Designing the Feel.
Millions of people live with smell or taste loss, and most never get a diagnosis. We launched on World Taste & Smell Day, September 14, and we're carrying the conversation online through December. Researchers, clinicians, creators, and curious minds in every timezone can join us. Celebrate the senses, innovate for them, advocate for the people who've lost them.
September went fast. Half our community was traveling, and the pitches kept coming: new research, new products, new ways to design with scent and flavor. So we opened the calendar through December. More events means more voices, more people reached, and more support for patients who need it — and more hours, platform costs, and production work for a small nonprofit team. If you can help us fund the extension, sponsor a session, contribute as a speaker, or donate, you keep these sessions free and open to the public.
Sept 14
A special presentation in honor of World Taste & Smell Day
Sept.–Dec.
An evolving online series by popular demand
100%
Online — open to every timezone to help us raise awareness and fund our nonprofit work
Spotlight
Celebrate, innovate, & advocate for the world of taste & smell
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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.
Present
Have research, a product, or a practice that changes how people taste, smell, or feel? Apply to speak.
Community Speaker (WTSA Members) — 15 min, $150
Featured Presentation — 60–90 min, $300
Industry Spotlight — 60–90 min with media support, $500
Contributions keep the series running.
Join
Every session is online and open to anyone curious. Come learn, ask questions, and meet people working on the senses from every angle.
See the calendarSponsor
Put your brand in front of the people shaping the future of taste and smell. Sponsorship funds patient training and support resources and keeps sessions open to the public.
Become a sponsor
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.
This community grows one conversation at a time. Share a session, bring a colleague, or tell us who we should hear from next.
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.