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17th Annual Small Business Conference
July 8 & 9, 2025 | Capital Turnaround (The Navy Yard), Washington, DC
SAME Matchmaking is your opportunity to have one-on-one conversations with government agencies and large businesses. These short 10-minute sessions allow each side to get to know each other through sharing upcoming opportunities, requirements and capabilities.
Matchmaking is coordinated through registration sign up. If you are interested in matchmaking as a host (Government, Non-Profit, Academia, Large Business) or a Small Business participant, please indicate during check out.
11:00 am - 11:50 am (2nd Floor)
2:00 pm - 3:50 pm (2nd Floor)
For questions about matchmaking or to reserve a table, please reach out to
Lisa Krowne and Michael Schindler at samesbcmatchmaking@gmail.com
📢 The elevator at Capital Turnaround is working!
During individual registration, choose if your firm would like to participate in Matchmaking as a
Small Business (1-100 employees; or small business classification status)
Med/Large Business (101+ employees)
Government Agency / Non-Profit Organization
Only those that expressed an interest in matchmaking will receive an email from the Matchmaking Coordination Team on how to sign up as a Med/Large Business or Government Agency / Non-Profit Organization.
As a small business, you will receive a notice approximately 2 week prior to the conference with a link to the Matchmaking conference scheduling program to choose your times and firms/orgs that you wish to meet with.
The number of spots available is limited to the number of firms or organizations that sign up. We encourage all firms and organizations to participate.
Once the matchmaking spots are set, please come back to this page to review the locations for each meeting session.