GovLink Conference 2005 Provides Businesses Link to Federal Opportunities
October 24, 2005

The Federal Technology Center hosted its biggest and best-ever GovLink Conference on October 18-19, 2005. The GovLink Conference 2005 provided excellent networking opportunities for federal agencies, prime contractors, and small businesses throughout the state of California and other western states. Almost three hundred attendees enjoyed presentations from speakers representing the U.S. Small Business Administration, Defense Microelectronics Activity, Army Corps of Engineers, Travis and Beale Air Force Bases, the General Services Administration, the Veterans Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal government agencies.

Additionally, conference attendees heard from industry representatives from major corporations including Boeing, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Aerojet, URS Corporation, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, BAE Systems, General Dynamics, and Lockheed Martin. To view or download the speakers' presentations, click here.

The GovLink Conference 2005 also offered 25 exhibitors the opportunity to showcase their products and services to an audience which included government and business representatives from California and nine other states.

Conference attendees included small business owners and representatives from a variety of product and service sectors. Those sectors included information management, engineering, construction, electronics, environmental protection, human resources, logistics, resource management, janitorial services, and graphic arts. Many small business owners reported that the opportunity to personally link up with procurement specialists from federal agencies and prime contractors was the most beneficial portion of the conference. Other feedback about the conference included comments such as: “one of the best”; “you provided a diversity of government buying activities from space/R& D ventures to road building”; “thanks for making those major corporations, government agencies, and other Small Business Liaison Officers available to us”; and “I look forward to attending more of your training classes.”

Events, such as GovLink Conference 2005, provide the capability to link small businesses to prime contractors and government agencies. We know that linkage has value for small businesses and for the state and our national economy. Check our “upcoming events” section for future courses and seminars.

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Alice Astafan, CEO, The FTC; with Ted Glum, Director, Defense Microelectronic Activity; keynote speaker, John Phillips, President, Phillips Defense Consultants; and Jack Toney, Director, Procurement Assistance Program, The FTC .

Keynote speaker, Tim Malishenko, Vice President, Contracts and Pricing, Boeing Worldwide Headquarters.