Smart CEO Summit

On Friday September 12 2025 Smart CEOs will launch its inaugural Smart CEO Summit and bring it to Houston. Curated by Kyra Rènel Hardwick CEO of The Kyra Company the 2025 Smart CEO Summit is an immersive business and leadership experience curated for visionary founders transformative teams and purpose-driven CEOs who are building legacies not just companies.

Themed “Collaboration is Capital” this year’s Smart CEO Summit focuses on “ideas intros and insights” and reframes collaboration as one of the most valuable currencies in the modern CEO’s ecosystem. To further guide the experience and underscore the CEO mindset Smart CEOs has incorporated two additional concepts: “Accelerate Together” and “Proximity x Partnership = The New Growth Equation.” These concepts position the summit as a collaborative launchpad and embody the concept that the speed and quality of your growth is directly tied to who you’re in the room with.

Throughout the summit attendees can attend two fireside chats: one focused on the concept of “being the room” and what that means for CEOs looking to elevate their companies while the other will explore practical applications of AI across operations marketing and growth. Attendees will also have the opportunity to hear from a real estate panel participate in a live collaborative exchange with others and rotate through one of several deep-dive labs. During one of two rotations attendees can select from the following breakout strategy rooms for tactical mastery and legacy-building decisions:

Seismic Transformation Leadership: Your Mind Comes First

Bidding to Win: Getting the Contract

AI Integration: The Innovation Pathway

Go-To-Market Strategy: Launching and Growing

Lastly in partnership with BC Partners the Summit is also offering a three-hour private immersion for founders scaling product-based and CPG brands. This immersion will be focused on positioning shelf-readiness partnerships and investment. Limited to 75 founders special registration and a pre-qualifying questionnaire are required for this feature.

The Summit provides a full-service experience for business leaders and CEOs to have relevant tangible takeaways. Reports state that 83% of companies reported that using AI in their business strategies is a top priority. Forbes says the most common uses for AI in business are customer service cybersecurity digital personal assistants customer relationship management and inventory management all underscoring the importance of the AI deep-dive lab.

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