The William Blair 46th Annual Growth Stock Conference runs June 2–3, 2026, in Chicago, with the principal session day falling on Wednesday, June 3. Held annually since 1981 at the Loews Chicago Hotel, the conference is among the most established generalist growth-equity forums in the institutional calendar, drawing hundreds of public and private companies and thousands of one-on-one investor meetings across a two-day program.
The conference spans seven sectors: consumer; energy and power technologies; financial services and technology; global services; healthcare; industrials; and technology, media, and communications. Participation is restricted to institutional investors and invited guests, with access to individual presentations and meetings arranged through William Blair’s equity sales relationships. Formal presentations are heavily senior in representation — in prior editions, nearly 99 percent of presenting companies have been represented by their chairman, chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, or chief operating officer.
Confirmed participants for the 2026 edition include NielsenIQ CFO Mike Burwell and Chief Product Officer Troy Treangen, who are scheduled for a fireside chat on June 3 at 10:00 a.m. ET. Ooma CEO Eric Stang and CFO Shig Hamamatsu will host in-person one-on-one investor meetings across June 2–3. Corpay is also among confirmed participants.
The conference’s structural emphasis on one-on-one meetings — more than 5,200 were logged at the 45th edition — distinguishes it from the presentation-forward format of the J.P. Morgan and TD Cowen events earlier in May. The format prioritizes depth of access over breadth of broadcast, making it particularly valuable for investors covering smaller and mid-cap growth names where relationship access to management is harder to replicate through earnings calls alone.
The William Blair conference closes the spring institutional conference cycle for the technology and growth equity sectors, arriving after a dense sequence of May events and ahead of the summer period when investor activity typically contracts.