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CES 2026
2026-01-06 - 2026-01-09 | Las Vegas Convention Center, 3150 Paradise Rd, Las Vegas, NV, 3150, United States
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Location: Las VegasDates: January 6–9, 2026Primary Venues: Las Vegas Convention Center & partner venues across Las Vegas
CES remains the most influential technology and innovation event in the world, and CES 2026 further cements its position as the global meeting ground where industry direction is set—not discussed.
For founders, executives, investors, policymakers, and operators, CES is not optional. It is where emerging technologies meet capital, regulation, manufacturing, and scale—often years before they reach mainstream adoption.
Hustler’s Library recognizes CES 2026 as a top-tier strategic event for anyone serious about understanding where business, technology, and power are converging next.
Why CES 2026 Matters More Than Ever
CES is no longer a consumer electronics show in the traditional sense. It has evolved into a global operating system for innovation, spanning hardware, software, policy, capital, and infrastructure.
CES 2026 places a clear emphasis on:

Advanced manufacturing and industrial transformation
Artificial intelligence at enterprise and infrastructure levels
Supply chain resilience and next-generation logistics
Energy, sustainability, and power systems
Public policy, regulation, and national competitiveness

For business leaders, CES functions as a live intelligence briefing on where the world is heading—and who is shaping it.
Industries Represented at CES 2026
CES 2026 brings together companies and leaders across nearly every major growth vertical, including:
3D Printing, Artificial Intelligence, AR/VR/XR, Blockchain, Cloud Computing & Data, Construction Tech, Cryptocurrency, Cybersecurity, Digital Health, Drones, Energy & Power, Enterprise Technology, Fintech, Gaming & Esports, IoT & Sensors, Manufacturing, Quantum, Robotics, Smart Home & Appliances, Space Tech, Supply Chain & Logistics, Sustainability, Vehicle Tech & Advanced Mobility, and more.
The breadth of industries makes CES uniquely valuable: cross-sector insights happen organically, often leading to partnerships that would never form in siloed events.
Featured Keynotes & Leadership Presence
CES 2026 features leadership from the companies shaping global infrastructure, computing, and manufacturing:

Roland Busch – President & CEO, Siemens AG
Joe Creed – CEO, Caterpillar
Lisa Su – Chair & CEO, AMD
Yuanqing Yang – Chairman & CEO, Lenovo

CES 2026 also expands its influence beyond corporate leadership, with White House technology officials, U.S. senators, and federal agency leaders participating in policy-focused sessions—underscoring CES’s role in shaping not just markets, but regulation and national strategy.
Manufacturing, Policy, and the Future of Scale
Recent CES 2026 announcements highlight a sharp focus on the future of manufacturing, signaling a shift from innovation-as-concept to innovation-at-scale.
This includes:

Advanced automation and robotics
Domestic and allied manufacturing resilience
AI-driven production and logistics optimization
Policy frameworks influencing global competitiveness

CES has become one of the few venues where founders, Fortune 500 executives, and policymakers occupy the same rooms—a dynamic that materially impacts how technologies are funded, regulated, and deployed.
Hustler’s Library at CES 2026
Hustler’s Library will be officially attending CES 2026 as part of our national and global business events coverage.
As a business media platform focused on real operators, capital flows, and execution, CES is a cornerstone event for our editorial, networking, and founder engagement strategy.
We will also be releasing a dedicated CES Networking Guide to help founders and operators navigate meetings, side events, and high-value connections during the week—designed for efficiency, not noise.
The Hustler’s Library CES Private Happy Hour
The After-Hours Event to Be At
During CES 2026, Hustler’s Library will host a private happy hour & founder mixer in Las Vegas for select founders, executives, operators, investors, and partners.
This is not an open RSVP event and not a crowded side party.
Our CES happy hour is curated for:

Founders building or scaling real businesses
Operators navigating enterprise, manufacturing, or infrastructure
Investors, advisors, and deal-focused professionals
Leaders who value high-signal conversations over show-floor chaos

Attendance is limited to maintain quality.📩 To receive the location and invitation details, contact Hustler’s Library directly through our contact page.
Final Thoughts
CES 2026 is not about gadgets—it is about who controls the next decade of technology, manufacturing, and economic leverage.
For founders and operators who want to stay ahead—not react—CES remains unmatched.
Paired with Hustler’s Library’s private CES happy hour and upcoming networking guide, this event becomes more than a conference. It becomes a strategic week in Las Vegas.
Hustler’s Library will continue covering and attending the most important business and technology events globally—where real momentum is built.

Showcase Ireland 2026
2026-01-18 - 2026-01-20 | Royal Dublin Society (RDS), Merrion Rd, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4,, Dublin, Ireland
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Location: DublinVenue: RDS DublinFocus: Design · Craft · Manufacturing · Export TradeAudience: International Buyers · Retailers · Distributors · Media
Showcase Ireland is the country’s premier international trade show for Irish-made goods, and one of the most distinctive sourcing events in Europe for buyers seeking authentic, export-ready products with real brand equity.
Backed by Enterprise Ireland, Showcase Ireland operates at the intersection of design, heritage, and global commerce—connecting Ireland’s top manufacturers and makers with buyers from across Europe, North America, and Asia.
For operators looking beyond mass production toward high-margin, story-driven products, Showcase Ireland plays a strategic role in the global trade calendar.
Why Showcase Ireland Matters in 2026
As consumer preferences continue to shift toward quality, sustainability, and provenance, Showcase Ireland has become increasingly relevant for international buyers.
In 2026, the event stands out for:

Verified, export-ready Irish brands
Strong government-backed credibility
High buyer-to-exhibitor signal ratio
Emphasis on long-term wholesale and retail partnerships

Unlike broad regional trade fairs, Showcase Ireland is highly curated—designed for buyers who value craftsmanship, reliability, and brand story, not commodity sourcing.
Product Categories & Sourcing Focus
Showcase Ireland spans a wide range of commercially viable product categories, including:

Home & Living
Fashion & Accessories
Jewelry & Precious Metals
Gifts & Lifestyle Products
Textiles & Wool-Based Goods
Sustainable & Heritage Manufacturing

Many exhibitors at Showcase Ireland already export globally, making this an efficient sourcing environment for retailers and distributors seeking proven partners rather than early-stage experimentation.
Buyer Profile & International Reach
Showcase Ireland attracts:

Independent and national retailers
Department store buyers
Wholesale distributors
Museum, gallery, and destination retail buyers
International media and trend forecasters

Buyers typically attend with purchase intent, making Showcase Ireland a deal-oriented environment, despite its refined and design-forward presentation.
For U.S. and European operators in particular, the event offers a direct line into Irish manufacturing excellence without the scale friction of larger continental trade shows.
Government Support & Export Credibility
A defining advantage of Showcase Ireland is its alignment with Enterprise Ireland, which ensures:

Export readiness standards
Business-vetted exhibitors
Long-term brand viability
Strong international trade support

This backing significantly reduces sourcing risk and increases confidence for international buyers entering new supplier relationships.
Hustler’s Library at Showcase Ireland
Hustler’s Library will be officially attending Showcase Ireland as part of our global trade, sourcing, and business events coverage.
As a business media platform focused on operators, wholesale trade, and long-term brand value, Showcase Ireland aligns directly with our mission to spotlight where quality commerce actually happens—not just where volume is promoted.
The Hustler’s Library Private Dublin Buyer & Founder Mixer
Dublin | Invitation Only
In conjunction with Showcase Ireland, Hustler’s Library will host a private buyer & founder mixer in Dublin for selected retailers, distributors, founders, and partners.
This is a curated, relationship-first gathering designed for:

Buyers sourcing premium, design-led products
Founders scaling wholesale and export channels
Retail operators building differentiated assortments
Partners operating across U.S. and European markets

📩 To receive invitation details and location information, contact Hustler’s Library directly through our contact page.
Attendance is limited to preserve quality and relevance.
Final Thoughts
Showcase Ireland remains one of Europe’s most trusted and efficient sourcing events for buyers seeking authentic, export-ready products with long-term brand value.
For operators focused on retail differentiation, sustainable manufacturing, and premium goods, this event belongs on the short list.
Paired with Hustler’s Library’s private Dublin mixer and upcoming buyer guide, Showcase Ireland becomes more than a trade show—it becomes a strategic entry point into Irish and European design commerce.
Hustler’s Library will continue covering and attending the world’s most important business and trade events—where reputation, reliability, and relationships drive real outcomes.

TechArena 2026
2026-02-11 - 2026-02-12 | Strawberry Arena, Råsta Strandväg 1, 169 79, Solna, Sweden
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Location: StockholmDates: February 11–12, 2026Attendance: 12,000+ attendeesProgram: 300+ speakers · 4 stages · 120+ side events
TechArena has rapidly established itself as Northern Europe’s most influential technology and business conference, and TechArena 2026 signals a clear evolution from startup conference to global power forum.
Positioned at the intersection of technology, capital, policy, and culture, TechArena attracts founders, executives, investors, creatives, and institutional leaders who are actively shaping the future of Europe’s innovation economy—and its connection to global markets.
For operators and decision-makers looking beyond the U.S.-centric conference circuit, TechArena is no longer optional. It is strategic.
Why TechArena 2026 Matters Globally
TechArena distinguishes itself by combining startup energy with institutional gravity. The result is an event where early-stage innovation, late-stage capital, public policy, and cultural influence coexist in the same rooms.
In 2026, TechArena places strong emphasis on:

Scalable technology and European innovation leadership
AI, infrastructure, and platform economics
Climate, sustainability, and long-term systems thinking
Capital formation, venture strategy, and cross-border growth
The role of culture, media, and influence in modern business

Stockholm’s position as a globally respected tech hub makes this event a gateway into the Nordic and broader European market.
Keynote Speakers & Global Influence
TechArena 2026 features a rare mix of cultural icons, political leaders, and technology builders, reinforcing its global relevance.

Zlatan Ibrahimović – Global sports icon and entrepreneur, bringing perspective on leadership, discipline, and global brand power.
Boris Johnson – Former UK Prime Minister, offering insight into geopolitics, policy, and global leadership dynamics.
Anthony Di Iorio – Co-founder of Ethereum, speaking to decentralization, digital infrastructure, and the future of finance.
Samantha Cristoforetti – ESA astronaut, providing perspective on science, exploration, and long-horizon innovation.
Anna Bateson – CEO of The Guardian, addressing media, trust, and information ecosystems.
Markus Villig – CEO & Co-Founder of Bolt, representing European scale-up execution.
Asha Saxena – Bestselling author of The AI Factor, bridging enterprise AI and leadership strategy.
Bastian Hasslinger – Partner at Index Ventures, offering a capital-markets lens on global tech growth.

This speaker mix reinforces TechArena’s positioning as more than a tech event—it is a leadership forum.
The TechArena Experience
Beyond the main stages, TechArena is known for its dense ecosystem of side events, private dinners, founder meetups, and curated conversations across Stockholm.
With 120+ side events running alongside the conference, TechArena becomes a city-wide business activation, where the most valuable meetings often happen off-stage and after hours.
This structure makes it especially attractive to:

Founders expanding into Europe
Investors sourcing cross-border deals
Operators building partnerships across markets
Media and brand leaders shaping narrative and influence

Hustler’s Library at TechArena 2026
Hustler’s Library will be officially attending TechArena 2026 as part of our global business events coverage and founder engagement strategy.
As a business media platform focused on operators, capital, and execution, TechArena aligns directly with our mission to surface the environments where real momentum is built – quietly, efficiently, and globally.
We will also be publishing a TechArena Networking Guide, designed to help founders and operators navigate the conference, side events, and private gatherings with precision.
The Hustler’s Library Private TechArena Happy Hour
Stockholm’s Must-Attend Founder Mixer
During TechArena 2026, Hustler’s Library will host a private happy hour & founder mixer in Stockholm for invited founders, executives, investors, and partners.
This is a curated, invite-only gathering designed for:

Founders building or scaling international businesses
Investors and advisors operating across U.S. and European markets
Operators seeking high-signal conversations and partnerships
Leaders who value discretion, substance, and long-term thinking

📩 To receive invitation and location details, contact Hustler’s Library directly through our contact page.
Final Thoughts
TechArena 2026 confirms Stockholm’s position as a global innovation capital and TechArena’s role as one of Europe’s most important business and technology gatherings.
For founders and operators thinking globally—not locally—this event belongs on the short list.
Paired with Hustler’s Library’s private happy hour and upcoming networking guide, TechArena becomes more than a conference. It becomes a strategic entry point into the European innovation ecosystem.
Hustler’s Library will continue covering and attending the world’s most influential business events—where real power, capital, and ideas converge.

Small Business Expo - Orlando 2026
2026-03-03 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Rosen Plaza Hotel, 9700 International Dr, Orlando, FL, 32819, United States
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Location: Rosen Plaza HotelAddress: 9700 International Drive, Orlando, FL 32819Date: March 3, 2026Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
The Orlando Small Business Expo & Trade Show 2026 stands out as one of the most important business networking events in Orlando for founders, operators, and growth-minded professionals heading into the next cycle of U.S. entrepreneurship.
As one of the largest and most established trade shows in Central Florida, this event consistently attracts serious buyers, credible vendors, and decision-makers across industries—making it a high-signal environment for entrepreneurs who value execution over hype.
Hustler’s Library recognizes this expo as a strategic touchpoint for founders looking to sharpen their positioning, expand partnerships, and stay competitive in an increasingly crowded market.
Why This Event Matters for Entrepreneurs in 2026
Business events in 2026 are no longer about collecting business cards—they’re about access, leverage, and alignment. The Orlando Small Business Expo delivers on all three.
Founders attending can expect:

Direct access to vendors and service providers actively selling into SMB markets
Real-time insight into tools, platforms, and services shaping modern operations
Face-to-face networking with operators who are actively building, acquiring, or scaling businesses
Educational sessions grounded in real-world execution, not abstract theory

For entrepreneurs operating in Florida—or expanding into the Southeast—this expo functions as a concentrated snapshot of the SMB economy.
Keynote Speakers & Thought Leadership
The Orlando event features speakers with proven operating credibility, not just stage presence.

Jay Kriner – Known for his Shark Tank success, Jay brings firsthand experience in product development, brand execution, and scaling under pressure. His perspective resonates with founders navigating growth inflection points.
Rajiv Menon – Founder and CEO of Informulate, Rajiv offers insight at the intersection of technology, innovation, and social enterprise—particularly relevant for founders building modern, tech-enabled businesses.

Hustler’s Library Presence at the Orlando Small Business Expo
Hustler’s Library will be officially attending the Orlando Small Business Expo & Trade Show 2026 as part of our national business events coverage and founder engagement initiative.
As a business media platform focused on real operators, real capital, and real execution, we prioritize in-person environments where meaningful conversations happen—not just surface-level networking.
The Hustler’s Library Private Happy Hour & Founder Mixer
The Event to Attend After the Expo
One evening during the Orlando Small Business Expo, Hustler’s Library will be hosting a private happy hour & mixer for entrepreneurs, operators, partners, and invited guests.
This is not a generic networking event.
Our private mixers are designed for:

Founders and operators building or acquiring real businesses
Service providers working with SMBs at scale
Investors, advisors, and deal-minded professionals
Entrepreneurs who value quality conversations over crowded rooms

Attendance is curated to ensure high-signal discussions, meaningful introductions, and long-term relationship building.
📩 To receive the location, time, and RSVP details, contact us directly through the Hustler’s Library contact page. Space is limited and invitations are confirmed privately.
Final Thoughts
The Orlando Small Business Expo & Trade Show 2026 earns its place as a top-tier Orlando business event for founders who are serious about growth, partnerships, and positioning heading into the next cycle.
Paired with Hustler’s Library’s private happy hour mixer, this event becomes more than a trade show—it becomes a strategic networking opportunity.
We’ll continue covering and attending the most important business events across the U.S. in 2026—connecting founders where real momentum is built.

East China Fair 2026
2026-03-04 - 2026-03-06 | Shanghai New International Expo Center, 龙阳路2345号 邮政编码, Shanghai, 201204, China
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Location: ShanghaiVenue: Shanghai New International Expo CentreDates: March 1–4, 2026Scale: 115,000+ sqm · 5,200+ booths · ~4,000 exhibitorsFocus: Import & Export · Manufacturing · Cross-Border Trade
The East China Fair (ECF) is one of the most established and authoritative B2B trade fairs in Asia, and the 34th East China Fair 2026 reaffirms its role as a critical gateway between Chinese manufacturing and global buyers.
Founded in 1991 and co-sponsored by multiple provincial commerce authorities, ECF is not a speculative expo—it is a deal-driven trade environment where contracts are signed, supply chains are formed, and long-term sourcing relationships are built.
For operators focused on manufacturing, private label, wholesale, and cross-border e-commerce, ECF remains one of the most important regional trade fairs in the world.
Why the East China Fair Matters in 2026
While many global conferences emphasize ideas, ECF emphasizes execution.
In 2026, the East China Fair stands out for:

Direct access to verified manufacturers and exporters
Government-supported credibility and scale
High concentration of decision-makers, not spectators
A proven track record of on-site deal flow

As global supply chains continue to rebalance, ECF offers buyers and operators a front-row seat to real production capacity across China and neighboring export markets.
Core Exhibition Categories
The 34th East China Fair features four professional exhibitions and two dedicated exhibition areas, including:
Professional Exhibitions

Garments
Textiles
Home Products
Gifts & Consumer Goods

Exhibition Areas

Overseas Products
Cross-Border E-Commerce

This structure allows buyers to move efficiently from raw sourcing to finished goods, while also evaluating cross-border fulfillment, logistics, and e-commerce-ready suppliers.
International Participation & Buyer Profile
ECF 2026 attracts overseas exhibitors and buyers from Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Lithuania, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Nepal, and other global trade markets.
Notable buyers and sourcing groups represented historically include:

Large retail chains
Trading companies
Import/export groups
Wholesale distributors
Cross-border e-commerce operators

This makes ECF especially valuable for:

U.S. and European buyers sourcing at scale
Brands exploring private-label manufacturing
Operators expanding into Asia-based supply chains

Government-Backed Credibility & Deal Flow
One of ECF’s defining strengths is its government sponsorship and oversight, which provides a level of reliability not always present in private trade shows.
This translates into:

Higher-quality exhibitors
Fewer speculative booths
Greater confidence in supplier legitimacy
Stronger on-site negotiation culture

ECF is designed for professionals who expect measurable ROI, not brand theater.
Hustler’s Library at the East China Fair 2026
Hustler’s Library will be officially attending the 34th East China Fair as part of our global trade, sourcing, and business events coverage.
As a business media platform focused on real operators, deal flow, and infrastructure, ECF aligns directly with our mission to surface the environments where global commerce actually happens.
The Hustler’s Library Private ECF Buyer & Operator Mixer
Shanghai | By Invitation
During East China Fair 2026, Hustler’s Library will host a private buyer & operator mixer in Shanghai for selected founders, sourcing professionals, distributors, and partners.
This is a closed-door, relationship-first gathering, designed for:

Buyers sourcing manufacturing partners
Operators building long-term supply chains
Founders exploring private-label and OEM strategies
International partners operating across China, Europe, and the U.S.

📩 To receive invitation details and location information, contact Hustler’s Library directly through our contact page.
Attendance is limited to ensure quality conversations and aligned interests.
Final Thoughts
The 34th East China Fair 2026 is not about trends—it is about trade execution at scale.
For operators involved in manufacturing, sourcing, wholesale, or cross-border commerce, ECF remains one of the most efficient and high-signal trade fairs in Asia.
Paired with Hustler’s Library’s private mixer and upcoming networking guide, ECF becomes more than a trade show—it becomes a strategic access point into global supply chains.
Hustler’s Library will continue covering and attending the world’s most important business and trade events—where deals are made, not just discussed.

Small Business Expo – San Francisco 2026
2026-04-23 | Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, 94111, United States
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Estimated Date: April 23, 2026 (dates subject to confirmation)
Location: Hyatt Regency San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
The Small Business Expo is not a trade show. It is a focused, single-day operating environment built for business owners who are serious about growth. San Francisco brings in one of the most entrepreneurially dense attendee pools in the country. The Bay Area startup culture bleeds into every conversation here. This is a room full of people who have already made the decision to build something. Now they are comparing notes.
For Hustler’s Library, the Small Business Expo San Francisco consistently ranks as one of the most accessible, high-density business conferences on the West Coast calendar. The format rewards action-takers. You arrive, you work the floor, you leave with contacts and tools. No fluff. No filler.
Note: 2026 dates are estimated based on historical scheduling patterns. Confirm directly at thesmallbusinessexpo.com.
Why It Matters
San Francisco is not a secondary market. It is the global headquarters of startup ambition. When the Small Business Expo lands here, the attendee floor reflects that reality. You will find founders in the room who have already raised, who are currently raising, and who are building profitable bootstrapped businesses without ever touching VC. That range is rare. It creates a calibration environment that most conferences cannot replicate.
Beyond the city’s startup reputation, the Small Business Expo SF attracts a strong contingent of service-based business owners, e-commerce operators, consultants, and local franchise operators. The diversity of business models in one room makes this event genuinely useful. You are not talking to clones. You are talking to operators across sectors, all solving different versions of the same growth problem.
For anyone building in the Bay Area ecosystem or looking to enter the West Coast market, this event is a standing appointment. The cost of attendance is minimal. The cost of missing it adds up over time.
What’s Happening
The Small Business Expo format is efficient by design. The core programming runs across three tracks: the exhibition floor, the workshop stage, and the speed networking sessions. Each is built to maximize output per hour, which is exactly the right approach for a one-day event targeting people who already have full plates.
The exhibition floor brings together software vendors, financial services companies, marketing agencies, staffing firms, and technology platforms all competing for the attention of business owners with real budgets and real problems. The workshops cover the fundamentals that actually move revenue: sales systems, digital marketing, business credit, hiring frameworks, and operational efficiency.
Speed networking is where the real relationships begin. Structured, timed, and focused, these sessions strip away the aimlessness of conventional conference networking. You know exactly how long you have. You use it. That efficiency is one of the core reasons the Small Business Expo format has survived and scaled across the country.
Who’s There
Small business owners at every stage from launch to scale. Franchise operators evaluating expansion. Service providers and vendors looking to build distribution through partnership. Local investors and angel backers surveying the early-stage landscape. Consultants, coaches, and operators who build businesses for and with other business owners.
The Bay Area filter means you are also likely to encounter a higher-than-average density of tech-enabled small business operators: founders running SaaS tools for small business verticals, e-commerce operators scaling through paid acquisition, and service businesses that have productized their delivery model.
Industries in Play
Technology services, digital marketing, financial services, retail and e-commerce, professional services, real estate, health and wellness, food and beverage, franchise development, and business operations software. The cross-sector mix is one of the event’s defining characteristics. No single industry dominates the floor.
Who Benefits Most
Business owners who are already operating and looking for tools, vendors, and partners to accelerate existing momentum. Founders in the ideation or early revenue stage who need real conversations with people who have already solved adjacent problems. Sales professionals and vendors who serve the small business market and need direct access to qualified buyers.
This event is less useful for corporate enterprise leaders and institutional investors. It is built for the 1 to 100 employee range. That focus is a feature. If that is your world, this is your event.
Hustler’s Library Private Mixer
Hustler’s Library will host a private mixer in San Francisco during the Small Business Expo. This is not an open event. It is a curated gathering for growth-stage founders, operators, and business builders who want signal over noise.
Attendance is limited. The room is intentional. To request an invitation and receive details, contact Hustler’s Library directly.
Final Thoughts
The Small Business Expo San Francisco is not the most glamorous event on the 2026 calendar. It does not need to be. It is built for output: tools acquired, relationships started, and clarity gained in a single day. For operators running lean and moving fast, that format is exactly right.
Pair it with targeted pre-event outreach, a clear objective for the floor, and a follow-up system for every conversation. Do that and one day at this expo generates more traction than most conferences deliver in three. See the full Hustler’s Library events calendar for more opportunities this year.

SaaStr Annual 2026
2026-05-13 - 2026-05-15 | San Mateo County Event Center, 1346 Saratoga Dr, San Mateo, CA, 94403, United States
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Estimated Dates: May 13–15, 2026 (dates subject to confirmation)
Location: San Mateo County Event Center, San Mateo, CA
SaaStr Annual is not a software conference. It is the operating system for the global SaaS economy. When forty thousand founders, operators, and investors converge on the San Francisco Bay Area for three days in May, what unfolds is less a conference and more a parallel market. Deals are made on the lawn. Partnerships are signed between sessions. Hiring conversations begin at the coffee stations. The programming is excellent. It is also secondary to the room itself.
Hustler’s Library considers SaaStr Annual one of the five most important business events in the world for anyone building recurring revenue businesses. Not because of the stages. Because of the concentration of SaaS-native decision makers operating at every revenue tier from $1M ARR to $1B ARR simultaneously in one location.
Note: 2026 dates are estimated based on historical scheduling. Confirm at saastrannual.com.
Why It Matters
SaaStr was built by Jason Lemkin from a single insight: SaaS founders needed a community that understood their specific model. Recurring revenue changes everything. It changes how you think about churn, expansion, sales cycles, and capital deployment. Most business conferences do not address these dynamics at the depth SaaStr does. The content is native to the model, not adapted from generic business frameworks.
The result is an event where the calibration happens fast. When you are in a room where everyone understands NRR, payback periods, and the mechanics of enterprise sales motion, the conversations skip the preamble. You get to the substance faster than anywhere else. That compression of signal is the event’s core value proposition.
SaaStr 2026 will reflect the state of AI-native SaaS at a pivotal moment. The shift from traditional SaaS to AI-integrated and AI-first products is accelerating the disruption of established revenue models. The conversations about pricing, competitive positioning, and churn in an AI era will be sharper here than anywhere else this year.
What’s Happening
Three days of programming across multiple stages. The main stage carries keynotes from category-defining SaaS leaders. Breakout sessions go deep on sales motion, product-led growth, AI integration, customer success architecture, board dynamics, and fundraising mechanics. The “Ask Me Anything” format, where founders interview investors and operators in an unscripted exchange, consistently produces the most candid and usable content of the conference.
The lawn at San Mateo is where the networking infrastructure lives. It is designed for mass interaction. Tables, activation spaces, and informal meeting zones create a physical environment where serendipitous but high-value collisions are engineered into the layout. Do not spend all three days inside the session rooms. The lawn hours are not optional for serious attendees.
Who’s There
SaaS founders at every stage from pre-seed to post-IPO. Chief Revenue Officers and VP Sales from mid-market and enterprise SaaS companies. Venture partners and growth equity investors with SaaS-specific mandates. Product leaders navigating AI integration. Customer success and go-to-market operators at scale. Analysts, journalists, and advisors covering the SaaS sector.
Industries in Play
Enterprise software, vertical SaaS platforms, developer tools, marketing technology, sales intelligence, HR technology, fintech infrastructure, cybersecurity software, healthcare technology, and AI-native applications. The common thread is not the industry. It is the recurring revenue model. Everyone here is building subscription infrastructure of some kind.
Who Benefits Most
Founders between $1M and $100M ARR who are actively navigating scale challenges. Sales and GTM leaders looking to benchmark their approach against what is working at peer companies. Investors seeking concentrated deal flow in the SaaS vertical. Technical founders who need exposure to the commercial side of SaaS that their product backgrounds often leave underdeveloped.
SaaStr rewards founders who come with specific questions they want answered and a short list of people they want to meet. It punishes passive attendance. With forty thousand people present, you must create structure for yourself or you will spend three days in a very expensive crowd.
Hustler’s Library Private Mixer
Hustler’s Library will host a private founder and operator mixer in the Bay Area during SaaStr Annual 2026. The room will be curated for founders and revenue leaders who want a focused conversation environment away from the main conference floor.
Attendance is limited by design. To request consideration and receive details, contact Hustler’s Library directly.
Final Thoughts
SaaStr Annual 2026 arrives at a moment of structural disruption in the SaaS model. AI is not just an add-on product feature. It is rewriting the assumptions behind pricing, retention, and competitive moat. The conversations happening on the San Mateo lawn this May will shape how the next generation of software companies is designed and funded.
For founders and operators inside the SaaS model, missing this event is a strategic disadvantage. The intelligence gathered here does not appear in blog posts until six months later. The relationships built here compound for years. See the Hustler’s Library events calendar for other key 2026 gatherings.

Small Business Expo – New York 2026
2026-05-14 | Javits Center, 429 11th Ave, New York, 10001, United States
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Estimated Date: May 14, 2026 (dates subject to confirmation)
Location: Javits Center, New York, NY
The Small Business Expo New York is the flagship stop of the national tour. This is not a regional event. New York is the largest single-day small business conference in the country. The Javits Center hosts tens of thousands of business owners, entrepreneurs, vendors, and operators across a single day of structured chaos that, when navigated correctly, produces more value per hour than almost any conference format running today.
Hustler’s Library has tracked the Small Business Expo circuit for years. New York is where the network density peaks. The combination of the city’s sheer business volume and the event’s concentrated format creates a floor that rewards preparation and punishes wandering.
Note: 2026 dates are estimated based on historical scheduling patterns. Confirm directly at thesmallbusinessexpo.com.
Why It Matters
New York is where money and ambition concentrate in ways that no other American city replicates at scale. The Small Business Expo landing at Javits means you are operating in a room where Brooklyn-based e-commerce founders are standing next to Wall Street-adjacent financial service providers, next to Bronx-based franchise operators, next to Manhattan tech consultants. That cross-borough, cross-sector density is singular.
New York also brings a financial services and professional services contingent that the other expo stops cannot match. Banking, insurance, legal, accounting, and advisory firms show up in force because New York’s small business community is enormous and deeply connected to institutional infrastructure. The vendor mix reflects that reality. You will find solutions at this expo that do not appear at the Dallas or Chicago stops.
For operators based in or building toward the Northeast market, this event is a standing obligation. The cost of not being in the room compounds over time.
What’s Happening
The full Small Business Expo format runs at maximum capacity here. Hundreds of exhibitors on the main floor. Multiple workshop stages running simultaneously on topics spanning digital marketing strategy, business credit and financing, sales systems, legal structuring, and operational frameworks. Speed networking sessions throughout the day. A dedicated seminar track featuring practitioners who have built real businesses and are sharing real playbooks.
The volume at the New York stop means you need a plan before you arrive. Walk in without one and you will spend three hours circling a floor that has genuine value buried in it but will not surface that value without intentional navigation. Walk in with a short list of vendor categories to evaluate, specific sessions to attend, and a networking objective, and the day delivers.
Who’s There
Small and medium-sized business owners from across the New York metropolitan area and the broader Northeast. Franchise developers and multi-unit operators. Financial services professionals. Digital agency owners and marketing consultants. Technology vendors serving the SMB market. Real estate operators and investors at the smaller end of the deal spectrum. Early-stage founders using the expo to test market positioning and gather competitive intelligence.
Industries in Play
Financial services, professional services, digital marketing, e-commerce, retail, real estate, food and hospitality, health and wellness, technology services, legal and accounting, staffing and HR, and franchise development. New York’s breadth means the industry mix here outpaces every other expo stop on the national circuit.
Who Benefits Most
Operators in the 1 to 200 employee range who need vendor solutions, partnership conversations, and peer calibration in a single day. Sales professionals and account executives targeting the SMB segment in the Northeast. Service providers and consultants expanding their client base in a market with enormous demand. Founders seeking traction conversations rather than theoretical ones.
Hustler’s Library Private Mixer
Hustler’s Library will host a private mixer in New York City during the Small Business Expo. The room will be curated and attendance will be limited. This is not a cocktail hour. It is a structured opportunity for operators who want to build relationships with intention.
To request an invitation and receive details, contact Hustler’s Library directly.
Final Thoughts
The Small Business Expo New York is the most important stop on the national tour. It is not the most selective event on the 2026 business calendar. It is accessible by design. That accessibility is its power. The volume of qualified operators in the room on this single day creates a concentration of practical, deployable opportunity that most events three times the cost cannot match.
Go with a plan. Execute the plan. Follow up before the week ends. That formula turns one day at Javits into ninety days of momentum. Check the full Hustler’s Library events calendar for other key 2026 dates.

Google I/O 2026
2026-05-19 - 2026-05-20 | Shoreline Amphitheatre, 1 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, 94043, United States
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Estimated Dates: May 19–20, 2026 (dates subject to confirmation)
Location: Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA
Google I/O is not a product announcement event. It is a strategic briefing from the most powerful technology infrastructure company in the world. When Google takes the stage at the Shoreline Amphitheatre and outlines its developer roadmap for the next twelve months, it is effectively signaling where the most important technical and commercial opportunities will cluster. Founders, developers, and operators who understand how to read these signals position themselves ahead of the market. Those who watch the keynote replay in July do not.
Hustler’s Library treats Google I/O as a mandatory calendar item for any founder or operator whose business touches search, AI, mobile, cloud infrastructure, or developer tools. That list covers most businesses in 2026.
Note: 2026 dates are estimated based on historical scheduling. Confirm at io.google.
Why It Matters
Google’s 2026 I/O arrives at a moment when the company is executing the most significant product transformation in its history. Gemini, the AI model family, is now embedded across the entire Google product stack: Search, Workspace, Android, Chrome, and Cloud. The decisions Google announces at I/O 2026 will directly affect the SEO landscape, the Android developer ecosystem, the enterprise cloud competitive dynamics, and the broader trajectory of AI-integrated consumer products.
For business operators, the most important signals at Google I/O are not always the biggest announcements. They are the quieter reveals about API access, developer platform changes, and search algorithm evolution. A thirty-second update in a developer session can represent a twelve-month strategic shift for businesses running on Google’s infrastructure. You need to be in the room, or closely connected to people who are, to extract that intelligence in real time.
In 2026, the intersection of AI and Google’s ad platform, search ranking systems, and enterprise cloud products represents the highest-density zone of business-critical information being released anywhere in the technology calendar. I/O is where that information surfaces first.
What’s Happening
The Google I/O keynote opens the event and covers the company’s flagship announcements across AI, Android, and developer platforms. This is the signal-dense session. Following the keynote, the conference expands into hundreds of technical sessions covering Android development, Google Cloud architecture, Firebase, Google Workspace APIs, and the expanding Gemini ecosystem.
For non-developers, the keynote and the product-focused sessions are where business intelligence is captured. For technical founders and engineering leaders, the deep-dive sessions represent an irreplaceable opportunity to understand how Google’s infrastructure is evolving and how to build more durably on top of it.
The Shoreline Amphitheatre setting creates a uniquely open format. Much of the networking and hallway conversation happens outdoors in the Mountain View sunshine, which strips away the formality of conventional conference environments and creates a conversational pace that is genuinely productive.
Who’s There
Google engineers and product managers. Android developers and mobile application founders. Google Cloud customers and enterprise architects. AI and machine learning practitioners. Startup founders building on Google’s developer platforms. Marketers and SEO professionals tracking search evolution. Technology journalists and analysts. Investors monitoring Google’s competitive positioning.
Industries in Play
Artificial intelligence and machine learning, mobile application development, enterprise cloud infrastructure, digital advertising, search and content marketing, developer tools, consumer technology, healthcare and education technology, and enterprise productivity software. The full breadth of Google’s product portfolio means the industry representation at I/O is uniquely wide.
Who Benefits Most
Technical founders and CTOs making infrastructure decisions. Marketing leaders navigating search algorithm evolution and AI-driven content systems. Android-focused product teams. Startup founders building on Google Cloud, Firebase, or integrating Gemini APIs. Business operators who need direct intelligence on how Google’s AI integration is reshaping the competitive landscape of their market.
Consumer product leaders and enterprise software architects gain disproportionate value here because Google’s announcements directly constrain or create their competitive environment. Being in the room when those constraints are announced gives you a timing advantage that cannot be replicated from a recap blog.
Hustler’s Library Private Mixer
Hustler’s Library will host a private mixer in the Mountain View and San Francisco Bay Area during Google I/O 2026. The gathering is intended for founders and operators building AI-native products and businesses who want to exchange signal in a focused environment.
Attendance is limited. To request consideration and receive details, contact Hustler’s Library directly.
Final Thoughts
Google I/O 2026 is a strategic intelligence event dressed as a developer conference. The product announcements matter. The developer sessions matter. But the highest-order value is the calibration it provides on where Google is taking its infrastructure and what that means for the businesses built on top of it.
For founders operating in AI, search, mobile, or cloud, this event is not optional. The information released here shapes the competitive landscape for the following twelve months. Be in the room when it happens. Review the Hustler’s Library events calendar for other critical dates in 2026.

London Tech Week 2026
2026-06-08 - 2026-06-12 | Olympia London, Hammersmith Rd W14 8UX, London, W14 8UX, United Kingdom
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June 8 – June 12, 2026London, United Kingdom
Expo & Content Stages: June 8–10 — Olympia LondonFringe Event Programme: June 8–12 — Across London
London Tech Week is not Europe’s version of CES. It plays a different role in the global ecosystem.
Where CES often signals technological direction at the infrastructure level, London Tech Week reveals how Europe intends to fund, regulate, and scale that technology within a global capital framework. London is not simply the host city; it is the connective tissue between American venture capital, European regulation, Middle Eastern sovereign wealth, and Asian growth markets. When those forces converge in one week, it becomes more than a conference. It becomes a strategic checkpoint.
Hustler’s Library recognizes London Tech Week 2026 as one of the most important expansion and capital-alignment events on the European calendar for founders and operators thinking beyond domestic markets.
Why London Tech Week 2026 Carries Weight
London Tech Week has matured. It is no longer framed around startup spectacle or early-stage noise. It now operates as a European operating system for innovation, where artificial intelligence deployment, enterprise infrastructure modernization, fintech architecture, climate systems, digital health, and cybersecurity are discussed not as trends but as infrastructure priorities.
What makes London different is its regulatory gravity. Companies do not just launch products here. They test compliance models, build banking relationships, establish regional headquarters, and shape expansion strategy across the EU and beyond. Conversations inside these rooms are rarely about hype. They are about market access and durability.
For leaders navigating cross-border capital and enterprise scale, London Tech Week functions as a live briefing on where Europe intends to compete in the AI era.
Centralized Stage, Distributed Influence
The core programming at Olympia London from June 8–10 provides the visibility engine. Main stages, curated meeting rooms, enterprise showcases, and investor spaces create the structured environment where narrative is shaped and positioning is established.
But London Tech Week extends beyond Olympia. From June 8–12, the city itself becomes the venue. Private investor dinners unfold in Mayfair. Embassy receptions and trade delegation gatherings activate diplomatic corridors. AI salons, founder-only sessions, and sector-specific roundtables fill boardrooms across the city.
The main stage creates awareness. The fringe ecosystem creates leverage.
Serious operators understand that the week’s most valuable outcomes are rarely found in public keynotes. They are built in smaller rooms, often off the record.
The Industries in Play
London Tech Week brings together leaders across artificial intelligence, fintech and digital banking, enterprise SaaS, climate and sustainability systems, digital health, cybersecurity, quantum research, infrastructure, and growth equity.
The density matters. When venture partners, enterprise CIOs, regulators, and founders circulate within the same ecosystem, cross-sector collisions occur naturally. Those collisions often become partnerships that would not emerge in siloed environments.
London’s strength is not volume. It is integration.
Leadership and Capital Presence
London Tech Week consistently attracts a mix of venture capital partners, enterprise executives, growth-stage founders, and institutional investors. Past and recent contributors have included leaders from Amadeus Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Perplexity, ElevenLabs, Lovable, Isomorphic Labs, Airwallex, and Accenture UK & Ireland.
This blend signals something important. London Tech Week sits at the intersection of venture velocity and enterprise durability. It is one of the few European environments where founders scaling AI platforms, banks deploying infrastructure, and regulators shaping compliance frameworks can be found circulating in proximity.
Major global companies historically represented include Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Accenture, HSBC Innovation Banking, HubSpot, and AVEVA. Government participation reinforces London’s regulatory and trade positioning within Europe’s post-Brexit landscape.
Few events in Europe integrate policy, capital, and enterprise infrastructure at this level.
Who Benefits Most
London Tech Week rewards preparation. Founders raising Series A or later, companies entering UK or EU markets, enterprise operators seeking expansion partners, and investors sourcing cross-border opportunities are positioned to extract the most value.
It is less forgiving for those attending without defined objectives. This week does not convert on accidental networking. It converts on deliberate positioning.
Hustler’s Library at London Tech Week 2026
Hustler’s Library will be officially attending London Tech Week 2026 as part of our global business and technology coverage strategy.
London remains one of the most important nodes in the international capital and regulatory network. For us, this week represents an opportunity to observe how venture appetite, enterprise execution, and public policy align in real time.
We will also release a dedicated London Tech Week Networking Guide designed to help founders and operators navigate investor mapping, fringe strategy, enterprise outreach, and high-signal positioning. The goal is efficiency, not noise.
The Hustler’s Library London Tech Week Private Mixer
During London Tech Week 2026, Hustler’s Library will host a private founder and investor mixer in London.
This is not an open RSVP gathering. It is a curated room for growth-stage founders, enterprise expansion operators, venture and growth equity investors, AI and fintech leadership, and cross-border deal architects.
Attendance will be limited to preserve signal quality.
To request an invitation and receive location details, contact Hustler’s Library directly.
Final Thoughts
London Tech Week 2026 is not about product launches or headline announcements. It is about capital alignment, regulatory navigation, enterprise integration, and Europe’s positioning in the next decade of artificial intelligence and infrastructure buildout.
For founders and operators building beyond local markets, London Tech Week represents a strategic week in London where scale is engineered rather than advertised.
Paired with Hustler’s Library’s private mixer and networking guide, it becomes more than a conference. It becomes leverage.
Hustler’s Library will continue covering and attending the world’s most consequential business and technology gatherings—where capital is deployed, infrastructure is funded, and the next phase of growth is quietly designed.

VentureBeat Transform 2026
2026-06-09 - 2026-06-10 | The Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery St, San Francisco, 94105, United States
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Estimated Dates: June 9–10, 2026 (dates subject to confirmation)
Location: San Francisco, CA
VentureBeat Transform is not an AI hype event. It is an enterprise AI deployment conference. The distinction matters enormously. Where most AI conferences in 2026 are still debating the potential of artificial intelligence, Transform operates from the assumption that the potential is settled. The conversation at this event is about execution: how to deploy AI at scale inside large organizations, how to measure ROI, how to manage risk and governance, and how to build the internal capabilities required for sustainable AI adoption.
Hustler’s Library tracks Transform as one of the clearest windows into how enterprise decision-makers are actually thinking about AI adoption, not how they want to be perceived as thinking about it. The candor at this event is unusually high for a corporate audience.
Note: 2026 dates are estimated based on historical scheduling. Confirm at vbtransform.com.
Why It Matters
The gap between AI ambition and AI deployment at the enterprise level remains wide. Most large organizations have announced AI strategies. Far fewer have achieved the operational integration required to generate measurable business outcomes from those strategies. VentureBeat Transform is where the organizations that have crossed that gap share what they learned. That information is worth more than any AI whitepaper published in 2026.
For founders building AI products and platforms for enterprise customers, this event is a direct feed into the buying psychology and deployment criteria of your target market. The case studies presented here reveal what enterprise AI buyers actually value, what blocks adoption, and what separates the vendors who close from those who never move past the pilot.
The editorial standards VentureBeat applies to speaker curation also matter. Speakers at Transform are typically practitioners, not theorists. They are running AI programs at scale and reporting actual results. That signal quality is rare.
What’s Happening
Two days of programming focused on enterprise AI strategy, deployment architecture, and organizational transformation. Main stage keynotes feature AI leaders from major corporations discussing real implementation experiences. Breakout tracks cover specific domains including AI governance and ethics frameworks, generative AI in enterprise workflows, AI-driven customer experience, data infrastructure for AI readiness, and the build-versus-buy calculus that enterprise teams are navigating now.
The roundtable and workshop format that characterizes Transform’s programming means the conversations go deeper than typical conference panels. The format is designed to produce working frameworks, not memorable quotes. That orientation is what distinguishes this event from the larger AI conference circuit.
Who’s There
Chief Information Officers and Chief Technology Officers from mid-market and enterprise organizations. Data science and AI/ML leaders inside large companies. Enterprise AI vendors and platform providers. Venture investors with enterprise AI portfolios. Management consultants advising on digital transformation. Founders building AI tools for enterprise workflows. Analysts covering the enterprise AI market.
Industries in Play
Enterprise software, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, logistics and supply chain, telecommunications, media and publishing, government and defense contractors, and professional services. The unifying theme is scale: these are organizations deploying AI across tens of thousands of employees and billions of dollars in operational infrastructure.
Who Benefits Most
Founders selling AI products to enterprise customers who need direct intelligence on what large organizations are buying, blocking, and prioritizing in 2026. Enterprise technology leaders evaluating their AI roadmap and seeking peer validation. Investors assessing the enterprise AI market’s maturation curve. Consultants and advisors who need to stay ahead of where enterprise deployment is moving.
This is not the right event for consumer AI founders or early-stage teams without enterprise traction. Transform rewards participants who can engage at the deployment level of the conversation. Come with enterprise-grade questions and the value compounds quickly.
Hustler’s Library Private Mixer
Hustler’s Library will host a private mixer in San Francisco during VentureBeat Transform 2026. The gathering is designed for enterprise AI founders, operators, and investors who want a focused conversation environment separate from the main conference programming.
Attendance is limited. To request consideration and receive details, contact Hustler’s Library directly.
Final Thoughts
VentureBeat Transform 2026 is a practitioner’s event at a practitioner’s moment. Enterprise AI is moving from strategy document to operational infrastructure. The case studies, frameworks, and relationships built at this conference over the next two days will influence how billions of dollars in AI investment are deployed over the following twelve months.
For anyone selling to, building for, or investing in the enterprise AI market, this is a room worth being in. See the full Hustler’s Library events calendar for other 2026 opportunities.

Small Business Expo – Chicago 2026
2026-06-18 | Marriott Marquis Chicago, 2121 S Prairie Ave, Chicago, 60616, United States
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Estimated Date: June 18, 2026 (dates subject to confirmation)
Location: Chicago, IL
The Small Business Expo Chicago is the Midwest’s most concentrated single-day business growth event. Chicago is not a secondary market. It is the operational capital of the American interior: a city where financial infrastructure, logistics networks, manufacturing relationships, and professional services are deeply embedded across every industry sector. When the Small Business Expo lands here, the room reflects that commercial gravity. These are operators with real businesses, real problems, and real budgets.
Hustler’s Library tracks Chicago as one of the highest-value stops on the Small Business Expo national circuit. The Midwest entrepreneurial ecosystem is underreported and underestimated. The operators in this room are frequently more revenue-grounded than their coastal counterparts and more aggressively focused on margin and efficiency rather than narrative and fundraising optics.
Note: 2026 dates are estimated based on historical scheduling. Confirm at thesmallbusinessexpo.com.
Why It Matters
Chicago’s business community spans manufacturing, food distribution, logistics, financial services, healthcare, professional services, and a growing technology sector that does not get the attention it deserves. The Small Business Expo arriving in Chicago creates a room where all of those sectors intersect in a format designed for fast, direct conversation. The result is a networking and vendor floor that has fewer pretenders and more practitioners than you will find at most coastal events of comparable size.
For service providers and vendors looking to penetrate the Midwest market, this is the most efficient single-day access point available. For business owners in the region, it is a chance to evaluate solutions and build relationships without traveling to New York or San Francisco to find a comparable density of qualified vendors and operators in one place.
What’s Happening
Full Small Business Expo format: exhibition floor, workshop stage, and speed networking. The workshops at the Chicago stop consistently reflect Midwestern business realities: sales cycle management in relationship-driven industries, scaling regional service businesses, operations and staffing, and financial planning for businesses in capital-intensive sectors. The exhibition floor brings together technology vendors, financial services providers, marketing agencies, and operational infrastructure companies all targeting the Midwest SMB market.
Speed networking is particularly productive at the Chicago stop because the attendee pool tends toward established operators rather than early-stage explorers. The conversations are faster and more direct because both parties typically know what they are looking for.
Who’s There
Small and medium-sized business owners from the Chicago metro and broader Midwest region. Regional franchise operators and multi-location service businesses. Financial services and insurance professionals. Manufacturing and distribution company owners. Healthcare and professional services operators. Technology service providers targeting the Midwest market. Regional investors and commercial lenders.
Industries in Play
Manufacturing, logistics and distribution, financial services, healthcare services, professional services, food and hospitality, retail, real estate, technology services, construction and trades, and franchise development. Chicago’s industrial and commercial depth means the sector mix here reflects the full breadth of the American SMB economy.
Who Benefits Most
Vendors and service providers with solutions relevant to manufacturing, logistics, professional services, and healthcare: industries that are heavily represented in the Chicago SMB ecosystem and often underserved by technology and service providers focused exclusively on coastal markets. Regional business owners who want peer calibration against operators facing similar market conditions. Franchise developers targeting Midwest expansion.
Hustler’s Library Private Mixer
Hustler’s Library will host a private mixer in Chicago during the Small Business Expo. The room is curated for growth-focused operators, regional investors, and business builders who want structured relationship-building in a focused environment.
Attendance is limited. To request consideration and receive details, contact Hustler’s Library directly.
Final Thoughts
The Small Business Expo Chicago is the best single-day access point to the Midwest SMB ecosystem on the 2026 calendar. The operators in this room are building real businesses with real revenue in markets that do not get the coverage they deserve. For vendors, partners, and operators looking to expand into the American interior, this is where that expansion begins.
One day, a clear objective, and deliberate follow-up. That formula works here as well as anywhere. View the Hustler’s Library events calendar for additional stops on the national circuit this year.

AI Summit New York 2026
2026-06-23 - 2026-06-24 | Javits Center, 429 11th Ave, New York, 10001, United States
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Estimated Dates: June 23–24, 2026 (dates subject to confirmation)
Location: Javits Center, New York, NY
The AI Summit New York is not an academic conference about artificial intelligence. It is a commercial intelligence event about AI deployment at enterprise scale. The distinction separates it from the majority of AI gatherings that proliferated as the technology captured public attention. Where those events debate AI’s potential, the AI Summit New York operates from the premise that deployment is already happening and focuses its energy on the quality of that deployment: how it is governed, how it generates returns, and how it is integrated into the operational architecture of real organizations.
New York’s financial and enterprise services gravity concentrates a specific type of AI buyer in this room. These are not early adopters chasing novelty. These are decision-makers with large budgets, regulatory constraints, and an obligation to demonstrate measurable ROI. The conversations that result are more rigorous than those at almost any other AI event on the 2026 calendar.
Note: 2026 dates are estimated based on historical scheduling. Confirm at theaisummit.com/newyork.
Why It Matters
New York’s enterprise AI market is enormous and distinctive. Financial services, media, healthcare, professional services, and retail all have major operational presence in the city and are all in active AI deployment cycles. The AI Summit New York brings together the decision-makers from these sectors in a format designed for structured business conversation rather than spectacle.
For founders building AI products for enterprise markets, this event is a direct intelligence pipeline into the buying process of the most demanding AI customers in the world. The objections raised in panel discussions here reflect the real procurement hurdles. The case studies presented here reveal what implementation actually looks like under enterprise constraints. That intelligence is irreplaceable.
In 2026, the AI Summit New York also carries the weight of a market at a consolidation inflection point. The proliferation of AI tools from 2023 to 2025 is giving way to enterprise rationalization. Buyers are reducing vendor complexity and concentrating spend on platforms that demonstrate governance, security, and integration capability. The conversations here will reflect that consolidation dynamic in real time.
What’s Happening
Two days of enterprise-grade AI programming. Main stage content covers AI strategy, governance frameworks, responsible deployment, and competitive positioning in an AI-integrated market. Track sessions go deep on AI in financial services, healthcare AI, generative AI for enterprise workflows, AI security and compliance, and the data infrastructure required for AI readiness at scale.
The exhibition floor features the AI vendor ecosystem serving enterprise markets: platform providers, data management companies, AI security specialists, workflow automation tools, and implementation consultants. The concentration of enterprise-grade vendors on one floor is one of the event’s most practical outputs.
Who’s There
Chief AI Officers, Chief Data Officers, and technology executives from Fortune 500 and mid-market enterprises. Financial services technology leaders from major banks, asset managers, and insurance companies. AI product companies selling to enterprise customers. Venture investors with enterprise AI portfolios. Management consultants and systems integrators serving the enterprise AI market. Regulatory and compliance professionals navigating AI governance frameworks.
Industries in Play
Financial services, healthcare, professional services, media and publishing, retail and consumer, logistics and supply chain, real estate, legal services, and government-adjacent technology. New York’s role as the financial capital of the world ensures that fintech and enterprise financial services AI represent the dominant sector, but the cross-industry breadth is genuine.
Who Benefits Most
Enterprise AI vendors seeking customer intelligence and pipeline development in the New York financial and corporate market. Technology executives benchmarking their AI strategy against peer organizations. Founders building AI governance, security, or compliance tools targeting enterprise buyers. Investors mapping the enterprise AI landscape for deployment-stage companies rather than research-stage bets.
Hustler’s Library Private Mixer
Hustler’s Library will host a private mixer in New York during the AI Summit. The gathering is curated for AI founders, enterprise technology leaders, and investors who want a focused, high-quality conversation environment separate from the main conference programming.
Attendance is limited. To request consideration and receive details, contact Hustler’s Library directly.
Final Thoughts
The AI Summit New York 2026 is where enterprise AI moves from strategy to accountability. The organizations in this room have moved past the exploration phase. They are measuring, governing, and scaling AI deployments. The conversations here are the most commercially grounded in the AI conference calendar.
For anyone selling to, investing in, or building for the enterprise AI market, this event deserves a spot on the June calendar. See the full Hustler’s Library events calendar for other key 2026 gatherings.

TECHSPO Los Angeles 2026
2026-07-20 - 2026-07-21 | InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, 900 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, 90017, United States
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Estimated Dates: July 20–21, 2026 (dates subject to confirmation)
Location: InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, Los Angeles, CA
TECHSPO Los Angeles is not a spectator sport. It is a two-day working environment for technology buyers, builders, and operators who need direct access to the companies shaping the next generation of digital infrastructure. The format is deliberately compact: focused exhibition floor, targeted networking programming, and a speaking agenda designed for practitioners rather than keynote celebrities.
Los Angeles brings a specific business DNA to the event. The intersection of entertainment, media, creator economy, e-commerce, and emerging technology that defines the LA market creates an attendee and exhibitor mix that differs meaningfully from what you find at comparable events in San Francisco or New York. TECHSPO LA is where technology meets creative industry infrastructure in a concentrated, workable format.
Note: 2026 dates are estimated based on historical scheduling. Confirm at techspo.co/los-angeles.
Why It Matters
Los Angeles is one of the most important and least fully mapped entrepreneurial ecosystems in the United States. The city has produced an extraordinary concentration of e-commerce brands, creator-economy infrastructure companies, digital media platforms, and direct-to-consumer businesses that collectively represent an enormous market for technology vendors and business services.
TECHSPO provides direct access to this ecosystem in a two-day format that strips away the noise of larger trade shows. The exhibitors at TECHSPO are not window dressing. They are technology and service companies with solutions ready to deploy for the LA market’s specific business types. For founders and operators in LA’s core industries, this is the most efficient technology discovery and vendor evaluation event on the local calendar.
What’s Happening
Two days of technology exhibition and networking. The exhibition floor features companies across internet technology, mobile solutions, marketing automation, AI applications, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and digital commerce tools. Speaking sessions cover applied technology strategy for business growth, digital transformation implementation, and emerging platform opportunities.
The networking format at TECHSPO is structured to maximize direct buyer-vendor interaction. The event is sized to allow genuine conversations rather than the crowd navigation that characterizes larger expos. Attendees typically report a higher ratio of useful interactions per hour than at events three times the size.
Who’s There
Technology company founders and sales leaders targeting the Los Angeles and Southern California market. Digital marketing agencies and e-commerce operators. Media and entertainment technology professionals. Creator economy platform builders and influencer infrastructure companies. Retail and direct-to-consumer brand operators evaluating technology solutions. Investors and accelerators active in the LA tech ecosystem.
Industries in Play
Digital marketing technology, e-commerce infrastructure, creator economy platforms, media and entertainment technology, mobile applications, AI and automation tools, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, retail technology, and health and wellness applications. The LA market’s emphasis on consumer-facing brands and creator-driven commerce shapes the technology categories most prominently represented.
Who Benefits Most
Technology vendors seeking penetration in the Los Angeles and Southern California market. E-commerce and direct-to-consumer operators evaluating digital infrastructure upgrades. Digital agency founders and marketing technology buyers. Founders in the creator economy infrastructure space looking to build relationships with platforms and brands. Early-stage LA-based technology companies seeking market visibility and customer conversations.
Hustler’s Library Private Mixer
Hustler’s Library will host a private mixer in Los Angeles during TECHSPO LA 2026. The gathering is designed for founders and operators in the Southern California technology and creator economy ecosystem who want a focused networking environment.
Attendance is limited. To request consideration and receive details, contact Hustler’s Library directly.
Final Thoughts
TECHSPO Los Angeles is a high-signal, low-noise technology event at the right time of year for the LA market. The combination of focused exhibition format, practitioner-led programming, and the unique business DNA of Los Angeles creates an environment where real decisions get made and real relationships get built in a compressed timeframe.
For technology buyers and vendors operating in Southern California, this event deserves a place on the 2026 calendar. See the full Hustler’s Library events schedule for other 2026 opportunities.

Dreamforce 2026
2026-09-15 - 2026-09-18 | Moscone Center, 747 Howard St, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
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Estimated Dates: September 15–18, 2026 (dates subject to confirmation)
Location: Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
Dreamforce is not a technology conference. It is the largest privately organized annual business event in the world. When Salesforce takes over Moscone Center and the surrounding blocks of San Francisco for four days every September, it is executing something closer to a city-within-a-city than a conventional convention. The scale alone is staggering: hundreds of thousands of registered attendees, thousands of sessions, dozens of partner activation spaces, and a social infrastructure that transforms entire neighborhoods into an extended conference campus.
Hustler’s Library frames Dreamforce as a mandatory calendar item for any founder, executive, or operator whose business involves enterprise sales, CRM, marketing automation, or Salesforce’s expanding AI ecosystem. The event rewards preparation more than almost any other conference in the world. Come with no plan and you will spend four days in the most expensive crowd on earth. Come with a tight agenda and you will extract more value per day than nearly any other event can offer.
Note: 2026 dates are estimated based on historical scheduling. Confirm at salesforce.com/dreamforce.
Why It Matters
Salesforce’s position in the enterprise software stack is singular. The company’s CRM and platform products sit at the center of sales operations, customer data management, and increasingly AI-driven business workflows for hundreds of thousands of organizations globally. Dreamforce is where Salesforce announces the roadmap that will govern those organizations’ technology investments for the next twelve to eighteen months.
In 2026, Agentforce, Salesforce’s AI agent platform, is the central narrative. The announcements made at Dreamforce 2026 will define how Salesforce customers integrate AI into their sales, service, and marketing operations. For the hundreds of thousands of businesses built on Salesforce’s platform, this information is operationally critical. For founders building products that integrate with or compete against Salesforce’s expanding AI capabilities, the intelligence from this week is irreplaceable.
Beyond the product roadmap, Dreamforce functions as the annual gathering of the world’s largest enterprise software community. The Salesforce ecosystem is a multi-hundred-billion-dollar market. The relationships built at Dreamforce compound for careers, not just quarters.
What’s Happening
Four days of programming at unprecedented scale. The main keynote sets the Salesforce strategic agenda for the coming year: product launches, partnership announcements, and the platform evolution roadmap. Thousands of breakout sessions cover every functional area of the Salesforce platform across every industry vertical. Trailhead programming provides hands-on learning for administrators and developers. The partner ecosystem activates across sponsor spaces, off-site events, and branded experiences across the city.
The side event ecosystem at Dreamforce is as important as the official programming. Partner-hosted events, industry-specific dinners, and invitation-only gatherings create networking density that extends well beyond the Moscone campus. Some of the most valuable Dreamforce moments happen three blocks away from the convention center at a dinner table with twelve people.
Who’s There
Salesforce customers from small business to global enterprise. Salesforce administrators and developers. CRM and revenue operations leaders. Enterprise sales executives and RevOps practitioners. Salesforce consulting partners and implementation specialists. Technology vendors with Salesforce integrations. Investors and analysts covering the enterprise software market. Salesforce’s entire executive leadership team and product organization.
Industries in Play
Financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, technology, professional services, media, telecommunications, real estate, and government. Dreamforce’s industry cloud strategy means every major sector has a dedicated presence. The cross-industry density is unique: where else can you sit next to a healthcare CIO at lunch and share a session with a retail VP of Sales in the afternoon?
Who Benefits Most
Salesforce customers seeking product education, peer benchmarking, and relationship development within the ecosystem. Technology companies with Salesforce integrations looking to strengthen partner relationships and build pipeline. Founders and enterprise technology leaders navigating the AI-augmented CRM landscape. Investors and analysts tracking the Salesforce ecosystem’s evolution. Sales and RevOps professionals investing in their professional development and network.
Hustler’s Library Private Mixer
Hustler’s Library will host a private mixer in San Francisco during Dreamforce 2026. The gathering is designed for founders, enterprise operators, and technology investors who want a curated conversation environment away from the main event’s scale.
Attendance is limited. To request consideration and receive details, contact Hustler’s Library directly.
Final Thoughts
Dreamforce 2026 arrives at a moment when Salesforce is executing the most significant platform transformation in the company’s history. The AI agenda is not supplemental. It is central. The announcements made in San Francisco this September will ripple across the enterprise software market for the next two years.
For anyone inside the Salesforce ecosystem or selling to organizations that are, Dreamforce is not optional. Plan it early, structure your agenda tightly, and invest in the side event ecosystem as seriously as the main programming. See the Hustler’s Library events calendar for other key fall 2026 events.

Forbes Under 30 Summit 2026
2026-10-04 - 2026-10-07 | TBD – Detroit, MI (historically hosted), 1 Washington Blvd, Detroit, 48226, United States
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Estimated Dates: October 4–7, 2026 (dates and location subject to confirmation)
Location: To Be Confirmed – check forbes.com/under30/summit
The Forbes Under 30 Summit is not a young person’s conference. It is a network activation event for the next generation of capital, power, and decision-making. The Under 30 list is a branding vehicle. The Summit is where that brand becomes relationships. Four days of programming, side events, curated dinners, and off-schedule conversations that produce the kind of long-term network compounding that takes a decade to fully appreciate.
Hustler’s Library has observed the Forbes Under 30 Summit across multiple years. The honest assessment: the programming is solid, but the programming is not the point. The point is the room. Few events in the world gather the density of ambitious, capital-connected, high-velocity operators under forty that this summit produces. The relationships built here will be relevant long after the panelists’ talking points are forgotten.
Note: 2026 dates and location are estimated. The Summit has historically rotated locations. Confirm at forbes.com/under30/summit.
Why It Matters
The Forbes Under 30 brand carries weight that extends beyond the conference itself. Being associated with this ecosystem signals positioning within an aspirational and high-visibility network. More practically, the attendee pool at the Under 30 Summit includes a concentration of founders at critical inflection points in their trajectory. Pre-IPO, pre-acquisition, post-Series B, actively fundraising, or building the kinds of category-defining companies that will define the next decade of business.
The Summit also serves a function that most entrepreneurship events avoid: it connects ambition to legacy. The conversations here are not purely tactical. They are about what you are building and why. That orientation changes the quality of relationships formed. People remember the conversations from the Under 30 Summit because they were about something beyond the next quarter.
In 2026, the Summit arrives at a moment when the first generation of AI-native founders is beginning to generate the kind of results that validate their approaches. Expect those founders to dominate the programming and the conversation.
What’s Happening
Four days of programming spanning main stage keynotes, intimate breakout sessions, mentor-matching experiences, and structured social events designed to create the conditions for relationship formation at scale. Forbes curates the content to be aspirational and practical simultaneously: real founders sharing real stories about money raised, mistakes made, and markets entered.
The side event ecosystem around the official programming is equally important. Unofficial dinners, invite-only parties, and brand activations extend the network activation surface beyond the conference footprint. The most valuable conversations of the week often happen in these peripheral environments.
Who’s There
Forbes Under 30 listmakers from current and recent classes. Early to growth-stage founders in technology, media, finance, consumer, and social impact. Venture capital associates and junior partners building their deal networks. Brand sponsors and enterprise partners activating against the youth market. Journalists, media personalities, and cultural figures who intersect with the business world. Established operators mentoring and investing in the next generation.
Industries in Play
Technology, media and entertainment, consumer products, financial technology, healthcare innovation, climate and sustainability, social enterprise, fashion and retail, sports and gaming, and AI-native applications. The Forbes Under 30 list spans sectors deliberately, and the Summit reflects that breadth. Cross-industry collision is designed into the format.
Who Benefits Most
Founders between the ages of 22 and 38 who are at or approaching an inflection point in their business trajectory and understand that network quality is a compounding asset. Investors building relationships with the next generation of founders before those founders have a track record that makes them expensive to know. Brand operators looking to build authentic associations with high-velocity young entrepreneurs before those associations become transactional.
This event rewards people who invest in relationships generously and without immediate expectation of return. It punishes those who arrive looking for quick transactional outcomes. The Under 30 network is long-horizon by design.
Hustler’s Library Private Mixer
Hustler’s Library will host a private mixer during the Forbes Under 30 Summit 2026. The gathering is curated for growth-stage founders and operators who want a focused, high-quality conversation environment separate from the main Summit’s scale.
Attendance is limited. To request consideration and receive details, contact Hustler’s Library directly.
Final Thoughts
The Forbes Under 30 Summit is a long-game event in a short-game world. The relationships formed here do not typically generate immediate ROI. They generate compounding network effects that manifest over years and decades. For ambitious operators who understand that time horizon, it is one of the most valuable four days available on the annual calendar.
Show up curious. Invest in people generously. Leave with a short list of relationships worth nurturing. That approach will outperform any tactical agenda. Check the Hustler’s Library events calendar for other key events this fall.

Money 20/20 USA 2026
2026-10-25 - 2026-10-28 | The Venetian Expo, 201 Sands Ave, Las Vegas, 89169, United States
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Estimated Dates: October 25–28, 2026 (dates subject to confirmation)
Location: The Venetian Expo, Las Vegas, NV
Money 20/20 USA is the most important gathering in the financial technology industry. This is not a debate. The event’s combination of executive density, deal flow concentration, and the sheer breadth of the fintech ecosystem it assembles makes it the defining event for anyone operating at the intersection of technology and money. Four days at the Venetian in Las Vegas produce more deals, partnerships, and strategic relationships in the fintech space than any other four days on the calendar.
Hustler’s Library covers Money 20/20 as an essential strategic intelligence event for founders and operators in fintech, embedded finance, payments, digital banking, and AI-driven financial services. The insights gathered here do not emerge anywhere else at this density or speed.
Note: 2026 dates are estimated based on historical scheduling. Confirm at us.money2020.com.
Why It Matters
The financial technology market is at an inflection point in 2026. The consolidation wave that began in 2023 is accelerating. AI is restructuring the economics of payments processing, lending underwriting, wealth management, and compliance infrastructure. Regulatory frameworks are evolving on multiple continents simultaneously. The competitive landscape is being redrawn at a pace that makes annual intelligence cycles insufficient.
Money 20/20 compresses that intelligence cycle into four days. The executives presenting here are not sharing information that will be available in earnings calls three months later. They are sharing strategic positioning, partnership intent, and product direction in real time. For founders navigating the fintech market and investors allocating capital within it, that timing advantage is the event’s core value proposition.
Las Vegas also creates a social environment that accelerates relationship formation. The informal energy of the city, combined with the focused professional context of the event, produces conversations that would take months to arrange in a normal business setting. The density and informality work together to create relationship velocity that is genuinely unusual.
What’s Happening
Four days of fintech programming at scale. Main stage programming features the CEOs and founders of the world’s most influential fintech companies, traditional financial institution leaders navigating digital transformation, and regulators shaping the legal framework for financial innovation. Track sessions cover payments infrastructure, embedded finance, AI in financial services, digital assets and blockchain, wealth management technology, lending and credit innovation, compliance and RegTech, and financial inclusion.
The exhibition floor is one of the densest concentrations of fintech vendor, startup, and enterprise infrastructure in the world. Meeting rooms book weeks in advance. The deal pipeline generated during Money 20/20 week sustains the fintech industry for the following quarter.
Who’s There
CEOs and C-suite executives of global fintech companies. Traditional bank and financial institution technology leaders. Payments network executives and infrastructure providers. Venture capital and growth equity investors with fintech mandates. Regulatory officials and policy advisors. Startup founders at seed through Series C in financial technology. Enterprise technology companies selling into financial services. Media and research analysts covering the fintech sector.
Industries in Play
Payments and money movement, digital banking and neobanks, embedded finance, AI-driven financial services, lending and credit, wealth management technology, insurance technology, digital assets and blockchain, compliance and risk technology, and open banking infrastructure. The full breadth of financial innovation is present at this event in a way that no other gathering replicates.
Who Benefits Most
Fintech founders at every stage who need direct access to the industry’s decision-makers in an environment where those decision-makers are accessible and oriented toward business conversation. Investors deploying capital in financial technology who need the most concentrated market intelligence available. Traditional financial institutions building technology partnerships and acquisition pipelines. Enterprise technology companies seeking financial services customers. Operators in adjacent industries where embedded finance and AI-driven financial tools are becoming competitive requirements.
Hustler’s Library Private Mixer
Hustler’s Library will host a private mixer in Las Vegas during Money 20/20 USA 2026. The gathering is curated for fintech founders, financial services operators, and technology investors who want a focused conversation environment in a city full of noise.
Attendance is limited. To request consideration and receive details, contact Hustler’s Library directly.
Final Thoughts
Money 20/20 USA 2026 is the fintech industry’s annual operating checkpoint. The market intelligence, relationships, and deal activity concentrated in four days at the Venetian define the direction of financial technology investment and development for the following year. This is not an event you attend for content. You attend for the room. The content is excellent. The room is irreplaceable.
Book early. Prepare a specific list of people to meet and conversations to have. Use every formal and informal session as a relationship activation surface. The ROI on a well-executed Money 20/20 compounds for years. See the Hustler’s Library events calendar for other key fall 2026 events.

Web Summit 2026
2026-11-02 - 2026-11-05 | Altice Arena and FIL – Lisbon International Fair, Rossio dos Olivais, Lisbon, 1990-231, Portugal
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Estimated Dates: November 2–5, 2026 (dates subject to confirmation)
Location: Altice Arena, Lisbon, Portugal
Web Summit is the largest technology conference in the world. That is not marketing language. It is a verifiable claim based on attendance, geographic representation of delegates, and the breadth of the technology ecosystem it assembles annually in Lisbon. Seventy thousand attendees from over 160 countries. Thousands of startups. Hundreds of investors. Governments, enterprise technology leaders, and the full spectrum of the global tech community converging on the Portuguese capital for four days every November.
Hustler’s Library tracks Web Summit as a mandatory annual event for any founder or operator building internationally or seeking to access the European and global technology investment community. The event’s scale creates a counterintuitive intimacy: when everyone in global tech is in the same city for the same week, the access dynamics change. People who are difficult to reach in their home markets become reachable in Lisbon.
Note: 2026 dates are estimated based on historical scheduling. Confirm at websummit.com.
Why It Matters
Web Summit’s geographic diversity is its defining competitive advantage over American tech conferences. European founders navigate different regulatory environments, different capital dynamics, and different market entry considerations than their American counterparts. When those founders and investors are in the same room as American and Asian technology leaders, the resulting conversations cover more ground and carry more genuine strategic texture than anything produced in a domestically homogeneous conference environment.
The ALPHA startup program gives early-stage founders access to a platform that would cost millions to replicate through conventional marketing and PR. The INVESTOR SUMMIT and INVESTOR VILLAGE provide structured access to over 2,000 venture capital and private equity firms in a format designed for efficient capital conversations. For a founder seeking international capital exposure, four days at Web Summit can compress what would otherwise be a twelve-month relationship-building cycle.
In 2026, Web Summit also carries the weight of a technology industry navigating significant structural shifts: AI commoditization, regulatory pressure from the EU AI Act, global supply chain technology transformation, and the capital reallocation that follows a prolonged period of interest rate normalization. The conversations here will be sharper and more consequential than at any comparable event this year.
What’s Happening
Four days of programming across multiple stages at scale. The Main Stage carries the global technology community’s most prominent voices discussing the issues that matter across AI, climate, geopolitics, capital markets, and digital infrastructure. The Night Summit extends the conference into Lisbon’s evening culture, creating social environments where formal conference relationships transition into genuine human connection.
The startup competition and exhibition floor provide visibility infrastructure for thousands of early and growth-stage companies. Track programming covers AI, health technology, climate and sustainability, enterprise technology, fintech, media, and developer tools at conference-leading depth. The structured investor meeting format is one of the most efficient capital access mechanisms available to internationally-focused founders.
Who’s There
Founders and CEOs from startups and scale-ups across every sector and continent. Venture capital and growth equity partners from Europe, the United States, Asia, and the Middle East. Enterprise technology executives from major global corporations. Government ministers and regulatory officials from EU and global institutions. Technology journalists and analysts from international publications. Developers and engineering leaders. Brand partners and corporate innovation teams.
Industries in Play
Artificial intelligence, climate technology, health and biotech, fintech and digital banking, enterprise software, developer tools and infrastructure, media and entertainment technology, mobility and logistics, retail and e-commerce, and deep technology research. Web Summit’s global scope means no single industry dominates. The cross-sector collision is engineered into every aspect of the event design.
Who Benefits Most
Founders building internationally who need direct access to European capital, regulatory intelligence, and cross-border partnership opportunities. Enterprise technology companies seeking international market expansion conversations. Investors building global portfolios who need concentrated exposure to non-American deal flow. Anyone whose business is affected by EU technology regulation, which in 2026 means nearly every technology company operating at scale.
Web Summit also rewards founders who use it as a media moment. The concentration of global technology press in Lisbon during this week creates earned media opportunities that are difficult to replicate in fragmented media environments. A well-told story in front of the right journalist in Lisbon can travel further than a well-funded press release.
Hustler’s Library Private Mixer
Hustler’s Library will host a private mixer in Lisbon during Web Summit 2026. The gathering is curated for growth-stage founders, international operators, and investors building across borders who want a focused, high-signal conversation environment separate from the main event’s scale.
Attendance is limited. To request consideration and receive details, contact Hustler’s Library directly.
Final Thoughts
Web Summit 2026 is the world’s largest technology conference at one of the most pivotal moments in the technology industry’s history. The scale creates access. The global diversity creates perspective. The Lisbon setting creates connection. Four days here, navigated with intention, produces a compounding return in relationships, intelligence, and positioning that few events anywhere in the world can match.
For operators building beyond their home markets, Web Summit is not optional. It is the event where global ambition gets introduced to global infrastructure. See the full Hustler’s Library events calendar for other key international and domestic events in 2026.

Small Business Expo – Houston 2026
2026-11-05 | George R. Brown Convention Center, 1001 Avenida De Las Americas, Houston, 77010, United States
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Estimated Date: November 5, 2026 (dates subject to confirmation)
Location: Houston, TX
The Small Business Expo Houston operates in one of the most dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystems in the United States. Houston is not just an energy city. It is a diversified commercial hub spanning energy technology, healthcare systems, aerospace, logistics, international trade, real estate, and a rapidly growing technology sector that benefits from the city’s combination of low cost of business and access to capital that the coastal markets cannot match on the same terms.
When the Small Business Expo arrives at the George R. Brown Convention Center, it taps into a business community that is entrepreneurially oriented, operationally focused, and deeply networked through the city’s industry associations and chambers of commerce. The result is one of the most practically useful stops on the national expo circuit.
Note: 2026 dates are estimated based on historical scheduling. Confirm at thesmallbusinessexpo.com.
Why It Matters
Houston’s business culture is direct and deal-oriented. The city has produced an extraordinary number of successful entrepreneurs across energy services, healthcare staffing, construction, logistics, and professional services. These are operators who think about revenue and margin first, not narrative. The Small Business Expo Houston reflects that culture. Conversations on this floor get to the point faster than in most markets.
The energy sector’s influence also creates a specific type of SMB owner in Houston: service businesses built around the energy industry’s operational needs, technology companies serving oilfield and energy infrastructure clients, and professional services firms managing the compliance and financial complexity of a capital-intensive sector. Vendors and partners with solutions relevant to these business types find Houston particularly receptive.
Houston’s international trade orientation adds another dimension. The Port of Houston is one of the largest in the country, and the city’s international business community is substantial. Small businesses engaged in import, export, and cross-border trade are a meaningful presence at this expo that you will not find at comparable volume anywhere else on the circuit.
What’s Happening
Full Small Business Expo format across exhibition floor, workshop stage, and speed networking. Houston-specific workshops tend to address energy sector business development, international trade and logistics for small businesses, commercial real estate strategy, and healthcare and professional services growth. The exhibition floor brings together technology vendors, financial services providers, staffing companies, and operational service providers all targeting the Houston SMB market.
Who’s There
Small and medium-sized business owners from across the Houston metro and greater Texas region. Energy services contractors and technology providers. Healthcare services operators and medical practice owners. Construction and real estate operators. Logistics and transportation business owners. International trade professionals. Professional services firms. Regional investors and commercial banking representatives.
Industries in Play
Energy services and technology, healthcare and medical services, construction and real estate, logistics and transportation, professional services, international trade, retail, food and hospitality, financial services, and technology services. The energy sector’s gravitational pull on Houston’s economy ensures its outsized representation, but the commercial diversity of the city produces genuine cross-sector breadth.
Who Benefits Most
Technology and service vendors with solutions relevant to energy services, healthcare, and logistics businesses. Founders seeking traction in the Texas market, which rewards directness and operational credibility above all other signals. Professional services providers building client bases in a market where relationship-driven business development remains the dominant model. Regional franchise operators and multi-location business owners evaluating expansion infrastructure.
Hustler’s Library Private Mixer
Hustler’s Library will host a private mixer in Houston during the Small Business Expo. The gathering is designed for growth-stage operators and business builders in the Texas market who want a curated networking environment focused on substance over spectacle.
Attendance is limited. To request consideration and receive details, contact Hustler’s Library directly.
Final Thoughts
The Small Business Expo Houston is a high-value, low-pretension business event in a city that embodies both of those characteristics. The operators in this room are building real businesses in real markets with real revenue. The conversations are direct. The follow-up converts. For anyone building toward or within the Texas market, this single day in November is worth the calendar commitment.
See the Hustler’s Library events calendar for the other Small Business Expo stops and key business events in 2026.

The Business Show London 2026
2026-11-11 - 2026-11-12 | Excel London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London, E16 1XL, United Kingdom
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Dates: November 11–12, 2026Location: Excel London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London, E16 1XLHours:Day 1: 10:00am – 5:00pmDay 2: 10:00am – 4:00pm
The Business Show returns to Excel London in November 2026 as the world’s largest award-winning business event for SMEs and startups.
With more than 25,000 entrepreneurs expected across two days, this is not a passive conference built on theory. It is a live ecosystem of founders, operators, service providers, and capital — interacting in real time.
Hustler’s Library recognizes The Business Show as one of the UK’s most tactically valuable rooms for founders who are actively building, scaling, and refining their execution strategy.
Why The Business Show London Matters
The Business Show is fundamentally different from venture-heavy innovation conferences.
This is not about early hype cycles.This is about operational growth.
Here, conversations center around:

Improving Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)
Increasing Lifetime Value (LTV)
Building sustainable cash flow
Exploring funding structures
Strengthening competitive advantage
Developing real exit strategy optionality

The show floor becomes a living laboratory of business fundamentals. Vendors compete for attention. Founders negotiate. Partnerships form. Systems get upgraded.
It is practical capitalism in motion.
Sponsors & Brand Authority
The Business Show’s credibility is reinforced by the caliber of brands involved across speakers, partners, and supporting sponsors.
Past and participating brand presence includes:

Google
Adobe
Uber
LinkedIn
Meta
Microsoft
Revolut
TikTok
Dell Technologies
Intel

In addition, strategic content partners and contributors include organizations such as:

BBC StoryWorks
Virgin Media O2
The Big Issue
DAZN

This level of brand alignment matters.
When major infrastructure platforms and enterprise technology providers show up in the same room as SMEs, it signals that small and medium-sized businesses are no longer peripheral to innovation. They are the core engine of it.
Keynote & Speaker Lineup
The Business Show London 2026 features founders, operators, and executives who represent real operational credibility — not theoretical commentary.
Highlighted speakers include:

James Gold – Co-Founder, SkinnyDip
Brian Horsburgh – UK SMB Director, Dell Technologies
Lord John Bird – Founder, Big Issue Magazine
Steve Huntley – Former Director, Virgin Media O2
Sergio Gallo – Director of UX, DAZN Bet
Kam Dovedi – Founder, Premier Property Education
Amber-Rose Badrudin – Founder & Content Creator, OreeMart
James Ryan – Founder, Bacqd
Billy Holliday – Chairman, Bacqd
Dean Franklin – Founder & Winner of The Apprentice 2025

This speaker composition reflects something important:
The event bridges traditional enterprise leadership, media influence, fintech growth, ecommerce execution, and grassroots entrepreneurship.
That intersection is where real competitive advantage is built.
The Energy of Execution
Unlike speculative startup showcases, The Business Show is grounded in real-world friction:

Hiring challenges
Funding bottlenecks
Operational inefficiencies
Marketing ROI pressure
Automation integration
AI implementation

Founders attend not just to be inspired, but to improve systems.
You will see conversations about:

Pricing strategy
Sales pipeline design
Customer retention frameworks
Cash flow forecasting
Strategic planning cycles
Market positioning

In other words, the fundamentals that determine whether a business survives past five years.
Accessibility & Location Advantage
Excel London is strategically positioned in Royal Victoria Dock, just minutes from Canary Wharf.
The venue is supported by:

Three onsite DLR stations
Jubilee Line access via Canning Town
Parking for 3,700 vehicles
London City Airport five minutes away

Ease of access reduces friction.Reduced friction increases quality attendance.
In business, even logistics are leverage.
Hustler’s Library Private Founder Mixer – London
As with CES and other global events we attend, Hustler’s Library will host a private founder and operator mixer during The Business Show London 2026.
This will not be an open RSVP event.And it will not be a mass-networking environment.
The goal is simple:
High-signal conversations among serious builders.
The mixer is curated for:

Revenue-generating founders
Operators scaling teams and infrastructure
Investors and advisors focused on disciplined capital allocation
Strategic partners exploring long-term collaboration

Some of the most important discussions around:

Equity structure
Funding alignment
Long-term exit strategy
Market positioning
Strategic partnerships

happen outside the expo floor.
Attendance will be limited to preserve quality and confidentiality.
Founders and operators interested in receiving private details may contact Hustler’s Library directly.
Where The Business Show Fits in the Global Ecosystem
To contextualize its role:

London Tech Week emphasizes venture capital and macro innovation themes.

CES functions as a global intelligence briefing on infrastructure, manufacturing, and policy.

The Business Show London focuses on operational execution for SMEs and scaling founders.

It is closer to the ground.Closer to revenue.Closer to friction.
And that is precisely why it matters.
Final Thoughts
The Business Show London 2026 is not about spectacle. It is about strengthening the mechanics of business.
For founders serious about improving margins, refining systems, and building durable enterprise value, it is one of the most pragmatic rooms in the UK calendar.
Hustler’s Library will continue covering and attending the world’s most important business environments; where capital, operators, and execution intersect. Because sustainable growth is not about visibility, It is about structure.
And structure wins.

Small Business Expo – Dallas 2026
2026-11-12 | Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, 650 S Griffin St, Dallas, 75202, United States
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Estimated Date: November 12, 2026 (dates subject to confirmation)
Location: Dallas, TX
The Small Business Expo Dallas is one of the most commercially dense single-day business events in the South and Southwest. Dallas sits at the intersection of finance, technology, healthcare, real estate, and corporate relocation trends that have made it one of the fastest-growing major business markets in the United States over the past decade. The Small Business Expo arriving in this city taps directly into an entrepreneurial community that is growing faster than its support infrastructure, which means the demand for tools, vendors, and peer relationships is genuinely urgent.
Hustler’s Library pays close attention to the Dallas stop. The city has become a magnet for financial services headquarters, corporate relocations from higher-cost markets, and an emerging technology sector that is building on the talent base and cost advantages that California and New York can no longer offer. The business owners at this expo are operating at the edge of that growth wave.
Note: 2026 dates are estimated based on historical scheduling. Confirm at thesmallbusinessexpo.com.
Why It Matters
Dallas is not playing catch-up to coastal business ecosystems. It is operating on its own terms with its own momentum. The corporate relocations of the past five years brought with them an influx of capital, talent, and entrepreneurial ambition that is accelerating an already active local business community. The SMB owners at this expo are navigating growth in a market that is simultaneously welcoming and competitive.
The financial services sector’s strong presence in Dallas creates a vendor and partner mix at this expo that is particularly strong in business banking, commercial lending, insurance, and financial planning services. Real estate development and technology services also feature prominently. For vendors with solutions in these categories, the Dallas stop of the Small Business Expo delivers some of the most qualified buyers on the national circuit.
The Texas business environment more broadly favors the kind of direct, results-oriented conversation that makes single-day events like this one work. There is less social preamble in a Dallas business networking room than in comparable environments in coastal cities. That directness accelerates the useful parts of the day.
What’s Happening
Full Small Business Expo format: exhibition floor, workshop stage programming, and speed networking sessions. Dallas-specific content tends to address real estate investment and development, financial services for growing businesses, technology adoption for SMBs navigating digital transformation, and talent acquisition and retention in a competitive Texas labor market. The exhibition floor reflects the city’s commercial priorities with strong representation from financial services, real estate technology, staffing, and business operations vendors.
Who’s There
Small and medium-sized business owners from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and broader North Texas region. Financial services professionals and commercial banking representatives. Real estate developers and property investment operators. Technology company founders and software vendors. Healthcare and professional services practitioners. Corporate relocation-driven entrepreneurs who moved to Texas in recent years. Regional franchise operators and expansion-stage business owners.
Industries in Play
Financial services, real estate, technology services, healthcare, professional services, retail, food and hospitality, construction, logistics, and franchise development. Dallas’s role as a corporate and financial hub shapes the sector weighting, with financial services and real estate more prominent here than at most other Small Business Expo stops.
Who Benefits Most
Vendors and service providers targeting the Texas SMB market who need direct, in-person access to qualified buyers. Founders in the Dallas-Fort Worth area seeking peer relationships and operational support infrastructure. Technology companies building distribution in the South and Southwest markets. Financial services providers seeking SMB clients in a market with strong demand for growth-oriented banking and lending products.
Hustler’s Library Private Mixer
Hustler’s Library will host a private mixer in Dallas during the Small Business Expo. The gathering is designed for growth-stage operators, investors, and founders in the Texas market who want a focused networking environment built for substantive conversation.
Attendance is limited. To request consideration and receive details, contact Hustler’s Library directly.
Final Thoughts
The Small Business Expo Dallas is a high-efficiency business event in a high-momentum market. Dallas is one of the best business cities in the United States right now, and the operators building within it are doing it with urgency and focus. One day at this expo in November, navigated with preparation and clear objectives, delivers return that compounds through the following year.
Pair it with the Houston stop the week before for a Texas double-header that covers the state’s two largest business markets in a single two-week window. See the full Hustler’s Library events calendar for other key dates in 2026.

Microsoft Ignite 2026
2026-11-16 - 2026-11-20 | McCormick Place, 2301 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, 60616, United States
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Estimated Dates: November 16–20, 2026 (dates and location subject to confirmation)
Location: Estimated Chicago, IL (historically rotates; confirm at ignite.microsoft.com)
Microsoft Ignite is not a technology showcase. It is the annual operating briefing for the world’s largest enterprise technology ecosystem. Microsoft’s platform sits at the center of how hundreds of millions of professionals work, how hundreds of thousands of organizations manage their infrastructure, and increasingly, how enterprise AI is deployed at scale through Azure, Microsoft 365, and the Copilot platform. When Microsoft gathers its partner ecosystem, enterprise customers, and developer community at Ignite, the announcements made there define the direction of enterprise technology for the following year.
Hustler’s Library covers Microsoft Ignite as an essential intelligence event for any founder, operator, or investor whose business involves enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, AI deployment, or the Microsoft partner ecosystem. The announcements made here are not incremental. In 2026, they will define how AI becomes embedded in the daily operations of enterprise organizations globally.
Note: 2026 dates and location are estimated. Microsoft Ignite has historically been held in November and rotates between locations including Chicago, Orlando, and Seattle. Confirm at ignite.microsoft.com.
Why It Matters
Microsoft’s market position in 2026 is the strongest in the company’s history. The combination of Azure’s cloud infrastructure dominance, Microsoft 365’s stranglehold on enterprise productivity, the Copilot platform’s AI integration across the entire product suite, and OpenAI’s partnership giving Microsoft first-mover advantage in enterprise AI deployment makes the company’s strategic decisions uniquely consequential for the broader market.
What Microsoft announces at Ignite 2026 will affect the competitive landscape for enterprise software vendors, the deployment decisions of thousands of CIOs, the partnership strategies of the global Microsoft partner network, and the AI integration roadmaps of organizations across every industry. The intelligence concentration at this event is matched only by its operational importance.
For founders building in the Microsoft ecosystem, Ignite is where the platform roadmap is revealed in the most complete form available outside of a Microsoft partnership agreement. For founders building products that compete with Microsoft’s expanding AI suite, Ignite is where you understand exactly what you are competing against. Both categories of intelligence are worth the investment to be in the room.
What’s Happening
Five days of enterprise technology programming at scale. The keynote addresses Microsoft’s strategic direction and announces the platform developments that will define the following year’s enterprise technology landscape. Track sessions cover Azure cloud architecture, Microsoft 365 and Copilot deployment, enterprise security and compliance, developer tools and GitHub evolution, Power Platform and low-code infrastructure, and the partner ecosystem’s expanding capabilities.
The Hub, Microsoft’s exhibition and hands-on experience space, allows practitioners to interact directly with new platform capabilities and the partner solutions built on top of them. Certification and training programs run alongside the conference for practitioners seeking to deepen their technical Microsoft credentials. The networking infrastructure connects the global Microsoft partner and customer community in a physical environment that reinforces the scale of the ecosystem.
Who’s There
Enterprise IT professionals and cloud architects from Microsoft’s global customer base. Microsoft partners and independent software vendors building on Azure and Microsoft 365. CIOs and technology executives navigating enterprise AI adoption decisions. Microsoft employees across engineering, product, and field teams. Developers and administrators from organizations across every industry. Technology analysts and journalists covering the enterprise software market. Microsoft-focused investors tracking the company’s ecosystem expansion.
Industries in Play
Enterprise software and cloud infrastructure, financial services technology, healthcare IT, manufacturing and industrial technology, government and public sector, education technology, retail and supply chain, media and communications, and professional services. Microsoft’s cross-industry enterprise presence means every major sector is represented at Ignite in meaningful depth.
Who Benefits Most
Enterprise technology leaders making Azure and Microsoft 365 investment decisions who need the most current and complete platform intelligence available. Microsoft partner companies seeking roadmap alignment and ecosystem positioning. Founders building AI-native applications on Microsoft’s platform who need first access to new API capabilities and partnership opportunities. Competitive intelligence professionals at enterprise software companies tracking Microsoft’s strategic direction. Investors with significant enterprise software positions who need to understand how Microsoft’s AI expansion reshapes their portfolio companies’ competitive environment.
Hustler’s Library Private Mixer
Hustler’s Library will host a private mixer during Microsoft Ignite 2026. The gathering is designed for founders building on or around the Microsoft ecosystem, enterprise technology operators, and investors tracking enterprise AI deployment who want a focused conversation environment away from the main event’s scale.
Attendance is limited. To request consideration and receive details, contact Hustler’s Library directly.
Final Thoughts
Microsoft Ignite 2026 closes the enterprise technology year with the most consequential platform announcements in the calendar. The company’s position at the center of enterprise AI deployment makes every Ignite announcement a strategic signal that ripples across the entire technology market. For anyone building, selling, investing in, or competing within the enterprise software and AI space, Ignite is not a conference. It is an annual intelligence briefing that you cannot afford to miss.
Plan it early. Align your sessions to your specific platform and competitive intelligence priorities. Use the partner and customer network in the room as a relationship asset that will pay dividends throughout the following year. See the Hustler’s Library events calendar for the full 2026 lineup of essential business and technology events.
