First year officially calling it a national conference and the numbers backed it up: out-of-state attendance tripled, and breakout session submissions tripled. Nearly 350+ attendees joined from 17 states.

Keynote Dr. Kendall Taylor, founder of Salute 1st, shared his own story, surviving a shootout as a teenager and multiple felony convictions before building a national platform mentoring men and speaking inside prisons and schools across the country.