Food Business Conference & Events

Connecting Food & Beverage professionals, chef-owners, marketers, and industry executives

Lara Gilmore keynote at the first Lengua Conference.

We're on a mission to build a more sustainable, innovative, inclusive, and collaborative food & beverage industry. Lengua features an annual conference, exclusive pop-up dinners, and talks about food business, marketing, and innovation.

upcoming

Conference 2026

Highlights

Testimonials

  • “Lengua rules! This rising star on the conference circuit shines a crucial spotlight on the often-underappreciated food city of Miami (my hometown), and brings together a vibrant mix of chefs and food professionals from the United States, and the greater Americas. The presentations are uncommonly thoughtful and informative, the meal-breaks are delicious social occasions, and the ticketed dinners are world-class. A feast for the mind and palate. I can’t wait to return.”
    Andrew Friedman
    Andrew Friedman Author, and host/producer Andrew Talks to Chefs podcast
  • “Lengua is so important because it's creating the forums for really important conversations. It creates the safe space to educate one another and I think in many ways it inspires the current and next generation of Chefs in the industry.”
    Chandler Stroud, VP & Head of Restaurant Marketing at Resy
    Chandler Stroud VP & Head of Restaurant Marketing, Resy
  • “I think it's so easy, whether it's food or any other industry, to get complacent in your own views. When I come to events like Lengua all I can think about is: I need to have the rest of my team here because it's all about bringing the outside into our thoughts and views that allow us to move things forward.”
    Erica Watkins, Director of disruptive innovation at Kraft Heinz
    Erica Watkins Director of Disruptive Innovation, Kraft Heinz

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