Collectibles Industry Summit

The Collectibles Industry Summit (also known as the "Vegas Summit" and the "Kit Young Hawaii Show") is an annual trade show held usually in late March that gathers businesses from across all segments of sports collectibles industry into one location. Many of the top manufacturers send representatives to give presentations and provide question and answer sessions to dealers and members of the Hobby press. Unlike The National, there is no card show involved and very few members of the general public attend the event.

Originally organized by veteran card dealer Kit Young, for much of the event's early years the show took place in Hawaii. Now operated by Krause Publications -- the publishers of SCD and Tuff Stuff -- since the mid-00s the conference has commenced in Las Vegas.

One of the highlights of the show are the distribution of "Black Boxes" from the manufacturers to conference attendees. Such boxes usually contain leftover high-end autographs, game-used cards, and low-numbered parallels.