Theme: Wilmington World Class: Expanding Employment in Wilmington

A salon on methods of transforming Wilmington into a world-class community, where there are new and growing businesses with a large spectrum of jobs.

Hotel DuPont
11th & Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware, 19801
United States

Bryan Tracy

Paying Only For Economic Success, and Starting with Delaware's Competitive Advantages

Bryan is an entrepreneur and biotechnology expert on a mission to develop and commercialize technologies for sustainable chemical and bio-fuel production. By leveraging non-dilutive research funds, he has secured business, raised venture capital, out licensed technology, and built and sold companies to address this mission. Beyond his personal business endeavors, he is passionate about other entrepreneurs and helping build a robust start-up ecosystem in Delaware. He believes Delaware has a tremendous international advantage to define, design, and deploy the next generation of chemical technologies. Moreover, he is clear that Delaware can uniquely deploy private capital in consortium with philanthropic match and public pay back to sustainably and adequately fund this ecosystem, the topic of his talk.

Harold Dezell Lathon

Self-sufficient Economic Empowerment -- the Sustainable Alternative to a Career in Illegal Drugs

Harold D. Lathon has two passions: helping others and sharing the heritage of his homeland. Today, he is a FEMA Subject Matter Expert focused on recovery strategic implementation strategies for local, state, national and international governments. HD Lathon is an entrepreneur and philanthropist known for his reputation as a peoples’ champion and force for Economic, Social & Political (ESP) change. Lathon is currently writing a book, titled “Where We Go From Here.” He has received many esteemed awards and recognitions: the Business Advisory Council’s “Business Man of the Year Award”, featured in the Wall Street Journal; and recognized at the White House as a “Champion of Change.” His commitment: to work toward building a better tomorrow today, for all human beings, especially our youth.

Marzuwq Muhammad

Blazing a Trail: The Road Less Travelled

Marzuwq Muhammad is an engaged citizen of Wilmington Delaware, and technologist with the goal of starting a game design studio. Starting his career as a curious child breaking machines more often than utilizing them, his zeal has been converted to a fulltime career as a software engineer at Bank of America, while still passionately mentoring those seeking to enter the craft.

Sebastian Kretschmer

Growing New Farmers

Sebastian is a social entrepreneur and green agronomist with a vision to build sustainable food systems and resilient communities worldwide. As a bio-dynamic farmer, free-lance lecturer and adviser to corporations and international aid organizations (including the United Nations’ Environmental Program), Sebastian designs and implements courses and programs aimed to grow the next generation of organic farmers. Through his engineering and organic agribusiness consulting company, called One Village Farm, Sebastian provides whole farm planning, capacity development, agricultural and business management training as well as implementation of ethical supply chains for certified organic products. Sebastian’s recent project revolves around a program he designed for the Philadelphia Prison System that offers incarcerated inmates and returning citizens certified vocational training in organic agriculture, farm-to-table culinary arts, as well as sustainable landscaping.