AACC Mentorship Session with Sumeet Shrivastava

The Asian American Chamber of Commerce’s Mentorship Session is a two-hour Fairfax room built around a named CEO, not a generic mixer. It runs Thursday, September 10, 2026, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM at International Country Club, 13200 Lee Jackson Memorial Highway. Featured speaker Sumeet Shrivastava is President and CEO of Unissant, a technology and consulting firm serving government and commercial clients. AACC bills the afternoon as leadership, strategic decision-making, and growth lessons from someone who has built, scaled, and exited companies. Entrepreneurs, owners, professionals, and emerging leaders are all named on the invite.

AACC is one of the clearer pan-Asian chamber hosts in the DMV, with a calendar that already includes Lunch with Leaders, member webinars, and the fall Jewels of Asia awards track. This mentorship stop extends that graph into Northern Virginia golf-club geography rather than a Downtown DC happy hour. Fairfax and the Route 50 / I-66 belt are where many Asian American small-business and government-contracting operators already work. Contact on the Eventbrite listing runs through the chamber (Dua Irfan). Treat the session as mentorship conversation plus chamber networking, not a pitch competition.

This is right if you want a named Asian chamber host, a CEO who has scaled a federal-tech firm, and a daytime Fairfax calendar slot when late-summer evening mixers feel thin. It suits founders, owners, and mid-career professionals who can use two hours of leadership conversation more than another open bar. Skip it if you need classified intel programming, a bar-association members-only social, or a short evening mixer closer to Metro Center. Arrive with one growth question or introduction request so the conversation has somewhere to go after titles.

Register on Eventbrite before the afternoon fills, then confirm parking and any clubhouse check-in notes in the confirmation email. International Country Club sits on Lee Jackson Memorial Highway in Fairfax; leave buffer for Northern Virginia mid-afternoon traffic if you are coming from Tysons, Arlington, or the District. The public page does not advertise a walk-up policy, so do not assume the club can admit an unregistered guest. Bring cards. Screenshot the ticket. If you are choosing between this and a larger awards gala later in the fall, use this afternoon for working mentorship and save the gala for recognition night.