USPAACC-SE Business Summit & Leadership Excellence Awards

USPAACC-SE’s 2026 Business Summit and Leadership & Excellence Awards Luncheon is the Southeast chapter’s full-day AAPI business room—educational sessions, peer and member networking, and an awards lunch honoring Asian Pacific business leaders. Wednesday, August 26, 2026, 9:00 AM–4:00 PM at Gas South Convention Center, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway in Duluth. Individual tickets are $99 (early-bird 20% off ended August 7). A table of 10 is $1,000. Tickets must be purchased by August 17; the host states walk-ups are not permitted on event day. Registration issues go to Monica Compton, monica@planonit.net.

Duluth / Gwinnett is Circuit Atlanta’s Korean and pan-Asian commercial gravity—the same I-85 corridor the hub names alongside Johns Creek and Suwanee. USPAACC is the national Pan Asian American chamber; the Southeast chapter has run this Gas South summit in prior Augusts. It is not Ascend Atlanta (professional membership chapter, different institution from JPMorgan’s Ascend Atlanta SMB program) and not KACCGA’s Duluth expo calendar, which was empty in-window. If you only network in Midtown during ATW week, you miss this Gwinnett AAPI business floor.

Wednesday, August 26, 2026, 9:00 AM–4:00 PM at Gas South Convention Center. Register on Cvent before the August 17 cutoff. Sugarloaf Parkway / I-85 parking and lunch-hour traffic are real; arrive early for check-in. Bring ID matching your registration. Tables are the compounding path for firms; individuals should still treat the awards lunch as relationship time, not a cold pitch hour. If Cvent fails, email monica@planonit.net rather than assuming Gas South will sell a door ticket.

Do not plan a walk-up. JapanFest returns to this same Gas South building September 19–20—outside this scrape window, but the next roll’s first watch.

This summit is right if you run or advise an Asian Pacific business in metro Atlanta, sell into that supplier graph, or want a named chamber awards day in Duluth. ATW’s Tech Square hop and Emory dance theater were different weeks.