Hampton Roads Engagement Lunch: November 2024

Registration now open!

NVSBC offers our Hampton Roads Engagement Lunch event for the veteran entrepreneur and federal small business community.  Come join us for the training, networking, lunch, and guest panelist discussion. This lunch event is generously sponsored by Ferguson.

NVSBC invites you to the Hampton Roads Lunch Engagement event.

• Location: Ferguson Headquarters, 751 Lakefront Commons, Newport News, VA 23606
  
• Parking: Ferguson Headquarters parking lot
  
• Event POC: Engagement Director, [email protected]

Hampton Roads Engagement Lunch Agenda: 

• 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Registration/Networking
  
• 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Call to Order
• NVSBC: Zack Armstrong, Deputy Executive Director
• Ferguson: Holly Jones, Director of Talent and Chief of Staff for VALOR & Cathy Williams, Director of Business Diversity
• 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch Served 
• 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM Around the Room Introductions (if time permits)
• 1:30 PM - 1:35 PM Introduction to Speaker Panelists: Katina Adams, NVSBC Hampton Roads Committee
  
• Charlotte Brooks-Dale, Small Business Professional, Air Combat Command (ACC), Acquisition Management and Integration Center (AMIC)
• Hans Augustus, Director of Business Operations & Small Business Professional, 633^rd Contracting Squadron, Joint Base Langley-Eustis
• Stacey L. Cooper, Deputy of Small Business Programs, Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC)
• Tonney Kawuh, Director of Small Business Programs, HQ, ACC
• Paul Waite, Small Business Professional / Procurement Analyst, Office of Small Business Programs – Army Contracting Command (ACC) – Mission & Installation Contracting Command (MICC)
• Jennifer Souza-Madura, Procurement Analyst, Small Business, Industry, Innovation and Outreach Division (CG-9133), Office of Procurement Policy & Oversight (CG-913), DHS/U.S. Coast Guard HQ
• Nettie Straub, Small Business / Subcontracting Program & Acquisition Innovation Advocate (U.S.Coast Guard HQ)
• 1:35 PM - 2:30 PM Panel Discussion + Q&A (Katina Adams - Facilitator) + Close of Event (EG Primus, NVSBC Hampton Roads)

At this engagement event, attendees will have the exclusive chance to directly engage with esteemed Small Business Professionals representing the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard. Attendees will be able to ask questions that will help them to better position their business for success in the federal marketplace when learning how to directly do business with all agencies represented.

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