Western Business Alliance Summit

The Golden Gate Business Association (GGBA) is proud to host our Western Business Alliance (WBA) LGBT Economic Summit & Conference in San Francisco March 15-16, 2018.

The conference will focus attention on issues of critical importance to our collective business communities including: LGBT homelessness, the needs of LGBT millennials, leveraging the power of disruptive technologies in order to create a new level of LGBT entrepreneurs, removing the barriers to economic prosperity for the Transgender community and ‘thinking outside the box’ in order to access capital to grow our businesses.

The Summit will wrap up with a Closing Reception at 5:30 p.m. on the 44th floor of the TransAmerica Pyramid building, providing a dazzling panoramic view of the city.

The WBA includes LGBT chambers and thought-leaders from 21 cities, 11 states and Vancouver, British Columbia. Represented within the WBA are:

Albuquerque
Anchorage
Austin
Colorado Springs
Dallas
Denver
Honolulu
Houston
Las Vegas
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Seattle
Spokane    
Tucson
Vancouver

The WBA was founded in 1994 as an opportunity for LGBT chambers throughout the Western United States to advocate on behalf of the LGBT economic equality movement, share ‘best practices’ and serve as the collective voice of the LGBT business community in the West.

2018 SUMMIT CO-CHAIRS: Honorable Mark Leno & Helen Russell
SUMMIT ATTENTANCE: 750-800 business leaders