34th Annual Government Procurement Conference (GPC)

April 16, 2025

Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Washington, DC
Event Manager:Bob Jeffers bj1@fbcinc.com

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The Federal Government Procurement Conference (GPC) is a national conference fostering business partnerships between the Federal Government, its prime contractors and small, minority, service-disabled veteran-owned, veteran-owned, HUBZone and women-owned businesses. 

GPC is the largest and longest-running conference for small businesses looking to do business with the government and its prime contractors. This unique one-day event attracts:

• A wide variety of government attendees representing many Federal, State and Local agencies
• Participants from all over the United States including: Government (Federal, State and Local), Industry (Prime Contractors and Small Businesses) and Academia 
• Prime Contractors with teaming and mentor-protégé opportunities
• Hundreds of small businesses, minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Businesses, 8a businesses and HUBZone businesses
• Participating firms have the benefit of marketing their products and services to procurement representatives and small business specialists from federal agencies.

Sponsorship opportunities are available to increase your exposure!

Register to Exhibit/Sponsor

NLIT Summit 2025

May 05 - 07, 2025

Colorado Convention Center
Denver, CO
Event Manager:Dave Johnson davej@fbcinc.com

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The 2025 NLIT Summit is sponsored by the NLIT Society, a professional society founded to facilitate the exchange of best practices and ideas among IT and Cybersecurity professionals within the DOE complex, strengthen the infrastructure, and identify efficiencies within the DOE laboratory system. The Summit facilitates sharing information regarding all aspects of IT and Cybersecurity operations, technology, policies, and practices in support of research conducted at the Laboratories. It is open to all personnel in the IT and Cybersecurity fields working at Laboratories and Plants affiliated with government funded activities, as well as Federal government employees in the IT or Cybersecurity fields that work at agencies associated with the participating Laboratories. The 2024 NLIT welcomed over 750 attendees from across the National Lab community.

LabTech 2025 at Berkeley Lab

May 20, 2025

Outside Building 91
Berkeley, CA
Event Manager:Dave Johnson davej@fbcinc.com

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Berkeley Labs will host the Annual LabTech Symposium on Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. LabTech is a free event created by, and for, lab staff that focuses on computing and technology for science and operations. LabTech will feature technical tutorials, discussion sessions, networking opportunities, demonstrations, industry exhibits and more. LabTech is a multi-track one-day conference, with tracks aimed at scientists, technologists, and support staff. This is the IT Division's flagship outreach and community event for computing at the Laboratory. This is the only IT focused event with industry exhibit opportunities hosted at Berkeley each year. View the LabTech website for additional information: https://labtech.lbl.gov/home

Exhibition:
An industry exposition will run in conjunction with LabTech sessions and activities. The exhibits will be located outdoors beneath canopies outside of the IT Division building and is in-between the two buildings where the LabTech sessions take place. This is an excellent opportunity to network with Berkeley Lab employees. All Berkeley Lab employees as well as technology staff from Livermore Lab, UCB, SLAC and Stanford will be invited to attend.

NIH Innovation Day

May 21, 2025

NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD-Building 10 FAES Terrace
Bethesda, MD
Event Manager:Bob Jeffers bj1@fbcinc.com

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The nation's medical research agency - the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - has a massive campus running cutting edge research and development, supported heavily by advanced technology and innovation. With this comes a unique audience of scientists and personnel with special applications. 

Reach them face-to-face at NIH Innovation Day! All personnel on the NIH campus receive FBC's wide-reaching promotions for this exciting event. Now's the time to show them that your product or service is what they've been missing. This is the first of three events to be held at NIH in 2025.

NIH Mission and Goals:
NIH’s mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and to apply that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life and reduce illness and disability. To carry out this mission, NIH’s goals are:

• to foster fundamental creative discoveries, innovative research strategies and their applications as a basis for ultimately protecting and improving health
• to develop, maintain and renew scientific human and physical resources that will ensure the nation’s capability to prevent disease
• to expand the knowledge base in medical science and associated sciences in order to enhance the nation’s economic well-being and ensure a continued high return on the public investment in research
• to exemplify and promote the highest level of scientific integrity, public accountability and social responsibility in the conduct of science.

Organization:
NIH is an operating division of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), responsible for helping the Department realize its strategic goal of advancing scientific knowledge and innovation.

To accomplish this, NIH consists of 27 Institutes and Centers (ICs), along with Program Offices, which collectively are referred to as ICOs. These ICOs have individual strategic plans and specific research agendas, which are aligned with the legislative mandates that are often related to specific diseases or body systems. To support these missions, most of NIH’s ICOs receive a specific appropriation from Congress, and support research and research training through extramural funding awarded to universities, academic health centers and other research institutions. Most also conduct research and research training in their own intramural laboratories, the majority of which are located on the NIH’s main campus in Bethesda, MD.

From the NIH Strategic Plan:
NIH will support a broad, balanced portfolio of basic research across a wide range of scientific disciplines, a portfolio that will be complemented by vigorous support of innovations in technology and data science. By maintaining and strengthening its already impressive foundation of fundamental science, biomedical research will be poised to identify and capitalize upon potential opportunities for revolutionary breakthroughs with the potential for preventing, treating and curing disease.

Read the full NIH-Wide Strategic Plan

PNNL Cloud Day

June 11, 2025

PNNL Discovery Hall
Richland, WA
Event Manager:Dave Johnson davej@fbcinc.com

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Cloud Day at PNNL is a full day of cloud related workshops. This event, a pre-conference activity leading up to the larger TechFest Conference on June 12, brings together the cloud team from PNNL to collaborate with presenters/experts from AWS, Google and Microsoft to deliver updates on emerging information in the cloud computing world.

The 2024 PNNL audience at Cloud Day was 300 people and continues to grow every year. All of the PNNL campus is encouraged to attend.

PNNL TechFest

June 12, 2025

PNNL Discovery Hall
Richland, WA
Event Manager:Dave Johnson davej@fbcinc.com

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TechFest is a campus-wide, daylong event to promote collaboration among various departments and strengthen staff relationships at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Seminars throughout the day will include posters, presentations, demos, discussions, panels and tutorials. Participation from all divisions/staff across the Lab is encouraged. Senior management, sector management and project management office directors from across the research directorates will be visible at the event.

At the 2024 live event, more than 700 PNNL employees participated. Employees are strongly encouraged to interact with exhibitors and gain an education on emerging products/services that can be utilized within the laboratory setting. Industry exhibitors are invited to attend the seminars.

MCoE Maneuver Ball

June 14, 2025

Historic Iron Works
Columbus, GA
Event Manager:Dave Johnson

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The MCoE Maneuver Ball will be held at the Historic Iron Works on Saturday, June 14, 2025.

This event is in celebration of the U.S. Army's 250th Birthday.

Sponsorship opportunities are available to show your support of the soldiers of Fort Benning and the mission of the U.S. Army.

Maryland Defense Forum

June 17 - 18, 2025

Hilton Baltimore BWI Airport
Linthicum Heights, MD
Event Manager:Bob Jeffers bj1@fbcinc.com

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The 2025 Maryland Defense Forum is a unique opportunity for leaders from installations, defense communities and defense-related industries across the Old-Line State. It will provide the chance for military community representatives to meet with their on-base counterparts and state and federal officials to focus on resiliency, mutual support and coordination on key issues and mission assurance.

• Defense and Community Leadership
• Community and Quality of Life Stakeholders
• Military Technology and R&D
• Defense Industry Members
• The Big Change Bang - What Shifting Defense Priorities and RIFs Mean to Maryland
• Bracing the Workforce Tide - What Goes Down Can Rise Again
• Beyond the Pale: Game Changing Partnerships & Collaboration
• Resilience v. Readiness
• Lighthouse Station: Growing Emerging Clusters, Strengthening the Backbone for Critical Technologies: Computational Biology, Quantum and PNT
• Housing, Child Development, Soldier and Family Quality of Life
• Smart Arsenal
• Building the Defense Workforce of Tomorrow
• Military Tech innovation in Maryland
  • Military Health Technology
  • Hypersonics
  • Autonomous Systems & AI
  • Directed Energy
  • Advanced Materials
  • C5ISR
  • Microelectronics
• Maryland Lighthouse economic sectors (Including: Aerospace & Defense including  Position/Navigation/Timing, Quantum Technologies, and Life Sciences including Computational Biology)

About the Event:
This event will bring together military leadership, defense communities, and industry representatives for two days of collaboration.

Hosted by the Maryland Department of Commerce, Maryland Economic Development Corporation, and the Federal Business Council, Inc., the Maryland Defense Forum is set to host discussions on building military: resilience and readiness; critical Department of Defense (DoD) technologies; supply chain diversification; government contracting challenges; and more.

This opportunity will give military communities a chance to meet with key DoD representatives and work together to address issues surrounding the economic vitality of Maryland’s military installations. The Maryland Defense Forum is targeted to a variety of individuals, including members of the defense industry and federal contractors; DoD leadership; academia; community leaders supporting installation missions; service members, military families, or veterans; and federal, state, and local government workers.

Maryland’s military installations have an annual economic impact of more than $60 billion and support roughly 400,000 Maryland jobs. As a top economic driver for the state, these installations drive innovation and create boundless opportunities for Maryland businesses.