Name: Small Business Mentor Protégé Program by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Start: 2026-06-17T11:30:00-07:00
End: 2026-06-17T13:00:00-07:00
Location: Santa Clara Marriott

$Small Business Mentor Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Program by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab$

Join Berkeley Lab’s Small Business Mentor Protégé Program with Philip McCants to boost your biz skills in person!
About this Event

Small Business Mentor Protégé Program by Berkeley Lab - Philip McCants

Join us in person for an exciting event where you'll get to dive into the Small Business Mentor Protégé Program led by the awesome Philip McCants from Berkeley Lab. It's a fantastic chance to network, learn, and grow your small business with expert guidance. Don't miss out on this cool opportunity to connect and level up your business skills!

Delicious Lunch is included!

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

Phillip McCants is the Small Business Program Manager at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). In this role, he serves as the primary point of contact for small businesses seeking contracting opportunities with the Lab, promoting outreach, the Mentor-Protégé Program, and equitable access to federal procurement. With a background in procurement and sustainable acquisition (also serving as Sustainable Acquisition Representative in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer), Phillip helps connect diverse small businesses—including women-owned, veteran-owned, and disadvantaged firms—to Berkeley Lab’s scientific and operational needs. He is a dedicated advocate for small business participation in Department of Energy initiatives.

LBNL’s Small Business Program Office is committed to giving small businesses the best possible opportunity to provide goods and services to the laboratory. LBNL collaborates with, and advocates for small businesses, small, disadvantaged businesses, women-owned small businesses, veterans and service-disabled veterans who own and operate small and HUBZone businesses.

Mentor Protégé Program

The Mentor-Protégé Program Model is designed to provide critical developmental assistance to small businesses in the fundamental principles of building solid, established, successful businesses. LBNL, and many of its partnering laboratories, look to identify potential candidates for the Program through direct observations and interactions with small businesses whose capabilities are mutually aligned with advancing the needs of the Department of Energy and particularly to LBNL, our mission of bringing scientific solutions to the world.