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SUMMARY:RVA LinkUP 2018
DESCRIPTION:This impactful event will include a large exhibition of small businesses and corporate supply chain executives waiting to connect with your company.\n\n \n\nWHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?\n\nWhether you are looking for corporate\, government or small business customers\, a teaming relationship or just a great opportunity\, the RVA LinkUP Expo is where you want to be. Small businesses will have the rare opportunity to network face-to-face with procurement and purchasing officers while larger corporations can connect with HUBzone\, service-disabled and diverse suppliers.\n\nWHO SHOULD ATTEND?\n\nThis event is designed for professionals who are responsible for procurement and supplier diversity within corporations of all sizes\, such as:\n\n \n\n\n	\n	Small business owners and managers\n	\n	\n	Supply chain and diversity directors\n	\n	Sourcing and procurement officers\n	Industrial relations specialists\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nORGANIZATIONS EXHIBITING LAST YEAR LOOKING TO DO BUSINESS WITH SWaM BUSINESSES?\n\n\n	Capital Region Airport Commission\n	Carolinas-Virginia Minority Supplier Development Council\n	County of Henrico\n	Dominion Energy\n	Hourigan Construction\n	Imaginative Solutions LLC\n	Mack Global\, LLC\n	Norfolk State University\n	Quality Moving Services\, Inc.\n	U.S. Small Business Administration\n	University of Richmond\n	Virginia Department of Small Business & Supplier Diversity\n	Virginia SPQA\n	Virginia State University\n	W.M. Jordan Company \n	....and more!\n\n\n\n\nWHAT TO EXPECT\n\nThroughout the day you will have the opportunity to have meaningful conversations with organizations looking to do business with SWaM businesses\, learn about opportunities available\, and gain more insight into how to grow lasting business relationships.  You will also have the opportunity to participate in procurement informational sessions with State\, Federal and Corporate professionals  Coffee service and lunch will be included.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 14pt\;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ce192b69-3b9d-2e73-abd4-568d2f88fdf6"><span background-color:="" color:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">&nbsp\;</span></span></p>\n\n<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 14pt\;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ce192b69-3b9d-2e73-abd4-568d2f88fdf6"><span background-color:="" color:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">This&nbsp\;</span><span background-color:="" color:="" font-weight:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">impactful&nbsp\;</span><span background-color:="" color:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">event will include a large exhibition of small businesses and corporate supply chain executives waiting to connect with your company.</span></span><br class="kix-line-break" />\n&nbsp\;</p>\n\n<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 14pt\;"><strong><span background-color:="" color:="" font-weight:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?</span></strong><br class="kix-line-break" />\n<span background-color:="" color:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">Whether you are looking for corporate\, government or small business customers\, a teaming relationship or just a great opportunity\, the&nbsp\;RVA&nbsp\;LinkUP&nbsp\;Expo is where you want to be. Small businesses will have the rare opportunity to network face-to-face with procurement and purchasing officers while larger corporations can connect with&nbsp\;</span><span id="docs-internal-guid-ce192b69-3b9d-2e73-abd4-568d2f88fdf6"><span background-color:="" color:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">HUBzone</span></span><span background-color:="" color:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">\, service-disabled and diverse suppliers.</span></p>\n\n<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 0pt\;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ce192b69-3b9d-2e73-abd4-568d2f88fdf6"><strong><span background-color:="" color:="" font-weight:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">WHO SHOULD ATTEND?</span></strong><br class="kix-line-break" />\n<span background-color:="" color:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">This&nbsp\;event is designed for professionals who are responsible for procurement and supplier diversity within corporations of all sizes\, such as:</span></span></p>\n\n<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 0pt\;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ce192b69-3b9d-2e73-abd4-568d2f88fdf6">&nbsp\;</span></p>\n\n<ul style="margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 0pt\;">\n	<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc\; font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\;">\n	<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 0pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ce192b69-3b9d-2e73-abd4-568d2f88fdf6"><span background-color:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">Small business owners and managers</span></span></span></p>\n	</li>\n	<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc\; font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\;">\n	<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 0pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ce192b69-3b9d-2e73-abd4-568d2f88fdf6"><span background-color:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">Supply chain and diversity directors</span></span></span></p>\n	</li>\n	<li style="list-style-type: disc\; font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\; line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 0pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ce192b69-3b9d-2e73-abd4-568d2f88fdf6"><span background-color:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">Sourcing and procurement officers</span></span></span></li>\n	<li style="list-style-type: disc\; font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\; line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 0pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><span background-color:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:=""><span background-color:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">Industrial</span><span background-color:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">&nbsp\;relations specialists</span></span></span></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc\; font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\; line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 14pt\;"><br />\n<br />\n<br />\n<br />\n<br />\n<span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><strong><span background-color:="" color:="" font-weight:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">ORGANIZATIONS EXHIBITING LAST YEAR LOOKING TO DO BUSINESS WITH&nbsp\;</span></strong></span><strong><span background-color:="" color:="" font-weight:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:=""><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;">SWaM</span></span></strong><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><strong><span background-color:="" color:="" font-weight:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">&nbsp\;BUSINESSES?</span></strong></span></p>\n\n<ul dir="ltr">\n	<li style="list-style-type: disc\; font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\; line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 14pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><span style="font-size: 16px\;">Capital Region Airport Commission</span></span></li>\n	<li style="list-style-type: disc\; font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\; line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 14pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><span style="font-size: 16px\;">Carolinas-Virginia Minority Supplier Development Council</span></span></li>\n	<li style="list-style-type: disc\; font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\; line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 14pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px\;">County of&nbsp\;Henrico</span></strong></span></li>\n	<li style="list-style-type: disc\; font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\; line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 14pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px\;">Dominion Energy</span></strong></span></li>\n	<li style="list-style-type: disc\; font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\; line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 14pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px\;">Hourigan&nbsp\;Construction</span></strong></span></li>\n	<li style="list-style-type: disc\; font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\; line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 14pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><span style="font-size: 16px\;">Imaginative Solutions LLC</span></span></li>\n	<li style="list-style-type: disc\; font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\; line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 14pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><span style="font-size: 16px\;">Mack Global\, LLC</span></span></li>\n	<li style="list-style-type: disc\; font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\; line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 14pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><span style="font-size: 16px\;">Norfolk State University</span></span></li>\n	<li style="list-style-type: disc\; font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\; line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 14pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><span style="font-size: 16px\;">Quality Moving Services\, Inc.</span></span></li>\n	<li style="list-style-type: disc\; font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\; line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 14pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><span style="font-size: 16px\;">U.S. Small Business Administration</span></span></li>\n	<li style="list-style-type: disc\; font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\; line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 14pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px\;">University of Richmond</span></strong></span></li>\n	<li style="list-style-type: disc\; font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\; line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 14pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><span style="font-size: 16px\;">Virginia Department of Small Business &amp\; Supplier Diversity</span></span></li>\n	<li style="list-style-type: disc\; font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\; line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 14pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><span style="font-size: 16px\;">Virginia&nbsp\;SPQA</span></span></li>\n	<li style="list-style-type: disc\; font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\; line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 14pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px\;">Virginia State University</span></strong></span></li>\n	<li style="list-style-type: disc\; font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\; line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 14pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><span style="font-size: 16px\;">W.M. Jordan Company&nbsp\;</span></span></li>\n	<li style="list-style-type: disc\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\; line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 14pt\;"><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><em><strong><span background-color:="" color:="" font-weight:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 16px\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">....and more!</span></strong></em></span></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc\; font-size: 10pt\; font-family: Arial\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; background-color: transparent\; vertical-align: baseline\; line-height: 1.2\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 14pt\;"><br />\n<span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><strong><span background-color:="" color:="" font-weight:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">WHAT TO EXPECT</span></strong><br />\n<span background-color:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">Throughout the day you will have the&nbsp\;opportunity to have meaningful conversations with organizations looking to do business with&nbsp\;</span></span><span background-color:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:=""><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;">SWaM</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51\, 51\, 51)\;"><span background-color:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">&nbsp\;businesses\, learn about opportunities available\, and gain more insight into how to grow lasting business relationships.&nbsp\; You will also have the opportunity to participate in procurement informational sessions with State\, Federal and Corporate professionals&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</span><u><span background-color:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">Coffee</span></u><span background-color:="" helvetica="" style="font-size: 13pt\;" vertical-align:="" white-space:=""><u>&nbsp\;service and lunch will be included.&nbsp\;</u></span></span></p>\n
LOCATION:University of Richmond Jepson Alumni Center 49 Crenshaw Way\, Richmond\, VA 23229
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