{"id":486592,"date":"2026-10-06T06:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/486592\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T06:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:16:15","slug":"port-of-lb-hosting-free-small-business-summit-oct-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/486592\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of LB Hosting Free Small Business Summit Oct. 8\ufeff &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.randomlengthsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/SB_SUMMIT_ART-e1791219493426.avif\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"438\" height=\"340\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image cwvlazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.randomlengthsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/SB_SUMMIT_ART-e1791219493426.avif\"  data- alt=\"\" title=\"SB_SUMMIT_ART\"\/><\/a>    <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Port of Long Beach will host its inaugural small business summit on Oct. 8 at the Westin Long Beach, where hundreds of entrepreneurs are expected to gather for an event dedicated to small businesses interested in connecting with government and industry buyers, exploring resources and preparing for government contracting opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The free daylong summit will give small business owners access to more than 30 industry buyers on exhibit, port divisions, city departments, Long Beach-based public agencies, technical assistance organizations, regional chambers of commerce and business associations.<\/p>\n<p>The port recently<a href=\"https:\/\/polb.com\/port-info\/news-and-press\/port-partners-further-connects-business-to-opportunity-09-09-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> announced<\/a> the inaugural summit in conjunction with the official launch of<a href=\"https:\/\/portpartners.polb.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Port Partners<\/a>, a new web portal designed to centralize business resources, guidance and opportunities. Space is limited and registration is required to attend<\/p>\n<p>Time: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Oct. 8<\/p>\n<p>Cost: Free<\/p>\n<p>Details: Register: <a href=\"http:\/\/polb.com\/smallbusinesssummit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">polb.com\/smallbusinesssummit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Venue: The Westin Long Beach, 333 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The Port of Long Beach will host its inaugural small business summit on Oct. 8 at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[40482,15790,161104,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-486592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-longbeach","tag-portoflongbeach","tag-smallbusiness","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}