SPEAKER

Carole Hart

Expertise: Government Contracting Services; Women, Minority and Veteran Certification

Carole Hart provides government contracting services through the Florida Atlantic University Florida Procurement Technical Assistance Center (Florida PTAC) to help businesses prepare, research and bid on government contracts. She is knowledgeable, experienced and strives to make selling to the government less complicated and more profitable. In addition to working with the government sector, she has twenty-five years of experience in the private sector, working in the aerospace procurement industry and as a Subcontracts Manager. She has worked with commercial airline suppliers and major subcontractors for commercial and federally let contracts.

Ms. Hart has a Business Administration degree, a Master’s degree in Counseling from New York University, and holds a Department of Veteran Affairs Certification as a Veteran Certification and Verification Program Counselor. She has worked in PTAC for 17 years.

WHO WE ARE

The Palm Beach Partners is a coalition of City, County, State and non-profit agencies aligned to maximize economic development opportunities for small businesses throughout the South Florida region.

The group includes: City of Riviera Beach, Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners, Solid Waste Authority, Office Equal Business Opportunity, Department of Airports and Palm Tran), School District of Palm Beach County, City of West Palm Beach, Center for Technology Enterprise and Development (TED Center), and PARAGON Florida, Inc.

OUR GOAL:

Our goal is to extend this distinctive business opportunity beyond our respective geographic and organizational borders to benefit small, women-owned and disadvantaged business enterprises (SBEs, M/WBEs, or DBEs) throughout the entire South Florida region.

Please join us in making the 2019 Palm Beach Partners Business MatchMaker Conference & Expo an unrivaled, collaborative success.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT:

Workshops exposing business on how to build connections and contracting opportunities with government agencies, and how to build your credit and obtain a small business loan.

Sign-Up for a Power Talk meeting with Government Agencies and Private Corporations.

The "Real Business" Networking Reception and Awards Presentation

Who will you meet?

The Matchmaker Conference provides the opportunity to meet with Procurement Representatives from public and private entities attending and supporting this event exclusively to meet with Small Businesses

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