Speakers

  • Susan Bae

    Executive Pastry Chef and Partner of Moon Rabbit

  • Mashama Bailey

    Chef, restaurant owner

  • Henna Bakshi

    Senior Editor, Forbes Wine

  • Ashley Christensen

    chef and restaurateur of AC Restaurants

  • Isabel Coss

    Executive Chef of Pascual

  • Lisa Donovan

    Chef, author

  • Karl Gorline

    Chef/Owner of Avize (Atlanta)

  • Lyndsay Green

    restaurant critic at the Detroit Free Press

  • Jen Hidinger-Kendrick

    Founder of The Giving Kitchen

  • Meherwan Irani

    Founder, Chef, CEO of Chai Pani Restaurant Group 

  • Molly Irani

    Co-Founder, Chief Culture Officer of Chai Pani Restaurant Group

  • Mike Jordan

    James-Beard-award-winning writer + editor

  • Cheetie Kumar

    chef and restaurateur of Ajja and Big Cat restaurants

  • EJ Lagasse

    Chef /Co-Owner of Emeril's

  • Silver Iocovozzi

    Chef/Owner of Neng Jr.’s

  • james london

    Chef/Owner of Chubby Fish

  • Mackensy Lunsford

    senior dining reporter for The Tennessean

  • Serigne Mbaye

    Chef/Owner of Dakar NOLA

  • Adrian Miller

    James Beard Award-winning culinary author

  • Erin Byers Murray

    editor in chief of The Local Palate

  • Steve Palmer

    Founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Vision Officer of the Indigo Road Hospitality Group (IRHG), Co-Founder of Ben’s Friends

  • Hanna Raskin

    Founder of The Food Section

  • Effie Richardson

    Co-Owner of Dakar NOLA

  • Ashleigh Shanti

    Chef/Owner of Good Hot Fish

  • Chris Shepherd

    Co-Founder of the Southern Smoke Foundation

  • Tom Sietsema

    Food Journalist

  • Joshua David Stein

    Food journalist

  • Julia Sullivan

    Chef and Co-Owner of Henrietta Red 

  • Nok Suntaranon

    chef and owner of Kalaya

  • Toni Tipton-Martin

    American food journalist, culinary historian, editor, and a Julia Child Award winner

  • Jill Tyler

    Co-Owner of Rye Bunny (DC)

  • Chip Wade

    CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group

  • Chad Williams

    Chef/Owner of Friday Saturday Sunday

  • Eric Williams

    Founder of Virtue Hospitality Group

  • Andrew Zimmern

    Emmy-winning and four-time James Beard Award-winning TV personality, chef, writer and social justice advocate