September Inspiration
BACK TO SCHOOL. BACK TO BUSINESS.
Back to a lineup of extraordinary cultural events and festivals. That’s September in New York City.
We exit summer—to discover in ourselves a new and different drumbeat.
A beacon of that transition for nine years running: the Fast Company Innovation Festival. It is an explosion of inspiration and ideation through innovation.
At the Innovation Festival (taking place September 18–21), Fast Company’s editors and community convene beneath the halo of this brand of extraordinary business impact each fall to forge an unrivaled environment of bold conversations and exchanges dedicated to creativity, tech disruption, and both business and individual transformation.
This year’s festival marks a level of support from our prized partners that the annual event has never before experienced. A record 19 world-class brands have aligned with Fast Company to enlighten, engage, support, and transform the minds, strategies, tactics, careers, roles, and purpose of the festival’s thousands of attendees. Through a lineup of custom programming and experiences that weave organically through the editorial agenda, these companies bring to the fore unique value, insight, and opportunities for growth and development.
With gratitude to these finest of partners: 3M, Assembly, Capital One, Convene, Dow, Ecolab, Expedia Group, GS1 US, Guardant Health, IBM, Janus Henderson Investors, Kenvue, Orangetheory, Pfizer, Publicis Sapient, Purdue University, Shvo, Visa, and VSP Global Innovation Center.
Capital One returns for the second year in a row as the sponsor of the Main Stage.
Thanks to Ecolab’s Innovation Festival sponsorship, Climate Vault, the nonprofit dedicated to reducing CO2 emissions, will neutralize more than 500 metric tons of carbon emissions produced by the 2023 Innovation Festival from the atmosphere.
Once again, Convene is the official venue partner of the festival. Please find me at the Festival Hub at Convene at 225 Liberty Street in lower Manhattan, from September 18–21, and together we can celebrate a new season of innovation.