Put your business in front of the room.
Not every partner is a sponsor. If you sell to small businesses — or offer the capital, certification, workforce or technical help they're looking for — a table on the EXPO floor puts you face-to-face with 300+ owners for the full day, while they have their workbooks open and their next steps in front of them.
8AM – 5PM
Buffalo, NY
Work the floor — or power the whole thing.
Both are welcome and both are honest. One buys you a good day of business. The other puts your name in lights as a company that powers MWBE and SDVOB training in this region — on the signage, from the stage, on the radio. The room hears the difference.
You want the audience. You show up, set up, and spend eight hours meeting business owners who need what you sell. Nothing wrong with that — it's the most affordable day of qualified conversations you'll have this year.
You want the audience and you want the credit for making the day happen. Expo Partner puts your logo on the signage, your name on the stage, and your company on the radio — because your dollars are what buy the workbooks, pay the trainers, and seat the owners who couldn't otherwise afford to be there. Same table. Much bigger name.
Pick your spot on the floor.
$250 for businesses. $150 for nonprofits and community resource organizations. Both include a 6ft skirted table, two chairs, two representatives, breakfast, lunch, and your listing in the conference program — one of the lowest-cost ways to spend eight hours in front of this audience.
6ft skirted table, 2 chairs, 2 representatives, program listing, breakfast & lunch for both reps.
Reserve this tableSame table, reduced rate for 501(c)(3)s, workforce boards and community resource organizations.
Reserve this tablePremium table placement, 2 exhibitor registrations, logo on signage, website and program, named from the stage, plus a radio mention. Sell, recruit and connect — and fund the training while you do it.
Become an Expo PartnerEverything in Expo Partner, at a $500 discount for members of the Buffalo Purchasing Initiative. Our thanks to the companies already doing this work year-round. We'll verify membership when we confirm your table.
Claim the member rateApply to be a vendor.
Tell us who you are and what you're bringing. We review applications as they come in and confirm your table by email with a payment link. Space is curated so the floor stays useful to attendees — submitting an application does not guarantee acceptance.
It's on its way to info@therareplace.org. We'll come back to you within a few business days with a decision and your table details.
This is not a conference people just attend.
It is a conference they leave equipped to use.
Sponsorship here funds business education, practical training, supplier diversity, procurement access, MWBE and SDVOB development, and the implementation tools owners take home. The sponsor enhances the learning environment — the sponsor never becomes the curriculum.