Join us LIVE in Chicago as we connect you and your peers in Business-to-Small-Business Leadership. Powerful keynotes, instructive workshops and panels fill our day. And as always we’ll provide lots of opportunities to network! Our Best2SMB Awards Ceremony sits at the heart of our Day 1 agenda as you learn from the best on what it takes to be the best!

We’ll meet LIVE in Chicago once again, with an intense focus on Partnerships. Our format will encourage one-on-one and small group connections. We’ll foster co-marketing, co-development and co-growth opportunities – from meet & greet  to opportunity sharing to deal making. Join a wide variety of enterprises & offerings that make up the Institute’s 5000+ Member-base.

Our SmallBizAid Leaders’ Forum connects B2SMB Leaders with the country’s largest, most influential Small Business Advocacy Organizations. We’ll  focus on our ongoing campaign to help America’s Entrepreneurs.  Join panel-workshops on partnerships that go beyond the transactional, with an intense focus on building our powerful network of SMB supporters.

FEATURED SPEAKERS FOR  THE
2022 BEST2SMB GLOBAL CONFERENCE

Craig Cohen
Chief Revenue Officer,
WooCommerce/Automattic

Nikki Newsome
Chief Culture Officer 
Meta

Mark Tina
VP Business Sales,
Verizon Business

Bob Marshall
Growth & Strategy Executive- SMB,
Wells Fargo

Kate Winkler 
CEO,
Ruby

Tim Metzner
Co-Founder &
Chief Growth Officer,
Coterie

Kelly O’Connell
SVP Product & Design,
Active Campaign

Natalie Franke
Chief Evangelist,
HoneyBook

Sam Levy
SVP Sales
Oracle Netsuite

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Chris Vasquez
 
CPO,
AWeber

Raju Vegesna
Chief Evangelist,
Zoho

John Busby
CMO,
Centerfield

Gib Olander
EVP-Product,
Vendasta

Stephanie Gorski 
Strategy Managing Director,
Accenture

Connie Evans
 
CEO,
AEO

Josh May
Founder
POWr.io

Nicole Wood
CEO,
Ama La Vida

Foram Sheth
Chief Coaching Officer, Ama La Vida

Reid Jackson
VP Corporate Development,  
GS1

Derek Peebles
Director of Inclusive Economy,
ASBN

Maria Pergolino 
CMO,
ActiveCampaign

Carissa Reiniger
Founder/CEO,
Small Biz Silver Lining

Brian Bar
Founder/CEO,
Victory Lap

Dan Slagen 
CMO 
Tomorrow.io

Louise Barrere
Global Lead –
Grow SMB,
Accenture

Linda Reinhard 
CRO,
Tarci

Scott Norwalk
President,
Business.com

Dan Olsen 
CEO,
UpCity

Richard McLaughlin
Director-
Partner Ecosystem,
HoneyBook

Steven Shaw
Community Engagement Director, 
Verizon

Caroline Rendon
Program Officer,
LISC

Joel Rackham
SVP Global Head
of Direct Sales
MarketStar

Joan Spirytus
Director,
Next Street

Dip Ghuman
Sr. Manager –
Strategic Partnerships,
Indeed

Steve Abbott 
Policy Lead,
Gusto

WORKSHOP FACILITATORS

Nathan Kolb 
Former Head of Engagement & Content Creation,
CreditSafe USA

Kelly Benish
VP Strategic Partnerships, Uberall

Missy Lacher
Director of Corporate Partnerships,
SmallBizLady

Wendy Urquhart
COO
Taradel

Kate Daniels
Industry Partnerships Director,
Oracle Netsuite

Sean Cohen
COO,
AWeber

Rebecca Grimes 
CMO,
Ruby

Wes Senechal 
VP – Industry Sales,
TriNet

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2022 BEST2SMB BRAND OF THE YEAR

2022 BEST2SMB OFFERING OF THE YEAR

2022 BEST2SMB INNOVATION OF THE YEAR

2022 BEST2SMB HALL OF FAME

WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND 
THE 2022  BEST2SMB GLOBAL CONFERENCE

From strategic workshops & breakouts to our legendary Leaders’ League reception, you’ll have lots of opportunities to engage B2SMB peers.  

Our 2022 Best2SMB Global Conference agenda will feature keynotes, panels & more from Best2SMB Leaders who win daily in the $500Bil SMB marketplace.

There’s nothing else like it: an executive gathering dedicated exclusively to the unique demands of reaching, engaging & selling to Small Business at scale.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND 
THE 2022  BEST2SMB GLOBAL CONFERENCE?

A Message from Dave Walker, Co-Founder of the B2SMB Institute

If the past is prologue you can expect the best Best2SMB Global Conference ever this October.

Following our most successful Leaders’ Forum ever – held live in Napa just 4 short weeks ago – our stage is set for the most powerful gathering of Business-to-Small-Business Sellers, Advocates and Allies of the last three years. 

We’ll be hosting our 3-day “hybrid event” – part live, part virtual – in and from Chicago, with an agenda that maximizes value to anyone whose job depends on Small Business success.

Our 1000+ live and virtual Global Conference attendees will range from CEOs to CPOs to Founders, from Marketers to Developers to Investors, from Policy-makers to Influencers.  Over 80% of the 2022 Leaders’ Forum attendees were VP-level and above, representing the biggest B2SMB brands, and many of the B2SMB Institute’s largest Members.

In yet another year of extraordinary challenges, our 2022 Best2SMB Awards recognizes and showcases the resilience of our $500Bil marketplace’s best-in-class Brands, Products and Innovations. 

Our 2022 Best2SMB Global Conference goes to school on those success stories – from keynotes to panels, to workshops and labs.

We invite you to spend 3 days in October to network with hundreds of your B2SMB peers – You’ll hear from them all, then join them for our virtual Best2SMB Awards Show.  

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