Justin Fairfax, the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor of Virginia, will be the keynote speaker at the Metropolitan Business League’s 2017 RVA LinkUp Expo on Wednesday, ​July 26.

The expo will be held 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the University of Richmond’s Jepson Alumni Center, 49 Crenshaw Way, on the campus.

The annual event connects small, women-owned and minority businesses in Central Virginia with corporate and government supply chain managers for meeting and networking.

“We are really excited to have such a dynamic keynote speaker like Justin Fairfax who, among many other things, is also a small business owner,” Sharon Dabney-Wooldridge, the MBL’s interim executive director, stated in a news release.

“Many of our major corporate sponsors and members are participating and they are looking for SWaM-owned companies to do business with.”  

Tickets are $30 for MBL members and $50 for non-members.

For information and tickets, go to http://​aap.events/RVALinkUp or call (804) 649-7473.