- Business owners seeking government certifications
- Corporations interested in expanding their participation with minority and women owned firms
- Government agencies seeking outreach for M/W/DBE firms
- Associations seeking to increase their diversity or M/W/DBE membership pools
- Vendors seeking to do business with this powerful group of people
Unique Benefits:
- Step by step instructions about the certification process
- Legal parameters of the various programs
- Detailed reusable reference materials
- Legal definitions of “ownership”, “control”, “fronts or brokering” and related penalities
- Understanding mentor/protege, joint venture, teaming arrangements and marketing
- Nationally known speakers
- Accessing state projects funded by American Recovery and Rebuilding Act (ARRA
$50 per person - $220 value
(available with Symposium Registration only)
For attendees wishing to secure one-on-one consultation on specific certification or marketing issues, coordinators will offer 1 hour hands on working sessions with Denise Farris of Farris Law Firm on February 20th, 2010. These small group sessions will be limited to 10 people per session and will provide a workshop setting enabling participants to begin the application and/or registration processes with fact specific support. The content of these meetings will be determined by the questions and needs of the participants.
Sessions are available via registration only on a
First come - First Served basis.
- Pre-registration is required