BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20210916T200000Z DTEND:20210916T220000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Annual Awards 2021 DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Chamber's 2021 Annual Awards Event. This event will be held virtually via Zoom\, and the following award recipients will be recognized:\n\n Pinnacle Award\n Pinnacle Small Business Award\n Young Professionals PACE (Professional and Community Engagement) Awards\n Educator of the Year \n\n\n\nIn addition\, Barry DuVal\, President & CEO of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce\, will offer remarks. Under Barry's leadership\, the Virginia Chamber has grown from fewer than 1\,000 member companies in 2010 to become Virginia's largest business advocacy group with more than 26\,000 members today.\n\nIn 2013\, the Chamber produced Blueprint Virginia the Commonwealth's first comprehensive business-led initiative to provide direction and long-term economic development planning for Virginia. In 2017\, the Chamber released an update to the original Blueprint\, Blueprint Virginia 2025. Blueprint Virginia 2025 engaged over 6\,000 business and community leaders from around the Commonwealth to build an action plan for strengthening Virginia's economic competitiveness and getting Virginia back to the top of business climate rankings. Blueprint Virginia 2025 serves as the Virginia Chamber's legislative agenda.\n\n\n\nBefore taking the position of president and CEO with the Virginia Chamber in 2010\, Barry served as Mayor of Newport News from 1990-1996 and in several high-profile economic development roles\, including Secretary of Commerce and Trade for Virginia from 1998-2002.\n Thank you to our sponsor: X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for the Chamber'\;s 2021 Annual Awards Event. This event will be held virtually via Zoom\, and the following award recipients will be recognized:\n
In 2013\, the Chamber produced Blueprint Virginia &ndash\; the Commonwealth&rsquo\;s first comprehensive business-led initiative to provide direction and long-term economic development planning for Virginia. In 2017\, the Chamber released an update to the original Blueprint\, Blueprint Virginia 2025. Blueprint Virginia 2025 engaged over 6\,000 business and community leaders from around the Commonwealth to build an action plan for strengthening Virginia&rsquo\;s economic competitiveness and getting Virginia back to the top of business climate rankings. \; Blueprint Virginia 2025 serves as the Virginia Chamber&rsquo\;s legislative agenda.
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\nBefore \;taking the position of president and CEO with the Virginia Chamber in 2010\, Barry served as Mayor of Newport News from 1990-1996 and in several high-profile economic development roles\, including Secretary of Commerce and Trade for Virginia from 1998-2002.