Unique Gatherings
Top Thinkers and Leaders
Provocative Discussions
“I don’t know what will happen tonight, where we’ll go, but I think that’s part of its attraction, its an open ended gathering, bringing a lot of minds together. It’s a good question that we’re asking ourselves.”
Kevin Kelly about Arc Fusion
David would love to help you create or advise your gathering
David has spent 20+ years creating unique and provocative gatherings, mostly focusing on life science and technology—combining critical issues, insights from fascinating speakers, arts offerings, and brilliant conversation
In hundreds of gatherings, the effort is to inform and inspire; to engage, provoke, entertain, and make people think with talks by top thinkers, doers, and thought leaders, with a focus on innovation, crucial issues, and the future.
His events include arts offerings with music, dance, poetry, visual arts, film, and more—plus special dinners and conversations with fascinating people around meals created by award-winning chefs.
David has advised, created, and curated meetings for nonprofit and universities, corporate summits and meetings, and much more. He also has over seen the creation of custom events
He was recently the Creative Director of Cure in New York City, where he created and helped produce over 100 gatherings on life science topics in the beautiful event space in the Cure building.
David co-created the BioAgenda Summit held in Palm Springs, California and over 30 Arc Fusion Meetings held in a dozen cities in North America and Europe
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“We want to wow people—to leave a powerful, lasting impression about how the story of future is being forged and invented right now, and who the leaders are that are making it happen.”
– David Ewing Duncan
Arc Fusion
Arc = a story arc
Fusion = the fusion of health, IT, and biomedicine—and everything else
Arc Fusion is a boutique, invitation-only event for leaders in life sciences, technology, business, academia, policy and the arts that features a critical topic like the Future of Humans and Technology, AI and Health, and Can We Build a Better Human—with Arc Fusion Talks from top leaders, arts offerings, and “Jeffersonian Dinners” where attendees—all of whom got a chance to speak—sat at tables of ten to have a discussion on the theme of the evening, with the conversation guided by a table talk leader.
BioAgenda
Founded in 2003, BioAgenda was a major retreat-style, 3-day summit held annually at the La Quinta resort in Palm Springs, California. With over 400 attendees and top speakers from the White House to corporate boardrooms to top labs, BioAgenda each year set the “agenda” for the coming year and combined great talks and panels with arts offerings, the BioAgenda film festival, and the BioAgenda Institute, a nonprofit that originated white papers and studies on some of the issues and breakthroughs discussed at the summit and in smaller meetings held in several cities on a variety of topics.