December 6-8, 2026 • Los Angeles, CA
Find clarity for what comes next.
Meet buyers, investors, operators, and experienced founders who can offer practical perspective on retail, fundraising, and the decisions ahead.
Retail feedback, investor perspective, founder experience
The right conversation can change what happens next.
Retail placement is harder to win, fundraising criteria have shifted, and decisions around margins, distribution, packaging, and positioning carry more weight than they used to.
Nosh Live brings buyers, investors, operators, and founders together in person for two days of candid conversation, practical feedback, and product discovery. Ask direct questions, pressure-test your strategy, share your product, and build relationships that continue well beyond the event.
Bring the questions you can’t afford to guess on
Boot Camp
How do I protect margins as input costs rise? What do buyers need to see before taking a meeting? How do I build an investor story that holds up in 2026? Boot Camp tackles those questions directly.
It’s a chance to work through real business decisions with experienced leaders across retail, fundraising, operations, marketing, and growth.
Boot Camp is open to all attendees and highly recommended for companies in their first five years.
Live feedback from industry leaders
Pitch Slam
Pitch Slam is where emerging brands take the stage to showcase their products to an expert panel and a live audience of founders, buyers, and investors.
Whether you’re pitching or watching, you’ll hear what resonates, what raises questions, and what can sharpen your own approach.
A Few Past Participants
Focused time with the people you came to meet
1:1 Meetings
1:1 meetings are pre-scheduled, structured conversations with retailers, investors, and seasoned peers.
For early-stage brands, this kind of access can be hard to find - especially before you have broad distribution. Through Nosh Live’s 1:1 program, attendees can request focused meetings to discuss their product, packaging, marketing strategy, and whatever else is keeping them up at night.
Meetings aren’t guaranteed, but registering early gives you a better chance to be considered before calendars fill.
Product sampling Let the product lead the introduction
Let the product lead the introduction.
Sampling runs throughout Nosh Live, creating repeated opportunities for buyers, retailers, investors, and industry partners to experience your product firsthand.
When awareness and distribution are still taking shape, that exposure matters. Share what you’re building, hear direct feedback, and turn a first taste into a more substantive conversation.
Contact us to learn more about sampling opportunities.
Who You'll Meet
The right people are within reach.
Nosh Live brings together buyers, investors, founders, operators, and industry partners who can offer direct perspective on retail, fundraising, production, and the decisions ahead.
Retail Buyers
Category managers and merchandising leaders evaluating what belongs on shelf next.
Investors
Angel, venture, and CPG-focused investors evaluating packaged food opportunities.
Founders & Operators
Experienced leaders who have navigated retail, fundraising, operations, and growth.
Distributors
Regional and national teams assessing new products for their portfolios.
Suppliers & Co-Manufacturers
Partners supporting ingredients, formulation, packaging, and production.
Service Partners
Brokers, agencies, advisors, and specialists across sales, finance, and marketing.
A Sample of Our Attending Community
Hear from the people shaping packaged food
Sessions and Speakers
Nosh Live keeps speakers and attendees close to the conversation, creating more opportunities to ask direct questions, share a product, and hear practical perspective on the decisions ahead.
Past speakers have included VPs of Merchandising, Category Managers, CEOs, and retail buyers across natural, specialty, and conventional channels.
What Founders Say
It’s an intimate environment where you can get stuff done and make those connections that will lead to the big break, the big opportunity as a young brand.”
Nosh Live provides a much more intimate environment to network with other up and coming brands. You also have the option to get 1:1 time with buyers a small brand likely would not have access to.
Three Days · The Right People
Build the relationships your business needs next.
If you're building a beverage brand and serious about retail, capital, and stronger industry relationships, BevNET Live brings those conversations closer.
