Today, a new social innovation conference will be held in New York City. Called The Feast, it will gather 150 of the world’s leading creative mavericks, entrepreneurs, revolutionaries, radicals, and innovators together to inspire action to change the world (including our own Piers Fawkes). We told you about it last month, so hopefully you have your tickets (if not, there may be a few left here).
With a focus on action, The Feast will take a cross-disciplinary look at digital answers to global problems, social design solutions and successful business models. Topics include the Vertical Farm Project at Columbia, green practices that increase profits, New Orleans as social innovation lab, and more.
The idea came from the founders of All Day Buffet, a newly created “social innovation brand” for entrepreneurs and creatives. Considering the purpose of the conference is inspiration, we asked ADB co-founder Michael Karnjanaprakorn to tell us what inspires him for our ongoing “What’s Your Inspiration?” series.
My inspiration comes from many different places: meeting and talking to innovative people, making the world a better place, always learning new things, etc. But out of it all, I stay inspired by pushing ideas to fruition often against the status quo. There’s nothing more inspiring and fulfilling than making ideas happen (mine or others). Through Behance, I’ve helped see Action Method develop from an idea to a website. Through All Day Buffet, I’ve seen scribbles on napkins turn into things like Cause for Drinks, New Orleans 100, and The Feast Conference. And now through The Feast, I hope to inspire others to make their good ideas happen!
