Hampton Roads Engagement Lunch: April 2026

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NVSBC offers our Hampton Roads Engagement Lunch event for the veteran entrepreneur and federal small business community.  Come join us for the networking, lunch, and guest speaker. The NVSBC thanks our Exhibit Sponsor, BOOST LLC.

• Location: The Holiday Inn Newport News City Center, 800 Omni Boulevard, Newport News, VA 23606
  
• Parking: Venue parking lot, 1st floor, street/garage parking
  
• Event POC: Engagement Director, [email protected]

Hampton Roads Engagement Lunch Agenda: 

• 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Registration/Networking
  
• 11:30 AM – 11:50 AM Call to Order
• NVSBC: John Cochran, Consulting Manager, NVSBC
• 11:50 AM - 12:00 PM Success Spotlight: TBD
• 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Around the Room Introductions (if time permits)
• 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch Served (Buffet)
• 1:00 PM - 1:05 PM Introduction of Speaker: John Cochran, Consulting Manager, NVSBC
• 1:05 PM - 1:55 PM Guest Speaker: Kristy Pittman, Strategic Life & Business Coach, Founder, Peak Performance Strategies
• Topic:  "From Overwhelmed to AI-Powered: The Mission Control Center Implementation"
  

  • Veteran entrepreneurs are drowning in AI chaos - jumping between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and a dozen other tools, consuming tutorials but accomplishing less than before they started. Meanwhile, contractors who've built integrated Mission Control Centers are cutting proposal time from days to hours and reclaiming their evenings and weekends.

    Kristy will demonstrate live how to build the 3-tool Mission Control Center:

    • Claude Pro as your Digital Twin for content generation
    • NotebookLM as your Strategic Intelligence Officer for pattern recognition
    • Notion as your Operations Command Center for systematic organization

    Attendees see exactly what to build, how to structure it, and how to train it on their actual business. They leave with implementation roadmaps for all three tools they can start using immediately.
    Practical applications: proposal development, competitive intelligence organization, conference follow-up automation, past performance narratives, and contracting officer email responses.

• 1:55 PM - 2:00 PM Close of Event, NVSBC & E.G. Primus, Hampton Roads Committee President

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