Training and Workshops
Mobile Food Vendors: Food and Fire Safety Training
Learn what you need to know to help your mobile food business prepare for the world’s largest soccer tournament. RSVP via email to dcfpc@dgcoks.gov.
In-Depth Global Email/Social Media Marketing Strategies
Learn actionable ways to turn short-term visits into long-term customer connections. Sign up online for this virtual class.
Getting Greater Visibility in the Age of AI: Session 2
This two-part workshop helps small businesses understand how AI-driven discovery works—and how to show up in it. Sign up online.
Cybersecurity for Small Businesses During Major Events
This beginner-friendly virtual session will show small business owners how to recognize common cyber threats and implement simple protections. Sign up online.
AI Powered Content Creation
Gain practical ways to create compelling content, streamline your workflow, and connect with your audience effectively to make the most of every high-profile opportunity. Sign up online.
Cybersecurity for Small Businesses During Major Events
This beginner-friendly virtual session will show small business owners how to recognize common cyber threats and implement simple protections. Sign up online.
Getting Greater Visibility in the Age of AI: Session 1
This two-part workshop helps small businesses understand how AI-driven discovery works—and how to show up in it. Sign up online.
Make Your Business Visible to Global Soccer Fans: 10 Quick Wins
Leave ready to ensure your business is visible, trusted, and prepared when visitors start searching. Sign up online.
The Restaurant Playbook: Preparing for the Soccer Surge
This practical session will help you operate efficiently under pressure, maximize profitability during peak periods and more. Sign up online.
Cybersecurity for Small Businesses During Major Events
This beginner-friendly virtual session will show small business owners how to recognize common cyber threats and implement simple protections. Sign up online.
The Restaurant Playbook: Preparing for the Soccer Surge
This practical session will help you operate efficiently under pressure, maximize profitability during peak periods and more. Sign up online.
Ready! Set! Score! April 2026: Updated and Expanded
This regional forum will feature experts and resource providers offering actionable insights and guidance for leveraging one of the largest international sporting events ever hosted in the United States. Register online.
Cybersecurity for Small Businesses During Major Events
This beginner-friendly virtual session will show small business owners how to recognize common cyber threats and implement simple protections. Sign up online.
Community Resource Fair
Representatives from the Lawrence Public Library, Kansas African Studies Center, city departments and more will be there to answer questions about summer 2026
From Application to Approval: Preparing for Business Financing
An expert panel will discuss topics such as capital needs, common loan application challenges, and potential growth strategies for 2026 and beyond. Sign up online.
The Restaurant Playbook: Preparing for the Soccer Surge
This practical session will help you operate efficiently under pressure, maximize profitability during peak periods and more. Sign up online.
Visibility Strategies for Global Soccer Visitors and Customers
This free webinar explores practical strategies businesses can use to be more discoverable to people visiting from outside the U.S. Register online
AI Powered Content Creation
Gain practical ways to create compelling content, streamline your workflow, and connect with your audience effectively to make the most of every high-profile opportunity. Sign up online.
The Restaurant Playbook: Preparing for the Soccer Surge
This practical session will help you operate efficiently under pressure, maximize profitability during peak periods and more. Sign up online.
KU International Affairs Trivia Night
Learn about the teams coming to Kansas City for the World Cup through trivia. The event will be at Watson Library, 3 West, on the KU Lawrence campus.
Cybersecurity for Small Businesses During Major Events
This beginner-friendly virtual session will show small business owners how to recognize common cyber threats and implement simple protections. Sign up online.
“What Worlds Does Soccer Imagine?”
In this academic lecture, historian Laurent Dubois will examine soccer’s historical trajectory.
Cybersecurity Intelligence Conference
The conference fosters critical dialogue on cybersecurity policy, education and strategy, including for small business in light of the World Cup.
Welcome Global Soccer Visitors with Practical Marketing Skills
This free webinar offers strategies, timelines, and action steps you need to market to global visitors and maximize your sales this summer. Register online
Extreme Heat Readiness Workshop
Learn to recognize health-related illnesses, understand National Weather Service alerts, adjust operations safely and communicate effectively during periods of extreme heat. Sign up online by March 4.
Advanced Social Media
Focus on algorithms, photography, videography and strategic considerations for social media ahead of the World Cup. There will be a panel discussion, a question-and-answer session and interactive activity. Register online
Recognizing and Responding to Human Trafficking: A Training for the Hospitality Industry
Hospitality workers are on the front lines in responding to human trafficking. Join this training to learn how to spot the signs, respond with confidence and use critical local resources. Register online
Social Media 101
Learn the pros and cons of major platforms, cost and time considerations, marketing dos and don’ts related to World Cup branding, and tips for producing effective content. The workshop includes a panel discussion, a question-and-answer session and an interactive activity. Register online
Foodpreneur Readiness Training (virtual)
Training highlights include event planning, food safety, event staffing, revenue optimization and more.
Foodpreneur Readiness Training (virtual)
Training highlights include event planning, food safety, event staffing, revenue optimization and more.
Lawrence 2026 Business Preparedness Meeting
Join The Chamber, eXplore Lawrence, Downtown Lawrence Inc. and Lawrence Restaurant Association for an evening of presentations and knowledge as we prepare for the influx of visitors this summer.