Trade Mission to Nevada!

Excitement is in the air as Centre team members; Tanya Priske and Sonia Menendez prepare to lead a group of women business owners to The Women’s Business Enterprise Council (WBENC) Conference in Nevada. Tanya Priske, Project Manager, and the Centre’s new Executive Director, Sonia Menendez, will accompany representatives from our partners ACOA, TD Bank and NSBI. Travelling with these partners will be 6 Atlantic women who own diverse businesses ranging from HR services, to promotional products, to tea! At the conference they will learn of many opportunities available to women-owned businesses through supplier diversity programs in place at many Fortune 500 companies.


The conference, being held June 20-23, in Nevada, allows an opportunity for 3,000 women-owned businesses to pitch their products and services to Supplier Diversity representatives from Fortune 500 companies across the USA. It will be an action-packed few days with workshops, networking activities, and keynote speakers. The conference will end with a trade show at which more than 330 exhibitors of major companies will set up booths and allow the women to work the floor, promoting their products and services to these interested buyers.

This is the third trade mission ACOA has supported and the Centre for has been involved in. Karen Donnelly, Project Manager at the Centre, led a group to the Caribbean in 2009 in partnership with EduNova. Last year, Tanya Priske and Gordia Macdonald joined partners to lead a similar group of Atlantic Canadian women to the WBENC Conference in Baltimore.

Over the next few days these Atlantic Canadian women will share some stories from the road and experiences from the conference, as they head off to showcase their wares and tell the world who we are!
Have fun ladies!