2026 Summit
Scaling Together Through Adversity
april 11, 2026
Connecting founders, investors, and ecosystem builders.
In Partnership With…
2026 Program Treks:
HealthCare
Technology
Small & medium Enterprises
Tentative Summit Schedule
Schedule Subject to Change
8:00 AM | Registration & Breakfast
9:00 AM | Welcome Remarks
9:45 AM | Healthcare / Technology / SMBs Panels
11:00 AM | Healthcare / Technology / SMBs Workshops
12:00 PM | Lunch & Networking
Morning Sessions
Afternoon Sessions
1:00 PM | Keynote Speaker
2:00 PM | Pitch Competition
3:00 PM | Vendors & Networking
3:30 PM | Earn Your Leisure Fireside Chat
4:45 PM | Prizes & Closing Remarks
5:00PM | Closing Reception
Earn Your Leisure
Earn Your Leisure
KEYNOTE Fireside Chat
Earn Your Leisure is a premier financial literacy media company reshaping how wealth-building education is delivered to modern audiences. Founded by Rashad Bilal, a former financial advisor and wealth strategist, and Troy Millings, a former educator with more than sixteen years of experience, Earn Your Leisure blends finance, culture, and storytelling to make complex financial concepts accessible, engaging, and actionable.
What began as a mission to bring “barbershop conversations” to Wall Street has grown into a global media and education platform reaching millions. Through a portfolio of top-ranked podcasts, digital learning experiences, and live events, Earn Your Leisure equips audiences with practical tools to build generational wealth through investing, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy. The platform’s flagship podcast, Earn Your Leisure, along with Market Mondays and Assets Over Liabilities on REVOLT, consistently ranks among the top business podcasts worldwide.
Rashad Bilal serves as the platform’s financial strategist, leveraging his background in wealth management and investing to break down markets, asset classes, and financial systems with clarity and precision. Troy Millings brings an educator’s lens and a storyteller’s voice, translating financial theory into culturally relevant conversations that resonate across generations and communities. Together, they create a balance of technical rigor and relatability that defines the Earn Your Leisure brand.
Beyond digital media, Earn Your Leisure is the creator of Invest Fest, a large-scale annual conference in Atlanta that merges finance, entrepreneurship, music, food, and culture. Invest Fest convenes investors, founders, creatives, and industry leaders for immersive education and community building, positioning financial literacy as both empowering and aspirational.
Earn Your Leisure has featured conversations with influential leaders and cultural icons, including Shaquille O’Neal, Magic Johnson, Steve Harvey, and Rick Ross, and has partnered with major institutions such as Ally Bank and the NBA G League. With more than 50 million downloads and consistent top-20 rankings across business podcast charts, the platform has become one of the most influential voices in modern financial education.
At its core, Earn Your Leisure is driven by a mission to democratize financial knowledge, particularly for underserved communities, by providing access, education, and representation in spaces where wealth is created and sustained.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
De’Havia
Stewart
Venture capitalist | fORMER INVESTMENT LEAD AT SERENA vENTURES
Founder, mustard seed capital
De’Havia Stewart is Founder & Partner of Mustard Seed Capital, which is an early stage venture firm focused on investing into companies that leverage frontier technology to drive positive change including helping offset the second order effects of AI and other frontier technology. Mustard Seed Capital is an extension of her investment advisory practice, in which venture growth platforms outsource their investment operations to her.
In addition, De’Havia Stewart is the Co-Founder and Principal of 1248 Angels, which is an investment group that writes checks into early stage startups in healthcare, financial services, and business enablement.
She started her career in Accenture’s Strategy practice, working with leading Fortune 500 companies across retail, consumer products, financial services, media, and telecom. Shortly after, she moved into venture capital initially supporting an early stage vehicle at SoftBank Opportunity Fund (now Open Opportunity Fund), where she helped deploy over $125M into early stage companies (this fund is a top quartile performer amongst its vintage).
Throughout her venture career she has backed unicorn companies such as QuickNode, Notion, Replit, and Zipline, along with emerging high growth startups including FlutterFlow, Upwardli, and Subject Learning. She has also backed creator-led and culturally significant projects from figures such as Snoop Dogg and Alicia Keys.
De’Havia spent the past several years working with Serena Williams at her venture firm, Serena Ventures, where she helped Serena manage Fund I of $111M and contributed to sourcing, diligence, portfolio support, and fund operations. Her work has earned national recognition including HBCUvc Emerging Leader in Venture Capital, Atlanta Inno Under 25, and multiple placements on the Alpha Partners Rising Star List. She has also spoken at leading institutions and global stages such as the New York Stock Exchange, Yale University, and GITEX Dubai.
De’Havia is committed to expanding access to education and entrepreneurship. She sits on the Associate Board of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity. She previously served on the Atlanta Board of BLCK VC and on the investment committees for the HBCUvc Pre-Seed Fund and the BLK Foundation.
She is an HBCU graduate of Florida A&M University with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting.
Closing reception
Friday, April 11th, 2026
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Note: Registering for the 2026 Closing Reception Coming Soon!
The Location - yale school of management
The Yale School of Management (SOM) is the graduate business school of Yale University located in New Haven, Connecticut
41.3153° N
72.9206° W
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