Having trouble viewing this email? View as Webpage ‌ ‌ ‌ January 3 - January 7 Tuesday, January 4 LeadShare Networking Group Virtual Meeting 8:45 -10:00 a.m. Wednesday, January 5 LeadShare Networking Group Virtual Meeting 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Thursday, January 6 LeadShare Networking Group Virtual Meeting 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Chamber 101 Virtual Event 4:00-5:15 p.m. Register VIEW EVENTS CALENDAR Breakfast Connection Thursday, January 13 | 7:30-9:00 a.m. | Crystal City Marriott Grand Sponsor Register now for our January Breakfast Connection. Promote your business before the workday even begins. This event focuses on roundtable power networking and provides attendees the chance to exchange business cards, develop new prospects, and share a 60-second pitch with each table. Come and meet other businesses, make connections, and find potential vendors for your business. Registration opens at 7:30 a.m. with networking from 8:00-9:00 a.m. View our current COVID-19 Events Policy. REGISTER Grand Sponsor Premier Sponsor Chamber 101 Thursday, January 6 | 4:00-5:15 p.m. | Virtual Event Make the most of your Chamber membership! Chamber 101 is a free networking seminar for new, existing, and prospective members. Learn about the Chamber and the many ways you can get involved through events, networking, sponsorship opportunities, and joining committees. Take advantage of the opportunity to meet our staff, future clients and associates, and expand your membership potential at Chamber 101! View our current COVID-19 Events Policy. REGISTER Chamber Day at the Capitol Tuesday, January 18 | 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. | Omni Richmond Hotel Join Chambers and other business leaders from across the Commonwealth for briefings from Virginia’s top government leaders. The Virginia Chamber will be hosting Chamber Day at the Capitol, back in person in Richmond, on Tuesday, January 18. The Chamber Day program includes a morning of briefings with legislative leaders, networking with business leaders from across the Commonwealth, and a luncheon. There is also a reception in the evening. In the afternoon, the Arlington Chamber will arrange meetings with the members of Arlington’s General Assembly delegation. You do not have to participate in the Virginia Chamber’s morning program to join us in the afternoon. You can register for the program and reception on the Virginia Chamber’s website. Please email [email protected] if you are attending the Chamber Day morning events or wish to join for the afternoon meetings. Call for Host Venues for Chamber Events and Meetings Are you ready to welcome people into your space for events? We are looking for hosts for our 2022 Business After Business networking events and Board of Directors meetings. Business After Business is a popular event that occurs from 5:00-7:00 p.m. The event serves as a monthly opportunity for Chamber members to meet and mingle with one another, both socially and professionally. Hosts have the opportunity to provide a welcome as part of the program. The Chamber Board of Directors meetings are lunchtime events and are a great way to showcase your space to up to 50 of Arlington’s top business leaders. As the host, you have the opportunity to give a formal welcome before the meetings starts. Hosts for both receive great marketing, both in advance and by showcasing their venue. For more information on becoming a host, review our Business After Business Guidelines and Board of Directors Meeting Guidelines and contact Cassie Bate Hurley, Senior Director of Marketing & Operations, at [email protected] to inquire about available dates. Rich Doud Arlington Chamber of Commerce Scholarship Fund Our Arlington Chamber community continues to mourn the loss of former President Rich Doud. Rich’s legacy continues to live on in many ways throughout the County, including the Rich Doud Arlington Chamber of Commerce Scholarship Fund. Thank you to everyone who has donated to the scholarship fund, which is operated through the Arlington Community Foundation and provides financial assistance to Arlington students who demonstrate financial need, academic merit, and community leadership. More than $1,700 has been raised in Rich’s memory and donations continue to come in, showing just how much Rich meant to our community. To learn more about the scholarship fund or to donate, please visit the donation page. Recent Chamber Advocacy We supported the criteria being used to evaluate proposals for the CC2DCA Intermodal Connector project and encouraged the selection of a design concept 7D. This preferred design concept best fulfills the project’s purpose and needs. We also encouraged Arlington County to amend the General Land Use Plan (GLUP) to support projects that will add density and provide much-needed housing at the Courthouse West site, located four blocks from both the Courthouse and Clarendon Metro stations. READ MORE Blog Series: Arlington - A Growing Hub for Innovation Arlington's technology sector continues to grow in a number of ways. Our local universities, George Mason University and Marymount University, are developing programs and initiatives to expand the tech workforce in Arlington and engage the community. The County's infrastructure is also evolving, AT&T and JBG SMITH are working on the nation's first 5G Smart City at scale in National Landing. AT&T and JBG SMITH envision National Landing as a canvas for smart city innovation in industry clusters such as defense, cybersecurity, cloud/edge computing, internet of things (IoT), and artificial intelligence (AI). Arlington is already an innovation hub, and with these developments on the horizon, the future looks even brighter for Arlington’s businesses and innovative workforce. READ THE BLOG SERIES Annual Corporate Sponsors ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Arlington Chamber of Commerce | 2009 14th Street, North, Suite 100, Arlington, VA 22201 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by [email protected] powered by Try email marketing for free today!