Share your expertise and become a speaker at our upcoming event!
Each year, the Florida SBDC Network hosts the Small Business Success Summit to provide small businesses with resources needed to reach new limits and to encourage success & growth.
Submit a proposal to present at the 2025 Small Business Success Summit, hosted at the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay, August 18-19, 2025.
Deadline to submit proposal: April 30, 2025
The Power of Small Business: Driving Change, Creating Opportunity
This year’s theme highlights the vital role small businesses play in transforming communities, fostering innovation, and driving economic progress. Small business owners are changemakers in our communities!
Breakout session proposals should align with this theme all while showcasing your knowledge and expertise. Whether you’re sharing actionable advice, cutting-edge insights, or tools to drive success, your session will help empower small businesses to navigate challenges, seize opportunities, and create meaningful change.
Things to Note
Target Audience: Small businesses, entrepreneurs, state partners and stakeholders.
Purpose: To provide small businesses with professional development and networking opportunities to help them launch, grow and thrive.
Dates of Event: August 18-19, 2025
About the Florida SBDC Network:
For more than 45 years, the Florida SBDC Network, the state’s principal provider of business assistance [Fl. Stat. 288.001], has nourished a statewide partnership between higher education and economic development to provide existing and emerging small and medium-sized business owners with management and knowledge resources that enable overall growth, increased profitability, and economic prosperity for Florida’s economy. In 2023, the Florida SBDC Network delivered 111,720 hours of consulting to 14,808 small business clients – resulting in business owners securing $346 million in capital, $575 million in government contracting, impacting 19,263 jobs and increasing sales by over $3.9 billion.
With over 40 offices statewide, the Florida SBDC is funded in part by the U.S. Small Business Administration, Department of Defense, State of Florida and other private and public partners. The Florida SBDC Network, headquartered at the University of West Florida, is nationally accredited by the Association of SBDCs and is a recipient of the President’s E Award for Export Service. Florida SBDC services are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis. Language assistance services are available for individuals with limited English proficiency. For more information, please visit www.FloridaSBDC.org.
