What is the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting?
The Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting is the globally leading event for long-term investors. It traditionally takes place on the first Saturday in May in Omaha, Nebraska.
At least once in the life, the meeting is definitely worth visiting for every long-term investor. This will help you to understand the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting better. Easily discover more by clicking on the table of contents:
- What is the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting?
- When does the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting usually take place?
- Why is it worth visiting this Annual Meeting?
- Who is participating in the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting?
- Where in Omaha does the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting take place?
- What are miles stones of the Berkshire Hathaway AGM?
- Who is Berkshire Hathaway?
What can you expect from this Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting site?
Hey Berkshire Hathaway fan!
I am Tilman, a BRK AGM fan and passionate investor. Since 2019, I have also been to Omaha several times. I have also more than 300 Plus community members to enjoy their AGM visit greatly during our conference.
Based on these experiences and countless hours of research, I have created this website segment to help you to enjoy your stay in your Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting visit even more. Here, you will find a ton of insights about the meeting.
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When does the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting usually take place?
The Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting takes place on the first Saturday of May or the last Saturday of April. Here, you can find the dates of the last ten Annual Meetings:
| 2025: Saturday, May 3 2024: Saturday, May 4 2023: Saturday, May 6 2022: Saturday, April 30 2021: Saturday, May 1 | 2020: Saturday, May 2 2019: Saturday, May 4 2018: Saturday, May 5 2017: Saturday, May 6 2016: Saturday, April 30 |
Based on my research, there is a rule for picking the date of the AGM: Usually, it is on the first Saturday in May. Though, it will be moved to the last Saturday in April, if the first Saturday in May is Mother’s day.
When is the next Berkshire Hathaway AGM?
The next Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting is planned on 02 May 2026. You can learn more about the upcoming meeting and the side events on my Berkshire Hathaway Annual meeting 2026 guide.
How can I participate in the Berkshire AGM?
You will need to get a ticket. You can easily learn how to get a ticket in my guide for the next Berkshire Hathaway AGM 2026.
How can I get to Omaha?
You have plenty of opportunities to get to Omaha for the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting. Most shareholders will fly, but you can also get by train, car or bus to Omaha. Learn more about all travel option in my travel guide.
What can I do in Omaha during my visit?
Omaha is offering you plenty of options to enrich your stay for the BRK AGM. To get to know the awesome food scene, neighborhoods and places to visit and more, please discover more in my Omaha guide.
Why is it worth visiting this Annual Meeting?
The Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting is the “largest trade-fair for Value Investors”. The event is visited by 30,000 to 40,000 shareholders yearly. A unique set of events makes the trip to Omaha attractive. You can get insights in them here:
What can I learn from the Berkshire Hathaway Q&A?
The Q&A is a great chance to learn more about Berkshire Hathaway, the unique culture of the holding company and what is happening at the subsidiaries.
The Q&A is kept in a simple, but powerful format: After an short introduction that gives insights into the current development of the business, shareholders have the chance to ask their questions to the panel on the stocks. Either these questions are curated out of a pre-selection by journalist Becky Quick or are coming directly from shareholder in the CHI Health Center.
To make you this format better accessible, we have created free transcripts:
- 2025 Annual Meeting transcript
- 2024 Annual Meeting morning session transcript & 2024 Annual Meeting afternoon session transcript
Furthermore, there are several resources that give you access to the Berkshire Hathaway Q&A:
- CNBC shares the ultimate Warren Buffett archive. The Warren Buffet archive captures a ton of video content about Warren Buffett and the Annual Meeting. You can find outtakes from all Annual Meetings since 1994, Warren Buffett & Charly Munger interviews, and documentary and more in it.
- Alex Morris has created the book “Buffett & Munger unscripted“. “Buffett & Munger Unscripted” * captures key topics of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting since 1994 and sorts them around key topics. You can also learn more about the book in our Buffett & Munger Unscripted interview.
- Max Olson has created the Berkshire Hathaway Archive and based on it the Warren Buffett Bot. The Berkshire Hathaway Archive is a searchable collection of all shareholder letters since 1965 and all Annual Meeting transcripts since 1994. The Warren Buffett Bot is built on this data and allows you to “chat with Warren Buffett”.
Which additional investor events can I join?
A large selection of side events take place in the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting week. Participating in them will add a ton of value to every investor. Here are a few yearly recurring events that are on my must-visit list:
- Plus community conference: Our Plus community conference is a great opportunity to you a group of passionate and thoughtful investors. During 20+ events, you can network with fellow investors, have fun and do networking for your fund at the Emerging Managers Meeting. Learn more about the conference here.
- VALUEx BRK: Guy Spier and the team of Aquamarine Capital run VALUEx Berkshire every year. They put together an attractive speaker line-up that give interesting and thought-provoking investing insights.
- Markel Omaha Brunch: The Markel Omaha Brunch takes place on Sunday after the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting. It is a great chance to ask a question to Markel’s Management and network with fellow investors.
You can find more details on these and additional events in my guide for the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 2026.
Which additional Berkshire Hathaway events can I join?
Berkshire Hathaway also offers a ton of discounts for shareholders: Shopping events in the exhibition hall, in the Nebraska Furniture Mart and at Borsheims give you the chance to bargain hunt during your stay in Omaha.
You also have the chance to acquire fun Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger merchandise.
Who is participating in the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting?
Berkshire Hathaway fans and investors from all over the global make their “pilgrimage to Omaha”. Over the last years, I could gather a large enough quantitative and qualitative sample to share some insights into the backgrounds of the yearly 30,000 to 40,000 visitors here with you.
Where do Annual Meeting visitors come from?
The Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting is a truly global event. This is the rough geographical composition of the visitors:
- North America: 60-70% of visitors are from North America. 5-10% of these visitors are coming from Canada.
- Europe: 10-20% of the visitors are European. The UK and the German-speaking countries (Germany, Switzerland and Austria) are representing the largest groups of European visitors.
- Asia: The share of visitors from China and India has also significantly grown during the last years.
Which groups are participating in the Berkshire Hathaway AGM?
What kind of backgrounds do the visitors have? You can meet several different groups at the Berkshire Hathaway weekend in Omaha. I had interactions with members of the following groups:
Berkshire Hathaway employees & friends
Berkshire Hathaway’s subsidiaries management – Berkshire Hathaway invites several hundred managers of their subsidiaries to the Annual Meeting. So, it could easily happen that you engage with managers of Berkshire Hathaway Energy or BNSF during your visit.
Prominent friends of Berkshire Hathaway – Many friends and long-term partners visit Omaha during the Berkshire week. For instance, Bill Gates, Tim Cook, Hillary Clinton or Bill Murray were guests during the last year.
Professional investors
Fund managers and analysts – Established names like Li Lu, Guy Spier, Mohnish Pabrai or Bill Ackmann as well as Emerging Managers visit the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting yearly.
Companies & CEOs – Other listed companies, like Markel or Trupanion, are regularly flocking to Omaha and also hosting events.
Family Offices & Allocators – The Berkshire Meeting is also a gathering place for many family offices and allocators that want to get to know long-term oriented, public equity managers.
Authors, creators and journalists
Authors – There are plenty of investing and Berkshire Hathaway books out there. Many authors of these books make their way to Omaha every year.
Investing creators – Creators and influencers are also regular visitors to the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting. You will have a high chance to meet your favourite creator on the ground.
Journalists – The Berkshire Hathaway Meeting is an event with global news coverage. Therefore, you can also meet journalists and outlets from all over the globe.
Private investors
Retail investors – A lot of retail investors make the trip to Omaha to have a great week with friends, to learn from Berkshire Hathaway or to tick off this bucket list item.
Long-term shareholders – Visiting the BRK AGM is a must for many long-term shareholders. Many of them, like investor Bill Scargle, come every year to Omaha.
Students – Students from different universities visit Omaha during the Berkshire Hathaway weekend.
Locals
Local shoppers – Discount hunters from Nebraska and Iowa also visit Omaha to get great deals in the exhibition hall and at the Nebraska Furniture Mart.
Where can I learn more about perspectives from Berkshire Hathaway shareholders?
There are plenty written reports and even videos and documentaries from a shareholder perspective about the Berkshire Hathaway weekend out there. Here, I want to highlight a few sources:
- Lawrence A. Cunningham’s book “The Warren Buffett Shareholder: Stories from Inside the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting” is a great way to access to different stories from shareholders about their perspective on the BRK AGM. “The Warren Buffett Shareholder *” gives 43 veterans of the meeting the opportunity to share their stories.
- Becky Quick of CNBC has produced a very insightful documentary “Warren Buffett – Investor. Teacher.” It is available for free in the Warren Buffett Archive and portrays several shareholders and participants in the Berkshire Hathaway ecosystem.
- KETV and WOWTV, Omaha’s local news stations, do a great job of capturing voices from shareholders and visitors of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting. You can access them via KETV’s NewsWatch YouTube channel or WOWTV’s First Alert 6 YouTube channel.
Where in Omaha does the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting take place?
The Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting takes place in the CHI Health Center in Omaha, Nebraska. The Center has a capacity of close to 20,000 seats in the arena and offers additional space in the overfill rooms.
The CHI Health Center is located in the east of Omaha. Many other venues where investing-related events happen, like the Hilton or Marriott, are close by. The Old Market, with many restaurants, is also in walkable distance.
Where are important Berkshire Hathaway-related locations in Omaha?
You can find important Berkshire Hathaway-related locations in Omaha on this maps:
What makes Omaha a special location for the BRK Annual Meeting?
Omaha is located on Nebraska’s Eastern border to Iowa. There Omaha is part of the Omaha – Council Bluffs metropolitan area, with more than 1 million inhabitants. Omaha is the home of the headquarters of Berkshire Hathaway, the Kiewit Corporation, Mutual of Omaha and Union Pacific.
Omaha has a special culture of dealing with wealth and money for a city in the US. Wealth is shown very subtle. Status symbols, like expensive cars or big mansions, are rarely seen. Even though, a lot of money is made in Omaha and from Omahians. A part of this wealth is invested back in the city to increase the living quality for all citizens. This behaviour, that is also part of the Buffett philanthropy, contributes to a welcoming culture for the annual meeting.
Furthermore, Berkshire Hathaway has made several locals, who bought their shares early and kept them for the long-term, very wealthy. One public example of many unknown early shareholders is Walter Scott. Walter Scott has founded the Suzanne & Walter Scott foundation that supports charitable causes in Omaha.
The Annual Meeting itself is also a positive factor for Omaha’s local economy. Shareholders spend a ton of money in Omaha for the Berkshire Hathaway and other events. Next to the College World Series, the Berkshire Hathaway weekend is the highlight of the year for tourism in Omaha.
Omaha also has enough capacity to host events for shareholders during the Annual Meeting weekend. Plenty of venues are available for very affordable prices. For instance, running an event in Omaha costs only 1/4 of what it would cost in New York. This makes it quite attractive to “invest” into running an event during the Annual Meeting week.
All these factors combined with the Midwestern friendliness make Omaha a special place for the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting.
What are miles stones of the Berkshire Hathaway AGM?
I could indentifiy these historic milestones of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting for you. To better structure them, I have
1996 – Share split
2003 – Shareholders decide to hold the Annual Meeting on Saturday’s instead of Mondays.
2015 – 50 years
2015 – Record year (50 years book)
2016 – First webcast
2018 & 2019 – New record year
2020 – Annual Meeting without shareholders due to Coronavirus
2022 – The in-person meeting is coming back
2023 – Last Annual Meeting with Charlie Munger
2025 – 60 years
2025 – Warren Buffett announces to step down as CEO and will pass the role on to Greg Abel in January 2026
Where has the Annual Meeting been held in the past?
The Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting had several locations within Omaha that I am sharing with you here. By the way, before moving to Omaha, the meetings took place in an old textile mill of Berkshire Hathaway in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
1973 – 1979: The first Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meetings took place in Omaha. The venue was the Employee Cafeteria of National Indemnity Company in Downtown, Omaha. Berkshire Hathaway acquired this company a few years before. Warren Buffett came back to this cafeteria in an interview with Becky Quick to celebrate 50 years of Berkshire Hathaway.
1980 – 1985: The Annual Meeting moved to the Red Lion Hotel to host more shareholders. During this time, I had already grown to 250 shareholders.
1986 – 1989: The Joslyn Art Museum became the home of the BRK AGM.
1990 – 1994: The Orpheum Theatre became the new home for the Berkshire Hathaway
1996-1996: Holiday Inn Convention Centre
1997-1999: The As-kar-ben Coliseum (demolished today)
2000-2003: The Civic Auditorium
2004 until today – The meeting moved to the CHI Health Center (that was also called Qwest Center or CenturyLink Center in the past).
Source: https://omaha.com/news/nation-world/business/buffett/article_d37762ba-3e0c-5c06-a7fb-cddbd2c5d4a6.html & https://berkshire.memorex.ai
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