2023 WilmingtonBiz Conference & Expo

 

The WilmingtonBiz Expo is your business’s opportunity to personally connect with more than 2,500 potential clients – all in one day.
 

     REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!

     2023 WilmingtonBiz Conference & Expo
     Thursday, October 5
     Wilmington Convention Center


Join the Greater Wilmington Business Journal at Wilmington's largest business conference, where professionals come to network and grow their businesses!

This year's event will include a Keynote Lunch, featuring the annual Economic Outlook program from UNCW’s Swain Center, the Expo Hall with more than 100 exhibitors and unlimited networking opportunities, and free business strategy seminars.

 
  
 
  
  


 


 
Booths 100-222      Booths 300-419      Booths 500 - 622      Booths 700-721     
100 - Cape Fear 
Community College
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200 - UNCW Center for
Innovation
& Entrepreneurship
201 - CFCC Small
Business Center
202 - Genesis Block
203 - YWCA
204 - BCC Small
Business Center
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215 - SCORE
216 - NCMBC
217 - Channel powered
by Live Oak Bank
218 - Small Business
Association
219 - The Kairo Center     		 300 - Greater Wilmington
Business Journal     
301 - WILMA Magazine
302 - WB360
303 - The Good Life
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305 - Samet Corporation     
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MADE: Great Goods from Greater Wilmington 

Nominations for the 2023 MADE Awards will open on June 26.

Produced by the Greater Wilmington Business Journal, MADE is a nomination-based competition seeking to spotlight makers, manufacturers, artisans, designers and small businesses in New Hanover, Brunswick and Pender counties.

With roots in an economy originally built on tobacco, textiles, and furniture, North Carolina is no stranger to the making of things. While its industries may have broadened over the years, the focus on locally made goods continues to hold strong. MADE was created to spotlight some of the innovations occurring in design and manufacturing originating in the tri-county area.

MADE Award winners are selected by a judging panel and will be profiled in a special MADE section of the Sept.15 issue of the Greater Wilmington Business Journal as well as featured at the annual WilmingtonBiz Expo on October 5 at the Wilmington Convention Center.

 

Click here to view the 2022 MADE Award winners.

Award categories:

  • Manufacturers (Example includes: Goods mass-produced in the tri-county area)

  • Exporters (Example includes: Companies that export outside the United States)

  • Functional Product (Examples include: furniture, tools, gadgets, beauty products, industrial, medical, energy devices)

  • Food/Beverage (Examples include: wine/spirits, dry/baked/canned goods, sustainably-grown foods)

  • Arts (Examples include: apparel, accessories, textiles, home goods, stationery)

  • Supporter (Examples include: Businesses that support these innovators including law firms, lenders, makerspaces, studio spaces, retail markets, manufacturing associations, etc.

The 2023 WilmingtonBiz Expo Keynote Lunch will feature the annual Economic Outlook program from UNCW’s Swain Center. 


Stay tuned for more details, coming soon!

Click here to recap the 2022 Keynote Lunch, Economic Outlook: Going Places.
Tickets Price
2023 WilmingtonBiz Expo Attendee
Individual ticket to Expo Hall & Business Seminars
$5.00
2023 WilmingtonBiz Expo - Keynote Lunch
Individual seat to the WilmingtonBiz Expo Keynote Lunch (includes entrance to the Expo Hall & Business Seminars
$50.00
2023 WilmingtonBiz Expo - Keynote Lunch
Table for 10 to the WilmingtonBiz Expo Keynote Lunch (includes entrance to the Expo Hall & Business Seminars
$500.00
Register to Buy
Exhibitor Options Price
10x10 Early Bird Booth 2023 WilmingtonBiz Expo
Includes: 10x10 Booth + 2 seats at Keynote lunch
$550.00
10x10 Early Bird Booth Package 2023 WilmingtonBiz Expo
Booth Package Includes: 1/8 pg color ad + 2 seats at Keynote lunch
$750.00
20x10 Early Bird Booth 2023 WilmingtonBiz Expo
Includes: 20x10 Booth + 2 seats at Keynote lunch
$1,100.00
20x10 Early Bird Booth Package 2023 WilmingtonBiz Expo
Booth package Includes: 1/8 pg color ad + 2 seats at Keynote lunch
$1,300.00
Register as Exhibitor

EXHIBITOR PACKAGE INCLUDES:

  • Booth at the WilmingtonBiz Expo - Includes 6ft table and tablecloth and 2 chairs
  • Unlimited use of personalized discount code that waives $5 Expo entry fee for employees, customers, and other guests
  • 2 seats at the keynote speaker lunch ($100 value)

EXTRA SERVICES / EQUIPMENT:

You need to fill out a form if you would like any of the following:
  • Electricity/Internet: Should be completed by September 29. If you sign up the DAY OF there will be an additional charge. Electric and Utilities Service Order Form
  • To serve food/beverage samples, form must be submitted to Convention Center by September 22nd Food and Beverage Sampling Forms
  • Complimentary WIFI will be provided for everyone throughout the Convention Center.
Any sampling of food or beverage of any kind must be approved by the WCC.
Any products being sampled must be manufactured by the vendor. Additionally, no outside Food or Beverage may be sold on property at any time.

Please forward any questions to Scott Frazzetta, Assistant General Manager at the WCC [email protected]

FORMS:

SETUP: 

Official Expo Hall hours will be announced soon. You may staff your booth in shifts, but you are responsible for having someone in your booth throughout the duration of the conference. Booths must remain in place until the event ends on Oct.5 at 5:30pm. We will have staff available to assist exhbitors with load in and load out, as needed.

Move in will be scheduled over two days (October 4th & 5th) and a schedule will be emailed to you two weeks prior to the event.

Event Discussion

WHEN

Thursday Oct 5, 2023

11:00 AM to 5:30 PM

WHERE

Wilmington Convention Center

515 Nutt St.
Wilmington, NC 28401