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This National Conference is the aviation industry’s premier educational, training and business networking event for minority and women-owned companies doing business in or seeking business in the nation’s airports. A record turnout is expected this year to hear keynote luncheon speaker Judy A. Smith, the real-life inspiration behind ABC’s hit political television series Scandal starring Kerry Washington. Smith will discuss how she became known as “America’s Number One Crisis Expert. Also joining the lineup of keynote speakers is the Honorable Gaddi Vasquez, Senior Vice President of Public Affairs for Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the nation’s largest electric utilities. Vazquez is the eighth United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, based in Rome, and a former director of the United States Peace Corps. Vasquez helps kick off the Conference as luncheon speaker on Sunday, June 9. Conference attendees will also hear from the Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation on new regulations impacting the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program and the Unified Certification Program (UCP).These programs foster growth and propensity for minority and women-owned companies doing business in airports. The range of workshops includes: How to Do Business in an Airport, How to Become a DBE and Airport Concession DBE, Best Practices for Joint Ventures, Marketing Your Business, How to Build Capacity, plus the latest public policy issues and economic trends in airport contracting.