Cable’s annual Diversity Week – formerly called Hell Week, due to its sheer busy-ness—kicks off next week in New York City.

The week is composed of a series of events that take place at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square: the WICT Leadership conference on Monday, Oct. 7 and Tuesday, Oct. 8; the 27th annual National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) Conference on Tuesday, Oct. 8 and Wednesday, Oct. 9; and the 30th Annual Walter Kaitz fund-raising dinner, hosted by “Extra"’s and NuvoTV’s Mario Lopez, on Wednesday, Oct. 9.

PromaxBDA will be represented at NAMIC by Katerina Zacharia, PromaxBDA’s vice president of industry development and diversity, who is speaking on a panel on marketing careers in the cable industry. The panel—presented in partnership with PromaxBDA and NAMIC, and sponsored by Arris – will discuss how to best map your experience and skills to today’s demanding workplace with its emerging opportunities and challenges. The panel takes place on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 2:30 p.m.

Joining Zacharia are Daisy Auger-Dominguez, VP of recruitment, organization and workforce diversity for the Disney-ABC Television Group; Tonja Brown, VP of business integration, audience strategy, FOX; and Steven Spector, managing director, worldwide recruitment and executive search, Time Warner Cable.

On Wednesday at 9:10 am, right after the “Excellence in Multicultural Marketing Awards,” PromaxBDA will again partner with NAMIC to present a session, this time on “how marketers will lead the next generation of media.”

Moderated by Moderated by Maryam Banikarim, senior VP and CMO, Gannett Corp., the panel will be composed of Eddie Hill, senior VP of consumer marketing and brand strategy at BET Networks; Christine Maggiore-Escribano, senior VP, integrated marketing solutions at Telemundo ; Brian Briskman, president and creative director at B2 Studios; and Dario Spina, executive VP of integrated marketing at Viacom Media Networks.

Other topics that NAMIC will take on include workplace diversity, the changing dynamics of content distribution and consumption, and leadership.

The Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) leadership conference starts the week off early Monday morning at the Marriott Marquis, with panel on the “rockin’ women of Silicon Alley,” New York’s answer to Silicon Valley. Panel participants include: moderator Jesse Draper, CEO, Valley Girl, Inc., and creator and host of The Valley Girl Show; Tiffany Dufu, chief leadership officer, Levo League; Kristin George, VP, product, TuneIn; Kay Koplovitz, founder, USA Network, chairman and CEO of Koplovitz & Company, and co-founder of Springboard Enterprises; and Sonia Nagar, co-founder and CEO of Pickie.

Other topics to be discussed during WICT include communication, emotional awareness, playing to your strengths, managing from the middle and learning how to negotiate.

The three-day event wraps up Wednesday night with the 30th annual Kaitz Dinner. Money collected from ticket and table sales, advertising and sponsorships help support the Foundation’s mission of diversity as well as the Emma L. Bowen Foundation, NAMIC and WICT. Sony Pictures Entertainment will receive the Diversity Champion Award, while the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) will be honored with the Diversity Advocate Award. Tickets for the dinner can be purchased here.

Photo caption: Katerina Zacharia, PromaxBDA’s VP, industry development and diversity

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