Three days. 300 seats. One room built to do five things most conferences promise and never deliver: reconnect you to your purpose, sharpen your strategy, put real capital and real customers in front of you, and hand you a peer circle that holds you accountable long after Houston.
You'll also walk away with two things most conferences never give you: a personal behavioral and cognitive assessment that shows you exactly how you think, work, and lead best and a practical, AMCOB-built guide to closing more deals.
This isn't a conference you attend. It's a weekend you build on for the next ten years.
300 seats. Year one. Small on purpose.
This is the Muslim entrepreneur summit you've been waiting for. With only 300 seats available, it fills fast.
If that's you in Column 1, 300 seats. Every one of them matters.
Claim Your Seat →The LEAD Summit Houston 2026 is packed across three days with high-value programming that goes far beyond the typical seminar experience.
A $1B company founder. A 30-year manufacturing CEO. A Silicon Valley VC. A neuroscience PhD. This is the room, not the highlight reel.
No one shows up, talks for an hour, and leaves. Every speaker works the room with you. That's the standard. If you're on the LEAD Summit stage, you're doing the work alongside everyone else.
Founder & CEO of cart.com
Built a $1B Company in 3 Years
CEO and Co-Owner at Pioneer Service Inc. and M&M Quality Grinding
Manufacturing CEO Aneesa Muthana: 30+ years experience, driving innovation & inclusivity.
Founding Partner, Mentors Fund; Founder & Chairman, Folio3; Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley; Co-Owner, Zareen’s Restaurants
Umair Khan is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, and educator with experience spanning technology, venture capital, entrepreneurship, and hospitality.
Co-Founder @ Menasa
Faruk Bhagani, Menasa Co-Founder, empowers tech growth through ethics, empathy & AI strategy.
Founder - N-BAC | Author of The Art of Managing Up
Nejat H Abdurahman Leadership advisor, Executive coach, and author of The Art of Managing Up.
General Partner & CEO @ Sinbad Capital
Kamal Solaiman General Partner & CEO at Sinbad Capital, and Private Equity leader.
Ph.D. Neuroscience Professional and CEO at FiLiCiTi
Dr. Mohammad Shehata, a neuroscience PhD & CEO at FiLiCiTi, drives innovation.
Principal, Trivium Global / C-level Executive
Sajjad Chowdhry - executive, entrepreneur, and advisor, combines experience with a deep concern for ethical commerce and institutional development.
Principal Attorney, Empowering Legal Solutions PC
Syeda Nazifa Nawroj, Principal Attorney, Empowering Legal Solutions PC. M&A expert, empowering founders
Educator, Coach, and Founder at Deeper Muslim
Adnan Adrian Wood-Smith, Award-winning educator, coach, and founder of Deeper Muslim, inspiring leadership.
Founder & Chief Learning Officer at DiversityWealth
Tasnim Benhalim, Founder & Chief Learning Officer at DiversityWealth, a dynamic speaker on diversity & inclusion.
Founder and CEO at Game Changer Mindsets
Assad Koshul, CPA & CEO of Game Changer Mindsets, empowers leaders with sports-based strategies.
Founder at Q Line Media
Ayesha Qureshi, Q Line Media Founder, empowers businesses with cost-effective, results-driven marketing.
Certified EOS Implementer® | Leadership Coach
Helping entrepreneurs and leadership teams gain clarity, strengthen accountability, and execute with discipline.
Emcee
Communication Strategist, Host and Public Relations Coordinator, Chicago PD
Communications strategist specializing in executive, crisis, and internal communications, with extensive leadership experience at the Chicago Police Department.
CEO, and Digital Marketing Expert
Mouneeb Shahid, CEO and Digital Marketing Expert, empowering businesses to thrive.
Co-Founder @ Menasa
Faruk Bhagani, Menasa Co-Founder, empowers tech growth through ethics, empathy & AI strategy.
Founder - N-BAC | Author of The Art of Managing Up
Nejat H Abdurahman Leadership advisor, Executive coach, and author of The Art of Managing Up.
General Partner & CEO @ Sinbad Capital
Kamal Solaiman General Partner & CEO at Sinbad Capital, and Private Equity leader.
Ph.D. Neuroscience Professional and CEO at FiLiCiTi
Dr. Mohammad Shehata, a neuroscience PhD & CEO at FiLiCiTi, drives innovation.
Principal, Trivium Global / C-level Executive
Sajjad Chowdhry - executive, entrepreneur, and advisor, combines experience with a deep concern for ethical commerce and institutional development.
Principal Attorney, Empowering Legal Solutions PC
Syeda Nazifa Nawroj, Principal Attorney, Empowering Legal Solutions PC. M&A expert, empowering founders
Educator, Coach, and Founder at Deeper Muslim
Adnan Adrian Wood-Smith, Award-winning educator, coach, and founder of Deeper Muslim, inspiring leadership.
Founder & Chief Learning Officer at DiversityWealth
Tasnim Benhalim, Founder & Chief Learning Officer at DiversityWealth, a dynamic speaker on diversity & inclusion.
Founder and CEO at Game Changer Mindsets
Assad Koshul, CPA & CEO of Game Changer Mindsets, empowers leaders with sports-based strategies.
Founder at Q Line Media
Ayesha Qureshi, Q Line Media Founder, empowers businesses with cost-effective, results-driven marketing.
Certified EOS Implementer® | Leadership Coach
Helping entrepreneurs and leadership teams gain clarity, strengthen accountability, and execute with discipline.
Emcee
Communication Strategist, Host and Public Relations Coordinator, Chicago PD
Communications strategist specializing in executive, crisis, and internal communications, with extensive leadership experience at the Chicago Police Department.
CEO, and Digital Marketing Expert
Mouneeb Shahid, CEO and Digital Marketing Expert, empowering businesses to thrive.
We could sell 1,000 seats and make more money doing it. We're capping this at 300 because a room of 1,000 produces business cards. A room of 300 produces relationships you'll still be calling in five years. That's the trade we're making, and it's the reason this isn't for everyone, it's for the 300 who move first.
You won't just collect business cards, you'll close deals, find your next hire, meet your next investor, and leave with a peer group that checks in on your goals in October, not just in September.
Full access to a single day of your choice — Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.
Lock in this rate before the price goes up.
All sales are final. Tickets are non-refundable.
Here's exactly what 48 hours looks like. No filler. No 'networking break' that's actually dead time.
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The LEAD Summit Houston Expo is built into the fabric of the summit. Over three days, the expo floor puts you face-to-face with businesses, service providers, and decision-makers who are there for one reason: to do business.
This isn't a trade show floor with 200 tables and foot traffic that never converts. It's a curated room of 300 buyers. This is one of the most targeted business networking events in Houston.
Reserve before Monday, September 14, 2026. Booth count is capped to keep the floor curated, not crowded.
LEAD Summit is AMCOB's flagship annual event, a premium Muslim business conference and seminar experience for founders, CEOs, and executives. The AMCOB LEAD Summit 2026 takes place September 18–20 in Houston, TX, bringing together 300 of the most motivated Muslim business leaders in the country.
The AMCOB summit is designed for Muslim founders, CEOs, and senior executives who are ready to scale, connect, and build with intention. If you're serious about your business, this is your room.
No. The LEAD Summit is open to all qualified professionals. That said, AMCOB members receive exclusive discounts.
No. Only registered summit attendees and credentialed press can access the expo floor. This keeps the environment focused and the conversations valuable.
Absolutely. The AMCOB LEAD Summit welcomes Muslim women founders and executives and is intentionally designed to support diverse voices within the Muslim business community. Networking events for women entrepreneurs are embedded throughout the program.
Email info@amcob.org with a short note about your work and what you would bring to the room. Speaker slots for 2026 are largely filled, but we are always open to the right voice. Partnership and sponsorship details are available on request.
One good introduction, a customer, a hire, an investor, pays for the seat many times over. You're also walking away with two tangible tools: a personal behavioral and cognitive assessment and a practical sales guide you can put to work the following week, not just memories from three days in Houston. Attendees consistently tell us the peer relationships alone outlast the balance sheet math. If you're weighing $950 against three days with 300 of the most driven Muslim business leaders in the country, that's the actual comparison.
All sales are final. Tickets are non-refundable.
I've sat in enough rooms to know the difference between one that performs community and one that actually holds it.
Most business conferences hand you a lanyard, a schedule, and a feed full of people you'll never speak to again. We didn't want to build that. We wanted a room where you could be a serious entrepreneur and a person of faith without translating yourself in either direction - where growing your business and growing your purpose were the same conversation, not two competing ones.
AMCOB exists because too many of us have built successful companies while quietly wondering if success was ever really the point. The LEAD Summit is our answer to that question, compressed into 48 hours: a room built for founders who want to close deals on Saturday and still recognize themselves on Sunday.
We didn't build this to fill seats. We built it because the entrepreneurs in our community deserve one weekend a year that's entirely theirs.
I hope you'll be in the room.
Three days. 300 leaders. One city. One weekend that either includes you, or doesn't.
This is the Muslim business summit that belongs on your calendar - not the one you tell people you meant to attend.
All sessions, keynotes & workshops
