BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20200522T140000Z DTEND:20200523T033000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Cancelled-Vienna Road to Recovery: Doing Business with the State of Virginia DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled.\n\n\n\nEach year the Commonwealth buys goods and services totaling more than $7 billion. Learn how to do business with Virginia.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nAs we move through the recovery phase\, it is important to consider new business models and revenue opportunities to grow small businesses. One opportunity that small businesses in all industries should consider is how to work with the Commonwealth of Virginia.\n\nDuring this webinar\, join the Town of Vienna Economic Development Office and the Vienna Business Association as we discuss doing business with the Commonwealth with Chris Ley\, business services manager\, with the Virginia Department of Small Business & Supplier Diversity.\n\nChris will inform entrepreneurs and business owners about the benefits of working with Virginia's procurement agency and how to position your business to obtain contracts with the state. The discussion will include learning about the application process for SWaM certifcation (Small\, Women and Minority-owned businesses) and how to become a registered vendor in the eVA system (Virginia's eProcurement Portal).\n\nAbout Chris Ley\n\nChris has worked with small businesses since 2007 when she joined a small\, women-owned marketing company\, Asian Marketing Services\, as their director of business development. She started two new successful small business training programs at Northern Virginia Community College: the SWaM program and the Entrepreneur Roadmap program. In the SWaM program\, she helped 32 companies become SWaM certified. Those companies won more than $1.7million in new state and federal contracts. In the Entrepreneur Roadmap program\, she helped 30 entrepreneurs start new businesses.\n\nChris received her undergraduate degree in accounting from University of Maryland\, College Park and her master's in international marketing from University of Maryland University College.\n\nAbout the Vienna Business Association (VBA)\n\nThe Vienna Business Association is the local community chamber of commerce. The VBA promotes greater business opportunities and growth through professional development\, networking and marketing opportunities. The VBA helps to create a strong local economy by nurturing the bond between businesses and citizens through community events and outreach\, and encouraging the Town to shop local and shop Vienna.\n\n\n\nRegister NOW X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: