ECONDEV
CAMP2026
CAMP2025
Stronger Ecosystems, Built Together
Economic developers, entrepreneurship support organizations, and small business champions from across the country gather in New Orleans for a collaborative, conversation-driven unconference. No panels. No fluff. Just real talk — and real strategies you can bring home.
#EconDevCamp2026
RESERVE YOUR SPOT TO
The most engaging
economic development unconference
Connect
Meet economic developers and ESO leaders from across the country working through similar challenges, and find the collaborators, regional or national, you didn't know you needed.
Experience
This isn't a sit-and-listen conference. It's a share-the-good-bad-and-ugly conference, built to develop real solutions to shared problems, honestly.
Implement
Dig into the details of how to implement real programs, strategies, and partnerships. Walk away with something you can put to work back home.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Unconference... what?
This is not a formal conference — rather, as an unconference, it is driven entirely by attendees’ interests and experiences.
At EconDevCamp, there is no set agenda before the event. Sessions are determined at the beginning of the day and are drawn from ideas submitted by attendees. Participants from economic development, public policy, technology, and community advocacy converge to work through what actually drives growth in their communities.
These are the kinds of conversations past attendees have pitched — bring your own, too:
Rather than giving attendees a list of sessions to choose from, attendees program and lead the sessions together. This approach leads to higher engagement, more honest conversations, and true solution building from diverse industry leaders who are doing amazing, often underappreciated work.
Chelsea Smith
HUUB COO & Co-Founder
What you'll walk away with
Leave with real solutions to real problems you can implement today and connect with other leaders.
What you'll actually get:
- A national peer network — connect with economic developers and ESO leaders building stronger ecosystems in communities like yours
- Entrepreneurship-led strategies — practical approaches to funding, program design, and resource-sharing for supporting small businesses and founders, ready to bring home
- A line into national frameworks — perspectives from national networks, grounded in real local application
- Honest, collaborative conversation — real talk about what's working and what to build together next, in a small, focused group, not a packed ballroom
MOVING THE NEEDLE
Your Unconference Experience in Motion
Here’s how the day unfolds — unconference-style. We’ll kick things off together, open the floor for your session topics, and spend the day diving into rich conversations, community insights, and bold ideas. We may feature a speaker or two, but the real action comes from you.
TIME | SESSION DETAILS |
|---|---|
11:00 am | Registration & Community Warm-up Grab your badge, join us for a light lunch, and jump into a light icebreaker to kickstart the connections. |
11:45 am | Opening Remarks Let’s set the vibe! We’ll walk through the day, the unconference format, and officially kick off the day. |
12:00 pm | Breakout Track #1 Facilitated peer-to-peer sessions based on your most-voted topics. Let’s dive in! |
12:45 pm | Gap Break Quick breather, hydrate, prep for round two. |
01:00 pm | Breakout Track #2 More hands-on convos and workshops, picked by the community. |
01:45 pm | Event Reflections + Closing Let’s gather, reflect on key takeaways, and close the loop with intention. |
BEHIND THE MAGIC
Your Co-Conspirators in Change
With more than 20+ years of combined experience in economic development and community building, the powerhouse duo behind HUUB created EconDevCamp to break down silos and build something better. With the vision that economic development should be inclusive, community-led, and collaborative, this event flips the script and brings together the doers, the thinkers, and the builders who are redefining what economic impact looks like—together.
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