UB Business Partners Day celebrates successful and productive relationships among industry, government and the University by bringing together leaders from each sector to hear a national speaker.  The event honors business and civic leaders who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in support of UB and Western New York.  Successful economic development requires commitment and energy from both public and private sectors.  Working together, the University at Buffalo, the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, colleague UB schools, and industrial partners can achieve this success through cooperation based on an understanding of the strengths of each and the ways in which each can complement the others.

Past events have featured Nicholas Donofrio, Executive Vice President, Innovation and Technology, IBM; Norman Augustine, vice chairman and CEO of Lockheed-Martin; Paul Allaire, chair and CEO of Xerox Corporation; John Yochelson, president of the Council on Competitiveness; Gary DiCamillo, chair and CEO of Polaroid Corporation; Michael Capellas, Hewlett-Packard President; David Langstaff, Veridian President and CEO; Carl Kohrt, CEO and President, Battelle; Governor George Pataki; Senator Hilary Clinton; Representative Thomas Reynolds and Senator Charles Schumer.