Small-business leaders are invited to join NSBA in Washington, D.C. for its 2016 Small Business Leadership Conference for two days of networking, problem-solving, knowledge building, and high-level discussions on the issues that matter most for small business. Among the key activities of the event:
- Build Your Advocacy Skills
- Effective Lobbying for the Small Business Leader
- Tell Your Story in the Media
- Talking Before Groups with a Small Business Message
- Small Business in the New Economy
- Dinner and Networking
- Get out and experience the real Washington, D.C. with your cohorts in a relaxing dinner with endless networking opportunities
- Congressional Breakfast on Capitol Hill
- Hear from leading Members of Congress who stand up for small business inside the Beltway
- How the National Debt Threatens Small Business
- A hands-on exercise run by the Fix the Debt Campaign to find meaningful solutions to our entitlement crisis
- The Great Start-Up Non-Starter
- Insight from thought leaders and small-business experts on lagging rates of start-ups and how to fix the problem
- A White House Conference on Small Business
- Discussion on why and how this indispensable conference can set the agenda for the future of small business
- Closing Luncheon: the Challenges our Leaders Must Face
- A forecast of what’s ahead for returning and newly-elected policymakers in 2017
Registration is open now. NSBA members who register before April 20 will get the early-bird discount rate of $350, and after April 20, the NSBA member rate is $425. Nonmembers also are welcome, and that rate is $495. NSBA has secured an outstanding group rate at the Westin Washington, D.C. City Center of $229 through May 5, but space is limited and hotel arrangements must be made through NSBA.