Events Calendar
AI and Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Business While You Grow
Join NGLCCNY and Verizon Small Business Digital Ready for a cybersecurity session with Verizon expert Tristen O?Brien. Learn how attackers and defenders use AI, identify emerging risks, strengthen your security posture, and explore Verizon solutions that support safer AI adoption.
AI and Cybersecurity: Searching Your Remote Workforce with MTD
This Verizon Small Business Digital Ready session helps small business owners strengthen mobile cybersecurity across smartphones and tablets. Learn how Mobile Device Management and Mobile Threat Defense can help organize company devices, protect customer data, block malware and viruses, and improve security for remote teams without adding unnecessary operational complexity.
AI for Security: Outsmarting Mobile Scams and Phishing
This Verizon Small Business Digital Ready session helps small business owners recognize phishing, smishing, spoofed websites and other mobile scams that can put company data, finances and reputation at risk. Learn how AI-powered cybersecurity tools can identify deceptive messages, block malicious links, reduce employee exposure to fraud and strengthen mobile security across your business.
Brand Rituals For Consistency
Join NGLCCNY and Verizon Small Business Digital Ready for a free virtual Ask the Expert session with brand strategist Asha Mody. Learn how small business owners can build stronger brand consistency, stay visible, repeat core messages effectively, create content with greater intention and use AI tools to support marketing while keeping their brand voice clear, human and authentic.
Breaking Through Stress: One Story At a Time
Burnout is affecting nonprofit employees, teams, and organizational capacity. This session examines the impact of workplace stress and offers practical approaches to strengthen morale, productivity, and employee retention.
Building Accurate Marketing Personas
This Verizon Small Business Digital Ready session helps small business owners transform customer data into clear audience personas that guide stronger marketing decisions. Learn how to segment target audiences, identify meaningful customer characteristics, build more relevant personas, and use AI tools to support audience research, messaging and marketing strategy.
Building Genuine Business Relationships
This Verizon Small Business Digital Ready session helps small business owners build stronger professional networks through authentic relationship-building. Learn practical networking strategies for connecting with peers, customers and vendors, creating lasting business relationships, expanding referral opportunities and developing a trusted network that supports long-term business growth.
Claude for Small Business Workshop and M3
Discover how Claude AI can help small business owners streamline operations, automate administrative tasks, and improve productivity. Join NGLCCNY and 10x Learning for a hands-on workshop developed in partnership with Anthropic. Build practical AI workflows for invoicing, lead management, proposals, and reporting using tools like QuickBooks, Shopify, and Gusto. No technical experience required. The workshop concludes with NGLCCNY's Members Monthly Mixer (M3), offering networking opportunities with local entrepreneurs and business leaders.
Commercial Real Estate Acquisition for Small Business Owners
This Verizon Small Business Digital Ready session helps small business owners understand how commercial real estate ownership can support long-term business stability and wealth building. Learn how to evaluate readiness for ownership, assess potential properties, navigate the acquisition process, understand commercial real estate financing, and prepare for what lenders review when considering a property purchase.
Communicating Across Diverse Communication Styles
Learn how to communicate effectively across different personality types, work styles, and professional backgrounds. This masterclass explores behavioral adaptability, emotional intelligence, cultural awareness, and practical strategies for improving communication with teams, clients, and partners.
