Women in Business Networking is bringing its annual Leadership Conference back to Sinclair Community College on Nov. 10, with organizers expecting nearly 300 women to turn out for a day built around speakers, interactive learning and networking. The one-day event is the latest edition of a gathering the Dayton-area organization holds every year to connect local professional women.
According to WKEF, the 2026 Leadership Conference will feature speakers, interactive learning and opportunities to connect with nearly 300 women at Sinclair Community College. Sheri Sword, the organization’s executive director, is expected to share more details about what attendees can expect and how to register, per the same report.
A Conference Built on Four Pillars
Women in Business Networking describes its programming as resting on four pillars: education, resources, recognition and connections, according to bbb.org. The organization says its 2026 Leadership Conference is designed to provide personal inspiration and practical action items for attendees, the same source notes.
The scale of the event isn’t new. WiBN says more than 300 women gather each year at its leadership conference for keynote talks and breakout sessions, per bbb.org’s description of the organization’s programming. That figure lines up with the nearly 300 attendees organizers are anticipating for this year’s gathering at Sinclair.
A Yearly Tradition at Sinclair
The conference has become something of a fixture at the Dayton-area community college. The 2023 Women in Business Networking Leadership Conference was held on a Tuesday morning at Sinclair Community College, and a report on that event described the gathering as something held every year to inspire hundreds of local professional women and help them make connections. A keynote speaker that year told WKEF the conference answers all kinds of questions for women wanting to get into business, and the same 2023 report noted that the following year’s conference was already in the works.
That follow-up arrived in 2024, when the WiBN Leadership Conference was scheduled for Nov. 12, running from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., also at Sinclair Community College. The structure of this year’s event, a single day of programming at the same campus, tracks closely with that recent history.
Registration Details Still to Come
What attendees will pay to join this year’s conference hasn’t been made public. Past years offer only a partial picture: a 2020 virtual version of the conference, held Sept. 23 through 25 that year, advertised networking with more than 300 women and 11 speakers, with registration listed at $79 for students and job seekers, $99 for WiBN or BBB members, and $129 for non-members, according to wyso.org. Those figures date back several years and don’t reflect confirmed pricing for the Nov. 10 event at Sinclair.
For now, organizers are pointing attendees toward Sword for specifics on what to expect and how to sign up, with the conference itself set to bring together nearly 300 women on Sinclair’s campus in just over a week.
