Since 2012, the International Plant-Based Nutrition Healthcare Conference (PBNHC) has been the world’s premier CME-accredited event bringing together physicians and healthcare professionals to learn how food is medicine. Attended by clinicians from more than 24 countries, PBNHC quickly became known for its rigorous science, world-class faculty, and unforgettable community—earning praise like: “I’ve been going to medical conferences for 30 years, and this is the best I’ve ever attended.”

Over the years, our faculty has included many of the most influential voices in nutrition and lifestyle medicine: Drs. Caldwell Esselstyn, T. Colin Campbell, Dean Ornish, Neal Barnard, William Li, Joel Fuhrman, Michael Greger, Thomas Campbell, Doug Lisle, Susan Blum, Micaela Karlsen, Michael Klaper, Michele Simon, John McDougall, James Loomis, Phil Tuso, Terry Mason, and Benjamin Ha, among others. Their evidence-based work has shown that food is not only prevention—it is powerful treatment that can suspend and even reverse chronic disease.

Now, as we build on more than a decade of impact, we are expanding our mission. The Power of the Plate (POP) Conference is the natural evolution of PBNHC: still anchored in world-class, CME/CE-accredited education for healthcare professionals, but now reaching across sectors to engage leaders in public health, food systems, sustainability, education, policy, and industry.

POP recognizes the full interconnectedness of food—how what we grow, produce, and consume shapes not only individual health, but also the wellbeing of communities, economies, and the planet itself. Human health remains our true north, but the ripple effect of the Power of the Plate drives change across every sector.

From the seed planted in 2012 with PBNHC, a global movement has grown. With POP, we are writing the next chapter—uniting clinicians and changemakers to heal people, communities, and the planet.