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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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.

  • Two speakers on stools, mid-conversation with microphones, in front of a World's Fair Co. screen at a 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.