Curated by founders, for founders. Every session is chosen for intellectual honesty, logical rigour, and practical insight. A safe space to express unpopular opinions and challenge the ideas everyone else is afraid to question.
Founder-led sessions covering AI, capital, capitalism, community, and the hard stuff nobody says at actual conferences.
Practical sessions with working outputs. You will leave with a framework, a draft, or a LinkedIn post. Usually all three.
Strong opinions held firmly, defended rigorously. No moderation theatre. Opposing takes not just welcomed — required.
Your yurt is ready. Your hamper is stocked. Bar opens at 18:00 — curated IPA selection flown in from California, single-origin whisky flight, and a cocktail list that takes itself exactly as seriously as you do. We handle the warm intros — you handle the handshakes.
Four minutes. Three questions. Twenty-four founders. We've done the combinatorics so you don't have to. Every member meets every other member before dinner.
Opening keynote. A founder's perspective on unstructured environments as leadership accelerators — and why the best board prep you'll ever do involves no slides, no Wi-Fi, and a surprising amount of fire.
Chef-prepared three-course dinner. Curated seating arrangements. This is where the real conversations happen and where 2025's most-cited partnership originated.
Facilitated Wim Hof-adjacent breathing protocol followed by 3-minute cold immersion. Your WHOOP will have feelings about this. Good ones.
High-protein, anti-inflammatory menu. Optional: share your overnight HRV and recovery score. The data will be judged. Warmly.
A frank examination of why Burning Man's core economic model wouldn't survive a Series A due diligence process — and what that tells us about the limits of gift culture at scale.
Practical frameworks for deploying LLM agent networks to handle the work that currently sits between your engineers and your strategy. Includes a live demo. The agent will be more prepared than most panellists.
Chef-prepared. Seating curated by sector and growth stage. Your concierge has seated you next to the three people we think you most need to meet.
A 75-minute working session on narrativising your Burning Nest experience for maximum professional reach. You will leave with three drafted LinkedIn posts, a content framework, and a mild sense of unease about what you're doing.
Three investors and two founders examine the documented correlation between Burning Man attendance and Series B close rates. The data is real. The implications are uncomfortable.
Why the best climate investments look exactly like normal growth investments with better PR — and how to build a company that's genuinely net-positive without sacrificing your return multiple.
Members-only access. Bookings pre-allocated. Towels, robes, and a drinks service provided. Historically our highest-conversion networking session by a significant margin.
An unmoderated debate on whether market mechanisms are, in fact, the most efficient path to human flourishing. Opposing views not just tolerated — we've pre-selected two people specifically to argue against the motion. This one runs long.
Chef's tasting menu. Open bar. No agenda. Previous years' late-night conversations have seeded two companies and one acquisition. No promises.
Day two of the cold exposure protocol. We track whether your subjective wellbeing scores have shifted. They usually have.
Why DAOs keep failing, what the next generation of decentralised community ownership actually looks like, and whether you can tokenise a sunset. (You can. Should you? That's the talk.)
A working session on how to give and receive genuinely honest feedback — drawing on both the Radical Honesty movement and evidence-based performance management research. Some participants find this uncomfortable. That's the point.
Chef-prepared. Free afternoon to explore the wider Burning Nest festival. The shuttle runs every 15 minutes. Your IPA fridge isn't going anywhere.
Chef's Sunday menu. Cocktail bar curated by our resident mixologist. The conversations by now have moved past networking into something more interesting.
Day three of the protocol. Your body is adapting. Your WHOOP data is interesting. The ice is not getting warmer.
A frank, intellectually rigorous exploration of how consent-forward communities have built trust architectures that most companies can only aspire to. Not what you expected. Exactly what you need.
A hands-on session applying Elon-grade first principles methodology to the question of authentic self-expression. What do you actually believe when you strip away social consensus?
4K monitors. Standing desks. Treadmill desks. California IPA on tap in the co-working lounge. Your deal flow doesn't take a week off just because you're in a forest.
Single-origin Japanese whisky flight, paired with a seven-course tasting menu. Chef's choice. Dress code: whatever you want. Burn rules apply — or don't.
A session on the leadership value of unpopular opinions, intellectual honesty, and the courage to express ideas that the prevailing culture has deemed unacceptable. We don't censor. We discuss.
A working session where you leave with a decision-making framework mapped to your actual life. Who do you consult? Who should you? What are you avoiding?
An unmoderated, adults-only conversation about the intersection of ambition, desire, and the unwritten rules of the tech world. Chatham House rules. What happens at the burn stays at the burn.
Tonight is unstructured. The bar is open. The hot tub is heated. The forest is dark. Whatever happens, happens.
Camp Apex was founded to disrupt the established hierarchy of the burn community. This talk examines the unspoken power structures, the cabal mentality, and why radical self-reliance should mean freedom from groupthink — not submission to it.
If AGI arrives in 2027 — and the smart money says sooner — what should you be doing right now? A practical, unsentimental framework for positioning yourself and your company on the right side of the singularity.
Go explore the wider Burning Nest. Shuttle service runs every 15 minutes. The concierge has recommendations. The IPA fridge will still be here when you get back.
California IPAs on rotation. If you want to practice your pitch on a room full of people who will actually tell you the truth, tonight's the night. No slides. No decks. Just conviction and hops.
VO2 max, zone 2, rapamycin, NAD+ — the longevity stack is no longer fringe. This talk makes the case that physical optimisation is the most undervalued alpha in venture. The data is uncomfortable.
You've been here five days. Something has shifted. This session helps you narrativise the experience for professional reach. You will leave with three posts, a thread, and a mild identity crisis.
Every Apex member was selected because they raise the median. This panel asks the uncomfortable question: what value are you actually creating for the people around you — and are you sure?
Chef's tasting menu. Full bar. This is the night that seeded two companies and one acquisition last year. No agenda. No promises. No regrets.
One last time. Your HRV data over the week tells a story. We review it together. Some of you will have changed. All of you will have data to prove it.
The closing talk. Applying the frameworks of company building — due diligence, value creation, optionality, exit readiness — to your own personal growth. More rigorous than it sounds.
Chef-prepared farewell lunch. Your post-event member directory — including contact details for every cohort member — is distributed. Concierge assists with departure logistics.
We handle the teardown. You handle the follow-up emails. The shuttle will take you to the car park. We recommend having at least one follow-up sent before you leave.
We curate all talks internally and do not run an open CFP. If you believe you have something genuinely worth saying — not a pitch, not a deck, not a case study for your own product — email us.
We're particularly interested in talks that make us uncomfortable, that challenge things we assume to be true, or that express opinions the mainstream considers unacceptable. We founded Camp Apex to disrupt the established hierarchy of the burn community — and that starts with free, uncensored intellectual discourse. Talks that make everyone nod along are not what we're looking for.
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