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Communicators Conference 2025

Courage to Inspire: Empowering the Creative Edge

Thursday, March 20, 2025 | 8:15 a.m. – 3:15 p.m.

If you would like to tap into a deeper and more satisfying level of creativity, join your UB colleagues in communications, marketing and enrollment for our sixth professional development conference, Courage to Inspire: Empowering the Creative Edge, hosted by University Communications. Hear from UB experts, seasoned practitioners and students as they share their creative approaches to communicating.

This year, Lee Kitchen, an innovation catalyst, 32-year veteran of the Walt Disney Company and CEO of Magical Dude Consulting, will deliver the keynote address on how to use “radical creativity” to solve challenges and collaboratively build ideas.

In breakout sessions throughout the day, you will learn how to push boundaries with bold strategies, innovative tools and groundbreaking ideas designed to ignite your creativity. The day will wrap up with the 2025 UB Communicators Awards.

Location:

Center for the Arts, North Campus
Lunch will be provided.

Parking:

Please use the Slee A, Slee B, Baird A or Baird B parking lot. Please note that Baird B is reserved for faculty and staff only.

Committee Members:

Co-Chairs: John Lambert and Douglas Sitler
Members: Katie Fox, Laurie Kaiser, Meredith Forrest Kulwicki, Maria Matusak, Shannon O’Sullivan and Marcene Robinson

For More Information:

Please contact Maria Matusak at mariaber@buffalo.edu or 716-645-4093 with questions.