Ascend Events
The Ascend Ecosystem brings together partners, business owners, academics, and business community anchors to learn and support each other. Ascend hosts monthly peer-learning sessions, a spring Intensive, and an annual Conference. Below you’ll find information on the upcoming events.
Ascend relies on communicating with the ecosystem, City Members, who all contribute shared knowledge and experience to provide resources and opportunities to the MBEs. Over the year, we have an Intensive that covers one of the three Ms: Management, Market, and Money, and add to our Guidebooks. The big event is a three-day National Conference, where the entire ecosystem comes together and we explore best practices for all the Ms! In between the Intensive and the National Conference, we have virtual City-to-City events, where the Ascend National brings expert faculty, business owners, and community leaders in one of the three Ms.
