Every year on the first Saturday in May, Omaha becomes the center of the investing universe. The Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting — long nicknamed “Woodstock for Capitalists” — draws tens of thousands of shareholders to the CHI Health Center for the Q&A, and the whole city gets in on it: hotels sell out, restaurants brace, and downtown hums.
The sleeper hit is the Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains, the shareholder-only shopping event where Berkshire subsidiaries sell at deep discounts — Brooks running shoes, See’s Candies, Borsheims jewelry. The lines are part of the experience.
2026 marked a new era, with Greg Abel succeeding Warren Buffett as CEO. The meeting goes on, and Omaha remains its only possible home. You need to own a share to attend, but the city’s energy that weekend is free for everyone.