NASHVILLE – The SBA will celebrate National Small Business Week May 5-11 by offering two local workshops in Cookeville and offering several free webinars for small businesses. Please note that the times for security webinars are in EST.
Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 10:45 a.m.-12:15 CST, Cookeville
Drive Business Results with Google Ads: Join us for a viewing party of a free Grow with Google livestream during National Small Business Week. The livestream will focus on teaching the basics of advertising online with Google Ads. This event is hosted by the TSBDC at Tennessee Technological University (TTU). For more information and to register, click here.
Friday, May 10, 2019, 8:30 a.m. -4:30 p.m. CST, Cookeville
A Day to Impact Your Business: The TSBDC at TTU has teamed up with IMPACT Cookeville to celebrate National Small Business Week by putting together a conference designed to help small business owners make an impact on their business! For more information and to register, go here. This workshop has a fee of $25.
Webinars
Monday, May 6, 2019, 12:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. CST, Online
Federal Contracting Basics: Basics of Federal Contracting. For more information and to register, click here.
Monday, May 6, 2019, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. CST, Online
SBA Virtual Events-How to Do Business with the Federal Government and Win Contracts an 8(a) Certified Firm: This course focuses on how to influence 8(a) sole source awards, build relationships, and earn past performance. For more information and to register, click here.
Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 12:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. CST, Online
Developing Technical and Past Performance Proposals: Basics of developing the technical and past performance volumes in response to the RFP. For more information and to register, click here.
Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 11:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. EST, Online
Module 11-Building a Cyber Security Plan: This class will cover details on how to develop a cybersecurity plan for a small business, including onlinereferences, sample plans and various items of interest in security planning.For more information and to register, click here.
Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EST, Online
Module 12-Cyber Incident Response, Part 1, Evaluating Your Readiness: This class will help participants think through how they need to respond during various phases of different types of cyber incidents. For more information and to register, click here.
Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 1:00 p.m.-2 p.m. EST, Online
Module 1-Why Cybersecurity?: In this module, we’ll discuss what cybersecurity means for your company, employees, partners and customers. For more information and to register, click here.
Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. EST, Online
SBA Virtual Event-FAR and Other Regulations Overview: This course focus on how to leverage the FAR and other regulations to grow and protect your business. For more information and to register, click here.
Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EST, Online
Module 2- Cybersecurity Basics: This module is specifically focused on fundamental concepts of cybersecurity. For more information and to register, click here.
Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. CST, Online
Government Contract Types: Introduction to the various government contract types. For more information and to register, click here.
Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. CST, Online
Developing Cost Proposals: Basics of developing the Cost Proposal in response the Request for Proposal. For more information and to register, click here.
Thursday. May 9, 2019, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. EST, Online
Module 5-Data Security: This module will discuss why protecting data should be at the heart of your cybersecurity program, the types of data you are responsible for and threats to that data. For more information and to register, click here.
Thursday, May 9, 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EST, Online
Module 6-Security Framework Standards: In this module, you will learn about cybersecurity standards and discuss several frameworks that are relevant to cybersecurity. For more information and to register, click here.
Friday, May 10, 2019, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. EST, Online
Module 3-Endpoint Security: In this module, you’ll learn about how endpoint devices such as laptops, desktops, tablet computers and
mobile devices can offer cybercriminals a gateway into your company’s networks and data. For more information and to register, click here.
Friday, May 10, 2019, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EST, Online
Module 4-Network Security: In this module, we’ll discuss what it takes to properly secure a business network, explore the various threats networks commonly face, and how the concept of defense-in-depth applies to protecting your network. For more information and to register, click here.
