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SSTI has postponed its Annual Conference until 2026
After the tremendous learning and community-building experience at SSTI’s conference last December at the beautiful Sheraton at Wild Horse Pass in Arizona, many people are looking forward to our next gathering. We are too, but have decided to postpone the event until next year with dates to be determined.
As most readers likely know, staging conferences of the size and complexity of SSTI’s last one takes months of planning. A critical first step is securing the appropriate site. Given the continued uncertainty in the federal economic development and R&D funding landscape that many likely conference participants are navigating, we were not comfortable committing SSTI to an expensive hotel contract for a 2025 event.
Look for news in the coming months about a round of tailored SSTI convenings this fall and winter, designed to keep the conversation and exchange robust and make your regional innovation work even more impactful and better resourced in the future. While we will not hold our annual conference in the traditional sense this year, we remain committed to delivering the high-quality and unique blend of cross-sector interaction among government, universities and regional TBED organizations that attendees have come to expect from SSTI over the past 30 years.
At the same time, we’re beginning planning for our annual conference to occur in 2026. We’ll keep you posted as we secure a location. If you’re interested in hosting the conference, please reach out to us at contactus@ssti.org