Startup Champions Network Summits
SCN partners with local communities to host two Summits per year. Our 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 our member value-proposition as well as an important commitment all members make -- to celebrate each other.
2024 Spring Summit: Shenandoah Valley, Virginia
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.
SCN Summits have 3 fundamental goals:
Help Ecosystem Builders connect with key peers and resources
Improve Ecosystem Builders' knowledge and best practices
Help Ecosystem Builders develop mission-critical skills
2026 Summits: TBA
Past Summits:
Augusta, Georgia (Fall 2025)
hosted by Make Startups
Las Vegas, Nevada (Spring 2025)
hosted by Nevada’s Office of Entrepreneurship
Bay Area, California (Fall 2024)
hosted by ESO Foundation
Shenandoah Valley, Virginia (Spring 2024)
hosted by Shenandoah Community Capital Fund (SCCF)
Phoenix, Arizona (Fall 2023)
hosted by Huub
Policy Summit, Washington DC (Spring 2023)
hosted by SCN
Making a Movement, Forth Worth (Fall 2022)
hosted by HSC Next
Triangle, North Carolina (Spring 2022)
hosted by Forward Cities / First Flight Venture Center / Social Venturers
Des Moines, Iowa (Fall 2021)
hosted by Gravitate Coworking
Virtual Summit (Fall 2020)
hosted by Kauffman Foundation
San Antonio, Texas (Spring 2020)
hosted by Velocity TX
Madison, Wisconsin (Fall 2019)
hosted by StartingBlock Madison & Doyenne Group
Portland, Oregon (Spring 2019)
hosted by Portland Incubator Experiment
Denver, Colorado (Fall 2018)
hosted by Denver Startup Week
Chattanooga, Tennessee (Spring 2018)
hosted by Co.Lab / Edney Innovation Center
Fargo, North Dakota (Fall 2017)
hosted by Emerging Prairie
Tampa, Florida (Winter 2017)
hosted by Tampa Bay WaVE
Baltimore, Maryland (Fall 2016)
hosted by Startup Maryland
Santa Barbara, California (Winter 2016)
hosted by StartupSB
Portland, Maine (Summer 2015)
hosted by Maine Accelerates Growth
Little Rock, Arkansas (Spring 2015)
hosted by The Venture Center
Nashville, Tennessee (Summer 2014)
hosted by the Nashville Entrepreneurial Center
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