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

2025 Fall Summit | November 5-7 in Augusta, Georgia

Augusta is a city of paradox and potential—a place where world-class golf meets deep-seated inequity, and where the rhythms of James Brown still echo through a downtown once federally designated as a slum. It’s a government town brimming with entrepreneurial ambition, home to U.S. Army Cyber Command, the 4th largest public medical school in the country, and a nuclear corridor that spans national defense and ecological innovation.

As a midsize city straddling the Georgia-South Carolina border, Augusta embodies the opportunities and tensions of building collaborative, inclusive ecosystems in complex contexts. At this SCN Augusta, we’ll explore what it means to cultivate entrepreneurship in a place defined by extremes—where the Augusta National coexists with neighborhoods in need of reinvestment, and where federal dollars and grassroots dreams intermingle.

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