltd.’s Gateway ’17 export conference held on June 20-21 at Cobo Center was the company’s first-ever event of its magnitude, attracting more than 3,000 businesses, entrepreneurs and media members from 48 states and many from the Detroit region.
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Rush Group LLC founder Andra Rush addressed 70 Detroit Regional Chamber members and other business leaders at Inside the CEO Mind this week, discussing her journey as a female business owner through thoughtful tips and humorous anecdotes.
Continue ReadingServing the business community for more than 100 years, the Detroit Regional Chamber takes pride in advocating on behalf of businesses throughout the city and region. As one of the most influential chambers of commerce in the country, our members look for us to collaborate with government partners in support of Michigan’s reinvention and continued economic growth.
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For the fourth consecutive year, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) collaborated with the Detroit Regional Chamber to bring another voice to reporting on the Mackinac Policy Conference.
Continue ReadingCheck out three captivating and engaging Mackinac Moments from the 2017 Mackinac Policy Conference, featuring Anya Babbitt, Harold Ford Jr. and Mark Schlissel.
Continue ReadingThis year’s Mackinac Policy Conference closed out with a brand new series of fast-paced, off-the-cuff sessions featuring 21 thought leaders from across the state sharing their unbridled opinions on everything from the Michigan governor’s race to term limits in the state Legislature and President Trump’s progress on moving America forward. Morning View: Mackinac Uncensored was emceed by Dennis Archer Jr., president of Archer Corporate Services and chair of the Detroit Regional Chamber Board of Directors, and Tammy Carnrike, the Chamber’s chief operating officer.
Continue ReadingReturning to the Mackinac Policy Conference, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan delivered a powerful keynote about the often-forgotten truths of Detroit’s racially charged history along with ideas of how to sustain America’s great manufacturing city by learning from its past.
Continue ReadingAs a preeminent biographer for figures like Albert Einstein, Ben Franklin and Steve Jobs, Conference keynote and Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson has watched and studied some of the world’s most celebrated thinkers and inventors. He is keenly aware of the factors that foster ground-breaking innovation.
Continue ReadingDetroit has several Foundation’s and leaders that are willing to do what needs to get done. Among these influential people and at the center of community development for more than two decades is Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation. In a moderated discussion with Devin Scillian, anchor for WDIV-TV 4 on NBC, Walker expounded on the Ford Foundation’s commitment to Detroit through housing, community development, restoring funding to civic organizations and the issues of blight removal and putting Detroiters back to work.
Continue ReadingFrom George Washington’s foreign diplomacy, to Abraham Lincoln’s willingness to reach across the aisle to pass the Emancipation Proclamation and Lyndon Johnson’s Civil Rights Act of 1964, time and time again effective leaders have understood the need to set aside …
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