The ‘Fixer Upper’ and Magnolia Network stars join luminaries from food, design, tech, and more. Chip and Joanna Gaines , the founders of Magnolia, the home and lifestyle brand, will speak at the Fast Company Innovation Festival this fall. Read Full Story

At the Fast Company Innovation Festival, Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said that bettering society is good for business. Hans Vestberg, the CEO of Verizon, doesn’t believe in philanthropy without a strategic purpose. Read Full Story

Business executives, creative leaders, technologists and founders join the lineup for Fast Company’s first virtual festival. The sixth annual Fast Company Innovation Festival will feature newsmakers in business, the arts, and social impact for a week of keynote conversations, panel discussions, immersive workshops, and one-on-one mentoring, led and curated by Fast Company journalists. Read Full Story

Leaders from politics, business, and social good join the first-ever virtual ‘Fast Company’ gathering. The Fast Company Innovation Festival has added Malala Yousafzai , the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, to its lineup of speakers. Also joining the festival: Eric Schmidt , the technologist and philanthropist; Washington congresswoman Pramila Jayapal ; and Mark Mason , chief financial officer of global banking giant Citi. Read Full Story

During a Fast Company Innovation Festival panel, music mogul Scooter Braun, artist Jessie Reyez, and entrepreneur Shara Senderoff discuss music and technology. The entertainment industry has faced existential challenges over the past seven months, as artists and executives alike have attempted to navigate a world beset by COVID-19. Read Full Story

The virtual Innovation Festival will feature keynotes from artists, interviews with CEOs of the world’s most innovative companies, workshops and mentoring, and behind-the-scenes visits that only Fast Company can deliver. The Fast Company Innovation Festival is going online—and going global. Read Full Story

During the Fast Company Innovation Festival, Spotify’s chief content officer and several Gen Z influencers explain why podcasting is the new frontier. Spotify has made its intentions clear: It wants to be the largest audio platform in the world—not just music, audio. Read Full Story

What’s the antidote to all this connectivity? According to 3 experts who spoke at the Fast Company Innovation Festival, there’s no magic bullet yet. If you’re worried that our brains are being permanently and irrevocably altered by the constant use of technology during the coronavirus pandemic, Jaron Lanier has bad news and worse news. Read Full Story

At the Fast Company Innovation Festival, Françoise Brougher talked about her experience with gender discrimination—and what companies can do to create a more equitable work culture. In April, Françoise Brougher was fired from her post as the chief operating officer at Pinterest. The news was delivered to her during a 10-minute video call, and, as Brougher later recounted in a Medium post , the only explanation Pinterest offered was that she was not collaborative and lacked “strong cross-functional relationships.” Read Full Story

During the Fast Company Innovation Festival, the former Iron Man and producer Susan Downey discussed taking a Kevin Feige approach to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Building a cinematic universe is not as easy as Marvel makes it look. Read Full Story