The Kollaboration EMPOWER Leadership Conference is an event where API youth & young professionals gather to learn directly from some of the community’s most inspirational professionals. At EMPOWER, attendees will be able to explore a variety of creative career paths, industries, and best practices to apply to making their dreams a reality. This unique experience will bridge communities, generations, industries, and innovative minds.
Exciting Speakers & Panels
Learn from APA leaders and profe...
The Kollaboration EMPOWER Leadership Conference is an event where API youth & young professionals gather to learn directly from some of the community’s most inspirational professionals. At EMPOWER, attendees will be able to explore a variety of creative career paths, industries, and best practices to apply to making their dreams a reality. This unique experience will bridge communities, generations, industries, and innovative minds.
Exciting Speakers & Panels
Learn from APA leaders and professionals at the top of their game. Topics and focus areas include media production, starting your own company, the relationship between arts & activism, switching careers, and more!
Engaging Interactive Workshops
Become a more effective communicator, team member, and leader through guided workshops covering the arts of storytelling, improvisation, leadership styles, and public speaking.
Inspiring Mentorship Office Hours
Take the opportunity to engage with inspiring leaders from the community in a small group setting.
Itinerary
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Registration & Welcome Reception
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Opening Session
Opening Keynote: Bing Chen
Opening Panel: Dream Big Dreams - Why following your dreams is always the right decision
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lunch Break & Networking Hour
1:00 PM - 2:10 PM
Panels & Workshops Session 1
Production Panel: The Real BTS Experience - learn about real life on video production both in front of and behind the camera
Music Panel: Please don’t stop the music -the trials and tribulations of making music your life
Storytelling Workshop: Always be Storytelling - crafting the perfect pitch (2 hour workshop)
2:20 PM - 3:30 PM
Panels & Workshops Session 2
Writing Panel: The Power in Words - how writing impacts how we see the world and how the world sees us
Purpose Panel: Fire For The People - Fueling Asian American Artists, Today and Tomorrow
3:40 PM - 4:50 PM
Panels & Workshops Session 3
Career Panel: Pivoting your life - stories of career switching & trail blazing
Entrepreneurship Panel: Transforming Ideas into Reality - an in-depth look into the startup eco-system
Improv Workshop: Improv 101 - learn to communicate effectively on the fly (and have fun doing it)
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Closing Reception
For more details, visit www.kollabempower.org