# Take The Lead's Power Up 2026 — full profile

See llms.txt for the short index of pages. This file adds the facts an AI
engine would otherwise have to piece together from several pages at once.
Every fact below is already published elsewhere on this site (its JSON-LD,
its rendered copy, or both) — this file restates none of it as a new claim,
and states no price and no on-sale figure (see llms.txt's note on why).

## The event

- Name: Take The Lead's Power Up 2026
- Status: took place August 25–26, 2026. Ticket sales have closed; this site
  is now the record of the conference.
- Theme: Audacity: Leadership in Action
- Tagline: Define your purpose. Own your power. Achieve parity.
- Dates: August 25–26, 2026. Day 2 (Aug 26) lands on Women's Equality Day.
- Framework: Built around Take The Lead's 9 Leadership Power Tools.
- Hashtag: #PowerUp2026

## Two venues — never one

Day 1 (Aug 25, Opening Night): **The Square**, 1850 K St NW, Washington, D.C.
Day 2 (Aug 26): **The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C.** These are two separate
buildings thirteen blocks apart, not one venue across two days — see /venue
for Day 2's address and travel details, and /agenda for the day-by-day
programme at each. Any statement that attributes both days to a single venue
is wrong.

## The organizer

- Take The Lead — a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, founded 2014.
- Mission: gender parity in leadership, co-founded by Gloria Feldt.
- Address: 322 West 57th St, 45M, New York, NY 10019
- General contact: takethelead@taketheleadwomen.com
- Sponsorship contact: sponsorships@taketheleadwomen.com
- Website: https://www.taketheleadwomen.com
- Newsletter: https://www.taketheleadwomen.com/email-signup
- Donate: https://www.taketheleadwomen.com/donate-page

## Social

- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/takeleadwomen/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/take-the-lead-women
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TakeTheLeadWomen/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZl11QaDjj_AUpjw_5SBCkw
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/taketheleadwomen.bsky.social

## Featured speakers

Margaret Atwood and Gloria Feldt lead the published programme; Gloria Feldt is
Take The Lead's co-founder, and the programme lists her as conducting the
Aug 26 fireside conversation. The full, current roster — including every other
speaker on the programme, their bios and sessions — lives at /speakers and its
individual /speakers/[slug] pages; this file intentionally does not enumerate
the roster, since a name added or withdrawn in the Studio would make a copy
here stale within the hour.

## Sales: closed

Ticket, table, exhibitor and sponsorship sales for Power Up 2026 have closed,
and so has the Aug 26 hotel room block. This file restates no price, rate or
deadline from any of them. /tickets, /sponsor, /exhibit, /sheposium and /venue
are the pages to read for what the site still shows.

## After the conference

- Newsletter: https://www.taketheleadwomen.com/email-signup — Take The Lead's
  weekly newsletter, for updates and conference follow-up.
- Donate: https://www.taketheleadwomen.com/donate-page
- The home page (/) carries Take The Lead's post-conference note and links.

## Maintenance

Static file under `public/`, not editable from the Studio — see llms.txt's
Maintenance section for the standing rule. Update this file's structural
facts (venues, organizer, social handles) only when the underlying source in
`src/data/event.ts` changes, and never add a price, a speaker count, or a
sponsor name here — those belong on the live pages that read them from the
overlay-aware accessors, not in a static file that cannot self-update.