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| L-r: Ingrid Thibodeaux, James Moore, and Rene Randle |
BATON ROUGE, LA – The SU Ag Center held a successful Annual
Procurement entitled “Connecting Businesses to Contracts Conference” at
Southern University’s Smith Brown Memorial Union, on April 9, with nearly 300
participants. During the Panel
Entrepreneur discussion, three trailblazers who led the session were
recognized. The speakers James Moore, Expert Maintenance and Construction
Company; Ingrid Thibodeaux, Citi Approved Thibodeaux Construction; and Rene
Randle, Unique Creation explained their individual journey to success. They
encouraged participants to remain faithful, resilient and optimistic in the
face of challenges in seeking breakthrough opportunities. At the end of the
discussion, the speakers entertained questions from the audience.
The goal of the conference is always to stimulate the
economy by aligning existing and potential business owners, small contractors,
non-profit organizations, and others with contracting officers, and purchasing
agents, as well as providing an outlet to network and exchange information and
ideas. Participants who attend the conference repeatedly report their reason as
the opportunity to network.
Participating exhibitors included: USACE, New Orleans; U.S. Department
of Navy; Entergy; USDA; Weeks Marine;
Textron; Dyn McDermott; Department of Energy; SPAWAR; USDA NRCS; Southern
University Purchasing; Capital One; LED; LA Secretary of State; GSA; Cajun
Constructors; FDIC; TruFund; LA-PTAC; LSBDC; Manson Construction Company; EBR
Fair Share; EBR Purchasing; Perez; WSI Expert Solutions; Barksdale AFB;
Department of Army – Fort Polk; Chevron; Veterans Administration; Marine Corps
Reserve; Minerals Management; USACE-ERDC
Vicksburg; NASA, Stennis; Gibbs Construction; Mike Hooks; Core Construction;
Hunt-Gibbs-Boh-Metro Joint Venture, and more…
The conference was organized by Gloria
London who can be reached at (225) 771-4107 e-mail gloria_london@suagcenter.com or Eual Hall at (225) 771-4105 e-mail eual_hall@suagcenter.com
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