EPIC Impact Society, a nonprofit corporation based in Santa Barbara is hosting the next annual EPIC International Summit, Sept. 30-Oct. 2 in a virtual format. The event is an intimate creativity and social innovation conference for professionals from a cross-section of industries.

Attendees can choose from a variety of themed panels, engaging interviews, and experiential workshops led by international leaders and experts. The programming is designed to foster insights for creative leadership and development; introduce innovative, actionable tools and methodologies; and unlock greater ingenuity — all to ignite professional, personal and social change.

The summit is also a time to disconnect from a heavily tech-saturated world to foster genuine connection, disrupt a status quo approach to problem solving, and to discover new ideas.

Normally attendees are urged to take the optional disconnect pledge for the summit’s duration, which involves pausing from digital devices to cultivate greater face-to-face interaction with others, and to fully engage the experience.

However, due to the pandemic, the summit will be produced virtually this year, still incorporating opportunities for pause and reflection within the programming.

The 2020 summit was postponed due to COVID-19. The most recent 2019 EPIC International Summit was recognized as one of the Top 15 Most Innovative Meetings in 2019 (North America) by BIZBASH, in the ranks with Google and Microsoft.

Some of the 2019 participants included Joe Rhode (Walt Disney Imagineering), Ewan McGregor (award-winning actor), and Dermut Mulroney (actor), Gigi Johnson (UCLA Center for Music Innovation), Brian K. Muirhead, (manager, Mars sample return formulation; NASA/JPL), and Paul Allen (founder, ancestry.com).

The Sept 30 summit lineup includes dozens of thought leaders who are all at the top of their respective industries. Among them are John Chester (founder/Apricot Lane Farms, filmmaker of award-winning documentary “The Biggest Little Farm”), Melissa Disney (Voice of Oscars, Emmys, GMAs), Kathy Eldon (Creative Visions Foundation), Monica H. Kang (founder/InnovatorsBox), and Jacqueline Lloyd Smith (founder/Strategic Play Group, LTD).

For a list of all the current speakers, visit https://www.epicsummit.com/2021-speakers.

Registration is now open for the summit and attendance. Register at https://www.epicimpactsociety.org/2021summit.
 
For more about the EPIC Impact Society, visit https://www.epicimpactsociety.org/.