Matchmaking

The 4th Annual National Veteran Small Business Conference & Expo will be providing matchmaking sessions for Veteran Owned Small Businesses and Service Disabled Veteran Owned Businesses. Those VOSBs and SDVOBs interested in potential partnering with the government sector will connect with representatives from participating federal, state, and local government agencies, and other Prime Contractors and experienced VOSBs and SDVOSBs.

Mentors will host up to 16 individual, 15 minute sessions where they will engage veteran business owners in discussions related to professional partnerships with the government. VOSBs and SDVOSBs, will be able to register to join a maximum of 3 sessions with government agencies operating in the same NAIC on a first come first served basis. The sessions will take place on Thursday, July 10th, one from 9am to 12pm and another from 1:30pm to 4:30pm. Those of you who are signing up as mentors are urged to be available for both morning and afternoon sessions.

Organizations wishing to serve as mentors must sign up before the deadline at 5pm EDT, May 30, 2008. If you are interested in being a mentor but have NOT registered as an attendee for the conference, please click here to register.

If you have registered for the conference and you are interested in being a mentor, please e-mail Gerri Whichard for further instructions.

For those of you interested in being a Mentee, registration will open in mid-June. We will send an email notification to all confirmed registrants prior to that date to inform you that registration is open.

View the matchmaking schedule here!