Thank you for coming to Northwest VegFest!

After years away, Northwest VegFest returned August 29–30 at the Wingspan Event & Conference Center in Hillsboro, bringing our community together for a weekend of vegan food, education, cooking demonstrations, speakers, local businesses, nonprofits, and connection.

And what a fabulous weekend it was!

VegFest 2026 issued more than 2,000 tickets, and welcomed over 100 vendors and exhibitors along with speakers, chefs, community organizations, and incredible volunteers who helped make the event possible.

Throughout the weekend, presentation rooms filled for speakers and their presentations, cooking demonstrations drew enthusiastic audiences, vendors introduced attendees to vegan foods and products, and families enjoyed activities provided by Vegan Scouts. Most importantly, VegFest created something we heard about again and again afterward: a sense of community.

Bringing VegFest back after such a long hiatus was a tremendous undertaking, and it would not have happened without the many people who contributed their time, skills, resources, and energy. Thank you to our volunteers, vendors, exhibitors, speakers, chefs, sponsors, community partners, planning team, and everyone who attended. Whether you worked a shift, staffed a booth, gave a presentation, demonstrated a recipe, helped behind the scenes, or simply came through the doors and enjoyed the weekend, you were part of making VegFest happen.