November 6-7, 2017
Sustainability, Energy and Environment Complex,
University of Colorado, Boulder
Regenerative Earth Summit
Food + Climate + Culture
- Day ONe
- Day Two
Registration
Set up for Marketplace of Ideas
Breakfast Sponsors
Welcome
Opening Ceremony
Mindfulness Practice lead by Greg Burdulis, 21st Century Monk
Keynote
Keynote via LiveStream from Hazel Henderson, President, Ethical Markets – Author, futurist, writer and evolutionary economist, Hazel is a wealth of thought provoking information that inspires action for climate prosperity and ethical principles in business.
Building a Path to Regenerative Food and Farming
Plenary Panel Roundtable
Phil Graves, Sr. Director, Corporate Development, Patagonia
Daniela Ibarra-Howell, Co-founder/CEO, Savory Institute
Tom Newmark, Co-founder, The Carbon Underground
Timothy LaSalle, Ph.D., Co-founder, Regenerative Agriculture Institute, Chico State
Alisa Gravitz, Executive Director, Green America
Elizabeth Candelario, President, Demeter USA
Moderator: Seleyn DeYarus, Executive Director, At the Epicenter
Let’s Take a Short Break
Building Regenerative Markets Starts at the Farm
Plenary Panel Roundtable
Mark Guttridge, Ollin Family Farms, Longmont, CO
Les Szabo, Director of Constructive Capital, Dr. Bronner’s
Mark Shepard, CEO, Forest Agriculture Enterprises
Katie Forrest, Co-founder/CEO, Epic Provisions
Marc Ian Barasch, CEO, Green World Ventures
Victoria Keziah, Managing Director, Land to Market Strategic Initiative, Savory Institute
Moderator: Nova Sayers, Senior Manager Business Development, NSF
Small Group Strategy Session
Working groups aligned with panel conversation topics
Enjoy a Healthy Lunch
Explore the Marketplace of Ideas
A Purposeful Pause
An experiential practice lead by Ralph Freelink, Transformative Coach, Amsterdam, NL
Transforming Supply Chains to Regenerative Supply Webs
Plenary Panel Roundtable
Greg Fleishman, Co-Founder/COO, Foodstirs
Scott Marcus, VP Marketing, Vital Farms
Rebecca Hamilton, Co-owner and VP of Research & Development, Badger Company
Kyle Garner, CEO, Organic India USA
Sara Newmark, VP Social Impact, MegaFood
Moderator: Gregory Landua, Co-founder, Terra Genesis International
Let’s Take a Short Break
Policy for Supporting Carbon Farming
Plenary Panel Roundtable
Claudine Schneider, former US Congresswoman from Rhode Island
Mark Lipson, Senior Policy and Program Specialist, Organic Farming Research Foundation
Aria McLauchlan, Co-founder, Land Core USA
Larry Kopald, Co-founder/President, The Carbon Underground
Lisa Stokke, Founder/Executive Director, Next 7
Calla Rose Ostrander, Independent Consultant
Moderator: Richard Eidlin, American Sustainable Business Council
Small Group Strategy Session
Working groups aligned with panel conversation topics
Synthesizing the Day
This session will allow sharing from table groups with all participants
Guided by Tré Cates and Seleyn DeYarus
Regenerative Earth Reception & Celebration
(For Summit Registrants Only)
Catered By:
With product donations from these awesome folks:
Speaker Line Up
Check out our AMAZING line up of world class speakers!
Hazel Henderson
Hazel Henderson D.Sc.Hon., FRSA, is the founder of Ethical Markets Media LLC and the creator and co-executive ...
John Foraker
John Foraker recently left his role as President of Annie’s, Inc. and is a co-founder and CEO of Once Upon ...
Aria McLauchlan
Aria McLauchlan is a social impact and environmental communications consultant and the co-founder of Land Core ...
Alisa Gravitz
For thirty years, Alisa Gravitz has led Green America, the national green economy organization. Green America develops ...
Robyn O’Brien
A former financial and food industry analyst, Robyn O’Brien has been called “food’s Erin Brockovich” by the New York ...
Elizabeth Candelario
Environmental and social advocate Elizabeth Candelario is President of Demeter USA, the nation’s only certifier of Biodynamic farms ...
Phil Graves
As head of corporate development, Phil reports to Patagonia’s CEO and plays a significant role in investments, innovation, ...
Tom Newmark
Tom Newmark spent fourteen years in the natural products industry, helping to build New Chapter into a premier brand in ...
Tina Owens
Tina Owens is Sr. Director, Agriculture for Danone North America and has worked in supply chain for 18 years, holding ...
Daniela Ibarra-Howell
A native Argentinean, born and raised in Buenos Aires, Daniela is an agronomist by profession and holds a MS in ...
Katherine DiMatteo
Katherine DiMatteo is the Executive Director of the Sustainable Food Trade Association as of November 2013...
Greg Fleishman
Fleishman has created and grown some of the world’s largest and most successful brands during his 20-year career – launching ...
Britt Lundgren
Britt Lundgren is the Director of Organic and Sustainable Agriculture at Stonyfield, an organic yogurt company based ...
Katie Forrest
Katie is the Co-Founder and Chief of EPIC Provisions, a company specializing in creating nutrient dense meat based superfoods ...
Woody Tasch
Woody Tasch is the Founder and Chairman of the Slow Money Institute and author of Soil: Notes Towards the Theory and ...
Calla Rose Ostrander
Calla Rose Ostrander is a Climate Change Innovations Advisor to individuals and organizations dedicated to stabilizing Earth’s ...
Timothy LaSalle, Ph.D.
Since 2007 Dr. Timothy J. LaSalle has championed his science-based hope for a regenerative food system that will mitigate climate ...
Rebecca Hamilton
Rebecca Hamilton is an owner and the co-CEO at Badger in Gilsum, New Hampshire. She oversees new product innovation from ...
Marc Ian Barasch
In 2006, Marc Ian Barasch founded one of the pioneering organizations of the global regeneration movement, the Green World ...
Steve Farrell
Steve Farrell is the Worldwide Executive Director for Humanity’s Team, a global grassroots spiritual movement focused on ...
Vince Siciliano
As President and CEO, Vince Siciliano leads New Resource Bank, a certified B Corporation, in serving values-driven companies ...
Nova Sayers
Nova Sayers is passionate about building integrity, health and sustainability in our food & agriculture system – in a way ...
Sara Newmark
Sara Newmark is VP of Social Impact for Foodstate and MegaFood products. Leading the development of FoodState’s ...
Finian Makepeace
Finian co-founded Kiss The Ground because for the first time in his life he saw that there was a solution to climate change, food insecurity, ...
Tracy Miedema
As Vice President of Innovation and Brand Development, Tracy Miedema heads up innovation at Presence Marketing, the nation’s ...
Steve Savage
As former founder and CEO of Eco-Products, Steve has been instrumental in increasing awareness of environmental ...
Steve Hughes
Steve Hughes is a pioneer in the natural and organic food and beverage industry with over 35 years of experience. ...
Mila Popovich, Ph.D.
MILA POPOVICH, Ph.D., is the founder of EVOLvED Leadership – educational program, practice and community for transformational ...
Keith Paustian, Ph.D.
Keith Paustian is University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University, in the Department of Soil and Crop ...
Walt Freese
Walt Freese has served as the CEO, or President of three iconic businesses that have each played an important role ...
Scott Marcus
Scott Marcus is the VP Marketing for Vital Farms, the largest producer of pasture-raised eggs. He has spent the past ...
Mark Shepard
Mark Shepard is the CEO of Forest Agriculture Enterprises LLC and founder of Restoration Agriculture Development. He runs New Forest ...
Dan Kittredge
Dan Kittredge has been an organic farmer for more than 30 years, and is the founder and executive director of ...
Brook Eddy
An interest in community development and a passion for travel led Brook Eddy to India in 2002 to research a ...
Kyle Garner
Kyle Garner is the CEO of Organic India USA. Organic India is a leading mission-driven manufacturer of herb-based wellness teas ...
Seleyn DeYarus
Seleyn DeYarus sees business as uniquely qualified to provide regenerative contributions to the vibrancy of communities and ecosystems in collaboration ...
Les Szabo
Les is currently Director of Constructive Capital at Dr. Bronner’s. He oversees business development activities for the ...
Mark Guttridge
As a child, Mark Guttridge lived a typical country kid’s life on his grandmother’s 6 acres of land off of ...
Richard Eidlin
Richard is the Vice President for Policy and co-founder of the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), which ...
Eric Pierce
Eric is a strategic marketing and market research professional who brings business management experience and consumer ...
Gregory Landua
Gregory’s passion for creating healthy relationships through trade and agriculture has lead him on a journey to explore all phases ...
Mark Lipson
Mark’s 35-year career spans the vanguard of the organic movement including: the early UCSantaCruz Agroecology Program ...
Lisa Stokke
Lisa Stokke has been a lifetime advocate for healthy food systems and through this commitment co-founded Food Democracy Now! ...
Ralph Freelink
Ralph Freelink is an executive coach and transformation leader from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
He is also the founder of the ...
Steve Hoffman
Steve serves as Founder and Managing Director of Compass Natural, a full-service public relations, marketing, brand ...
David Haynes
Dave Haynes has served as Managing Director for Greenmont Capital Partners II since its inception in 2008. Greenmont ...
Sara Harper
Sara has been described by friends as “a force of nature.” She is a passionate advocate for great ideas and great people — and ...
Victoria Keziah
Victoria Kindred Keziah is a twenty-five year strategist with a proven history of building businesses from the bottom up...
Robin Alfred
Robin Alfred, BA (Oxon), PGCE, M.Phil (Cantab) is an organizational consultant, facilitator, trainer and executive ...
Greg Burdulis
From Cave to Corporate America, Greg Burdulis is a mindfulness teacher and certified professional coach. He specializes in ...
Claudine Schneider
Former (R) US House of Representative from Rhode Island, Claudine is an enlightened leader in Climate, Energy, Environment ...
Kate Dillon Levin
Kate Dillon Levin is the VP of Marketing for North America at Ecosphere+, a venture founded by the award winning Althelia ...
Jeff Herrick
Jeff Herrick is a soil scientist USDA-ARS in Las Cruces, New Mexico and holds adjunct faculty appointments at NMSU and ...
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