8:00 AM – 9:00 AM	Registration – Michelin Conference Center
8:30 AM – 9:15 AM	Continental Networking Breakfast
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM	Opening remarks CVMSDC & Michelin MC for day – Vanessa V. Matthews
Workshop I – R.F.P.’s 2.0 – Responding For Profit
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM	Responding to RFP’s
10:35 AM – 10:45 AM	BREAK
Workshop II – Show Me the Money!
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM	Access to Capital – Corporate Panel Discussion Moderator Herbert Drayton, II – President & CEO Vertical Holdings James H. Sills – M&F Bank G. Winston Smith – NMSDC Business Consortium Fund, Inc. Cindi Rourk – Charleston LDC Will Manning – Bank of America
11:45 AM – 12:15 PM	LUNCH
Workshop III – Real Talk
12:15 AM – 12:30 PM 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM	Business Fitness – MBE Panel Discussion Moderator LaSonya Berry – President McPherson, Berry & Assoc. Keynote Address – Michelin Ryan Burkett – STRATAGON Ron Cary – Tilt Colon Abraham – CMA Services Doug Harris – Kaleidoscope
1:30 PM – 1:40 PM	BREAK
Matchmaking
1:45 PM – 3:45 PM	(Certified MBE’s Only) 15 Minute Sessions
Breakout Sessions
1:45 PM – 3:45 PM	Effective Use of Technology to Acquire Customers Alex Moore/Stratagon
1:45 PM – 3:35 PM	MBE to MBE Search Marjilette Brown/CVMSDC
4:00 PM	Departure