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.

2022 Spring Summit: Durham, North Carolina

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

2024 Spring Summit | April 30 - May 2 in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia

During the Spring 2024 Summit, the Shenandoah Valley ecosystem invites attendees to experience their local ecosystem close-up by meeting rural innovators and exploring some of the sub-ecosystems that they've been actively developing (capital, manufacturing, super rural and tech). Summit attendees will have the opportunity to experience the Valley like a local, help us workshop solutions to some of our most pressing ecosystem challenges and to connect with practitioners from around the state to have meaningful conversations about what it takes to build a thriving ecosystem.

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