ABASD Feature Friday: Network, Learn & Support Local Small Business

Feature Friday is Friday, November 20, 2026, from 10:00 AM to noon at the Asian Business Association San Diego office, 7675 Dagget Street, Suite 340, in the Kearny Mesa / Convoy corridor. The San Diego & Imperial SBDC Network runs registration on Eventbrite; the door is free. Speakers listed include Alliance SBDC advisor Jessica Javier and John Tran, co-founder of Matcha Cafe Maiko. Expect owner-to-owner talk on growth, blind spots, and getting through hard stretches—not a formal continuing-education class.

ABASD is San Diego’s Asian American business chamber on Dagget, a short hop from Convoy Street’s restaurant and retail strip. Feature Friday is the recurring workshop that puts a named local operator in front of other small-business owners. The same SBDC coffee series also meets at Phinology on Convoy (November 13) and S3 on Mission Gorge (December 4); this Dagget Friday is the denser named-speaker stop for the window.

AAPI small-business owners, operators eyeing a first hire or second location, and advisors who serve Convoy-area companies will get the most. Two hours ends at noon, which leaves the afternoon for the shop. A Torrey Pines biotech panel or an ACG Del Mar holiday answers different weeks.

Dagget Street has free parking noted on the Eventbrite listing. RSVP so ABASD can count chairs. Keep the confirmation; suite 340 is upstairs office geography, not a storefront walk-in.