Why attend.
Find business opportunities
Meet potential clients, customers and partners from across the community in one place.
Connect with investors
Meet investors and lenders who fund founders and owners, and hear what they look for.
Learn from accomplished leaders
Hear from people who have built companies, raised money and run large teams, and ask them questions.
Build strategic partnerships
Find people to build, hire or expand with, in the United States and in Albania and Kosova.
For Albanian American founders, owners and professionals, men and women of every generation and industry, and the American companies and investors who work with them. You don’t need to speak Albanian, be a registry member, or run a large company.
Three ODA programs.
ODA Talks
Talks from founders, investors and executives, each followed by questions from the audience.
ODA 100
A proposed grant for founders, with five finalists pitching on stage. Not yet approved, and applications are not open.
ODA Think Tank
A National Albanian Registry research program that plans to present its first findings at ODA.
ODA Talks.
Short talks, each followed by questions from the audience.
Who we plan to invite
Founders
People who started and grew their own companies.
Investors and lenders
People who decide which companies get funded.
Executives
Albanian Americans running teams and divisions at large American companies.
Developers and builders
The people behind major real estate and construction projects.
Senior professionals
Doctors, lawyers, engineers and bankers who lead in their field.
Founders in the Balkans
People growing companies in Albania and Kosova who want partners here.
No speakers are confirmed yet. We’ll name them here once they are. Want to speak or join a panel? Tell us.
ODA Think Tank.
A National Albanian Registry research program on three questions.
Economic strength
Where Albanian Americans work, what they own and what they earn, measured instead of guessed.
Coordination
How Albanian organizations in America could work together instead of in parallel.
Brain drain
Why so many young professionals leave Albania and Kosova, and what the diaspora can do about it.
It plans to present its first findings at ODA.
Industry sessions and business showcase.
- Technology
- Finance
- Construction
- Healthcare
- And more
Industry breakouts
Smaller sessions by field, in two rounds through the day, so you meet people in your own line of work.
Real estate and construction
A dedicated session for builders, developers, lenders and their advisers.
Capital
A panel on how founders and owners raise money, and what investors and lenders look for.
Business showcase
Tables where Albanian American companies show their products and services to attendees.
Want a table at the business showcase? Let us know.
Tell us what you want from it+
Agenda.
Saturday, June 5, 2027, at Dream Live at American Dream in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
One full day for 250 to 300 people, in the New York area.
Morning
Registration and main sessions
Check in and meet people, then the main sessions and ODA Talks.
Midday
Lunch and introductions
Lunch, with time set aside for business introductions.
Afternoon
Breakouts and programs
Industry breakouts, ODA 100 if approved, and the Think Tank’s findings.
Evening
Optional networking
For anyone who wants to keep talking after the program ends.
Friday evening, the night before
Welcome reception
A separate event, so you arrive knowing a few people.
Times and program are provisional.
Tickets are $180 early bird through January 31, then $200.
National Albanian Registry members pay $180.
Sponsors.
Sponsors reach 250 to 300 people, most of them Albanian American founders, owners, executives and professionals, and support a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
About ODA.
An oda is the guest room of a traditional Albanian house, where people could speak freely among those they trusted. The name also stands for Opportunity, Direction and Advancement.
ODA is run by the volunteers of the National Albanian Registry, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit counting Albanians in America. The board is unpaid, large decisions need two signatures, and board actions are public. Any surplus goes back into the registry’s work.
Get involved.