The whole city becomes the platform.
Human+Tech Week combines citywide energy with a shared purpose, active curation, and a daily center of gravity.
Influential models
Four models. One integrated platform.
Human+Tech Week draws from four influential convening models and brings their strengths together around human flourishing.
Model
What it contributes
How HTW builds on it
Convergence festivals
SXSW
Discovery and cultural relevance across technology, film, music, health, and sport.
A shared direction connecting work, healthspan, cities, culture, and capital.
City tech weeks
San Francisco, New York, and others
Extraordinary density through independently produced events.
Active curation and a central gathering place connect events across one week.
Purpose-led city platforms
Climate Week NYC
A shared purpose aligns a citywide ecosystem.
Human flourishing provides a common direction across interconnected systems.
Global market platforms
Web Summit
Startups, buyers, and investors create value at scale.
Employers, health systems, public institutions, communities, and cultural leaders participate alongside founders and investors.
The shared structure
What holds the week together.
01
A governing purpose
Every room begins with the same question: How should this advance human flourishing?
02
Active curation
The calendar is shaped by curatorial teams so events complement rather than duplicate one another.
03
A daily rhythm
Partner communities gather in the morning, the full ecosystem comes together each afternoon at 945 Market Street, and smaller rooms go deeper at night.
