Virginia Asian Chamber of Commerce
THE Official Voice of Small, Minority, and other Under-served Businesses in the Hampton Roads
Hampton Roads Office Presents
The 4th Annual ProcureCon Hampton Roads EXPO 2020
Wednesday August 26, 2020
From 9 am to 2:00 pm
City of Hampton, Virginia
Event Registration page: Open April 2020
Exhibiting and sponsorship information: Available February 2020
Sponsorship opportunities: Contact My Lan Tran at aabac@aabac.org
2020 BUYER HIGHLIGHTS:
Commercial and Government Agency Small Business Offices: ProcureCon Hampton Roads Exhibits 2020 will be open to exhibitors in March 2020. Contact Ms My Lan Tran at: aabac@aabac.org to obtain exhibiting & sponsorship opportunities!
This 2020 regional procurement event includes major procurement decision makers to discuss current procurement opportunities, provide technical assistance, one-on-one counseling on business expansion, contracting guidelines, and business certification updates. 20+ government and commercial buyers offer business contract opportunities from a wide range of technology and infrastructure construction projects/plans. This event will be another standing-room only event with up to 200 participants ( Or max room capacity).
The below programs and activities will be offered at ProcureCon Hampton Roads EXPO 2020:
- Information on upcoming annual procurement forecast and requirements
- Solicitation: Bidding processes by buyers
- Small business procurement technical assistance programs
- Setting small business prime and subcontracting goals
- Minority- Small- Women- Business certification procedures
- Set-aside/subcontracting opportunities By federal agencies
- Infrastructure- Construction opportunity briefings
- Export-Import trade resources
VACC invites all the below organizations to participate:
- All commercial, federal, state and local government purchasing officers
- Technical/program representatives including contracting officers
- Agency engineers, business developers
- Agency/Industry logistics specialists
- Architect/Engineers/Primes
- Contract Managers , Small Business specialists
- Supplier Diversity Professionals
- Manufacturers/Inventors
- Local- Regional-State-Federal Small business counselors
- Business solutions providers- Domestic and trade related
TYPICAL CONFERENCE DAY HAMPTON ROADS AGENDA – SUBJECT TO CHANGE
- 8:00 am to 9:00 am: Exhibit Set Up
- 9:00 am to 9:30 am: Registration- Welcome Reception – Breakfast
- 9:30 am – EXPO Opens – Greetings and Appreciation to Sponsors
- 9:30 am -10:30 am: General Plenary Session Speakers – VACC Signature IMPACT Panel- Refreshments
- 10:30 am – 12:00 pm: Exhibitor Trade Show/ Networking/ Round Robin Match Making / SWaM-DBE Certification clinics
- 12:00 pm to 1:00: Luncheon – Keynote Speaker
- 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm: Buyer EXPO and Networking -Robin Match Making
- 2:00 pm: Conference concludes- ProcureCon Hampton Roads 2021 date announcement
The 3rd Annual ProcureCon Hampton Roads 2019 event recap
The March 7 2019 ProcureCon Hampton Roads Industry Day & EXPO at VDOT Headquarters in Suffolkwas a standing room only small business development conference in the South side Virginia Region bringing together government and industry for one full day filled with networking, business development, relationship building, and education opportunities. 175 attended the iconic EXPO 2019. See our full 2019 ProcureCon Hampton Roads Photo Gallery