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Nearsourcing

CONNECT's Nearsourcing Roundtable focuses on matching San Diego companies in need of outsourcing with our region's local Outsourcing Cluster, and to engage San Diego's nearsourcing community. The purpose of the program is to educate our region's entrepreneurs and emerging businesses on the benefits of contracting with local manufacturers, including reduced time to market, increased innovation and decreased costs; and match San Diego companies in need of outsourcing with San Diego outsourcing companies and ensure that business is not off shored unless necessary.

The program includes three components: (1) Regularly-scheduled educational workshops and conferences that teach our entrepreneurial community about the benefits of nearsourcing, (2) An interactive database that contains 5,000 San Diego outsourcing companies and is actively marketed and (3) Nearsourcing Roundtables that introduce leading outsourcing companies to the community by way of an active Matchmaking process. The Matchmaking process includes:

• Companies seeking outsourcing services submitting a statement of need to CONNECT;
• CONNECT Entrepreneurs in Residence (selected from our 200 volunteer CEOs) selecting appropriate outsourcing candidates from our interactive database of 5,000;
• The “client” company providing a presentation outlining their need(s);
• The outsourcing candidates preparing proposals; and finally
• The “client” company and EIRs interviewing each candidate to ensure a good match.

"The CONNECT Nearsourcing process has been extremely valuable to us for this project. We have been able to reach pre-screened and qualified local resources in a fraction of the time and with a fraction of the effort we would have expended otherwise. I am confident we will have a higher quality and lower cost outcome as a result."

Access 5,000 "Nearsourcing" Partners on CONNECT's website. CONNECT has launched San Diego's first Nearsourcing Marketplace—a searchable network where buyers and sellers of technology expertise can get connected. If you're a local outsourcing company looking for new clients or an innovation company looking for local nearsourcing partners this tool is designed for you.

Thanks to our exclusive partnership with The Connectory, a searchable database of 5,000 local nearsourcing services, we can help connect local outsourcing services with San Diego's technology, life sciences, CleanTech, defense and action and sport companies. If you're an innovator looking to minimize the high costs of building infrastructure, interested in getting to market faster and/or accessing the highest level of innovation, visit The Connectory. Find detailed company profiles, capabilities and capacities for San Diego's vast array of assets and resources near your location with The Connectory's geocoding and interactive mapping feature.

If you're a nearsourcing company in San Diego, profile your company for free in The Connectory. Use the network as a no-cost traffic builder and Web presence.

Visit www.connect.org/connectory.php today!

To apply for the Nearsourcing Roundtable, click here.

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