The 2025 Science Events Summit was an energizing, inspiring, and heartfelt 48 hours. The program description below served as a guide, but doesn't capture all of the unscripted connections we all created during our time in Philadelphia. Thank you to everyone that came, joined in, and helped make being together so valuable!
For those of you perusing this program after the fact and wondering what next year's might be like, it's worth noting that the Summit program is built up from the people registering to attend. This is a peer-to-peer meeting, so it takes all of us to make a fantastic gathering. For the 2025 Summit that meant nearly three-quarters of the attendees had an assigned role in the program.
If you have a question about the 2025 program or future get togethers, please reach out to the Summit team.
The Summit Theme: Transformative Play.
Every Summit is focused on the craft of event organizing. We’re interested in using live events strategically for serious change on serious issues. But events simply don’t work if everyone isn’t also having a good time. How do we ensure that our work is infused with an essential spark of playfulness? And how do we set the conditions for that spark to grow into the creative fire that is the serious change we are after?