Wake up babe,

World Mushroom Forum just dropped.

This is a 3 day worldwide online event bringing together mushroom entrepreneurs, researchers, advocates, designers, content creators, and pretty much anyone actuvely working at the intersection of fungi x whatever.

Oli Genn-Bash of The Fungi Consultant and I are co-producing it, and the immediate response from the global mushroom community has already totally exceeded any expectations we may have had for the inaugural WMF.

We’ve received numerous submissions for speakers, collaborators and sponsors within the first week of announcing, and we haven’t yet published any of the programming, partners or brands who have committed to joining us in making this happen.

As an example of the scope of what we’re building here, early conversations with event partners and programming applicants have connected us to the #1 mushroom startup in India, the #1 mushroom podcast in Scotland, the #1 mycology and supplies vendor in the UK, a leading mycomaterials designer in the United Arab Emirates, several of the top fungi experts in Australia, one of the top mushroom genetics companies in the United States, a leading functional mushroom brand & wholesale extract distributor in The Netherlands, multiple internationally recognized mushroom startups in Mexico, and numerous others. We’re just getting started. Here’s a look an overview of the three day event with a general sense of the topics included:

DAY 1 — INDUSTRY & INNOVATION

Focus

The future of the mushroom economy, science, and commercial development.

Core Topics

  • Functional mushroom market trends

  • Building mushroom brands

  • Cultivation systems

  • Supply chains and sourcing

  • Extraction and testing

  • Research and product validation

  • Regulation and compliance

  • Investment and entrepreneurship

DAY 2 — CULTURE & HERITAGE

Focus

Mushrooms as a cultural, ecological, educational, and philosophical force.

Core Topics

  • Traditional fungal knowledge

  • Indigenous perspectives

  • Public education

  • Storytelling and media

  • Ecology and systems thinking

  • Mushrooms in communities and workplaces

  • Artistic and creative responses to fungi

On site at the African Rising Mushroom Festival in Uganda November 2025

DAY 3 — INTERNATIONAL & GLOBAL FUTURES

Focus

Building a truly international mushroom movement.

Core Topics

  • Regional mushroom economies

  • International cultivation projects

  • Emerging markets

  • African and Asian fungal traditions

  • Global education networks

  • Cross-border collaboration

  • International community building

Giving my keynote at Shroom Sabha, India’s first mushroom festival, in 2023 wearing traditional regional attire

Special Emphasis

This day prioritises:

  • India

  • African nations

  • Southeast Asia

  • Latin America

  • Underrepresented regions

I can’t emphasize this part enough:

We want to build this together with all of you

All of the prospective participants and programming are being routed through the submission portal linked below. Please fill it out if you’d like to be part of this, even if you don’t know exactly where you fit in yet. Having hosted similar events in the past, the amount of people who sleep on filling out the form and then hit us up a week before the event only to find out all the spots are booked solid is wild - it’ll take you 5 minutes to do this, so if you want to be part of the inaugural World Mushroom Forum,

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**Today’s Mycopreneur Incubator is an hour later than usual to accommodate for our international co-host

4 pm east coast u.s. , 1 pm pacific time

Mycopreneur Incubator


Today, Jun 4, 2026 at 4 pm et U.S. / 1 pm pt U.S.

** The Incubator is an hour later than usual today to accommodate for our guest Lee Carrol in Australia

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