Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce Events Newswire

MCCC New Member Mixer & Orientation (virtual) 9/4/2025 9:00 AM - 9/4/2025 10:00 AM

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:43:26 GMT

Our virtual New Member Mixer & Orientation is open to all new MCCC member companies. Connect with other businesses, meet potential clients and partners, and learn more about our Chamber and how we can accelerate your success!

Hear from local business leaders and learn valuable and relevant information to help drive your progress.

Be ready for open networking, and to give your "speed introduction."

Questions? Contact Megan Mucha, MCCC Manager of Events

MCCC Government Relations Committee Meeting with Councilmember Natali Fani-González 9/11/2025 8:30 AM - 9/11/2025 9:15 AM

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 20:30:48 GMT

Join the MCCC Government Relations Committee for our monthly meetings, where we dive into the key policy issues shaping Montgomery County’s business environment. These sessions offer valuable insights into legislative developments at both the County and State levels and provide a platform for you to help influence decisions that directly impact our local business community.

Our guest speaker for this meeting is Councilmember Natali Fani-González, who represents District 6 on the Montgomery County Council. Elected in 2022, she chairs the Economic Development Committee and also serves on the Planning, Housing, and Parks Committee. Councilmember Fani-González will brief the Government Relations Committee on her legislative priorities, current initiatives within the Economic Development Committee, and key developments to watch in the final quarter of the year.

The Government Relations Committee meets weekly during the Legislative Session of the Maryland General Assembly. During the interim, the Committee meets on the second Thursday of each month. These meetings provide MCCC members with opportunities to learn, discuss, and engage on a variety of policy issues that are impacting the regional business community.

Advocacy Committees are open to MCCC members only. Not a member? Join today!

This event will be held on Zoom. You will receive a calendar invite with the login link after registering.

Questions? Contact Brian Levine, VP of Government Affairs at blevine@mcccmd.com

MCCC Infrastructure and Land Use/Economic and Talent Development Roundtable 9/16/2025 8:30 AM - 9/16/2025 10:30 AM

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 20:15:00 GMT

Housing at a Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities in Montgomery County

Join the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce for a joint meeting of the Infrastructure and Land Use and the Economic and Talent Development for a roundtable discussion, Housing at a Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities in Montgomery County. Our panel of experts will delve into the challenges and headwinds facing Montgomery County’s housing shortage.

Montgomery County faces a complex set of challenges in meeting its residential housing needs. Join us for a dynamic roundtable discussion that explores the barriers and opportunities in building housing across the region.

This session will delve into critical questions, including:

- What makes residential development in Montgomery County uniquely difficult?
- How do local policies compare to those in neighboring counties?
- What strategies can reduce building costs and accelerate housing production?
- How do land constraints, impact taxes, rent control, and BEPS regulations affect development?
- What does the current residential pipeline look like?
- How are tariffs, financing, and investor interest shaping the market?
- Can innovation and data analytics unlock new possibilities for housing?
- What does it take to shift from NIMBY to YIMBY in our communities?

This roundtable offers a chance to engage in meaningful dialogue and help shape the future of housing in Montgomery County.

Agenda
8:30 - 9:00 am: Registration and networking
9:00 - 10:00 am: Roundtable discussion
10:00 - 10:30 am: Dialogue/Q&A

Roundtable:

- Lori Graf, CEO, Maryland Building Industry Association - Moderator
- Kate Kubit, Partner, Vice President, Elm Street Development
- Jason Sartori, Planning Director, Montgomery County Department of Planning
- Josh Woolridge, Vice President of Development, Mid-Atlantic Division, NRP

Questions? Contact Brian Levine, VP of Government Affairs at blevine@mcccmd.com

MCCC 2025 Annual Legislative Reception - September 17, 2025 9/17/2025 5:00 PM - 9/17/2025 7:00 PM

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:31:11 GMT

This event connects you directly with our elected leaders and policymakers.

As a business leader, this is a great opportunity to share your experiences and ideas regarding policies and regulations impacting your business. There is no agenda or speakers - just networking and the exchange of ideas.

Event Sponsor - $10,000 (20 guest tickets to the reception, Logo displayed on banner at reception, Company logo on event signage, Additional marketing opportunities througout the venue)

Platinum Sponsor - $5,000 (12 guest tickets to the reception, Company logo on event signage, Company logo on event projector screens, & website)

Gold Sponsor - $2,500 (6 guest tickets to the reception, Company logo on event signage, event projector screens, & website)

Silver Sponsor - $1,500 (3 guest tickets to the reception, Company logo on event signage, event projector screens, & website)

MCCC Board of Directors Guest Speaker 9/18/2025 5:00 PM - 9/18/2025 6:00 PM

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:08:25 GMT

Speaker - Amy Kaslow of Amy Kaslow Gallery

Amy Kaslow is a writer and photographer with a lens on at-risk societies, worldwide. She’s spent the past four decades writing, broadcasting, and photographing in the world’s trouble spots, chronicling the immediate aftermath of conflict and well into the post-war period. Domestically, she focuses on fallout from the failed War on Poverty. Kaslow’s been a columnist, contributor, staff writer and editor for Fortune Magazine, Institutional Investor, Harvard Business Review, The Economist, Huffington Post, SLATE, The Middle East, Moment, Emerging Markets, Europe Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Washington Quarterly, The International Economy and many other news outlets. She was the longtime lead international economic correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and special global crisis correspondent for public radio's Marketplace.

Soon into her career documenting how traumatized populations stabilize themselves, even flourish, Kaslow learned that readers and listeners want to help in practical ways. And they want to know how. She created K/NOW, an online missive probing one essential issue lost in the daily news feed. Paired with a stunning image, K/NOW delivers short, crisp and precise narratives. Each is followed by DO NOW, one paragraph full of hyper-linked ways to engage individually or with an organization, locally or across the world. K/NOW equips readers with tools to change the equation. Forbes Magazine named K/NOW a top ten must-read for 2019.

Kaslow’s work provides vivid material for Life After War, a series of traveling photojournalism exhibitions pairing large-format images with contextual storyboards, and a wide range of gallery experiences to engage communities in conversation. The focus is on the most critical challenges that post-conflict populations confront as they try to rebuild their lives: deeply scarring trauma, gang control, sexual violence, human trafficking. Among the hosts: The Center for Conflict Resolution, the George Bush School at Texas A&M, the US Library of Congress, the Palmer Gallery at Vassar College. IATI’s Black Box Theater in New York’s East Village, Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business. Kaslow mounted her exhibition at Vassar College for its Mellon Foundation Consortium on Forced Migration and Mental Health. This fall, Life After War will travel to Brown University.

Active in the domestic policy arena, Kaslow has fostered collaboration among businesses, educators, grassroots groups and political leaders to convert at-risk communities into local assets. On talent issues, she’s given university talks, corporate guidance, Congressional testimony, and helped municipal, state government and federal agencies glean insights from the field. Advisees include Manpower Inc., Junior Achievement, the ACT Foundation, the National Academies, Congressional committees, the White House, and the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education. She testified before the House Science Committee on critical skills needs and gave a TEDx talk on how college students can best position themselves for meaningful work.

Kaslow was a longtime leader of Sinai House, an award-winning wrap-around transitional housing program for homeless families in Southeast Washington, D.C. ?She was an eight-year White House appointee to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s governing council and its executive committee, to broaden lessons of the Holocaust and prevent contemporary genocide. She served as a trustee of Living Classrooms, an education, community action and economic development initiative enriching Washington DC’s long ignored low- to no-income earners, from early childhood to adulthood. She has served and chaired Norwood and Holton-Arms School school boards to boost experiential global education, STEM initiatives, and programs to attract and retain teachers. Kaslow currently serves on the board of the Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative and she is a trustee of Ringling College of Art & Design. Kaslow's local honors include Northern Virginia Community College’s award to distinguished speakers and MOMENT's International Change-Maker Award for global reporting on crisis zones. She is a member of the Belizean Grove.

This event is open to MCCC members.

Questions? Contact Board Liaison and Membership, Juliet Chukwu

BioHealth Capital Region Forum 9/23/2025 - 9/25/2025

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:17:26 GMT

The Harbor Bank of Maryland | Silver Spring Branch Grand Opening 9/23/2025 11:30 AM - 9/23/2025 1:30 PM

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:54:26 GMT

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The Harbor Bank of Maryland | Silver Spring Branch Free Community Shred 9/27/2025 9:00 AM - 9/27/2025 12:00 Noon

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:57:08 GMT

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