Entrepreneur Expo

Build your small business network, learn new skills, and find support and inspiration with panels, one-on-one consultations, workshops, exhibitors and more! Light lunch will be served. A Twin Cities Startup Week Official Event.

Before you register, please complete the workshop interest form.

9-9:30 a.m. Registration and pastries from Panadería Samantha

9:30-10:30 a.m. Welcome and keynote speaker Commissioner Shawntera Hardy, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development.

10:45-11:45 a.m.

• Choose from four panel discussions: Arts Industry with Springboard for the Arts, Food Industry with Appetite for Change and NEON, Retail Industry with Neighborhood Development Center, and Services Industry with WomenVenture; OR
• Social media workshop and open lab with Joule MN

11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Lunch from K’s Revolutionary Catering and More

11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

• One-on-one consultations on business legal and tax questions with LegalCORPS and Prepare + Prosper, market research with James J. Hill Library, and business plans with SCORE®
• Visit 30+ nonprofit and government business development exhibitors
• Professional photographer Sarah White/Fotos for Barcelona will take headshots free of charge

12:30-3:30 p.m.

• Guided networking with Lani Basa, The BWC and Kateri Ruiz, MAIA.community
• Social media workshop and open lab with Joule MN
• Industry round table discussions