Symposium
Build to Last
May 25–26, 2025
That’s a wrap on MAD7! Under Build to Last, we explored how we can best ensure that our planet, our communities, our industry, and we ourselves continue to thrive—now, and in the future.
MAD Academy
Feed your future.
If you’re a chef, cook, sommelier, server, bartender, manager, entrepreneur, or anyone else working in hospitality, MAD Academy is for you.
About Symposium
MAD Symposium “is a place to learn from big thinkers, a bacchanal pushing world-changing ideas.”
— The Wall Street Journal
Founded by René Redzepi of restaurant noma, the MAD Symposium brings together hundreds of the most innovative minds in hospitality for an immersive experience of learning and connection centered around food. Unlike typical chef conferences that focus mainly on recipes and techniques, MAD Symposium—often dubbed “the Davos of food”—has a broader mission: to ignite curiosity, inspire bold ideas, and unite current and future leaders dedicated to tackling the hospitality industry’s and the planet’s most pressing challenges.
Join us under the tent, and at the chef’s table.
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