Meet the Buyers Conference

Meet the Buyers Conference

Third Annual Meet the Buyers
November 3, 2017

Location

University of Nebraska at Omaha
College of Business Administration

Fees

$55, Early Bird (before Oct 1)
$75, after September 30
$100, walk-in day of event

Register Online

2017 Exhibitors

Ellsworth Air Force Base | Offutt Air Force Base | Omaha Public Schools | City of Lincoln | Lancaster County | GSA | National Park Service | Department of Veteran Affairs | U.S. Marine Corps | City of Omaha | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Nebraska Department of Transportation

2017 Agenda 

8:15 Registration Open. Light breakfast served.
8:45 OPENING REMARKS: Catherine Lang, state director, Nebraska Business Development Center
9:00 ADDRESS: Congressman Bacon, Nebraska
9:30 KEYNOTE: Theodore Bujewski, associate director, Department of Defense Office of Small Business Program
10:30 Networking Break
12:00

Lunch Buffet

 
1:00 BREAKOUT SESSIONS
 

Track A: How to write a winning proposal 

 
 

Track B: Successful Contract Management – Sandy Burns, Project Solutions Inc 

 

Track C : Cybersecurity requirements – Amy Vermillion, Imprimis, Inc. 

 
2:30 Industry Teaming Groups
3:45 Adjourn

Keynote Speaker

Ted Bujewski, associate director, DoD Office of Small Business Programs, co-manages the Rapid Innovation Fund Program, a $150M Department of Defense program focusing on the rapid integration of technologies into defense systems. He oversees approx. 100 research and development projects annually. Bujewski holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, an MS in Computer Science from the University of California at Los Angeles, and an MS in Operations Research and BS in Applied Mathematics from Case Western Reserve University.