Each year, Fast Company convenes the world's most influential leaders, disrupters, and creators on innovation's pinnacle stage: the Fast Company Innovation Festival.

We want you here with us this September, but we know it can be tricky getting away from work for a four-day festival. Here are some ways we suggest pitching it to your manager.

Highlight the relevance to your industry.
With dozens of sessions across two festival stages and custom Fast Tracks across New York City, you can build an agenda that best suits the interests of your industry. And with session themes like leadership, wellness, creativity, design, and social good, we make it easy for you to build the perfect schedule to suit your interests. No two attendees experience #FCFestival the same way!

Propose a team outing.
Transform it into an off-site experience! We offer discounted rates for groups, making it perfect to bring the whole team for four days of team building, strategic planning, and more. Plus, we have custom corporate packages available for groups of 10 or more, giving your team access to everything the event has to offer. Interested? Book tickets for the team here, or reply to this email to learn more about our corporate packages.

Just can't make four days happen? Get a Stage Pass!
Stage Passes, now on sale, provide three-day access to main stage and panel sessions September 17-19. Can only sneak away to #FCFestival for one day? Single-day passes will go on sale in August.