ABOUT THE SUMMIT
The third Regenerative Earth Summit in this 4-part series will focus on Finance, Technology & Policy and takes place February 24-25, 2021 (10am-2pm MT). Over the course of two days, this Summit will address what investing in a regenerative world looks like, finance barriers to overcome, innovations in technology, and policies that can create the missing infrastructure and incentives to advance adaption of both regenerative agriculture and a regenerative-focused economy. As always, the summit will provide opportunity for Q&A and discussion with speakers and panelists as well as amongst attendees.
The Regenerative Earth Summit 4-part series is accelerating the conversation from regenerative learning to regenerative action—from the why to the how. We are offering the Summit as an opportunity for you to engage with other regenerative leaders in a creational effort, focused on addressing key obstacles to regenerative implementation.
Our goal, through this 4-part series of content and collaboration, is to collectively clarify these obstacles and to employ our community’s unique genius in order to accelerate working solutions that drive real-world results.
WHY THIS SUMMIT?
The Regenerative Earth Summit offers a unique opportunity to not only learn more about the implementation of regenerative principles in the business community, but to help create solutions to the current industry-wide bottlenecks that restrict broader adoption. Through inspiring keynote content and panel discussions, we’ll seed the framework and set the stage for multi-stakeholder discussions that lead to profound insights and workable solutions in the name of a brighter agricultural future. These working groups will focus on finance, supply chain, regulatory, farming, technology, marketing and much more. This is an opportunity to connect with other industry leaders, to create collaborative solutions and to help steer the next step in the regenerative evolution!
WHO'S COMING?
The Regenerative Earth Summit convenes visionary leaders from the food and fashion industries, farmers, ranchers, entrepreneurs, investors, activists, and academics working collaboratively to tackle the audacious vision of shifting how agriculture is practiced. With mindfulness practice, interactive working sessions, Regenerative Slams, and panel conversations, colleagues will generate ideas and actionable steps to change the status quo and bring new vigor and rigor to sourcing and partnerships across sectors. By working collaboratively across and within industry sectors, we accelerate the systems change we need to see in a regenerative future.
If you are bold, impassioned catalyst for change — this event welcomes YOU.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Wizipan Little Elk
An enrolled Rosebud Sioux Tribe member, Wizipan Little Elk is a nationally recognized young Native leader. Wizipan first met Barb and OJ Semans during South Dakota’s 2004 U.S. Senate race, when Four Directions helped deliver record-breaking levels of Native voter turnout. Wizipan later joined Senator Barack Obama’s campaign for President as Native American Outreach... Read More
Stephen Hohenrieder
Stephen serves as the CEO of Grounded Capital Partners, which invests long-term private capital along the value chain of our food system in ways that create transparent, high-integrity supply chains and build capacity for a more regenerative food system. In this role, Stephen... Read More
SPEAKERS
SUMMIT ACTIVATOR
Elizabeth Candelario
Advisory Board, Regenerative Rising & Owner, Studio Airstream
Elizabeth Candelario works at the nexus of food, agriculture, and climate change, and is most passionate about uniting brands and nonprofits to activate social mission causes in innovative ways that benefit both. She works throughout the USA and Europe via her USA-based consultancy Studio Airstream and as a partner with Merika Advisory in the UK.... Read More
SCHEDULE
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Time Zones are in Mountain Time (MST)
Welcome and Introduction to the Regenerative Earth Summit - Session 3 Elizabeth Candelario, Summit Activator & Advisory Board, Regenerative Rising | |
Keynote & Q&A: Regenerative Capital: Investing in the Health of a System versus Monetizing the Symptoms of an Unhealthy System Stephen Hohenrieder, CEO & Founder, Grounded Capital Partners | |
Regenerative Slam™: The Regenerative Finance Landscape David LeZaks, Ph.D, Senior Fellow, Croatan Institute | |
Panel with Q&A: A Closer Look at Regenerative Impact Investing, and What it Really Means Kelsey Ducheneaux, Natural Resources Director, Intertribal Agriculture Council John Fullerton, Founder & President, Capital Institute Jennifer Astone, Founder, Integrated Capital Investing Moderator: David LeZaks, Ph.D, Senior Fellow, Croatan Institute | |
Panel with Q&A: Technology Changing the Regenerative Landscape Jenette Ashtekar, VP of Sustainability and Regeneration, CIBO Pablo Borquez, Founder, Produce Pay Inc. Clint Brauer, Co-founder, Green Robotics Mitchell Hora, Founder, Continuum Ag Moderator: Gabriel Wilmoth, Consultant | |
Regenerative Slam™ Drones and Agroforestry Aymeric Maudous, Founder, Lord of the Trees | |
Panel with Q&A: Investment in Agriculture from Soil and Farmers to Agtech and Food David Haynes, CEO & Co-founder, rePlant Capital Ali Morrow, VC Investor, Astanor Venture Esther Park, CEO, Cienega Capital Moderator: Erin Heitkamp, Senior Vice President of Impact, Pipeline Foods | |
Summit Roundup Elizabeth Candelario, Summit Activator & Advisory Board, Regenerative Rising | |
Aprés Networking Meet & Greet |
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Time Zones are in Mountain Time (MST)
Welcome and setting the context for our time together Elizabeth Candelario, Summit Activator & Advisory Board, Regenerative Rising | |
Keynote with Q&A: Seven Generations Wizipan Little Elk, CEO, Rosebud Economic Development Corporation | |
Regenerative Slam™: The Policy Landscape in a New Administration Aria McLauchlan, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Land Core | |
Panel & Q&A: Opportunities to Advance Regenerative Agriculture through Policy Arohi Sharma, Policy Analyst, Water, Agriculture, & Wildlife, Nature Program, NRDC Jennifer O'Conner, Founder and Chief Consultant, Guidelight Strategies Eric Deeble, Policy Director, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Moderator: Aria McLauchlan, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Land Core | |
Regenerative Slam™ : The Justice for Black Farmers Act and Understanding Barriers for Black Farmers Cornelius Blanding, Executive Director, Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund | |
Regenerative Slam™ : Europe's Policy Elizabeth Candelario, Summit Activator & Advisory Board, Regenerative Rising Erik Bindslev, Owner, MERIKA | |
Panel with Q&A: Regenerative Advocacy in Action Bethany Davis, Director of Advocacy and Government Affairs, MegaFood Britt Lundgren, Director of Organic and Sustainable Agriculture, Stonyfield Bryce Lundberg, VP of Agriculture, Lundberg Family Farms Moderator: Erin Callahan, Director, Climate Collaborative | |
Summit Roundup for Impact Elizabeth Candelario, Summit Activator & Advisory Board, Regenerative Rising | |
Aprés Networking Meet & Greet |
“The insights we gained from the 2019 Regenerative Earth Summit inspired Nature's Crops to work with our grower partners to transition our focus from sustainable to regenerative practices for all our specialty crop contract production. Collectively this is about 10,000 acres of production, but as these practices become applied to the grower’s overall acreage, the total impact could well be in excess of 100,000 acres.”
– Andrew Hebard, President & CEO of Natures Crops International
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