All eyes will be on the Thomas M. Menino Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston this week when Charles Schwab kicks off its annual IMPACT conference for the RIA industry.
The annual event has been running for more than 30 years and attendance is growing - there will be more than 6,000 attendees on-site this year for what is the 36th iteration of IMPACT.
Attendance at IMPACT is up on last year, when 5,400 people attended the event in Denver, Colorado.
IMPACT, which runs through Thursday, features three days of keynotes, educational programming, and networking.
Education sessions start on Tuesday afternoon and Jon Beatty, head of Schwab Advisor Services, will deliver a welcome keynote on Tuesday evening. Beatty will return to the podium on Wednesday morning to deliver a keynote with Charles Schwab CEO Rick Wurster on making a positive impact.
There will be plenty of star power on display at this year’s IMPACT. Speakers include tennis star Andre Agassi, and Artemis II astronauts Jeremy Hansen and Victor J. Glover Jr. Canadian Space Agency astronaut Hansen and NASA astronaut Glover, who piloted Artemis II on its historic mission earlier this year, will participate in a closing keynote on Thursday entitled “Beyond the Horizon.”
Artemis II marked the first crewed lunar spaceflight by U.S. astronauts since Apollo 17 in 1972 and sent the four-person crew on a nine-day mission around the Moon.
Space is firmly in the spotlight thanks to the Artemis program and this year’s historic SpaceX IPO.
Agassi, the former world number-one ranked tennis player and winner of eight Grand Slam titles, will speak in a Thursday keynote themed “The champion mindset: Reinvention, resilience, and purpose.”
Schwab has worked with independent advisors since 1987 and today serves more than 17,000 firms. The company also safeguards nearly $6 trillion in client assets, and has more than 3,000 employees dedicated to serving advisors.
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