{"id":349230,"date":"2026-09-17T12:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349230\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:42:08","slug":"bronx-summit-returns-this-month-for-fifth-year-of-connecting-local-entrepreneurs-and-creatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349230\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx Summit returns this month for fifth year of connecting local entrepreneurs and creatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bronx Summit is gearing up for another year of making connections within the community.\n<\/p>\n

Now in its fifth year, Bronx Summit has worked to celebrate the vibrant Bronx community and the creatives that live there. The summit will return to DREAM Charter High School, located at 20 Bruckner Blvd., on Sept. 26.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s humbling that it\u2019s something that folks are looking forward to now. It\u2019s exciting, but there\u2019s also an added pressure because you wanna do it well,\u201d said Kevin Brooks, cofounder of the Bronx Summit and cohost of the podcast Live From The Bronx. \u201cPeople have come to the event and they\u2019ve had such a good time, and now it\u2019s something that they look forward to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think one of the things that, for me, is really cool is just the excitement and the energy,\u201d said Jason Acosta, cofounder of the Bronx Summit and cohost of the podcast Live From The Bronx. \u201cThe amount of people that want to have some sort of role in it, it\u2019s really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bronx Summit will feature over 15 panelists and speakers throughout the day, as well as explore interactive activations, shop local vendors, listen to live music sets and enjoy local food and drink vendors. Also returning this year is Bronx Summit\u2019s signature Business Pitch Competition, the winner of which receives seed funding for their business idea.<\/p>\n

\"(L-R)<\/a>(L-R) Kevin Brooks, Sue Fearless, Council Member Althea Stevens, and Jason Acosta.<\/p>\n

Like in years past, this year\u2019s Bronx Summit will spotlight innovators across tech, fashion, mental health, media, culinary arts, and more creative industries. Among this year\u2019s speakers are Jason Reyes, principal of the newly opened Bronx School of Hip Hop, and Wallace Peeples, \u201cWallo267\u201d, entrepreneur, motivational speaker and cohost of \u201cMillion Dollaz Worth of Game,\u201d who will serve as the event\u2019s headliner.<\/p>\n

For the first time this year, Acosta and Brooks opened up a speaker application to further diversify the speakers on the panels.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe historically have really focused on the creative economy, right? We assumed and expected that we would get speaker applications from people across those industries because that has been a big focus,\u201d said Acosta. \u201cThe thing that I think is really cool, and I think we were intentional about this last year, was adding a mental health component to the summit and really having a conversation about that because so many people go on this entrepreneurial journey but don\u2019t ever have a chance to tell the story about how it\u2019s impacted their mental health, their physical health. This year in our speaker applications, we actually saw an influx of some of those.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things that we pride ourselves on in terms of curating events is we want them to be a good time, like a really positive experience. People go to conferences, and a conference can be stuffy and that\u2019s not at all what we want, so there\u2019s definitely going to be a certain vibe, right?\u201d said Brooks. \u201cYou\u2019re gonna hear music, there\u2019s going to be a DJ, there\u2019s going to be a lot of time for networking. You\u2019re gonna be able to meet someone in another industry, someone in your same industry, and we built in specific times for networking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bronx Summit will take place from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tickets start at $30. Attendees must be 21+. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit posh.vip\/e\/5th-annual-bronx-summit-2<\/a>. You can follow Bronx Summit on Instagram @_thebronxsummit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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