If your organization is inviting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Small Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) to support your conference as a speaker, exhibitor or source of informational materials, please fill-in all the information indicated on the VA OSDBU Conference Invitation Request.  Once this information for your event has been received, we will review it and will inform you if we can participate in your event.  Please contact Ms. Linda Sitney at (202) 461-4262 if you have any questions.

February 2013

• 2/14-5/16—2013 VISN 18 Vendor Fairs; Phoenix, AZ 2/14; Tucson, AZ 2/28; Albuquerque, NM 3/14; El Paso, TX 3/21; Prescott, AZ 4/25; Big Spring, TX 5/2; Amarillo, TX 5/16, 10am thru 2pm, respective time zone
  The 3rd Annual Vendor Fairs bring small businesses and local facility customers together, allowing show and tell for vendors to show new items or introduce themselves. Contact Cathy Fernandez at (915) 564-6101 or Catalina.Fernandez@va.gov.
  
  For registration information, download the VISN 18 3rd Annual Vendor Fairs Flyer.

March 2013

• 3/21—National Women’s Veteran Council Annual Meeting; 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM; Washington, DC
  The National Women Veterans Council Spring Conference brings together women veteran owned firms, agencies and prime contractors that seek to connect to bring about business. Join us as we address key issues concerning women-owned veteran firms and provide access to agencies and prime contractors looking to do business with veterans.
  
  This special meeting is being held during National Small Business Federal Contracting Week. Contact Margot Dorfman at 888-418-7922, ext. 1211 or margot@uswcc.org, or visit the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce website for more details.
  
  
• 3/27-28—2013 Ohio Business Matchmaker; 7:30 AM – 4:30 PM; Dayton, OH
  The Ohio Business Matchmaker 2013 event is a unique opportunity where exhibitors, purchasing agents (buyers), trainers, and small business owners (suppliers) come together. In 2012 nearly 1,000 small business owners who represented small, minority, service-disabled veteran-owned, veteran-owned, HUBZone, women-owned businesses and purchasing representatives from city, state, county, and federal agencies, along with prime contractors representing a combined purchasing budget totaling hundreds of millions of dollars in opportunities attended.
  
  Contact Fatou Ndiaye at 614-466-2711 or fatou.ndiaye@development.ohio.gov for more details.