Progress Seminar Program Update

Our planning team has worked thoughtfully to develop an agenda focused on timely and impactful issues that call for meaningful community dialogue.  Below is a brief overview of this year’s Progress Seminar session topics:

General Sessions

• Leading with Trust: How Confidence in Government, Public Institutions and Each Other is Essential for our Shared Prosperity
• Leading with Innovation: Keeping San Mateo County America’s Biotech Capital
• Leading and Collaborating Together: Strengthening the Peninsula’s Three Counties

Breakout Sessions

• Continued Progress on the Horizon: What’s Holding Us Back?
• Addressing our Regional Transit Crisis: Ballot Measure Funding, Accountability & Efficiency, and Transit Transformation
• Building with Backbone: Confronting the Forces that Limit, Frustrate and Stop Housing Development
• Integration, not Elimination: AI and the Transformation of How We Work

Attendees won’t want to miss any of these stellar sessions of engaging conversations with regional leaders and experts!

Connect
The Progress Seminar is also filled with countless formal and informal opportunities to connect and network with leaders, dreamers and doers across all sectors of San Mateo County. There’s nothing more impactful than authentic engagement in-person and in real time. Take advantage of the moment!

The event program for the 2026 Progress Seminar can be accessedhere.

Join us for the 2026 Progress Seminar: April 17-19, 2026

2026 Progress Seminar
April 17-19, 2026
Hyatt Regency Sonoma Wine Country
Santa Rosa, CA