Overview
The UB IGNITE Innovation Summit & Awards brings together entrepreneurs, industry leaders, students, investors, and policymakers to highlight innovative solutions, explore new trends, and celebrate outstanding contributions to national development.
Our Keynote Speaker
Ivy McGregor
Drawing on more than two decades of quad-sector expertise including Consultant work with GE's $6B Healthymagination, contractor for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as Partnerships Director, advisor to United Nations US National Council of Women, Mentor to a 16K member global community and most recently 10+ years with BeyGOOD Foundation having served as the inaugural Executive Director.
McGregor is passionate about people maximizing their full potential and has developed a game-changing concept that demystifies the art of impact, through knowledge sharing, merging lived and learned experiences, exploring how differences unite us, how mind shifts LIFT, how music moves and how art sparks creativity and ingenuity. McGregor, a leader who brings people together around a common cause and corrals positive action. Her energy is infectious, her innate strategic brilliance is awe-inspiring and is absolutely changing the landscape of possibilities.
Event Highlights
This year our Innovation Summit & Awards will feature expert panels and breakout sessions led by experts and thought leaders throughout the country. You can find more information on our schedule.