Bon Appétit! NVNR Menus

One of the distinctive aspects of the New Voices New Rooms (NVNR) conference is that event passes include all on-site, non-ticketed meals. The conference team made the decision in the very first year of NVNR to always include food with each pass, so that attendees could focus on the full benefits of the program without feeling excluded, and to help defray some of the expense of attending.

NVNR has just posted the menus for the 2026 conference: View the 2026 Menu

Food and drink are an important part of NVNR's commitment to accessibility and creating a welcoming space for all attendees.

Water stations will be available during the conference. NVNR prioritizes a vegetarian menu, but the conference offers vegan, vegetarian, and meat or fish options for all meals. Most meals are served buffet style. No nuts or peanuts are included in any meal.

During registration, NVNR gathers information about specific dietary needs to pass along to the food service to help determine the menu, but the conference cannot meet specific needs or preferences with individual choices or meals. For this reason, the menus are being made public in advance of the event to allow attendees to make plans for their own specific needs.

All of the conference hotel rooms have mini fridges, and upon request, the hotel will send a microwave to your room at no charge so people who need to bring some food have options for storing and heating it.

Meals: To reduce distractions and interruptions, food service for all meals begins promptly at the time specified in the schedule, and will be suspended when the speakers begin. Most of the meals are served buffet style, except for the NVNR Awards Dinner, which is a plated dinner and does require an extra ticket. People attending the Awards Dinner will be able to select either the chicken entree or the vegan squash risotto, and will receive a card to place by their plate to let servers know which dish they want. Attendees are not required to select an entree that matches the food preference they selected when they registered.

Drinks: To reduce conference costs for attendees, no free drink tickets are being issued for 2026. All evening events and receptions have a cash bar (credit or debit cards only, no cash or room charges), with the exception of the NVNR Awards Dinner, which has a hosted bar.

NVNR 2026 Program

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