2 days, 71 speakers, 350,000 viewers, 1 mission: 1st China Vegan Summit by the numbers
The first annual MANG China Vegan Summit concluded last Sunday, and we’re pleased to announce that it was a smash success!
China’s first bilingual international vegan summit
With the theme of “vegan without borders”, the China Vegan Summit invited dozens of speakers from across China and around the globe to share solutions for a vegan world. The action-packed two-day agenda featured bilingual panels, keynotes, presentations, and workshops on sustainable vegan business, grassroots vegan activism, vegan content creation, effective data-based vegan advocacy, promoting veganism on college campuses, operating vegan challenges and campaigns, and more.
What was the impact? Let’s look at the numbers:
2
days
10
panels
16
presentations and keynotes
2
interactive workshops
1
documentary film premiere
71
speakers
7
countries
10
offline breakout sessions in 8 cities
135
people attended local offline breakout sessions
700+
active participants in the online meeting rooms
350,000+
livestream views
350,000+
livestream likes
2000+
livestream comments
1 mission
to make veganism mainstream around the world
At this summit, the Chinese and international vegan advocacy communities came together for the first time.
With the help of translators and simultaneous interpreters, we crossed borders and language barriers.
The Vegan Impact Media Panel, with founders and directors of influential vegan media platforms in Hong Kong, mainland China, and the UK
We amplified diverse vegan voices and challenged stereotypes.
The Youth Vegan Advocacy Panel, with students in Harvard, Tsinghua, and other universities
We learned industry insights and data-driven strategies for more effective action.
Data-Driven Advocacy keynote, with Faunalytics researchers Ella Wong and Jah Ying Chung in Hong Kong
The Vegan Toolkit Panel, with representatives from VegRadar, Meatless Monday China, and the China Vegan Society’s MANG Events app
We provided a window for the world to see what is happening in China's vegan movement, and also gave China's vegans greater access to the global vegan movement.
Animal Advocacy Dialogue, with Billy Zheng in China and Ryuji Chua in France
Eating Plants documentary screening and Q&A with directors Mick McIntyre and Kate Clere in Australia and Eating Plants China host Nancy Zhou in Beijing
We sparked new ideas, established new connections, and set new vegan advocacy projects in motion.
The Sustainable Business Panel, with Oatly China head of sustainability Chloe Lin, Miss Green founder/CEO Vivian Chang, Ecobuyer CMO Nelly Chuang, and B Corps China director Yufei Jiang
We filled each other with inspiration and energy.
Breakfast session with Buddhist temple chef Ven. Jeong Kwan in Korea
We even took the online summit offline and met up in the real world!
While online meeting rooms have the power to bring together people who might otherwise never have the opportunity to meet, there’s still nothing more powerful than a face-to-face gathering. To ensure we had the best of both worlds, we invited vegan communities in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Dali, Kunming, and Huzhou to organize offline “breakout sessions”. Over 135 people in eight cities met up in vegan restaurants and coffee shops to watch the Summit livestream, share vegan meals and stories, and discuss the vegan movement together.
Attendees across China gathered in vegan coffee shops and restaurants China to watch the Summit livestream together and hold their own discussions (click image to enlarge)
Together, we all took a step closer to a kinder, greener, healthier 茻 (mang) vegan world.
We are so excited about the connections that were made during the summit and so grateful to the amazing speakers who shared their time and made it all possible. We’re already getting excited about MANG 2023!
Watch the whole summit online
We livestreamed and recorded both full days of the summit. Currently, only the Chinese versions are online—we’ll upload the English versions to our YouTube channel soon. Watch the recordings in Chinese here:
