14-16 November 2025
Berlin, Germany
Join our gathering for good
to shape the future of the food system
Friday 14 november 2025
K4G pitch day
Our K4G 2025 cohort present their new initiatives to our jury of funders, experts and charity founders. The pitch event will be preceded by a panel discussion exploring the most pressing topics facing the movement.
Saturday 15 november 2025
Gathering for good
A day of workshops, updates, discussions and roundtables with funders, movement experts and our K4G graduates and alumni. All attendees can apply to host a session, pitch or workshop.
Sunday 16 november 2025
Code 4 Compassion
Our K4G Graduates Electric Sheep and OpenPaws host a day-long AI hackathon. In 24 hours, teams will develop new, innovative AI-powered solutions to aid dietary change and move public opinion around food transition.
LOCATION
The Kickstarting For Good Summit is held at the ProVeg Incubator:
Genthiner Straße 48, 10785, Berlin.
Nearest stations: Kurfürstenstraße or Nollendorfplatz
AGENDA
You can join all or any of the three days.
You are welcome to drop in and out of sessions or to also book your own meetings using our meeting rooms and break-out areas.
Friday 14 November 2025 - k4g pitch day
Our K4G 2025 cohort present their new initiatives to our jury of funders, experts and charity founders. The pitch event will be preceded by a panel discussion exploring the most pressing topics facing the movement.
2.00pm
SUMMIT OPENING
Welcoming session, including a look backwards and forwards of three years of Kickstarting For Good, followed by an opening panel discussion by our pitch jury of funders, founders and movement experts.
3.30pm
2025 COHORT PITCHES
See the pitches from our 2025 cohort, with 18 new impactful initiatives looking for funding and support.
6.30pm
PITCHING RESULTS & AWARDS
Pitches from our 2025 cohort of their impactful initiatives looking for funding.
7.00pm
CLOSING RECEPTION
Closing reception including food, drinks and networking.
sATURDAY 15 November 2025 - gATHERING fOR gOOD
A day of workshops, updates, discussions and roundtables with funders, movement experts and our K4G graduates and alumni.
8.30am
MORNING MEDITATION
Feel free to join us for this optional meditation session with Meredith Marin and Hayley Cooper and Vegan Hospitality.
9.00am
BREAKFAST & OPENING
Opening introduction to Kickstarting For Good and the K4G methodology from founder Sebastian Joy.
10.00am
LIGHTNING TALKS #1
Updates from our K4G alumni who graduated in 2023 and 2024.
11.00am
LIGHTNING TALKS #2
Presentations from impactful initiatives within the K4G ecosystem.
1.00pm
LUNCH
Join us for lunch and networking.
WORKSHOPS #1
2.00pm - Track #1: Leadership
Leading for Impact: Building People, Not Just Programs
Dr. Krista V. Hiddema
Krista is an ecofeminist scholar and long-time advocate for animal rights and social justice. She is the creator of SPAA (Strategic Planning for Animal Activism) and the Executive Director of For The Greater Good, where she helps animal advocacy groups strengthen their strategy, structure, and long-term impact.
2.00pm - Track #2: Movement Building
My journey & introducing Project Slingshot
Matthew Glover
Mathew will tell his story that spans founding some of the biggest initiatives in the movement, including Million Doller Vegan (now GenV), Veganuary and others. He will then introduce his newest initiative, Project Slingshot
WORKSHOPS #2
3.00pm - Track #1: Social Media
Viral Minds: Best Idea Wins (30 mins)
David Ramms
Everyone is fighting for attention online, so it’s time we think outside the box to create maximum impact for animals.
Animal Storytelling for a Mainstream Audience (30 mins)
Joanna Zelman
Joanna is the former Executive Producer of The Dodo, the world’s number one digital animal brand, which garners over 1 billion views a month. In this session, Joanna will share how to tell stories about animals that resonate with a mainstream audience.
3.00pm - Track #2: Ecology Building
Think in Ecologies, Not Silos: Connecting Our Work for Greater Impact (1 hour)
Liz Flynn, VARC
Animal advocacy advances through diverse strategies: corporate campaigning, policy and legal work, plant-based innovation, diet change, and shifting public opinion. Each is vital, but too often they remain disconnected. To accelerate change, we need to see them as part of a broader ecology.
Drawing on the case of the Vegan & Animal Rights Conference (VARC) in the UK, Liz will share how creating infrastructure – spaces for convening, leadership development, and cross-strategy dialogue – has sparked new collaborations, initiatives, and changed perspectives within the UK movement.
4.30pm
SWIPE MY IDEA
Got an idea you want to share for the first time to see how people react? Or got an idea that you don’t have time to implement and want to invite others to steal? Sign up to our new Swipe My Idea app to submit your idea and vote on others.
5.00pm
CLOSING NETWORKING
Closing reception including refreshments, drinks and networking.
Sunday 16 November 2025 - Code 4 Compassion
Our K4G Graduates Electric Sheep and OpenPaws host a day-long AI hackathon. In 24 hours, teams will develop new, innovative AI-powered solutions to aid dietary change and move public opinion around food transition.
9.00am
Wikipedia Workshop
Join Alexa Gnauck for a one hour workshop to learn how to edit Wikipedia to help the movement. No experience or tech skills needed!
10.00am
Code 4 Compassion
In one intensive day, hybrid teams – including online groups from all over the world joining via Discord – will develop working AI-powered solutions to accelerate plant-based food system transition. We’re not building concepts or presentations – we’re building functional prototypes that plant-based organisations can actually deploy to shift public opinion, support dietary change, and scale movement impact.
5.15pm
Demonstrations and closing
Final demonstrations of the tools, applications and working demos that have been created in the day.
Bringing together those who are working to transition our food system for good
Kickstarting For Good is the world’s only incubator that accelerates nonprofits that are moving the world towards plant-based food systems – for the climate, for public health, for food security, for animal welfare and for social justice.
The K4G Summit is where you can contribute to the big ideas shaping the space and cross-pollinate with other leaders in the movement. The event begins with our Kickstarting For Good graduates pitch day on Friday afternoon, and then continues with a day of ideas and workshops on Saturday, and the Code for Compassion AI hackathon on Sunday.
The K4G summit is an invite-only event and we expect around 100 participants. Our alumni, mentors, funders and selected former application finalists are all invited to attend and to also submit an application to hold a workshop, roundtable, hackathon, lightning talk or pitch.
Other potential funders, experts and journalists can also apply to attend.
The Summit is held in Berlin, Germany at the ProVeg Incubator, starting at 2pm on Friday 14 November with our cohort pitch and graduation day, and finishing on Sunday 16 November with our AI Hackathon, hosted by K4G graduates Electric Sheep and Open Paws.
You can for the whole summit or any of the three days individually. You are also welcome to schedule your own meetings with others who will be at the summit, using our breakout rooms and meeting spaces.
How you can be involved
If you are a movement donor, involved in our K4G mentor network, a programme alumni or a previous application finalist, then as well as attending, you can apply to join the summit in a number of ways:
- Give a lightning talk or pitch
5 minutes: Give an update on your initiative or an idea you are developing for the movement.
- Deliver a talk or seminar
30 minutes: Share your expertise on an important topic for the movement.
- Host a workshop or roundtable
60 minutes: Aim to solve a problem or go deep into a topic with a roomful of movement experts.
- Join our idea slam
2-3 minutes: Got a cool idea you want to share for the first time to see how people react? Or had a crazy idea that might just work? Apply to join our fast-paced idea slam to test it out!
- Join the AI Hackathon
Full day: Sign up to join a team for our day-long AI hackathon ‘Code 4 Compassion’ to develop an AI-powered solution to one of the problems facing our movement. There will be a separate application form if you want to apply to take part in the hackathon to develop an idea.
Kickstarting For Good
Genthiner Straße 48, Berlin, Germany