MAD Symposium (MAD7)
MAD Symposium (MAD7) takes place TBA - MAD7 ran May 2025; next edition unannounced in Copenhagen, Denmark. The dress code is Relaxed, creative-industry casual; no formal dress code. Typical cost ranges from 400 to 900 EUR per person.
Founded by Noma's Rene Redzepi, MAD gathers chefs, farmers and thinkers under a crimson circus tent on Copenhagen's harbour to debate the future of food - the seventh symposium, MAD7, ran in May 2025 on the theme 'Build to Last'. Attendance skews heavily to the trade and a ticket is a genuine insider badge. No date for the next Copenhagen symposium has been announced.
- When
- TBA - MAD7 ran May 2025; next edition unannounced
- Where
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Dress code
- Relaxed, creative-industry casual; no formal dress code
- Cost
- Typical cost ranges from 400 to 900 EUR per person.
- Weather
- Late-May Copenhagen (typical slot): 12 - 19C, mild and often bright
- When to book
- Watch madfeed.co and MAD's social channels - tickets for past editions released weeks ahead and sold out immediately
- Getting there
- CPH (Copenhagen), 15 min by metro to the harbour
- Where to stay
- Hotel d'Angleterre (Copenhagen's grande dame), Hotel Sanders (intimate luxury behind the Royal Theatre), Coco Hotel (stylish Vesterbro value)
- Official site
- https://madfeed.co
How to attend
There is no fixed annual schedule - editions are announced via madfeed.co and MAD's channels, with limited tickets that sell out at once and allocations aimed at hospitality professionals. No walk-up option exists. Until a new edition is announced, the published talks and MAD's education programmes are the way in.
No new edition has been announced since MAD7 in May 2025, so there is nothing to book yet.
Insider tip
If you miss tickets, most symposium talks are eventually published free on madfeed.co - the ideas travel even if the tent access does not.
Get inside MAD Symposium (MAD7)
Booking matters here: watch madfeed.co and MAD's social channels - tickets for past editions released weeks ahead and sold out immediately. Members track that window, what it really costs, and 573 more events across the season.
Free while in beta. One email when your invitation is ready, nothing else.