FPA of Minnesota ASCEND Conference 2026

October 20-21, 2026 · St. Paul, MN

ASCEND is the FPA of Minnesota's annual conference and one of the strongest chapter events in the Upper Midwest. The Twin Cities support an unusually dense planning community for a market their size, and the chapter has built ASCEND into a two-day program that reads closer to a regional conference than a chapter meeting.

Who attends

CFP professionals and financial planners across Minnesota and the surrounding states, from solo practitioners to teams at established RIAs, plus associate advisors, operations staff and regional vendor partners.

What's on the agenda

• Technical planning across tax, retirement and estate

• Investment strategy and economic outlook

• Practice management, hiring and career development

• Continuing education for CFP professionals

Why practice-management sessions end up on operations

Sessions about growth almost always turn into sessions about capacity. A firm cannot add households faster than it can serve them, and what limits service capacity is rarely advice quality — it is how long it takes to pull together a current, accurate picture of a client before every meeting.

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