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

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 industry panel discussions (Arts, Food, Retail, or Services) OR
• Social media workshop and open lab

11:45 a.m.–1 p.m. Lunch

11:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

• One-on-one consultations about business legal and tax questions, market research, and business and marketing plans
• Visit 30+ nonprofit and government business development exhibitors
• Professional photographer who will take headshots free of charge

12:30–3:30 p.m.

• Guided networking with other business owners and organizations
• Social media workshop and open lab
• Industry round table discussions

Sponsors: Friends of the Minneapolis Central Library, MELSA (Metropolitan Library Service Agency).

Collaborators: Appetite for Change, Business Women’s Circle, City of Minneapolis Community Planning and Economic Development, James J. Hill Center, LegalCORPS, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, Neighborhood Development Center, Northside Economic Opportunity Network, Prepare + Prosper, SCORE, Springboard for the Arts, WomenVenture