Recent and upcoming events

Due to the GOP-propaganda-fueled COVID pandemic now entering its third year, with almost one million Americans dead, there are very few real world events taking place in food+tech. I’m focused mostly on resistance and protest, supporting activists fighting the onslaught of fascism and our rapid descent into authoritarianism.

To schedule a short Zoom meeting either to catch up with me (if we know each other), or to introduce yourself (if we do not), you can book a time here: calendly.com/holley-atkinson

The Google calendar below lists events by organizations I support directly as well as others. Below the calendar are Past Events from more organizations with which you might want to connect.

PAST EVENTS

• FoodBytes! Pitch by Rabobank - next-gen pitch competition-meets-networking-and-discovery platform in food & ag innovation

  • FoodBytes! Pitch Virtual 2020 | Dec 2, 2020 - watch the archived event, livestream here

  • FoodBytes! Pitch 2021 | Oct-Dec 2021

  FoodFuture Co - World’s First Scale-Up Accelerator in Food, Agriculture, Social, and Environmental Entrepreneurship

  • Cohort 8: applications now open (deadline January 22, 2021) for a 5-month program (March 1-July 30, 2021

  Food Tech Connect - The Reimagining Food Retail Conversation Series

  • A 4-part interactive conversation series exploring how innovations in commerce, content and community will transform the industry: register here (kickoff 12/10/20; then 1/21/21, 2/4/21, 2/18/21)

• FoodBytes! Chicago | Sept 19, 2019

• FoodBytes! London | Nov 7, 2019

• Food+Tech Meetup "Fail Friday (on a Wednesday): Food Startups Share Lessons Learned" | Wed June 13, 2018 @ Kickstarter HQ

• FoodBytes! Montreal | Thu May 16, 2018 @ New City Gas, Montreal

• The 2018 Slow Down | Supported our Urban Harvest programs w/kids and honored Chef Michael Anthony of Gramercy Tavern & Union Square Hospitality Group | Tue May 8, 2018 @ God's Love We Deliver

• FoodBytes! San Francisco | Thu March 1, 2018 @ The Village, San Francisco

• Culinary Historians of NY: Chocolate Making in New York: A Colonial History with Chef Michael Laiskonis | Mon Feb 12, 2018 @ Institute of Culinary Education

• Culinary Historians of NY: "Food on the Page: Cookbooks and American Culture" with Megan Elias | Mon Nov 13, 2017

• The 2017 Slow Down | Supported our Urban Harvest programs w/kids and honored June Russell of Greenmarket Grains | Wed Nov 8, 2017 @ Project Farmhouse

• Food Book Fair | Sun-Mon May 1-2 2016 @ Wythe Hotel

• Food + Enterprise Summit 2016 | Fri-Sat April 8-9 2016 @ Pfizer Building | Connecting Entrepreneurs and Investors to finance a better local food system | Join me at the Jeffersonian Dinner on Friday and the Expert Exchange speed coaching session on Saturday.

• Chefs Collaborative 7th Annual Summit, "Good Food Is Smart Business" | Sun-Tues April 10-12 2016 @ NYU | The intersections of good food, the environment, finance, workers rights, technology, and public policy through main stage conversations with expert speakers, collaborative meals, and hands-on workshops in kitchens across New York.

• Sustain Conference 2016 | Mon-Tues March 14-15 2016 @ Dover Downs | Bringing together the hospitality and food service industry’s most forward thinking innovators

• Food+Tech Meetup: "How Tech Is Revolutionizing Restaurant Operations" | Wed Feb 17 2016 7pm @ LMHQ

• "Food and Farm Wages: Exploring Pay Equity in our Food System" | Tuesday Feb 9 2016 6:30pm @ Brooklyn Winery

• Techstars Metro Accelerator with R/GA | August 2015 - January 2016 in Berlin | Mentor in the Techstars METRO Accelerator Program supporting digital transformation in restaurants, hotels and catering companies. Eleven international startup teams were in Berlin for three months. Demo day was Thursday, January 28, 2016.

• Food+Tech Meetup "Future of Food Holiday Bash" | Tues Dec 15 7:00p @ Redwood Studios

• Samuel Adams "Brewing the American Dream" Speed Coaching Event | Mon Nov 16 2015 7:00p @ Berg'n

• Food+Tech Meetup: "Fail Friday (On A Thursday): Food Startups Share Lessons Learned" | Thurs Nov 12 2015 7:00p @ Force Brands | Another phenomenal evening of presentations. It's not easy being a food innovator. There's no road map for reinventing an industry. So, in partnership with Force Brands: FoodForce | BevForce, we cooked up the Fail Friday series to celebrate failure in all its glory. At our fifth installment of Fail Friday, we heard from Farmigo, Lawless Jerky, Hungryroot and more, with lots of snacks from Better Beast, Red Velvet NYC, Mama O's Kimchi, drinks from Innis & Gunn and Slow and Low whiskey, plus lots of networking.

• German Food Startups Meetup | Tues Nov 10 7:00p in Berlin --> Danielle Gould made a guest appearance at the "Berlin Food Startups Event: Convenience Food 2.0" as the Food+Tech Meetup network expands to Berlin and beyond...

• Food+Tech Meetup: "The Business of Alternative Protein" | Thurs Oct 1 2015 7:00p @ LMHQ | Another phenomenal evening of presentations, with the teams from Exo Protein, New Harvest, and Sani &c. Lots of networking, with drinks and nibbles from Taste Wine Company, Ox Verte, Pure Genius Provisions and Better Beast.

• A Better World By Design | 3-day conference Sept 25-27, 2015 @ Brown University/RISD, Providence RI

• Slow Food NYC's Annual Party & Fundraiser, the "(S)low Down" | Wed Sept 9, 2015 6:30p @ Wythe Hotel

• Food+Tech Meetup: "Fail Friday (on a Thursday): Food Startups Share Lessons Learned" | Thurs Aug 20 2015 7:00p @ Force Brands | Another phenomenal evening of presentations from Jeff Rubenstein (WTR MLN WTR), Alice Cheng (Culinary Agents), Kate Galassi (formerly Quinciple, now Natoora), Radha Agrawal (Super Sprowtz) &c. with snacks from food360, Legally Addictive Foods and Pure Genius Provisions, cocktails from The 86 Company and lots of networking

• Fail Friday (on a Thursday): Food Startups Share Lessons Learned" | Thurs June 25, 2015 7:00p @ Force Brands | An evening of presentations from Food52, Sir Kensington's, Delivery.com &c; great networking, and great food and drink from Brooklyn Delhi, Zodiac Vodka, more

• Food+Tech Meetup: "How Nutrition Tech Personalizes Eating" | Tues June 16, 2015 6:30p @ R/GA Accelerator Space | Evening of presentations from Ingredient1, Edamam, Power Supply, & more; great networking, and great food and drink from Ox Verte, Meal Maison, Brewla and Krunch Kitchen | Also: Presentation of METRO Techstars food & hospitality accelerator program

• Slow Food NYC 4th Annual Spirits of New York | Mon June 15 7p @ McCarren Hotel | Slow Food NYC and The McCarren Hotel presented the fourth annual Spirits of New York Event featuring spirits made in New York, with most ingredients grown and produced in New York or, otherwise, fair/direct traded

• Food+Tech Meetup: "The Business of On-Demand Food" | Wed May 27, 2015 7p @ Brooklyn Winery | The on-demand food tech space is on fire. Start-ups that deliver cooked meals, recipe kits and groceries at the tap of a button are cropping up constantly and many are raising $25M+ funding rounds left and right

• Food Start-up Branding 101 Bootcamp | Sat May 16, 2015 9a-5p @ Grind Workspace | Food Tech Ed from Food Tech Connect mounted an invaluable all-day food start-up branding workshop teaching the fundamentals of making your brand stand out | Sign up for an online version here

• Food+Tech Meetup: "Fundraiser/Party for Jimmy's No 43" | Wed Apr 30, 2015 7p @ Jimmy's No 43 | Community support for Jimmy's to rebuild after the East Village explosion | Sponsors included: Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn Winery, Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain, Quinciple, Food 360, Made By Lukas

• NYC Premiere of "The Breach" | Documentary film about how you can help save the most sustainable wild food left on the planet | Sat Apr 25 6p @ Rubin Museum of Art

• Culinary Historians of New York: "Rules for Eating: Culinary Philosophies from J.J. Rousseau to Michael Pollan" with Rachel Laudan | Mon Apr 13, 2015 @ NYU Food Studies

• Food Book Fair 2015 | Fri Apr 10-Sun Apr 12, 2015 @ Wythe Hotel, Brooklyn | Celebrating the intersection of food culture and food systems — and much, much more

• Food Tech Connect: "Crowdfunding for Food Entrepreneurs Bootcamp" | Sat Mar 28, 2015 @ Projective Space | Learning from pros from Kickstarter, Barnraiser.us, and Exo at this one-day intensive course.

• Food+Tech Meetup: "Fail Friday" | Fri Mar 20, 2015 @ Force Brands | Speakers included Adam Eskin, Dig Inn Seasonal Market and Rick of Rick's Picks

• Culinary Historians of New York: "The Complicated Relationship between Jews and Pork" with Jeffrey Yoskowitz, The Gefilteria | Thu Mar 19, 2015 @ Congregation Rodeph Sholom

• Edible Good Cider | Wed Mar 18, 2015 @ Tribeca Three Sixty°

• Just Food Conference | Sun Mar 15, 2015 @ Teachers College/Columbia University | Conference covering over 40 different topics including farm and food policy issues, approaches to urban agriculture, culinary and food preservation techniques, and community-driven efforts to advance food justice throughout New York City | Keynote by Eric Holt-Giménez, Executive Director of Food First

• Just Food Pre-Conference Networking Reception | Fri Mar 13, 2015 @ One Bryant Park

• Int'l Restaurant Show "5th Annual Farm to City Expo: Going Against the Grain" | Tue Mar 10, 2015 @ Javits Center

• TEDxManhattan "Changing the Way We Eat" | Sat Mar 7, 2015 @ Times Center | Tom Colicchio, Danielle Nierenberg, and more

• Food+Enterprise Summit #FE2015 | Fri Feb 27-Sun Mar 1, 2015 @ Industry City, Brooklyn | Presented by North East Foodshed Finance Alliance (NEFFA), a network of organizations + individuals seeking to bring about food system change through financing the growth of a localized sustainable food marketplace | Entrepreneurship Clinic, Pitch Competition, Anatomy of a Deal, more | Speakers: Judy Wicks, Woody Tasch, Douglas Gayeton...

• Culinary Historians of New York "The Ritual and History of Brunch" with Farha Ternikar | Thu Feb 26, 2015 @ The New School

• We Won. What's Next? Keeping an Audience Engaged After the Big Moment. | Wed Feb 25, 2015 @ Civic Hall

• Chefs Collaborative Power Hour: Antibiotics Misuse in Meat Production | Tue Feb 24, 2015

• Social Media Week NYC | Mon Feb 23-Fri Feb 27, 2015

• Food+Tech Meetup "Happy Hour" | Thu Feb 12, 2015 @ Jimmy's No. 43, NYC

• Slow Food NYC "Food Almanac 2015" | Tue Feb 3, 2015 @ Brooklyn Winery

• Culinary Historians of NY "Inventing Baby Food" with Amy Bentley | Thu Jan 29, 2015 @ The Brooklyn Kitchen

• food+tech Meetup "Fail Friday" |  Thu Dec 11, 2014 @ Force Brands

• Culinary Historians of New York "Whiskey Women" | Mon Dec 8, 2014 @ National Arts Club

• Food+Tech Connect Bootcamp "The Power of Brand: Growing Your Restaurant" | Tue Nov 18, 2014

• Slow Food NYC "Third Annual Spirits of New York" | Tue Nov 18, 2014 @ NY Distilling Co.

For an un-formatted run-on archive of a whole lot of past events you missed, click here :)