Designing the Feel.
September 14 is World Taste & Smell Day — the entire month of September is World Taste & Smell Month. This year the Summit moves fully online, so more researchers, clinicians, creators, and curious minds from every timezone can join the conversation.
Sept 14
World Taste & Smell Day
30
Days of World Taste & Smell Month
100%
Online — open to every timezone
501(c)(3)
Women-led nonprofit mission
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A deceptively simple question
As we redesign our world with AI, medicine, food, design and media, who is designing what it feels like to live in it? We want bold, idea-driven talks that challenge assumptions and reveal emerging research on how things feel.
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From flavor to space exploration
Sessions span AI and synthetic experience, sensory inclusion and neurodiversity, food and culture, smellscapes and immersive environments, sensory medicine, and designing life beyond Earth.
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Ideas over pitches
We are less interested in product pitches and more interested in ideas that can change how people see the world — grounded in expertise, accessible, and thought-provoking.
A global, interdisciplinary community
We invite organizations that believe in human-centered innovation to join us as sponsors and partners — across food, fragrance, flavor, health, hospitality, AI, and consumer products. Every partnership funds WTSA's nonprofit mission to advance sensory well-being for all.
“When everything becomes intelligent, human experience becomes the differentiator.”
The senses belong to all of us.
Whether you're joining from New York, Nairobi, São Paulo, Singapore, Mumbai, Copenhagen, or a small town few people have heard of — your perspective matters. We hope you'll join the conversation this September.
Sponsorship and partnership opportunities are now available.
We invite organizations that believe in human-centered innovation to join us as sponsors and partners. Whether your work touches food, fragrance, flavor, health, hospitality, AI, consumer products, sustainability, or the future of human experience, this is an opportunity to engage with a uniquely interdisciplinary community shaping what comes next.
Join us in shaping the future of sensory wellness, especially all things taste and smell.