Food Tank's "All Things Food" at SXSW 2025 (Official)

**Day 1 is SOLD OUT. Partners, speakers, Food Tank members, and special guests can email Kenzie@FoodTank.com. Press passes also available.**

Food Tank, Huston-Tillotson University, and Driscoll's present…

“All Things Food at SXSW 2025” (Official)

Join us all day Thursday, March 13 [SOLD OUT], and Friday, March 14, 2025, in Austin, Texas

Hosted by Barr Mansion (10463 Sprinkle Rd, Austin, TX 78754)

Thank you to Food Tank's co-hosts, Driscoll's, Barr Mansion, and Huston-Tillotson University, as well as our Day 1 Sponsor, Deloitte, and Day 2 Sponsor, Organic Valley!

Thanks to the following brands for making the Summit inspiring and delicious: Ahold Delaize USA, ACC, Applegate, Arva, Atlantic Sea Farms, Aquanaria, Bel, Best Day Brewery, Better Sour, Blk & Bold, Bonterra Organic Estates, Brass Roots, Burlap & Barrel, ButcherBox, Certified Origins, Chicken of the Sea, Daily Crunch Snacks, Daily Harvest, Deloitte, Dr. Bronner's, Driscoll's, Farmer's Fridge, Grace Family Farms Tea Lounge, Guayakí, Hasta la Luna, La Colombe, Little Sesame, Maker’s Mark, Meati, The Mendrin Group, MyMochi, Nature's Fynd, Nature's Path, Niman Ranch, Oddbird, Organic Valley, Parlor Coffee, Quinn, Reverence, Saffron Road, Seremoni, SHAKE SHACK, SIMPLi, Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation, Strong Roots, Swig Cheese Haus, Tangled Bank Studios/HHMI, Tindle, Tony's Chocolonely, Traditional Medicinals, Vista Brewing, and Yolele.

The event will feature a delicious complementary all-day menu, drinks, live performance and entertainment, special interactive experiences on the farmhouse lawn, and 100+ luminary speakers.

See the full two-day schedule HERE.

Watch Day 1 (March 13) on YouTube HERE (starts at 10:30AM CST/11:30AM EST).

Watch Day 2 (March 14) on YouTube HERE (starts at 10:30AM CST/11:30AM EST)

For all attendees, it is truly an extraordinary day!

Before we hit capacity, register here today to join us for "All Things Food" at SXSW 2025 in Austin!

Direct questions to Kenzie at Kenzie@FoodTank.com.

Confirmed speakers include (in alphabetical order, many more names to be announced soon):

-Sam Acho, Author, ESPN Sports Analyst, and NFL Veteran

-Selena Ahmed, Global Director, Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI) and Dean, Food EDU, American Heart Association

-Karin Ascot, Co-Founder, Holocia; Bioregional Leader

-Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO, Feeding America

-Peter Barrett, Writer, Things on Bread

-Cecile Beliot, Global CEO, Bel Group

-Dr. Gary Blackwood, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (ret.), Former Leader of the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program

-Jayson Berryhill, CEO, Wholechain

-Jay Bhatt, Executive Director, The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions

-Joseph Brinkley, Senior Director of Regenerative and Organic Development, Bonterra Organic Estates

-Pat Brown, Founder, Impossible Foods

-Dr. Sweta Chakraborty, CEO of North America, We Don't Have Time

-Joi Chevalier, Chair, Austin Travis County Food Policy Board, Founder and CEO, The Cook’s Nook

-Chaz Daughtry, Farmer, Sweetwater Farms and Founder, Soulfitgrill Seasonings

-MAJ Emily Diemer, Research Director/Instructor US Army Medical Center of Excellence

-Sara Faivre, National Board Member of Farmer Mac; Regenerative Farmer

-Rachel Ferencik, Senior Director, Hunger, Nutrition and Health Action Collaborative, CDC Foundation

-Jerome Foster II, Environmental Justice Activist, and Social Entrepreneur

-Larry Franklin, Founder, Black Lives Veggies

-Brendan Gemmel, Manager, Neighborhood Program at Austin Animal Center

-Ivan Giraud, US CEO, Bel Brands

-Emmanuel (Emmy) Gonzalez, Chief Experience Officer, Vallarta Supermarkets

-Nira Goren, Head of Health Information Quality and Food is Medicine, Google

-Jessica Gudmundson, Executive Director, National Farm to School Network

-Dana Gunders, President, ReFed

-Patrick Van Haren, CEO, Microbial Earth Farms and Partner, Holocia

-Chef Olivia Hernandez, Owner, HER Hospitality

-Mark Hyman, MD, Physician, Author, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Function Health

-Chef Jay Huang, Executive Chef, Lucky Robot and Nomade

-Michelle Hughs, Executive Director, National Young Farmers Coalition

-Antony Jackson, Founder, We Can Now

-Jyoti Jankowski, Strategy & Operations Lead, North America, Conscious Planet

-Jenna Jasso, Co-Founder, Festival Beach Food Forest

-Steven Jennings, Stakeholder Relations and Brand Lead, Health & Sustainability at Ahold Delhaize USA

-Stefanie Katzman, Chief Executive Officer, Katzman

-Annalyn Lavey, Founder & Managing Partner, Genus Land

-June Jo Lee, food ethnographer

-Caitlin Leibert, Vice President of Sustainability, Whole Foods Market

-Brandon Lombardi, Chief Sustainability Officer, Sprouts Farmers Market

-Chef Adrian Lipscombe, Founder, 40 Acres Project

-Brita Lundberg, Fourth-Generation Farmer & Chief Storyteller, Lundberg Family Farms

-Gerardo Martinez, Farmer and Owner, Wild Kid Acres and CEO, Global Alliance of Latinos in Agriculture

-Amanda Masino, Professor of Biology and Chair of Natural Science at Huston-Tillotson University

-Jay McEntire, CEO and Co-Founder, Arva

-John "Wesley" McWhorter, VP, Lifestyle Medicine, Suvida Healthcare

-Dariush Mozaffarian, Director, Food is Medicine Institute

-Danielle Nierenberg, President, Food Tank

-Joe O'Connor, President, Applegate

-Linda Novick O’Keefe, Co-Founder and CEO, Common Threads

-Giovanni Quaratesi, Head of Corporate Global Affairs, Certified Origin

-Raj Patel, British academic, journalist, activist and best-selling writer

-U.S. Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-1)

-Karuna Rawal, CMO, Nature's Fynd

-Garland S. Reiter Jr., Chief Commercial Officer, Driscoll’s of the Americas

-Stephen Ritz, Educator, Urban Farmer and Founder, Green Bronx Machine

-PJ Rivera, Principal, Strategy & Growth Leader, Government & Public Services (GPS) Human Capital, Deloitte

-Ashley Rouse, Executive Director, The Edible Schoolyard Project

-Samantha Sackin, VP of Integrated Marketing, Organic Valley

-Kelsey Scott, Intertribal Agriculture Council, rancher, food systems advocate

-Naba Sengupta, Senior Manager, Sustainability, Climate and Equity, Deloitte

-Sabrina Servais, Young Farmer, Organic Valley

-U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (TX-17)

-Cathy Strange, Ambassador of Food Culture, Whole Foods Market; renowned cheese expert

-Roy Steiner, Senior Vice President for the Food Initiative, Rockefeller Foundation

-Blake Stok, Director of Sustainability, Chicken of the Sea / Thai Union North America

-Rick Simington, CCO, Organic Valley

-Josh Tickell, Filmmaker and Storyteller, Common Ground Film

-Josh Tranel, Farmer-Owner, Tranel Family Farm

-Jeff Travillion, Travis County Commissioner

-Alyssa Vescio, Senior Vice President of Merchandising, Whole Foods Market

-Dr. Melva K. Wallace, President, Huston-Tillotson University

-Karen Washington, Food Justice Advocate, Urban Farmer, and Author, Rise & Root Farm

-Lyndsey Waugh, Executive Director, Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation

-Chef Iliana De La Vega, El Naranjo, Formal James Beard-Awarded “Best Chef in Texas”

-Dusan Vujovic, Country Manager US & Canada, Tony’s Chocolonely

-Chef Dave White, 2025 Chopped Grand Champion, Bravo’s Below Deck, Author of “Salted”

-Paul Willis, Founding Hog Farmer, Niman Ranch

-Luke Zahm, owner and chef of Driftless Cafe and television host of Wisconsin Foodie

and many more to be announced soon!