2024 Service Academies Global Entrepreneur Summit
Oct 15-17, 2024
Falls Church Marriott Fairview Park
3111 Fairview Park Drive
Falls Church, VA 22042
The Service Academies Global Summit (SAGS) partnered with West Point Entrepreneurs to bring you the Service Academies Global Entrepreneur Summit (SAGES). The inaugural SAGES took place on Oct 15-17 in the national capital region where we connected Service Academy entrepreneurs worldwide to achieve business success.
Theme – Forging Futures: Leadership, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship
Featured Speakers
Ron Green, USMA ‘90
Dawn Halfaker, USMA ’01
Kathy Hildreth, USMA ’83
France Hoang, USMA ‘95
with Distinguished Guest Speaker
Dr. Shauna “Doc” Springer, Ph.D.
TRUST: 5 Critical Insights for Entrepreneurial Success
Sponsored by the Pompidou Family
“Trust is the lifeblood of effective military units, healthy close relationships, and successful entrepreneurial ventures. Loss of trust is central to where we become damaged, and where our business ventures fail. I found my path to insight through my unique role as a trusted Doc to our nation’s warfighters, and I have shared these insights to help entrepreneurs find success, and Fortune 500 companies take their workforce through the pandemic, during an epidemic of social distrust. This talk delivers 5 of my most critical insights on how entrepreneurs build, maintain, and fail because of how we earn, extend, and withhold trust. Participants will walk away with a series of questions that will be a practical tool for assessing the value of potential business ventures and entrepreneurial partnerships.”
Meet our SAGES 2024 Sponsors
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The following speakers appeared at SAGES 2024:
SAGES is organized in cooperation with the West Point Association of Graduates (AOG), the USAFA AOG, the USCGA Alumni Association, the USNA Alumni Association – Greater Washington Chapter, and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Foundation – Washington, D.C. Chapter
Background Info on the U.S. Service Academies Global Entrepreneur Summit
The purpose of the Service Academies Global Entrepreneur Summit (SAGES), a non-profit endeavor organized by alumni from the five U.S. service academies, is to bring together service academy graduate entrepreneurs, business leaders (CEO’s/CXO’s), and investors across the globe to create new opportunities for partnership and collaboration while creating a “super-community” of veteran entrepreneurs worldwide. This focus takes the following forms:
1) Fellowship – forming new friendships, relationships and opportunities for collaboration and engagement among graduates of the five U.S. Service Academies
2) Leadership/Professional Development – professional development and broadening to prepare us for the challenges and opportunities of today and tomorrow through the exploration of timely, relevant issues and emerging trends from different sectors and in diverse areas (e.g. geopolitics, leadership, business, technology, entrepreneurship, etc.)
3) Service – inspiring ourselves to live the missions of our alma maters throughout our lives, reflect upon how we’re presently doing so, and identify/advocate ways that we can continually contribute to the betterment of society
SAGES is an inclusive and relevant gathering of proven leaders from the business, government, military and NGO/nonprofit sectors who engage in networking opportunities, actionable learning, thought-provoking discussions and collaboration possibilities. Attendees describe it as a transformative experience that strengthens shared bonds and helps its participants to become even better leaders and members of society.
SAGES brings together a community of mutual support and provides an annual professional refresher – a respite from our busy lives wherein we can pause, reflect, recharge and be inspired – as well as a reunion and an opportunity to form friendships with alumni from one’s sister academies. SAGES Summits embody the five trademark qualities of informality, curiosity, fun, respect, and relevant, actionable content. SAGES is organized by volunteers and made possible by our partners, sponsors, speakers and advisors.
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