CREATE Agenda
Margaritaville Resort
Palm Springs, CA
2023 Agenda At-A-Glance
9:00am – 7:00pm
Welcome Desk & Badge Pick-Up
The CREATE Experience Welcome Desk is open all day. Check in with us to get your CREATE SWAG and enjoy a refreshing Margarita. It’s 5 o’clock somewhere, right?
2:00pm – 5:00pm
CREATE Your Experience: Cool Things Tour
5:00pm – 7:00pm
CREATE Poolside Party
7:00am – 7:00pm
Welcome Desk & Badge Pick-Up
8:00am – 9:00am
Breakfast
Join us for a complimentary breakfast.
9:00am – 10:15am
CREATE Main Stage
Join us at the CREATE Main Stage as we kick off CREATE: The Experience with a high-spirited opening session featuring headline speakers sharing valuable insights in dynamic presentations.
10:30am – 11:45am
CREATED Talks on Main Stage
11:45pm – 1:00pm
Pop-Up Festival
1:00pm – 2:45pm
Table Talk Roundtable Sessions
2:45pm – 3:45pm
Pop-Up Festival
Enjoy afternoon snacks, network with your CREATE tribe and connect with speakers for follow up questions.
3:45pm – 4:45pm
Founders Forum on the Main Stage
5:00pm – 7:00pm
Opening Celebration: Desert Vibes Only!
Sponsored by Johnsonville Foodservice.
Join us at the Come Monday Café and Patio for a starry night in Palm Springs! Enjoy live music, great food, and tasty cocktails.
7:30am – 8:30am
Breakfast
Join us for a complimentary breakfast.
8:30am – 10:00am
CREATE Main Stage
Today’s CREATE Headliners include the Texas Pete® Kitchen Hero Cook-Off and the CREATORS Awards Panel, sponsored by Dr Pepper Keurig.
10:30am – 11:45am
Festival Program
Ask the Experts – Lightning Keynotes – Fireside Chats
The Festival Program features 30-minute bursts of future-focused, interactive conversations and informative presentations designed to provide you with the key takeaways you need to move your business forward.
11:45am – 1:00pm
Pop-Up Festival
1:00pm – 2:15pm
Festival Program
Ask the Experts – Lightning Keynotes – Fireside Chats
The Festival Program features 30-minute bursts of future-focused, interactive conversations and informative presentations designed to provide you with the key takeaways you need to move your business forward.
2:15pm – 3:15pm
Pop-Up Festival
3:15pm – 4:15pm
Hot Concepts Awards & Panel on the Main Stage
4:30pm – 5:30pm
Closing Keynote: From Fame to Foodservice: An evening with Danny Trejo
Join NRN’s Editor-in-Chief, Sam Oches for a fascinating discussion with famed actor turned restaurateur and cookbook author, Danny Trejo. From years of imprisonment to helping troubled youth battle drug addictions, from acting to producing, and now on to restaurant ventures, Trejo’s name, face, and achievements are well recognized in Hollywood and beyond. Trejo’s expanding restaurant empire includes Trejo’s Tacos & Cantina and Trejo’s Coffee & Donut, with a fifth restaurant opening in downtown Los Angeles in March.
Trejo shares his love of food in Trejo’s Tacos: Recipes and Stories from L.A. and Trejo’s Cantina, a book about cocktails, snacks & amazing non-alcoholic drinks from the heart of Hollywood (release April 2023).
5:30pm – 7:30pm
CREATE 2024 Kick-Off Party: Nashville Style!
Thank you for attending the CREATE Experience.
Let's CREATE Together
