2025 Spring ECOSYSTEM BUILDER SUMMIT
Where: Las Vegas
When: May 6 - 8
Hosted By: Kyeema Peart, Director of Nevada’s Office of Entrepreneurship
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The 2025 Spring Ecosystem Builder Summit will be in Las Vegas! Join us for 2.5 days to meet changemakers, ecosystem builders, capital stewards, entrepreneurs, and policymakers.
Summit Theme: We the West: Ecosystem Builders Unite
Beyond the bright lights and allure of the Las Vegas casino strip is an expanse of entrepreneurial opportunity. The Historic Westside is a hotbed of re-emergent cultural identity; Clark County is seeding intense community collaboration through the planning of a microbusiness park with affordable housing; and vibrant support organizations are raising up tech and manufacturing leaders across the region’s fun economy, health sectors, and smart city initiatives. Join us in a review of America’s strongest hospitality leader and its other ecosystem diversifiers as we gather the best in the west at SCN Las Vegas May 6-8, 2025.
Drawing together diverse communities within and beyond the well-known casino core, those businesses and communities that support The Strip are thriving because of the ecosystem efforts of many. Hosted by the Governor's new Office of Entrepreneurship, the City of Las Vegas will showcase its entrepreneurial spirit at the opening breakfast; Zero Labs will let us into the magic of their cohort approach to fun economy acceleration, UNLV's economic development office will invite us into their investor approach, Right to Start will launch their new national network of public leaders, Pitch Mayhem will host their biannual national investment competition, and the Lieutenant Governor's Office of Small Business Advocacy will close our focus on healthy ecosystem building.
Startup Champions Network Summits
Twice annually, Startup Champion Network members meet in person to connect, share knowledge/experiences, and take a deep, behind-the-scenes dive into the local host ecosystem. This personal interaction is a critical part of the member value proposition as well as an important commitment all members make -- to celebrate each other.
These 2.5 day intimate gatherings bring together the nation's top ecosystem builders and national ecosystem support organizations to convene conversations, gain insight from real-world case studies, and explore and experience new communities against the backdrops of some of the nation's top emerging ecosystems. Summits address topics most relevant to and of interest to members, such as inclusive entrepreneurship, fostering collaboration, engaging and empowering under-represented populations, and more.
SCN Host Member
Kyeema Peart, Director of Nevada's Office of Entrepreneurship
With a career managing innovative research and commercialization, Kyeema Peart is passionate about translating today’s possibilities into tomorrow’s realities for Nevada. She brings a unique background, having spent 20 years directing interdisciplinary research and business development across North America and internationally. Most recently, Peart worked along the entire research and innovation continuum to enable business partnerships, academic affiliations, entrepreneurial education, and research infrastructure at the Nevada Center for Applied Research. Previously, Peart worked in Canada and California with corporate and academic partners to establish unique regional and international research, education and business programming.
Purchase Tickets
*Please note that you must purchase each ticket individually, so we can properly collect all attendee data per ticket. Group tickets are for groups of 6.
Super Early Bird (ends Feb 28)
Member: $249
Non-Member: $399
GROUP ticket (For up to 6 people)
$2,000
Travel & Accomodations
Getting to Las Vegas
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Lodging
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Rides & Rooms Spreadsheet
Every Summit, we create a spreadsheet for attendees to coordinate rides and room sharing. If you're looking to share a hotel room or airbnb with a large group, this is a great place to start. If you want to carpool from the airport or hope some kind soul will give you a ride, this is the place to do it! While we don't link this spreadsheet to the public website, it is sent via email upon summit registration.