All Roads Lead to Chaco Canyon
Technology, Trade, and the Future
World-class knowledge. Shared conversations. Stronger communities.
Where knowledge, culture, and community meet.
All Roads Lead to Chaco Canyon is The ACES School’s flagship educational gathering—bringing tribal leaders, entrepreneurs, scholars, attorneys, business leaders, policymakers, educators, and the public into one shared conversation.
You do not need to be Indigenous or arrive with an understanding of tribal history or law. Come with questions. Leave with knowledge, new relationships, and a deeper understanding of the opportunities shaping Native Nations today.
A meeting place with a long memory
Long before European contact, extensive trade networks connected Indigenous nations across the western hemisphere. Chaco Canyon was a major hub. Archaeological evidence—including cacao, copper, turquoise, pottery, obsidian, macaw feathers, and seashells from distant coasts—reveals the extraordinary reach of those relationships.
All Roads carries that history forward. The gathering explores how Native Nations can strengthen sovereignty, renew commerce, build sustainable economies, and create new relationships without losing sight of culture and community.
Come with questions.
Leave with relationships.
All Roads is built for conversation, not passive observation. Speakers bring deep expertise, but the exchange continues through extensive questions, candid discussion, shared meals, and informal connections.
People who may arrive unsure of what to ask often find those barriers disappearing. By the end of the gathering, attendees from very different backgrounds have learned together, exchanged ideas, and begun relationships that can continue long after the final session.
Technology, Trade, and the Future
In 2026, All Roads asks how Native Nations can shape what comes next in an economy increasingly transformed by technology.
Sovereignty and law
How strong legal foundations and modern institutions can support self-determination, investment, and lasting economic growth.
Technology and infrastructure
How emerging tools, digital systems, and infrastructure can expand opportunity while protecting community interests.
Trade and new markets
How Native Nations and entrepreneurs can build strategic partnerships, access capital, and pursue markets near and far.
Different backgrounds.
One shared table.
Indigenous knowledge is at the center of the conversation, and everyone has a seat at the table.
Serious ideas. Practical conversations.
The road to 2026
Doing Business in the Navajo Nation
Federal Indian law, taxation, business registration, land access, private-sector growth, and a Navajo presidential forum.
Renewing Indigenous Economies
Capital, cooperatives, creative enterprise, international trade, data sovereignty, infrastructure, and chapter economics.
Law, Trade, and Community Economics
Local governance, courts, taxation, historic trade, business law, community data, and access to capital.
Navigating Streams of the Digital Economy
Digital jurisdiction, fintech, data centers, online gaming, artificial intelligence, and culture in the digital age.
Technology, Trade, and the Future
The next chapter: carrying a long tradition of Native commerce into a rapidly changing modern economy.
Choose your place along the route.
Sponsorship keeps registration affordable, supports scholarships, meals, speaker travel, and educational materials, and brings tribal and business leaders into the same room.
Obsidian
$750
- Name listed in conference materials, on the ACES website, and sponsor signage
- Verbal recognition during the conference
Copper
$1,500
- All Obsidian benefits
- Logo in the conference program, sponsor webpage, and signage
- Sponsor acknowledgement on ACES social media
Abalone Shell
$2,500
- All Copper benefits
- Logo included in selected conference emails
- Special recognition during opening and closing remarks
Turquoise
$5,000
- All Abalone Shell benefits
- Prominent logo placement on primary signage and program sponsor pages
- Featured social media acknowledgement
- Brief welcome remarks during a designated meal or break
- Recognition in post-conference acknowledgements
Cacao
$15,000+
- All Turquoise benefits
- Recognition as a Cacao Sponsor of the conference
- Premier logo placement on conference materials and primary signage
- Brief welcome remarks during the opening session or networking reception
Other ways to sponsor
Breakfast, lunch, and networking reception sponsorships include event recognition, logo placement, and verbal acknowledgement. Reception sponsors may also provide brief welcoming remarks.
Vendor & exhibitor tables
Reserve a six-foot table with two chairs and a wastebasket for $25. Space is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Talk with Sara Austin
Event Coordinator
skaustin@theacesschool.com
(520) 239-6927
Everyone has a seat at the table.
Join The ACES School at OKANA Resort for two days of learning, conversation, and connection.