The 2013 Feast Conference

We’re done waiting for the world to change.

The Feast Conference gathers remarkable entrepreneurs, radicals, doers and thinkers who bring their talents to the table to make life better. This is a conference for makers and visionaries. Our speakers don’t just speak, they challenge the audience with some of the most important and ambitious challenges in the world. Our attendees, don’t just sit back. They roll-up their sleeves and create solutions in response.

The result? Less talking and more doing, less transactions and more relationship, less listening and more learning. All this in an intimate open atmosphere that comes from creating solutions together.

A New Kind of Conference: Challenges, Toolkits, Roundtables
This year’s Feast Conference (October 16-18, NYC) is a hands-on two day immersive experience that includes:

  • A full day of talks from remarkable leaders, up-and-coming innovators and the pioneers of tomorrow’s business and society
  • Official Feast Challenges presented by select speakers and partners
  • Tool and Tactics for you to learn through application and to take away with you in your work and life
  • Hands-on workshopping responses to the challenge where you’ll apply your learning to build solutions and lifelong relationships in the process
  • Participants as speaker through opportunities to present your ideas and fruit of your workshop
  • Hackathons bringing together the best from the world’s tech community to build tools to help target communities in need
  • Drinks and networking events and activities to connect you to who you need to know
  • An incredible “Feast Feast” finale dinner featuring local chefs, farm-to-table food and experiences shared with more than 500 other groups world-wide
  • Your ideas at the center of hundreds of satellite events taking place around the world on the same day as part of The Feast Worldwide.

 

A Few of Last Year’s Speakers

Arcade Fire
Grammy Award-Winning Band

Beth Comstock
Chief Marketing Officer Senior Vice President, GE

Bre Pettis
CEO, Makerbot

Mark Bezos
Senior Vice President at Robin Hood

Gillian Ferrabee
Creative Director, Cirque du Soleil

James Adams
Deputy Chief Technologist, NASA

Neil Blumenthal
Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Warby Parker

Paul Farmer, MD, PhD
Founding Director, Partners In Health

Ai-jen Poo
Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance

Benjamin Salka
Co-Founder and CEO, Story Pirates

Catherine Rohr
Founder and CEO, Defy Ventures

Dan Barasch
Co-Founder, The Lowline

Geoffrey West
Professor and Former President, Santa Fe Institute

Joseph Cohen
CEO, Lore

Scott Heiferman
CEO & Co-Founder, Meetup

Whurley
General Manager, Chaotic Moon Labs