Business major Jonathan Moore teamed up with students from Kenya and Italy to craft a winning presentation at the 2024 Annual Conference of the Academy of International Business Southeast chapter in St. Louis, Missouri.
Moore and Bisk College of Business instructor Tim Muth attended the Oct. 24-26 conference, which was hosted by St. Louis University.
Moore and his student colleagues were competing in the X-Culture Business Challenge at the conference. They represented Cape Town, South Africa, and had to develop a presentation on why they deserved to be named host of a major conference, the World Congress of Dermatology.
Their winning argument centered on how this would be the first-ever conference of this sort in Africa and how it could build its focus around the skin needs and diseases unique to the African people.
The challenge companies – both actual companies – were St. Louis-based Maritz, a sales and https://news.fit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/dr_wiggenhorn1-1.jpg services company, and BestCities Global Alliance, a collaborative business events agency based in Singapore. Company representatives served as competition judges.
As part of their experience, the cohort of 52 students from 20 countries visited Maritz’s headquarters, participated in workshops and met the company’s CEO and executive team.
“Maritz was honored to participate in the Southeast Chapter of the Academy of International Business Conference and the X-Culture competition. Our team loved interacting with the students while on campus, talking to them during our keynote address and judging presentations for 13 teams,” said David Peckinpaugh, president and CEO at Maritz. “They are an impressive group of young, up-and-coming professionals who will truly make a difference in the world moving forward. Congratulations to all the participants.”
The conference concluded with an awards dinner for the winning teams.
“It was truly an awesome and enjoyable learning experience for the X-Culture students and faculty,” Muth said.
