NWA YP Summit 2016
August 12th
John Q Hammons Center
Rogers Arkansas
Partners
To empower young professionals in Northwest Arkansas with the tools to enact positive change within themselves, their companies, and the community.
Vision
Personally
Revitalize your ideas of personal success and discover how to achieve what happiness means to you.
Professionally
Strengthen your potential for prosperity by learning how to best bring your enthusiasm to your workplace.
Philanthropically
Turn your passion into action by collaborating with other young professionals to help Northwest Arkansas thrive in every way.
Keynote Speaker
Donnie Smith
Chief Executive Officer
Tyson Foods Inc.
Donnie’s enthusiasm for Tyson Foods is contagious among the company’s 113,000 Team Members. Appointed to his role as president and CEO in 2009, his passion is the hallmark of his tenure at the company, which he joined in 1980. He guides Tyson Foods to be a company with a conscience, focused on feeding the world great, affordable food, while also making a positive difference in people’s lives.
Through his career, Donnie has worked to learn every angle of the Tyson Foods business. He joined Tyson, working in poultry operations for seven years in Tennessee before moving to the company’s headquarters in Springdale, Ark., where he started as a commodity buyer. He was named director of commodity purchasing in 1991 and during the next several years added complementary responsibilities to his management portfolio: logistics, purchasing and information systems in 2006; and engineering, food safety and quality assurance, and environmental health and safety in 2007. He moved into the company’s consumer products division in 2008 and was named senior group vice president of poultry and prepared foods in early 2009, the same year he was appointed as president and CEO.
Agenda
9:00 - 9:15 AM
Check in
9:30 - 10:00 AM
Opening Programming
10:15 - 10:55 AM
Breakout Session One
11:10 - 11:50 AM
Breakout Session Two
11:55 am
Lunch
12:20 pm
Keynote Speaker
Donnie Smith
Tyson President and Chief Executive Officer
1:35 - 1:40 PM
Break
1:40 - 3:40 PM
Community Engagement Session
4:00 PM
Post Summit Happy Hour
Grubs Bar & Grill
Rogers, AR
Breakout Sessions
Session One Topics
Balance Beam
Finding time to live a full life
Negotiating Your Value
Understanding and discussing your worth in the workplace
Start Up Stories
Local Entrepreneurs Tell All
Session Two Topics
Adulting Made EasY
A few tips and tricks to make you an official "grown up"
Making Sense of the Workplace
Millennials and Mentoring
Let's Talk
Communication in the Workplace
Breakout Sessions Speakers
Breakout Speakers
Rashad Delph
Tyson Foods
Talent Acquisition and Global Mobility
Kanat Bektemirov
CaseStack Cloud Service
R&D Engineer
Joe Saumweber
RevUnit
Co-Founder and CEO
April Seggebruch
Movista
Co-Founder and EVP
Steve Outain
Walmart & Bike Rack Brewing Co.
Management & Founder
Kellen Utecht
Phigenics
Director of Sustainability
Blake Hannan
Rockfish
Recruitment and Talent Acquistion
Lance & Lauren Stokes
Lauren James Co.
Founders
Kaye Cullum
Walmart
Sr Director HR Technology Strategy & STEM Lead
Brett Amerine
StartUp Junkie
Chief Opperating Officer
To our presenting partners
Special thanks
To Our sponsors
To our media partners
To our promotional partners
To Our Volunteers
Northwest Arkansas Emerging Leaders
Rotary District 6110
Program Development
Ali Baum
Ana Aguayo
Terry Bankston
Michael Iseman
Melissa Tatman
Haley Cleous
Anna Clark
Mike Abb
Dallas Hardison
Jennifer Nix
Rachel Smith
Dr. Todd Jenkins
Amy Gober
Keaton Smith
Marketing
Amy Gober
Jeremy Turley
Sloan Scroggins
Michelle Fittro
Post Event
Tim Stidham
Will Davis
Executive Committee
Dr. Todd Jenkins
Amy Gober
Jeremy Turley
Keaton Smith
Tim Stidham
Will Davis
