NFS 2025 SCHEDULE

AGENDA

Tuesday May 6

12-2:30 PM | Check In & Credentialing

3:00 PM | Welcome & Opening Plenary 

🫀 Dean Kamen – With over 1000 patents to his name, Dean is the most prolific inventor of our time and will take the stage to reveal his newest innovations in health, electrified transport, security, and robotics.

3:30 PM | Capsule One: Bio-Logical

Dr. Dean Ornish + 4 Leaders in Longevity
🧠 From BioTech startups working on ways to regenerate human organs to breakthrough treatments for Alzheimer's, these medicine vanguards will blow your mind and extend your life.

5 PM | Capsule Two: Eco-Fab
💚 Explore how the future gets fabricated with style, sizzle, and zero landfill. You’ll even get a taste of UPSIDE Food’s & Air Protein's latest offerings.

6:30 PM | Chef’s Kiss Dinner
🌿 Former head chef of Noma and El Bulli, Søren Westh and other culinary geniuses share a menu that’s climate-conscious, continent-spanning, and light years from cliché. Expect plant-based sushi, regenerative delicacies, of course, an ecofabulous caviar bar, and culinary compositions that challenge what we call food—and what we call genius.

Wednesday May 7

7:30AM | Morning Movement or Reflection

9:00 AM | Right BrAIn Breakfast
🧠 A breakfast conversation about ethics in the age of AI, led by Jonathan Haidt, acclaimed author of Anxious Generation.

10:15 AM | Modern Family
🏡 This group of exhilarating startups will share new consumer solutions, from language learning to memory stimulation, that reimagine care for every generation.

11:45 AM | Fireside Chat (some of the hottest fire hardening, response, and rebuilding solutions)

12:45 PM | Lunch with a Past Presenter & Adventuring

3:00 PM | Gimme Shelter
🏗️ From 3D-printed buildings to eco-seawalls, these startups showcase protection with purpose—and style. Plus, a brilliant announcement by Ben Davis, mastermind of the San Francisco Bay Lights project.

 4:30 PM | Super Charged
🔋 Plug into the bold side of climate tech as we explore modern nuclear, AI to accelerate the discovery of geothermal heat, and a world premiere of Yves Behar’s new electric vehicle, that you can see and touch.

6:00 PM | Love Camp Jamboree
🏕️ Throw on your cutest cozy flannel for a delectable dinner, drum circle, BeLove bar, s’mores station and Dirty Cookie shots, and campfire singalong that with excite all of your senses.

Thursday May 8

7:30AM | Morning Movement or Reflection

9:00 AM | Age of Regeneration
🌱 An epic breakfast deep dive on land stewardship and soil repair featuring Lynne Twist and Dr.Zach Bush.

10:00 AM | Breakout Sessions

• Trip Advisors
  🧠 Explore the cutting edge of psychedelic medicine—where science, healing, and storytelling come together. A grounded look at journeys that open the mind and mend it.

• Love Notes 
  💕A musical love fest with NYU’s most popular professor Dr. Megan Poe and her life and percussion partner Brian Rosenworcel (Drummer of Guster).

• Circular Synch
  ♻️Join Unreasonable and Elemental and our incredible clean design experts to learn what’s knitting in the world of circularity.

12:30 PM | Optional Activities

Visit Xanabu
Head down to famed architect David Hertz’s Malibu Hills home and fire resilience lab for a private tour and deeper dive into how to be your own best firefighter.