DC Metro Engagement Dinner & Training Academy: April 2026

This event has been cancelled. Please join us for our May event on 5/13/2026.

NVSBC offers our Engagement Dinner event preceded by our in-person Training Academy for the veteran entrepreneur and federal small business community.  Come join us for the training, networking, and dinner. ALL (NVSBC Members & Non-Members) are welcome to attend!

NVSBC invites you to the DC Metro Engagement Dinner:

• Location: Army Navy Country Club, 1700 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, VA 22202
• Room: 5 Star Ballroom, 3rd Floor
• Price: Member Organization $65, Non-Member Organization $85
• Parking: Free ($20 value)
• Event POC: Special Event Director, [email protected]

Training Academy Agenda: 

• 4:00 – 5:00 PM 
• Speaker: Sharon Heaton, CEO/Founder, sbLiftOff
  
• Training Topic: Buying or Selling an SDVOSB or VOSB Company: Today’s Surprising Market Playbook
  

• Buying or Selling an SDVOSB or VOSB Company features one of the most knowledgeable M&A advisors working in our space. This training will help veteran owners plan with the end in mind – covering everything from running your company and growing it into full and open to deciding to buy another SDVOSB company to making that big decision to sell and transfer. At a time of regulatory change and dramatic change in government procurement, buyer’s appetites and valuations are evolving. One of the veteran community’s biggest supporters, M&A GovCon experts, Sharon Heaton — lawyer, investment banker, and the author of the Amazon bestseller Lift Off: 12 Things to Know Before Selling Your Business will give you a winning playbook and take your questions.

  WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

  • Understand what drives the 2026 GovCon market for SDVOSB and VOSBs 
  • Multiples and valuations: how buyers think about backlog and various government customers
  • How to avoid dumb mistakes
  • Weighing your options, from third party sale, management buyout, ESOPs, generational transfer
  • How to put together a high caliber M&A team and what it costs

DC Metro Engagement Dinner Agenda: 

• 5:30 – 6:30 PM Registration, Networking Hour 
• 6:30 – 7:30 PM Call to Order, Announcements, Dinner 
• 7:30 – 8:30 PM 
  • Matt Pavelek, President & CEO of National Veteran Owned Business Assoc. (NaVOBA)
  • Endre Stogard (invited), Strategic Procurement Leader, Accenture
  • Jon Walkwitz (invited) Shell
• Presentation: "Corporate Wisdom, Leadership Lessons: Insights from Industry Giants"

REGISTER

Sponsorship opportunities are available for this event. As a sponsor, you have the opportunity to introduce the guest speaker(s) and more. If you are interested in learning more about event sponsorship, please contact Adelaide Kahn at [email protected]