Main Street Summit

We are locked in for 2025. Join us in Columbia next year for Main Street Summit! Mark your calendars for November 4 - 6, 2025. ?? And stay tuned in the coming days for details on how to reserve your Main Street passes at the lowest rate possible. We're aiming to make year 3 of the Summit the best yet!

The key ingredient found in every successful business is this: A network of meaningful relationships. Both professional and personal. No one’s more qualified to show you how to lead & learn from others with intention & humility than Steve Cockram. Steve recently joined Chris Powers’ The Fort podcast (see below) for a wide-ranging conversation on how relationships drive success (and how you can build better ones). We’re thrilled that Steve & Chris will run it back& return to lead sessions at Main Street Summit 2025. In the meantime, enjoy this discussion from two exceptional people and builders.

There's no place like Main Street. Especially when it's buzzing with 100+ world-class speakers addressing the most pressing topics facing small & medium-sized businesses in today's rapidly changing economy. ?? Their mastery is your blueprint. We're pumped to release the full Main Street Summit 2025 speaker lineup in the coming days! See below to get access to the complete list.

We’re on track. Have you heard we’re introducing 6 new content Tracks later this year? Learn from the best operators in: -Manufacturing -Health -Faith & Work -Franchise -Construction -Non-Profit -Venture & Startup ?? PLUS, we’re on track to release the full speaker lineup for Main Street Summit 2025! Find out when (and be the first to see it) in the comment below.

Who is going to Main Street Summit in November? I’d love to hear about your prior experiences and what you are looking forward to this year. The word is Brent Beshore Shegun Otulana and a lot of other cool people will be there. Peter Ostapko - are you going? https://lnkd.in/gDUtzAF3

This is a theater inside Ragtag Cinema. It’s just one of the many unique Main Street Summit venues. And this weekend, Ragtag & other locations in downtown Columbia play host to True/False Film Fest, an international nonfiction film festival. True/False is perhaps Columbia’s biggest and most internationally known event. It’s also a beacon for Main Street. Their creative placemaking inspired us to follow suit & transform theaters, art galleries, & boutique shops into places where it’s easy to connect & collaborate with fellow Summit attendees. Reinventing the ordinary into extraordinary is what True/False does best. They’ve inspired us to do the same.

Pull up a chair. And get lost in conversations that feel familiar but are original in their own unique way. Welcome to The Atrium at Main Street Summit. (Think luxury lounge meets Mr. Bulky stocked for grownups.)

“Cash cows are the new unicorns. People understand the value of cash flow. They're understanding the value of building a real business, a durable business, one that doesn’t have to ask permission to exist every nine months.” Revisit Bryce Roberts' Main Stage keynote in '23 plus his Q&A in The Trenches last year at Main Street Summit. ??

Facilitating real conversations & firm handshakes since 2023.

A rare sight to behold. Candid street photography in 2025 often captures an overwhelming majority of people staring down at their smartphone. But not this photo. Shot during last year's festival at the corner of 9th & Locust St. in downtown Columbia, this photo tells our story. One where conversations & ideas are shared without boundaries. And where conversations serve as a catalyst for building authentic, long-lasting relationships. What seems rare or improbable is often the norm at Main Street Summit.