September 17-18, 2025 • Oakland Museum of California

Let’s build the future of work together.

Responsive Conference is an immersive 2-day experience for founders and people leaders. Join us for a different kind of conversation about behavior change @ work.

We’re in a new era.

Responsive Conference is a two-day summit for HR leaders, executives, and those working within organizations to shape culture and the way work is done. 

Each year, Responsive Conference assembles a community with the shared belief that purposeful work matters, and that there are ways of working together in the future that are better than those of the past. 

Responsive Conference has never been a sit-and-absorb conference. From our immersive venues, to experience design baked into the program, to the organizing team itself, Responsive Conference is an experiment in self-organization and design.

Join us at Responsive Conference 2025, where you and other changemakers will practice changing how we work.

Companies In Attendance

Praise For Responsive

A few of our 2025 speakers

  • Michael Bungay Stanier

    Author of The Coaching Habit, How to Work with (Almost) Anyone & more

  • Vivienne Ming, PhD

    Professional Mad Scientist, Co-founder of Socos Labs

  • Eldra Jackson III

    Executive Director, Inside Circle & Strategic Partner, The Trium Group

  • Doug Kirkpatrick

    CEO at D'Artagnan Advisors, Co-Founder at Vibrancy, Author of The No-Limits Enterprise

  • Scott Shigeoka

    Author of Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life & Change The World

Some Common Questions

  • Responsive Conference is an immersive two-day event consisting of main stage talks, interactive workshops, and unconference formats designed for attendees to come together and share tactics about work.

    The conference was founded in 2016, on top of the global Responsive Org movement, to bring people from across industries together to define and share tactics for working better together.

    The Responsive Org manifesto describes a variety of tensions that every organization must balance to keep pace and thrive.

  • Responsive Conference is a two-day experience for HR leaders, executives, and those working within organizations to shape culture and the way work is done. 

    The conference brings together 250 attendees, including HR executives, founders, CEOs, and those working within organizations to impact what it feels like to work within those companies.

    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.

    Responsive Conference 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. 

    People report walking away from Responsive Conference with the conviction that work doesn’t need to look a certain way; that there are many different ways of working. You’ll leave with renewed hope about work.

    Learn new ways of working, and from other practitioners trying to change their own companies.

  • You should attend Responsive Conference if you are interested in how other HR practitioners and cultural change agents are influencing behavior 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.

    Responsive Conference is a gathering of 250 practitioners who are striving to build better workplaces, and willing to put in the work, themselves, necessary to change.

    You should attend Responsive Conference if you are looking to change.

  • Responsive conference was founded in 2016 by Robin Zander on top of the global Responsive Org movement, which began in 2014

    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, 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.

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The Venue

With more than 1.9 million objects, OMCA brings together their multidisciplinary collections of art, history, and natural science, all within 110,000 square feet of gallery space and seven-acre campus.

OMCA is a leading cultural institution of the Bay Area and a resource for the research and understanding of California’s dynamic cultural and environmental heritage for visitors from the region, the state, and around the world.

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