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The Aspen Institute are honored to host the Associate Administrator for Contracting and Business Development at the Small Business Administration (SBA), Bibi Hidalgo, and Co-Founder/Executive Director, Bruce Katz of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University for a fireside chat conversation focused on how federal contracting opportunities can be a critical source of growth for socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses and how can communities work together to take them to scale. Goals of Webinar: · Learn from SBA leadership about how their commercial, lending, and industrial base is helping to deliver on the administration’s commitment to a more inclusive Federal procurement marketplace; · Hear from Bruce Katz, Director at Metro Finance Lab, on how cities are working together to take advantage of these once-in-a-generation contracting opportunities; · Understand what steps small business contractors and cross-sector procurement professionals can take now to prepare for SDB contracting; · Learn how SBA is developing policies to support small business contractors hoping to work with the Federal Government, including Woman-owned and Veteran-owned businesses. FEATURED SPEAKERS Bibi Hidalgo, Associate Administrator for Contracting and Business Development at the Small Business Administration (SBA) Bruce Katz, Executive Director for the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University Alejandro Manzanares, Senior Program Manager, Latino Business & Entrepreneurship Initiative, Aspen Institute Latinos and Society