The Partners for Profit Business to Business Symposium is a business networking activity designed to create new markets for suppliers and new sources for buyers.  It is a corporate and minority business exchange.

Designed to enable Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) the opportunity to identify current marketplace needs and appropriate personnel within the area's leading corporations and government agencies, the 2012 Partners for Profit Business to Business Symposium also focuses on providing buyers and procurement decision makers the opportunity to identify new competitive sources of services and supplies.

Through a series of focus-group discussions, MBEs are efficiently able to market their capabilities and capacities to major corporations and government agencies and buyers are able to inform MBEs of their procurement processes in a relaxed, personable setting - in one location - in one day.

Schedule of Events

Tuesday, 27 March 2012

7:00 a.m. Registration
8:30 a.m. Kickoff Breakfast and Award Ceremony
10:15 a.m. Kids College
10:15 a.m. Buyers Forum*
1:00 p.m. Conclusion

*Buyers Forum Information

The purpose of this event is to substantially match current purchasing needs with qualified Minority Owned Companies. The following outline details the format for this event.

1. By 29 February 2012, each registered corporation and government buying organization is requested to submit a list of commodities/services that they plan to purchase within the next 6 to 12 months.
2. In response to the provided list of commodities/services, the Partners for Profit staff will compile a list of minority businesses that could meet the buying organization's needs.  After thoroughly reviewing each minority business and determining if the business is a match, minority businesses will be scheduled to participate in the 27 March Forum.
3. At the Forum, each buying organization/designated buyers will be assigned to an engagement table to meet with a pre-selected group of up to 5 different minority businesses for a 40-minute interval.
4. The buying representative will initiate the discussion by sharing his/her company's procurement focus and the "rules of engagement" for his/her respective procurement process for approximately 5-8 minutes.
5. After the remarks from the buying representative, each minority business owner/representative will have approximately 5-6 minutes to discuss his/her business' capabilities, capacities and value proposition.  NOTE:  Due to the targeted nature of this event, it is appropriate that Buyers as well as Supplier Diversity professional participate, if possible.
6. After 40 minutes, the minority business participants will rotate to the next scheduled engagement table.  Each corporate/government engagement table will have approximately 4, 40-minute sessions throughout the Forum.  This format should afford the opportunity for buying organizations to engage a host of potential suppliers and exchange information for future discussions.

*Minority Business Owners and Representatives will only be matched with buying groups that specify a need for their goods or services.

Honorary Chairperson

TBA 

Keynote Speaker

Joset Wright, President
National Minority Supplier Development Council

Lodging

Country Springs Hotel & Conference Center
2810 Golf Road
Pewaukee, WI 53072
http://www.countryspringshotel.com

Reservations
(262) 547-0201 or Toll-free (800) 247-6640

Room Block Title
"Partners for Profit"

Room Rates
$99.00 for single occupancy

Ground Transportation to the Country Springs Hotel & Conference Center

Airport Connections:  #800-236-5450

Please call and book your reservation for transportation 24 to 48 hours in advance of your arrival at Milwaukee County General Mitchell International Airport.

Please be prepared to provide your flight information to the agent.

Airport Connections operates 24 hours a day, but advanced booking is required.

1-Person Party = $34.24 One way
2-Person Party = $38.24 One way
3-Person Party = $43.24 One way
*rate doesn't include gratuity

Event Refund Policy
Registration fees are nonrefundable seven (7) days prior to the start of the event.