MindFest was launched in 2023 by FAU’s new Center for the Future Mind as an annual conference to bring together thought leaders in the fields that study the future of intelligence, especially artificial intelligence (AI), philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, to discuss the interaction between mind and machine, the nature of intelligence and conscious experience. This two-day event attracts media from venues such as The Miami Herald, Scientific American, Nautilus, WIRED, and Theories of Everything (a top STEM YouTube channel, and more. In partnership with this channel many of the MindFest presentations have reached over 300,000 individuals. Topics explored included the nature of reality, quantum computation, artificial general intelligence (AGI), the neural basis of consciousness, large language models, animal minds, theories of life, and virtual reality (VR). Over six hundred people attend each year, including professionals in the tech industry, policymakers, and students.