Greater Kansas City Supplier Diversity Reverse Expo
Businesses can network, learn about upcoming opportunities, market their companies’ products and services, and network with a variety of attendees.
The Johnson County Community College Procurement Department,
Kansas APEX Accelerator, and Kansas SBDC are excited to host you for the 2024 Greater
Kansas City Supplier Diversity Reverse Expo!
The Greater Kansas City Supplier Diversity Reverse Expo was created to assist
diverse businesses getting connected with Federal agencies, State of Kansas,
local Kansas county/municipal procurement, local educational institutions,
local certifying entities, prime contractors and potential opportunities
as well as provide our exhibitors leads for more diverse vendor pools.
Businesses will have the opportunity to meet with procurement professionals
from public agencies and large prime contractors at one time AND in one location!
The procurement professionals are in the booths while businesses roam freely through the expo hall, meeting with agency representatives, learning of upcoming opportunities, marketing their company’s products and services and networking with other business attendees.
Exhibitors
- Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas
- Children’s Mercy
- City of Wichita
- EPA
- GSA
- JE Dunn
- KCK Community College
- SBA – Small Business Certification
- Turner Construction
- Unified Government
- USDA Farm Production and Conservation
- WBDC – SBTRC (U.S. DOT Small Business Transportation Resource Center)
- WBDC – Woman’s Business Dev Ctr
Interested in exhibiting?
Purpose/Desired outcome: The purpose is to assist diverse businesses with getting connected with agencies/primes/certifying entities and potential opportunities as well as provide our exhibitors leads for more diverse vendor pools.
Exhibitor agenda items
The event venue will open at 7:30am for exhibitor booth set up, breakfast for exhibitors and exhibitor networking. The event will be open to the public from 9am – 2pm and tear down followed by optional Matchmaking sessions 2-3:30pm.
Our target participants for booths are:
-Federal agencies (State of Kansas purchasing, department of transportation, certifications)
-Local county/municipal purchasing departments
-Local educational institutions
-Local certifying entities
-Prime contractors
