Hello team,

As you know, the State Office hosts two events yearly in conjunction with one another - our FSBDC Annual Conference & Small Business Success Summit. In 2024, both events will take place at the Sawgrass Marriott Golf Resort & Spa in Ponte Vedra Beach.

To ensure attendees have access to a variety of valuable resources, we invite Florida SBDC staff to submit presentations for informative breakout sessions. Before making this opportunity public, we are opening the call for presentations to Florida SBDC staff. We encourage all staff to begin submitting their own proposals or soliciting this opportunity to individuals you know in your communities who would be a good fit for our events. The State Office will announce this publicly in January 2024.

The deadline to submit a presentation proposal is April 12, 2024.

Please reach out if you have any questions,
Florida SBDC State Office
Success Summit

Target Audience: Small businesses, entrepreneurs, state partners and stakeholders.

Purpose:To provide small businesses with professional development and networking opportunities to help them launch, grow and thrive. 
Dates: August 19-20, 2024
Annual Conference

Target Audience: Florida SBDC & Florida APEX Accelerator staff.

Purpose: Annual opportunity for our network to come together in person for professional development, networking opportunities and to celebrate the accomplishments of our team. 
Dates: August 21-23, 2024

About the Florida SBDC Network:
For more than 45 years, the Florida SBDC Network, the state’s principal provider of business assistance [Fl. Stat. 288.001], has nourished a statewide partnership between higher education and economic development to provide existing and emerging small and medium-sized business owners with management and knowledge resources that enable overall growth, increased profitability, and economic prosperity for Florida’s economy. In 2022, the Florida SBDC Network delivered 117,750 hours of consulting to 14,758 small business clients - resulting in business owners securing $446 million in capital, $445 million in government contracting, impacting 23,515 jobs, increasing sales by over $4.5 billion, and creating 825 businesses. With over 40 offices statewide, the Florida SBDC is funded in part by the U.S. Small Business Administration, Department of Defense, State of Florida and other private and public partners. The Florida SBDC Network, headquartered at the University of West Florida, is nationally accredited by the Association of SBDCs and is a recipient of the President’s E Award for Export Service. Florida SBDC services are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis. Language assistance services are available for individuals with limited English proficiency. For more information, please visit www.FloridaSBDC.org.