SCN Las Vegas 2025

Start your day the Las Vegas way — with good coffee, great conversation, and the passionate people building the city's entrepreneurial future.
Ecosystem Breakfast With Las Vegas Locals brings together founders, ecosystem builders, creatives, and community leaders for an open, informal conversation about what’s really happening on the ground in Las Vegas.

We’re honored to welcome special guest Mayor Berkley, joining us to share insights on Las Vegas’s growing innovation landscape and how the city is championing entrepreneurial progress.

Whether you’re looking to learn how Vegas does it, share your own ecosystem experiences, or just meet some incredible people — this is your morning moment.

Come curious. Leave connected.on.

Enjoy lunch with Nevada Partners, an organization that offers wrap-around services in housing, education, career development, health, and more. Since 1992, they have been at the forefront of developing and deploying effective solutions to challenging and often systemic issues that are barriers to building a healthy, thriving, sustainable, and progressive community. Their mission is to break the cycle of generational poverty by wrapping children in a seamless pipeline of health, social, and educational supports from birth through college while helping parents get quality jobs and build healthier families.

Lunch will be catered by the Culinary Academy of Las Vegas,  a hospitality career training that equips students with the skills needed for family-sustaining careers in Southern Nevada’s vibrant hospitality industry. As the leading provider of workforce development in Las Vegas hospitality, they offer a pathway out of poverty for unemployed and underemployed community members. 

Time to party and connect! The Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development is bringing ecosystem builders from the state together to connect with attendees over dinner at Caspian's Rock & Roe.

Located in Caesars Palace, where the likes of The Killers, The Who, Madonna, and Stevie Nicks have performed, Caspian’s adds to the rebellious legacy one gin, one vodka, and one guitar riff at a time. The Las Vegas live music scene will never be the same.

A bus will come at 7:30pm & 9:30pm to pickup guests and take them back to the hotel.

You're in for a treat! Jarrett Applewhite, CEO and Founder of Cootoh, will be serving bites as we wrap up Roses & Thorns and head to Pitch Mayhem. Cootoh is a marketplace for private chefs on demand. They were a 2024 Techstars Alum and recently was invited to present at CES 2025 as one of Vegas’ most promising startups!

We’re ending the Startup Champions Network Summit with a bang—literally. Join us for the Closing Party at Downtown Container Park, the visionary outdoor venue created by the late entrepreneur and Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. A symbol of creativity, community, and bold reinvention, the park perfectly embodies the spirit of ecosystem builders.
As we reflect on the connections made and ideas sparked throughout the Summit, we’ll celebrate together under the desert sky with drinks, music, and an unforgettable fire show. That’s right—the evening will be lit (again, literally) by a flame-shooting metal sculpture straight out of Burning Man, one of Tony’s favorite symbols of expression and experimentation.
Come raise a glass, swap stories, and send off SCN Las Vegas the only way we know how—with community, creativity, and just a little bit of fire.