Past Events

This presentation covers the cyber security fundamentals that all small business owners should understand and act on. Learn the common risk points that make most small businesses susceptible to a cyber-attack or data breach. Understand the risks and identify weak points in your systems. Learn best data practices and the resources available to help business owners protect their data, employees, and customers.

Registration closes at 12:00 PM on Monday, 04/13/2026.

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Louisiana manufacturers face increasing pressure from global competition, workforce shortages, supply chain disruption, aging assets, and exposure to natural disasters. This executive-level training equips manufacturing leaders with proven frameworks to strengthen operational performance, reduce risk, and improve productivity.

Focused on practical execution, this course helps manufacturers improve safety, quality, delivery, cost and growth simultaneously. Participants will get a clear, actionable understanding on how to:

• Strengthen workforce capability and frontline leadership
• Improve supply chain resilience and supplier performance
• Use data, metrics and dashboards to support better decision making

Learn how to prevent and protect from data loss and data leakage resulting from cyber threats. At the end of the course, participants will have multiple, actionable steps to both recognize attacks as well as new behaviors that will thwart attacks.

Cyber threats are becoming more sophisticated—and more automated. This webinar explores how traditional threats like phishing and ransomware are being amplified by artificial intelligence.

Attendees will learn about:

• Modern phishing and impersonation attacks
• Business email compromise and payment fraud
• AI-driven scams and social engineering
• Supply-chain and third-party cyber risks
• Cost-effective ways to improve cyber hygiene

Perfect for small business owners looking to understand today’s risks without becoming cybersecurity experts.

Speakers:

Quiana Gainey, Virginia SBDC Cyber Industry Expert and CEO of SecureTech360

Lori Zeoli, CEO and Founder of xpLORIZE AI – an artificial intelligence consulting agency that primarily services small business owners and solopreneurs

This workshop will discuss emerging and future trends for IoT technologies and their implications for IoT cybersecurity. As IoT becomes more sophisticated, automated and ubiquitous, it becomes increasingly important for IoT cybersecurity considerations to keep pace with emerging risks and threats.

Over two days, the workshop will feature presentations and discussions on many IoT topics, including Federal sector concerns as the NIST Cybersecurity for IoT program works on preparing to update NIST SP 800-213, considerations for federal healthcare use cases, emerging use cases for IoT in the private sector, and the increasing automation of IoT and integration of IoT with AI technologies.

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) rarely struggle because they lack software. More often, the challenge is managing numerous unconnected tools. This "tool sprawl" can lead to significant inefficiencies and increased operating costs.

At its core, every business must manage sales, customers, service delivery, payments, and its web presence. We will discuss how a lack of cohesion between physical operations and the digital ecosystem creates bottlenecks. We will also explore best practices for adopting streamlined processes to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve profit margins.

This session is relevant to various sectors, including manufacturing, supply chain, real estate, professional services (wealth management, insurance, accounting, etc.), healthcare clinics (community, mental, dental, ophthalmology, ENT or any specialized service), restaurants, and salons.

Explore advanced cybersecurity tactics to strengthen your business against ever-evolving threats. In this no-fee webinar, we will guide you beyond the Cybersecurity Basics trainings into a deeper exploration of essential topics for building cyber resilience.

Join us for this webinar hosted by the NorCal Small Business Development Center. Zack Barton will lead a discussion with renowned cybersecurity specialist, Jacob Blacksten, to highlight the importance of password management, multi-factor authentication, emergency response plans, and staff training within today's digital space.

NTIA will convene a hybrid industry listening session on the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund (“Innovation Fund”). The session will discuss Innovation Fund progress to date and solicit industry input to help inform a future funding opportunity.

NTIA will convene the public listening session on Monday, March 23, 2026, from 9:00 a.m. to 12 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Please refer to NTIA's website, www.ntia.gov/​program/​innovation-fund for the most current information.

This listening session will focus on advancing AI-native telecommunications networks through the Innovation Fund. This effort is aligned with the Administration's July 2025 AI Action Plan and the Executive Order on Promoting the Export of the American AI Technology Stack with the goal of establishing U.S. leadership in secure AI technologies.

The meeting is open to the public and the press on a first-come, first-serve basis. The hybrid meeting is accessible to people with disabilities and/or individuals requiring accommodations such as real-time captioning. Those individuals who need other ancillary aids should notify the Department at [email protected] at least seven (7) business days prior to the listening session. Access details for the meeting are subject to change. Please refer to NTIA's website, https://www.ntia.gov/​program/​innovation-fund for the most current information.

As announced in the Federal Register on February 13, 2026, CISA is holding a series of virtual town hall meetings to allow external stakeholders a limited additional opportunity to provide input on refining the scope and burden of the CIRCIA Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) published in the Federal Register on April 4, 2024. You may view the announcement in the Federal Register announcement. 

Registration is required to attend a town hall meeting. Registration for each town hall meeting will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time two business days before the meeting.

This presentation will walk small business owners through the basics of (i) why cybersecurity is important; (ii) high level cybersecurity and privacy obligations a business owner might have; (iii) steps business owners can take to help protect their business and their customers; and (iv) what to do in the case of a cybersecurity incident.