The Food 4 Thought Festival (https://www.food4thoughtinnovations.org/)is a two‑day event at Stanford University (https://www.food4thoughtinnovations.org/2026-venue)(April 17–18, 2026) uniting students, academics, and industry experts to reimagine the food system. By purchasing a ticket, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to our Liability Waiver and Event Policies.(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hpPAXlgGtCsjPytRGSTf0fUiD04hJ-sMUtPKtHOGpOQ/edit?usp=sharing) For questions, email: festival@food4thoughtinnovations.org.(mailto:festival@food4thoughtinnovations.org)

For any questions about: • Tickets • Discounts and promo codes • Student Travel Scholarships • Logistics Please email: festival@food4thoughtinnovations.org(mailto:festival@food4thoughtinnovations.org) For more detailed information, we may direct you to specific email contacts or follow up with you individually.

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We’re excited you want to participate more deeply in Food 4 Thought. Here are the main ways to get involved and the links you need. If you aren't a student and think you or your organization would be a good fit for a Career Fair, Exhibitor, Sponsor, and/or Speaker slot. Please email us at festival@food4thoughtinnovations.org (mailto:festival@food4thoughtinnovations.org)with a short description of how you’d like to get involved. Otherwise, if you're a student we'd love you to sign up for: 🔬 Research Showcase – Abstracts Now Open Your chance to present original work to a panel of expert judges and an interdisciplinary, early‑career community that is shaping the future of food. Submit your abstract here.(https://forms.gle/yTRtAvgCyGc7z1EN8) You can win up to $5,000 in prizes for participation in this and the following challenges: Consulting Challenge – Assist our Partners Work in teams to tackle a real‑world food systems consulting case, then present to judges with experience from BCG, Bain, and more: Challenge outline (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oYrxosBXQ7vJlnYLTrtGrmnCYUxlX07p9dVfOz8CPuM/edit?usp=sharing)and Application form.(https://forms.gle/tqhRiNgcFn6pNuij7) Tech Challenge – Build the Future of Food Tech The F4T Tech Challenge invites participants to build technical solutions to a food systems challenge and demo them to a panel of industry experts. Outline (https://docs.google.com/document/d/18G7bv7Z-Aajadpg6rc-mFZNGpmWcMaPUU-QHODbDa70/edit?usp=sharing)info and apply (https://forms.gle/aUmoWnZs8cT1ixnTA)now! Finance Challenge – Coming Soon The F4T Finance Challenge is for anyone interested in impact investing, policy, or systems change and wants to tackle financing bottlenecks that hold back food transformation. • We’re looking for realistic capital mechanisms that accelerate solutions. • Finalists will present to investors, policy leaders, and industry experts. The application form and full brief will be released shortly (the first week of March). The current deadline for most of these submissions are: March 15, 2026, 11:59 PM PT

Tresidder Oak Lounge is on the 2nd Floor of the Tresidder Memorial Union. The address is 459 Lagunita Drive. Stanford, CA! The Tresidder Union Parking Lot (Lot L-39) is located at 672 Lagunita Dr, Stanford, CA. It offers paid hourly, metered parking (via ParkMobile Zone 7239) from 8 AM to 4 PM on weekdays, and is free after 4 PM and on weekends. By road, once you reach Mayfield Ave, within the next block is a parking lot across Lagunita Drive. Reaching Stanford by train (Caltrain) Caltrain is a commuter rail service that runs between Gilroy and San Francisco. The closest stop to Stanford is the Downtown Palo Alto station. Stanford's FREE Marguerite Shuttle meets almost every train at the Palo Alto station and circulates throughout the campus approximately every 20 minutes. To reach Tresidder Union via Marguerite Shuttle from the Caltrain station, take the X line to Tresidder. For Caltrain information, go to www.caltrain.org. For Marguerite information, go to http://transportation.stanford.edu/marguerite/(http://transportation.stanford.edu/marguerite/)