Conway Business Expo,
Presented by Cousins' Office Furniture and Winthrop Rockefeller Institute
Thursday, Oct. 8 | Conway Expo and Event Center, 2505 E. Oak St.
Business Expo is Conway’s largest business-to-business networking event. With more than 100 booths on-site, it provides area professionals with opportunities to network and showcase their company’s or organization’s products and services to a diverse and engaged audience. Product demonstrations, business-to-business networking, and the selling of products and services—all conducted on the Expo floor—can help increase sales and sales leads for exhibitors. For booth space, contact Mary Margaret Satterfield at 501-327-7788 or mary@conwayarkansas.org.
It is free to attend Business Expo, however tickets are needed for the breakfast, lunch, and Taste of Conway. You can purchase ticket by clicking on the “Get Tickets” button below.
Business Expo also features several informative sessions and ticketed presentations that are open to both exhibitors and the public. From 5-7 p.m., Taste of Conway will take place on the Expo floor, showcasing more than 20 of Conway’s top restaurants. Tickets for breakfast, lunch, and Taste of Conway are available online or at the door.
Schedule of Events
8:30 a.m. | Business Expo Breakfast | $15
On the Ballot: Issue 3 allows the legislature to create Economic Development Districts and programs to promote economic development in the state. Currently, Arkansas is one of just a handful of states that doesn’t have legislation of this nature. This means that the state misses out on important economic development projects every year. Breakfast will focus on what this proposed constitutional amendment is, isn’t, and how it can help the state and community of Conway.
9:30 a.m. | Expo Floor Opens
11:30 a.m. | Business Expo Lunch | $15
Back by popular demand is a conversation with the Arkansas Highway Department. Find out more about projects taking place in Central Arkansas and what that means for Conway and Faulkner County.
2:00 p.m. | Afternoon Breakout Session
Growing Conway: A Collaborative Problem-Solving Demonstration
presented by Winthrop Rockefeller Institute
Learn how to address challenges in your team, organization, or community with facilitation techniques designed to promote collaborative problem solving. By bringing together diverse opinions and respectful dialogue, the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute helps groups make better decisions together, equipping them with the tools they need to make progress now and in the future. Through exercises related to Conway’s growth, they’ll give you a hands-on experience of their facilitation services and workshop offerings.
5:00 p.m. | Taste of Conway | $20
Restaurants include:
Big Bad Breakfast, B Hive Catering, Brick and Forge, Burgers Pies and Fries, Cinnaholic, Chuy’s, Cross Creek, Eat My Catfish, Las Delicias, Lost Pizza, Mama & Me Acai, MarketPlace Grill, Roost & Tap, Rotolo’s, Sam’s Club, Scooter’s Coffee, Shadrachs Coffee, Slim Chickens, Stoby’s, Uncle Tim’s, and Whataburger
Presenting Sponsors
Cousins’ Office Furniture | Winthrop Rockefeller Institute
Platinum Sponsors
Conductor | Dave Creek Media | Simmons Bank | Turbare Manufacturing
Gold Sponsors
Pafford Medical Services | Snap-On
Networking Game Sponsor
OrthoArkansas
Meal Sponsors
Carty, Harding & Hearn | GARVER | Lane Housley Trucking | Rogers Group | US Bank
Networking Lounge Sponsor
AT&T