2026 3rd Annual Export Conference

Event description

This Event is Hosted by Houston District Export Council
In a single day you get insider strategy, direct access to the federal officials who actually decide things and answer you can use on Monday morning. Eight panels. One floor. No filler. This is built for companies new to exporting as well as experience exporters in manufacturing, logistics, shipping, transportation, energy, critical minerals, technology, chemicals, aerospace, food, insurance, banking, and financial services. What you will experience:

• The nation’s top trade official: Assistant Secretary David L. Fogel opens the day with “America First Exports and Investments”
• Government access you will not get elsewhere: Direct answers from the U.S. Commercial Service, the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the U.S. Small Business Administration, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Bureau of Industry and Security, and Port Houston.
• Eight panels on what is actually changing: U.S. trade partnerships, supply chain, export financing, export controls and sanctions, energy and critical minerals, AI and robotics, tariffs, FTZs, risk mitigation, tax structuring, and manufacturing.
• Networking that delivers: a full day of it, then a reception at King Steak with partners, peers, and policymakers who can move your next deal.

*SBA’s participation is not an endorsement of the views, opinions, products or services of any other person or entity. All SBA programs are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis.