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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.
