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The city, in partnership with the Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce, the Winston-Salem Black Chamber. The FTCC Small Business Center, and Wake Forest Innovation Quarter, is organizing an after-hours business mixer on Jan. 10 to help small businesses, minority-owned businesses and women-owned businesses learn about opportunities to do business with the city, with other companies, and with local contractors.

The Winston-Salem mixer will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Wake Forest Biotech Place, 575 Patterson Ave.  All size businesses are invited to attend, including larger companies that use local business for goods and services.

The mixer will offer open networking to meet fellow business owners, along with two speed networking opportunities:

Construction Trades Speed Networking for one-on-one meetings with general contractors and engineers who use subs; and City Department Speed Networking for one-on-one meetings with city departments that purchase goods and services. Space for speed networking is limited and registration is required. Participation will be first come, first served.

In addition, information will be available at the mixer about business opportunities resulting from projects approved in the Forsyth County bond referendum.

Light hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served. Attendance is free, but please RSVP by Jan. 6 so organizers know how many to expect. To RSVP or register for speed networking, go to CityofWS.org/WSMixer. For more information call Tiesha Hinton at 336-734-1262 or send an email to tieshah@cityofws.org.