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Join us at Southeast Christian Church in Lousiville, KY for the 2026 Event October 4th - 6th!
Schedule Overview (Eastern Time Zone)
- Sunday, October 4th - 6pm-8pm - Check-in, Meet & Greet dinner, first-timer orientation.
- Monday, October 5th - 8am Check-in opens, 9am kickoff and workshops, lunch, more workshops, dinner & evening activity.
- Tuesday, October 6th - 9am workshops, lunch, more workshops, dinner.
For the low cost of just $99 (due to the generosity of our amazing partners!), you get 2 days of tasty meals, relevant technical, strategic, and leadership content and discussions, along with fun prizes and hang-time with hundreds of your peers to challenge and inspire you.
Keynote Speakers

The Awesomest Speaker
Boss of Bosses — Company Name
really great guy or gal
Logistics
- Venue
- Southeast Christian Church
- 920 Blankenbaker Pkwy, Louisville, KY 40243
- Registration
- $99 early bird
- Before September 1, 2026
- $199 standard
- 46 / 650registered
- Airport
- Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport (SDF)
Hotels
Courtyard by Marriott Louisville East
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Explore local attractions in the area while you're in town for the conference.
This To Do IN Lousiville (no specific order)
• Slugger Museum • Belle of Louisville (You'd have to call about the dates) • Speed Art Museum • Conrad-Caldwell House • Muhammad Ali Center • Frazier Kentucky History Museum • Locus Grove • Flame Run Glass Studio & Gallery • Mark Payton Glass Center • Louisville WaterWorks Museum • Cave Hill Cemetery (burial site of Muhammad Ali) • Louisville Mega Caverns (History Tour, Zipline, Ropes Course) • Waverly Hills Sanatorium • Lots of options for Distillery Tours
Things To Do NEAR Louisville (in no specific order)
• Buffalo Trace Distillery (Bardstown, KY - 46min) • Many additional distilleries in this area and a few along the way to Bardstown • My Old Kentucky Home (Bardstown, KY - 51min) • International Museum of Horses (Lexington - 1hr) • The Ark Encounter/Creation Museum (Williamstown, KY - 1hr 28min) • National Corvette Museum (Bowling Green, KY - 1hr 28min)
Things to do Outdoors
Big Four Bridge & Waterfront Park (Walking bridge that goes across to Indiana, very close to Belle of Louisville) Silo at Turkey Run Park (Beautiful 360 view from top of the silo, including toward downtown - 8703 Stout Rd, Louisville, KY 40291 - 20min) Bernheim Forest (16,346 acres, Giant wooden trolls, tons of nature trails - 33min) Fort Duffield (Union Base on river bluffs, good amount of uphill walking - 40min) Clifty Falls State Park (Located in beautiful Madison, IN - 1hr 2min) Mammoth Cave National Park (Located not too far from the Corvette Museum - 1hr 35min) Natural Bridge State Resort Park & Red River Gorge (So many amazing things to see for both the car spectator all the way to the avid hiker - 1hr 40min)
Good Eats
• Havana Rumba - Authentic Cuban • Simply Thai - Good Thai & sushi • Mark's Feed Store - Louisville's own BBQ joint • Coals - Brick Oven Pizza • Taco City • Clay Oven - Good Indian Food • Blind Squirrel - Great appetizers and entrees are good too • Wild Eggs - Great breakfast place, native to Louisville. • Texas Roadhouse - HQ'd in Louisville 🤯, who would have thought!
Things to do further away
• 80/20 @ Kaelin's - Claims to be where the cheeseburger first began, also where Colonel Sanders first sold his famous chicken • Muscle Burger Bar - If you like clams, very good, but also good if you don't • The Eagle - Great fried chicken • Dragon King's Daughter - Asian Fusion & Sushi • Taco Luchador • Limon y Sal - Solid Mexican