NOTE: The following page is an archival from our 2015 Summit.
For a gallery of speakers and performers, and further information, please see the Details page.
Friday, March 20
EXPO
10am-6pm • California Ballroom Foyer & Pacific Ballroom
CALIFORNIA BALLROOM
2:00-2:25 • Professor GARY STEINER, Bucknell University – “Animals in the History of Western Thought”
2:30-2:55 • CHARLOTTE CRESSEY, educator, eco-feminist, yoga & meditation instructor – “Conceiving a New Paradigm: Abolition and Liberation from an Ecofeminist Perspective”
3:00-3:55 • Professor SHERRY COLB, Cornell University – author of “Mind If I Order the Cheeseburger? And Other Questions People Ask Vegans” & Professor MICHAEL DORF, Cornell University – “Lessons the Vegan Movement Can Learn from Other Justice Movements”
4:00-4:25 • TED NORDQUIST, PhD, CEO of Whole Soy – “The Challenges of Sustaining an Organic Vegan Business”
4:30-5:05 • Professor TAIMIE BRYANT, UCLA – “Why Supporting Vegan Businesses Is An Important Part of Animal Rights Law”
5:10-5:55 • WILL TUTTLE. PhD, author of “The World Peace Diet – Eating for Spiritual Health & Social Harmony”
BAYVIEW BALLROOM
12:00-12:10 • BOB LINDEN
12:15-12:50 • JANICE STANGER, PhD – author of the “Perfect Formula Diet” – “Let’s Get the Protein Question Out Of the Way, Right Away – and Calcium, and Vitamin D, And…And…And”
3:00-3:25 • STRONGBOARD for BALANCE demo by inventor MIKE CURRY
3:30-4:00 • LAUREN CORE, environmental scientist formerly with the United Nations Development Programme, United World Food Programme- “The Urgency of Veganism for Water Resource Conservation in California and Abroad.”
6:00-10:00 • EVENING RECEPTION
(GREEN/ORANGE/YELLOW LEVEL ONLY)
- Food
- Music – JOSEPH PECK
- 7:00-7:05 • BOB LINDEN
- 7:05-7:15 • GARY FRANCIONE
- 8:00-8:35 • MYQ KAPLAN comedy
- 9:00 • MAXIME GIINOLIN screening his film “Le Jugement”
SINDER LOUNGE FOOD DEMONSTRATIONS & MUSIC
11:00-2:00 • Food demo
1:00-2:00 • Lunch
- Vegan Pizza Party
- “American Idol” favorite AMY JEAN DAVIS
Saturday, March 21
EXPO
10am-6pm • California Ballroom Foyer & Pacific Ballroom
CALIFORNIA BALLROOM
8:15-9:15 • Wake Up to Veganic Farming Breakfast, ARLO TOEWS- Veganic Farmer and Vegan Grocery Pioneer
9:30-10:30 • Official Welcoming Session…BOB LINDEN, host of “Go Vegan Radio with Bob Linden” – “Why We Are Here” & ANUJ SHAH, PhD, host of “Vegan World Radio”
10:45-11:45 • Professor GARY FRANCIONE, Rutgers University, the first academic to teach animal rights theory in an American law school, and Professor ANNA CHARLTON, Rutgers University, co-authors of “Eat Like You Care – An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals” with “An Introduction to the Abolitionist Approach to Animal Rights”
12:05-12:25 • Professor GARY STEINER – “10 Mistakes People Make About What It Means to Be Vegan”
12:30-1:45 • LUNCH
- 12:40-1:00 • MIKE WEINBERG founder of “Vegan Diego” on “The Importance of Supporting 100% Vegan Restaurants and Businesses”
- 1:00- 1:20 • LINH LA of Loving Hut USA
- 1:25-1:30 • ISAAK IFTIKHAR from Viva La Vegan Grocery
- 1:30-1:45 • ERIC WEISMAN, Evolution dog and cat food
2:00-3:15 • Grassroots Vegan Advocacy Workshop – Session 1 – Professor GARY FRANCIONE & Professor ANNA CHARLTON featuring…
- SANDRA CUMMINGS – VeganKit.com
- MARIANNA GONZALEZ – AbolitionistApproach.com assistant
- JEFF PERZ – animal rights writer
3:15-3:30 • LORELEI PLOTCZYK, founder of grassroots campaign Truth or Drought, on breaking through society’s dangerous disconnect between meat production and water depletion.
3:30-4:00 • Snack Time
3:30-3:40 • Special video greetings from GURUDEV CHITRABHANU, vegan nonagenarian Jain spiritual leader
3:45-4:15 • VAIDYA PRIYANKA, from a 700 year lineage of Ayurvedic women healers in India – “Dairy Is Filth?”
4:15-4:30 • ANUJ SHAH – “Cows, Compassion, and Climate Change”
4:35-5:10 • Professor SHERRY COLB, Professor MICHAEL DORF, “Lessons the Vegan Movement Can Learn from Other Justice Movements”
5:15-6:00 • SUE COE, artist, illustrator, and author- “The Art of Compassion
BAYVIEW BALLROOM
7:00-8:00 • Yoga
- MONICA KAY
11:00-11:25 • ANDY MARS, PhD – “Raising a Vegan Generation”
11:30-11:55 • HELEN HYWATT PhD, Environmental Nutrition fellow, School of Public Health,Community Resilience Center, Loma Linda University “Going Vegan to Save the Environment”
12:00-12:15 • Professor GARY FRANCIONE / Public Greeting
12:15-1:30 • MUSIC – JOSEPH PECK / CARIBBEAN PAN
1:40-2:00 • Vegan Fashion Show
2:30-2:45 • ARMAITI MAY, DVM – “Healthy Vegan Dogs and Cats”
2:45-3:15 • LESTER FRIEDLANDER, DVM, former USDA “meat” inspector, now vegan – “Stamped INEDIBLE -Permanently and Unavoidably Contaminated, Sick, Cruel, and Getting Worse – No Matter What Temple Grandin and the USDA Say”
3:30-4:00 • KEITH McHENRY, ABBI SAMUELS – Food Not Bombs – FEEDING VEGAN FOOD TO THE HOMELESS
4:05-4:35 • AMANDA BENHAM, Accredited Dietician and Nutritionist from Australia – “Generation Vegan: Addressing Dietary Considerations for Kids and Others as the World Goes Vegan”
7:30-10:30 • SOUL FOOD-FOR-THOUGHT Ethiopian feast dinner show
(GREEN/ORANGE/YELLOW LEVEL ONLY)
- MILTON MILLS, M.D. – “Traditional African Diet vs Today’s Plate of ‘Plantation’ Food – And What It Means to Community Health”
- ANTENEH ROBA, M.D., from Ethiopia – “How the African-American Diet Affects the African Environment” & “Slave Dungeon Imagery – Meaning for Today”
- BABETTE DAVIS – “Experiences Owning STUFF I EAT Restaurant in Inglewood”
- SEBA JOHNSON, Olympic skier
- KENNETH G WILLIAMS, champion bodybuilder
- LAMOUR & THE MYSTIK BAND (reggae) Musical Performance
- VEGAN BOSS (rap) Musical Performance
SINDER LOUNGE FOOD DEMONSTRATIONS & MUSIC
11:00-12:00 • VAIDYA PRIYANKA, Ayurvedic healer from a 700 year, linegage of women health practitioners
2:30-3:30 • BABETTE DAVIS, chef and owner of Stuff I Eat vegan restaurant in Inglewood, food demonstration
3:30-4:30 • MUSIC – JOSEPH PECK / Caribbean Pan
6:00-7:15 • DONNA DE LORY – Full-Band Concert Performance!
Sunday, March 22
EXPO
10am-5pm • California Ballroom Foyer & Pacific Ballroom
CALIFORNIA BALLROOM
8:15-9:15 • BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS
- JANETTE MURRAY-WAKELIN & ALAN MURRAY
- SEBA JOHNSON, Olympic skier
- KENNETH G WILLIAMS, champion bodybuilder
- MAC DANZIG (unconfirmed)
9:30-9:55 • ARMAITI MAY, DVM – “Healthy Vegan Dogs and Cats”
10:00-10:25 • AMANDA BENHAM, Accredited Dietician and Nutritionist from Australia – “Generation Vegan: Addressing dietary considerations for kids and others as the world goes vegan”
10:30-10:55 • LESTER FRIEDLANDER, DVM, former USDA “meat” inspector, now vegan – “Permanently, Unavoidably Contaminated, Sick, Cruel – And Getting Worse – No Matter What Temple Grandin Says”
11:00-11:30 • PHILIP WOLLEN, Philanthropist and humanitarian, Kindness Trust
11:35-12:00 • JANETTE MURRAY-WAKELIN and ALAN MURRAY – the vegan super athletes in their 60’s who ran a marathon a day for 366 consecutive days
12:30-1:15 • LUNCH / “Peace and Social Justice Begin on Your Plate” – Mexican feast in tribute to Cesar Chavez:
- CINDY SHEEHAN – “Peace Mom”
- SANDRA SOTO, Palestinian Animal League – “Vegan Education: Raising the Profile of What is Considered a ‘Trivial’ Matter in Palestine”
- GENELLE PALACIO and GENESIS PALACIO vegan great niece, and vegan great-great niece of vegan, Cesar Chavez
2:00-2:25 • HELEN HARWATT, PhD, Environmental Nutrition fellow, School of Public Health, Community Resilience Center, Loma Linda University “Going Vegan to Save the Environment”
2:30-2:55 • KEITH McHENRY, founder, and ABBI SAMUELS of Food Not Bombs – “Vegan Food for the Homeless”
3:00-3:30 • MICHAEL KLAPER, M.D., medical consultant to NASA – “The Best Health Arguments We Can Use to Encourage Others to Go Vegan”
3:30-4:00 • Snack Time
3:35-4:00 • Open Mic
4:05-5:35 • Grassroots Vegan Advocacy Workshop – Session 2 – Professor GARY FRANCIONE and Professor ANNA CHARLTON
- SANDRA CUMMINGS – VeganKit.com
- MARIANNA GONZALEZ – AbolitionistApproach.com assistant
- JEFF PERZ – animal rights writer
5:35-6:00 • BOB LINDEN – Wrap Up
6:00-7:30 • Cesar Chavez Birthday Celebration & Bon Voyage Gathering, featuring Starlite Cuisine Enchiladas Suisas and Chorizo Taquitos
BAYVIEW BALLROOM SPEAKERS
7:00-8:00 • Yoga
- Instructor TBA
10:00-10:25 • STRONGBOARD BALANCE demo by inventor MIKE CURRY
10:30-10:45 • AMANDA BENHAM – Accredited Dietician and Nutritionist from Australia – “Generation Vegan: Addressing dietary considerations for kids and others as the world goes vegan”
1:00- 2:00 • Music by THE ETHER
2:00-2:15 • KAREN HAMZA, Angel Hanz for the Homeless – collecting donations of non-perishable vegan food for the homeless and their companion animals at her booth at the Expo
2:20-2:40 • CHEF AJ – “Vegan Solutions for Healthy Weight Loss”
2:45-3:00 • ERIC WEISMAN, Evolution dog and cat food – “Vegan Nutrition for Companion Animals”
4:30-4:50 • GO VEGAN INDIA!
4:30-4:40 • ANUJ SHAH
4:40-4:50 • VAIDYA PRIYANKA
5:00-5:40 • SOFIA PINEDA OCHOA, M.D. – EN ESPANOL – Spanish language presentation of the many reasons we must all GO VEGAN AHORA – como Cesar Chavez
SINDER LOUNGE FOOD DEMONSTRATIONS & MUSIC
12:00-1:00 • PAUL RODNEY TURNER, food yogi, author of Food Yoga, and Director of Food for Life, the world’s largest vegan food relief- “Food Yoga : Nourishing Body, Mind, and Soul ”
2:30-3:30 • JILLIAN LOVE, Talented raw vegan chef, accomplished workshops leader, international raw educator, community organizer and event planner, inspiring presenter- Certified raw food chef,certified Living Light Culinary Arts Institute,preparing Mexican Spiced Fudge.
4:00- 5:00 • Music by THE ETHER
5:00 • Food Demo – CHEF PHILLIP from THE GADARENE SWINE
For a gallery of speakers and performers, and further information, please see the Details page.
