GOVLINK CONFERENCE - Linking You To Federal Opportunities

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DAY ONE - OCTOBER 14, 2008

11:00 - 4:30 p.m.

Conference Registration and Exhibitors Set-up

1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Pre-Conference Tour of Defense Microelectronics
Activity High-Tech Laboratory

4:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Kick-off Reception with hors d’oeuvres,
Exhibits Open

DAY TWO - OCTOBER 15, 2008

7:00 a.m.

Registration, Continental Breakfast, Exhibits
and Networking (Exhibits Open All Day)

8:00 a.m.

Welcome, Administrative Remarks, and
The FTC Mission
Tom Gisler, CEO, The FTC

8:10 a.m.

Congressman
Dan Lungren
California, 3rd District

8:25 a.m.

Ted Glum
Director,
Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA)

8:45 a.m.

  Keynote Address:
Scott Denniston
  Director, Office of Small Business
  and Center for Veterans Enterprise,
  Department of Veteran Affairs

9:15 a.m.

Break, Networking, and Exhibits

9:30 - 11:30 a.m.

Concurrent Break-out Sessions
(Repeated at 2:15 p.m.)

   Patriot Express Loan Program
  Jim O’Neal, District Director,
  Small Business Administration (SBA)

   Labor Law and Contracting Law - Advice for    Veteran-Owned Small Businesses
   Susan E. Kirkgaard, Business Litigation and
   Real Estate and Business Law Departments,    Diepenbrock Harrison Professional Law Firm

  Marketing to Government
  Carol Bowyer,
  Senior Counselor / Instructor, The FTC

   Responding to RFPs
   (Request for Proposal)
   Bill Teeple,
   Senior Counselor / Instructor, The FTC

   Government Subcontracting
   Perry Sloan,
   Counselor / Instructor, The FTC

11:30 a.m.

Break, Networking, and Exhibits

12:00 p.m.

Lunch

12:30 p.m.

  How to Enjoy Getting Up on Monday
  Luncheon Speaker: Dixie Schneider
  Motivational Humorist

1:15 p.m.

Break, Networking, and Exhibits

1:45 p.m.

California’s New Veterans Homes - Participation
by Certified Disabled Veteran Business
Enterprises
Robert Manley Johnson, Director, Capital Outlay
and Development Division California Department
of Veterans Affairs

2:15 p.m.

Concurrent Break-out Sessions (Repeated)

4:30 p.m.

Conference Concludes

October 14-15, 2008
• Pre-Conference Tour:
October 14, 2008
1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

• Kick-off Reception:
  October 14, 2008
4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

• Main Conference Day:
October 15, 2008
7:00 to 4:30 p.m.

Early registration is $110 per person.
Register now! Click here.
$125 per person after September 5, 2008.
Pre-registration is required.
Last year's event sold out!

Conference Location Lions Gate Hotel
Garden Pavilion
5640 Dudley Blvd.
McClellan, CA 95652
(Sacramento area)
[Map to Location]

Lodging
Lions Gate Hotel
3410 Westover Street
McClellan, CA 95652
(0.16 miles away)
866.866.7100 toll-free
Mention the conference code FEDTEC08 when registering.

Holiday Inn Sacramento
North East I-80
5321 Date Avenue
Sacramento, CA
(1.7 miles away)
800.338.2810 toll-free

Hilton-Sacramento
Arden West
2200 Harvard Street
Sacramento, CA
(4.9 miles away)
800-445-8667 toll-free