World's Fair Co.
A seated audience watching a speaker at a World's Fair Co. talk in San Francisco.

Experience the future.

The World's Fair Co. creates public events that bring you face to face with remarkable people, places, and ideas — and leave you more excited about what might come next.

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Upcoming programs

  • Inside Wildtype's fishery: a glass-walled production floor beside a mural of fish and waves.

    Thursday, August 13, 2026 · 6:30–7:30pm

    Tour: Wildtype's Fishery

    Wildtype is the first company in the world to bring cultivated seafood to market. Join us on a behind-the-scenes tour of Wildtype's fishery in San Francisco's Dogpatch.

    San Francisco's Dogpatch District

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  • Ocean Stewardship & Robotics with Will O'Brien, co-founder of Ulysses — an underwater view of sunlit seagrass.

    Wednesday, August 19, 2026 · 7–9pm

    Fireside Chat: Ocean Stewardship & Robotics

    Ulysses builds autonomous vehicles that keep our oceans safe, healthy and prosperous. Join us as co-founder Will O'Brien shares their work and positive vision for the ocean's future.

    San Francisco's Design District

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Our mission

All around us, people are solving hard problems, making beautiful things, and turning ideas that once seemed impossible into reality.

We bring people closer to this work so they can experience it, celebrate it, and meet the people behind it. No matter who you are or where you come from, we want to inspire and then enable you to get involved.

Visitors on the observation deck of the New York State Pavilion looking out over the 1964 World's Fair and its Unisphere.
Visitors to the 1964 New York World's Fair.

Our programs

We host talks, tours, and other in-person experiences that bring you closer to remarkable people, places, and ideas. Some explore the past, others show you what's happening today, and others invite you to imagine what could come next.

  • Aryé Elfenbein in conversation with a seated audience at a World's Fair Co. talk.
    Events
  • Four people walking a pier toward the San Francisco skyline on a World's Fair Co. tour.
    Tours
  • Inside a spacecraft simulator, two tall windows looking down on the curve of the Earth.
    Experiences

Continuing the legacy

For generations, world's fairs brought people from all walks of life together to experience new inventions, food, art, and visions of tomorrow.

At their best, they celebrated human ingenuity, made new ideas tangible, and left people more excited about the world and what they could do within it.

We're carrying that spirit forward starting with public programs in San Francisco, one of America's great world's fair cities.

Aerial view of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915.
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915.