2023 Alumni Brands Festival Held with Flying Colors

Sep 24-2023   

The second edition of NSD Alumni Brands Festival was successfully held at Chengze Garden on September 16, buzzing with brand showcasing, charity sales, and live music. This year’s event was sponsored by Bank of Beijing.

 

Prof. Yao Yang, Dean of NSD and BiMBA, was joined by faculty members and alumni representatives in kicking off the festival, which hosted the exhibition booths of 82 companies as well as 18 charity booths and 12 family-oriented ones. Involving such industries as consumption, education, medical care, and tech, this year’s festival recorded a significantly larger size compared with last year’s. Other features included a booth specially dedicated to autism, and another for Midu, a county in southwestern Yunnan Province where the NSD helps with poverty alleviation, to sell local produce to raise funds.

 

The event was live-streamed on various social media. As one of the highlights, the 2023 iTalk Forum invited ten outstanding alumni and Village Workshop students to share their experience of and thoughts on entrepreneurship, management, and village governance.

 

The festival ended on a high note as NSD alumni and their bands took to the stage to offer a feast for the ears.