EDGE Conference

The Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center welcomes EDGE Conference 2026, bringing a leading workforce education event to the heart of Southern California. EDGE 2026 brings together educators, employers, and workforce development practitioners from across the country for three days of hands-on learning, honest conversation, and strategies that move young people through the education-to-workforce pipeline and into careers that last. Hosted at the Long Beach Convention Center July 14–16 and powered by Jobs for America's Graduates, the conference centers the voices of the students and communities too often left out of the policy rooms where decisions get made. Forty years of JAG's evidence built this gathering; the next generation of practitioners will leave it better equipped to act on it.