Quad-A Women's Impact Initiative Network Conference 2026

June 24-25, 2026 · Chicago, IL

The Women's Impact Initiative Network is the Association of African American Financial Advisors' program for Black women in the profession, and this conference is its annual gathering. It sits at an intersection the industry has served particularly poorly, which is precisely the reason the community built its own event.

Who attends

Black women financial advisors and planners across every channel, students and career-changers entering the profession, and the firms and asset managers partnering with the Quad-A community.

What was on the agenda

• Career advancement, sponsorship and firm ownership

• Practice growth and client acquisition

• Technical planning and investment education

• Community, mentorship and peer connection

Why the technology conversation matters for newer firms

Advisors building practices from scratch rather than inheriting a book make their infrastructure decisions early, with limited budget and no operations team. Those early choices tend to persist for a decade, and the firms that scale most cleanly are the ones that treated the data layer as foundational rather than as something to fix once the manual work became unbearable.

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