16:00 - midnight Welcome and opening

8:00 – midnight The__Dream, part one
Speakers and performers
Talks, interviews, debates
Art, experiments, immersive experiences
Music, movement, masterclasses
Dinners, walks, parties

8:00 – midnight The__Dream, part two
Speakers and performers
Talks, interviews, debates
Art, experiments, immersive experiences
Music, movement, masterclasses
Dinners, walks, parties

9:00 – 22:00 Your Dream
Community day (no agenda, no program)

The House of Beautiful Business is the network for the life-centered economy. Our mission is to create a new kind of business that is more purposeful, inclusive, and sustainable. Thought leadership-driven, community-powered, and experience-based, we bring together business leaders, economists, policy-makers, technologists, scientists, artists, and activists through consulting, in-person gatherings, online programs, publications, performances, and art. We inspire and equip them to shape an economy that honors all forms of life and living systems.

Founded in 2017, the House has grown from a pop-up event to a platform comprising learning and development experiences, an annual festival, local events, and more than 25,000 community members worldwide. We are a distributed team with offices in Berlin, Lisbon, Munich, and Atlanta. Over the past six years, we have worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies including Accenture, Ageas, Airbus, BCG, Deloitte, EY, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, PwC, Salesforce, SAP, Sky, and Volkswagen Group. Our seed investor is Porsche. For more information, visit our website at houseofbeautifulbusiness.com.

The__Dream is the world's most beautiful business festival, hosted by the House of Beautiful Business, from June 2-5, 2023 in Sintra, Portugal. The event will take place at Quinta da Bella Vista, the former summer residence of Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes fame, in the mystical Sintra mountains, 30 minutes north of Lisbon.

Over the course of four days, we will gather 600 leaders, thinkers, dreamers, and doers to fundamentally reimagine business at this moment of ecological, economic, and spiritual crisis. We will investigate new paradigms and possibilities such as Web3 and decentralized economies, generative AI and regenerative business models, inner development, and a new sentimental education for policymakers and managers. We will explore the very earthy and the very lofty, deep-down and high-up: from the mycelial to the metaverse, from dream teams to dream thinking, from psychedelics to quantum, from digital sustainability to co-designing with nature, and more. In short, with The__Dream, we want to invite everyone to dream bigger about business and society, and spotlight the most important new ideas and initiatives that can help shape a truly life-centered economy.

Our first annual gathering took place in a guild house in Barcelona’s gothic quarter in February 2017, and later that year we moved to Lisbon for a second event. In 2018 and 2019, we returned to Lisbon for Next Startup Humanity and The Battle for Beautiful Business respectively. We produced 2020’s event, The Great Wave, as a hybrid festival, with online programming plus more than 30 local IRL activations across the globe. Concrete Love, our last festival, took place in the fall of 2021 in Lisbon. Find a calendar with all upcoming events here.

We expect attendees from more than 40 countries, who are diverse in terms of gender, age, culture, and professional background. Our audience ranges from CEOs, artists, academics, and technologists to freelancers, entrepreneurs, and activists. Many members of our community find themselves at inflection points in their careers or lives, and are looking for new inspiration and orientation. Some use the House of Beautiful Business to meet interesting people and hear fresh ideas. Others consider the House a place to access original thinking, next-generation technologies, and novel practices to spur innovation efforts in their organization. What all of participants in our events have in common is an insatiable curiosity, an inquisitive mind, a big heart, and desire for real, honest connections. People come to the House searching for a community that offers them four things: inspiration, intelligence, intimacy, and impact.

At House of Beautiful Business gatherings you meet people from organizations including Accenture, Ageas, Airbnb, Airbus, Amazon, Bayer, BCG, Beiersdorf, BMW, Capital One, CARE, Cap Gemini, Daimler, Deloitte, Deutsche Telekom, European Commission, Farfetch, Frog Design, Galp, Google, IBM, IDEO, IEEE, IKEA, INSEAD, Korn Ferry, kyu collective, LinkedIn, Lufthansa, Magnum Photos, McKinsey, Meta, Microsoft, MIT Media Lab, Nestlé, Netflix, Novo Banco, Otto Group, Pfizer, Phillips, Porsche, PwC, Salesforce.com, SAP, Sennheiser, Salesforce, Siemens, Sky, SYPartners, TED Conferences, Uber, UBS, Union Square Ventures, Volkswagen, Wikimedia, and the UN, among many others.

We offer DREAM (for startups and nonprofits), DREAM BIG (standard), and DREAM BIGGER (premium) tickets. Each ticket category includes access to programming on all four days as well as food and beverages on site. The DREAM BIGGER ticket comes with some extra benefits. Tickets do not include travel and accommodation, but we can recommend hotels of all price categories in the vicinity of the venue. We also have a special offering for teams—reach out to us at collaborate@thebusinessromaticsociety.com to learn more about it.

Please note that we do not issue refunds for a purchased ticket. A name transfer, however, is possible.

Accommodation is not included in your ticket, so where you stay is up to you. Check our accommodation guide for hotel picks, special rates, information on shuttle service, and alternative stay options.

The health and safety of our event attendees are our top priority. Much of the event program will take place outdoors, and we will ensure fresh air circulation and/or proper ventilation for all indoor activities. At this moment, vaccination for COVID-19 and masks are not required according to national and local laws in Portugal. We are committed to aligning our policies and procedures based on the latest guidance from federal and local health officials. Should the law change ahead of our gathering, we’ll communicate that clearly ahead of arrival.