Responsive
Conference

Ten years ago, the Responsive.org Manifesto laid out that “The rate of change continues to accelerate” and “The future is increasingly hard to predict.”

Today, those principles are more relevant than ever.

Our lives are rife with uncertainty – from the acceleration of AI to more generalized anxiety about the state of the world. 

This rapid rate of change provides the opportunity for impact. We have the opportunity to reinvent how we work.

Established in 2016, Responsive Conference is an annual summit that brings together 300 executives, founders and entrepreneurs who want to make meaningful shifts – within their organizations and in the world. 

At Responsive Conference 2025, you’ll discover tactics, tools and connections for how to Design for Change – within your organizations and yourselves.

This year’s conference focuses the lens of organization design on three main topics:

• The acceleration of AI

• Climate change

• Politics & the state of the world

Responsive Conference brings together 300 entrepreneurs, executives, CHROs working within organizations to shape culture and the way work is done. 

Responsive Conference isn’t just a business conference. It is a learning experience where attendees come together to learn from each other and to change.

This is not a typical business conference. Don’t attend only sell your services or if you’re not interested to learn. Instead, the summit assembles a community with the shared belief that purposeful work is important, and that there are ways of working together that are better than those of the past. 

You should attend Responsive Conference if you are interested in how founders and People leaders are designing for change within their own startups, enterprise organizations, and SMBs.

You should attend Responsive Conference if you, yourself, are working within an organization that is trying to undergo change or willing to experiment around the edges of what’s possible — or your company isn’t, but you are looking for how to try a new approach to work, yourself.

Attendees report walking away from with the conviction that work doesn’t need to look a certain way. You’ll leave with renewed hope about work.

Responsive conference was founded in 2016 by Robin Zander on top of the global Responsive Org movement, which began in 2015.

Coming from a background ranging from management consulting to the circus –  and never having previously attended a business conference – Robin set out to create a three ring circus in the guise of a business conference.

Choosing unique venues for the event, like the Lawrence Hall of Science in the Berkeley Hills, CA and the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NY, and now the Oakland Museum of California, Responsive Conference has been designed, from the ground up, to be an immersive experience delivering the same qualities of experience that attendees gather to discuss.