Conference Agenda

Day 1 – Tuesday, September 08

Plenary Science & Behaviour

Keynote Speakers:

• Harald Sverdrup (Presentation)
• Allen White (Presentation)
• Michelle Holliday (Presentation)
• Jane Hwang (Presentation)

Facilitators:

• Bill Baue
• Ralph Thurm

Break

Rejuvenating, Tension-Dissolving Mindful Movement for 15 minutes with Jennifer Dhyana Nucci

Plenary Finance & Growth

Break

Rejuvenating, Tension-Dissolving Mindful Movement for 15 minutes with Jennifer Dhyana Nucci

Plenary Value & Circularity

Break

Rejuvenating, Tension-Dissolving Mindful Movement for 15 minutes with Jennifer Dhyana Nucci

Plenary Governance & Education

Day 2 – Wednesday, September 09

Interactive  Breakout 1st plenary (Science & Behaviour)

Introduction

Interactive  Breakout 1st plenary (Science & Behaviour)

PACE: Securing Vital Resources – the Decade to Deliver

Provocateur:

• Harald Sverdrup
• Cecile van Oppen

Facilitator:

• Kees Klomp

Interactive  Breakout 1st plenary (Science & Behaviour)

SCALE: Respecting Thresholds & Allocations Globally

Provocateur:

• Allen White
• Heather Grady
• Joyeeta Gupta

Facilitator:

• Bill Baue

Interactive  Breakout 1st plenary (Science & Behaviour)

SCOPE: Accounting for Sustainability Across the Triple Bottom Line

Provocateur:

• Mark McElroy
• Jane Hwang

Facilitator:

• Delphine Gibassier

Break

Rejuvenating, Tension-Dissolving Mindful Movement for 15 minutes with Jennifer Dhyana Nucci

Market-Making Ideas And Solutions Part 1

Introduction

Market-Making Ideas And Solutions Part 1

Slot 1: The THRIVE Platform: A New Resource for Thresholds-Based Performance Assessment & Business Model Design

The THRIVE Platform is a conceptual framework and practical tool informed by the best available sciences. It combines the 12 foundational focus factors built on principles such as strong sustainability, context-based metrics, multi-capital and values-based innovation, to name a few, into the framework. It is offered as a free and openly available common good, which utilizes a systems thinking approach to entity model innovation, thus scale-linking entity strategy or model to sustainability performance. Through the process of systemic orchestration, leveraging backcasting techniques, it provides a dynamic science-based targeted assessment by connecting global thresholds and allocations with quantitative sustainability scores.

THRIVE Platform measures what matters most, by empowering society and provoking entities to flourish and providing guidance towards thrivability. For further information, including free access to the platform, visit THRIVE Project.

Presenter:

• Morris D. Fedeli

 Presentation

Market-Making Ideas And Solutions Part 1

Slot 2: MultiCapital Scorecard: Concept (Integrating Doughnut Thresholds) & Practice (at Cabot Creamery Cooperative)

Presenter:

• Mark McElroy
• Jed Davis
• Abby Snyder

Presentation

Market-Making Ideas And Solutions Part 1

Slot 3: How Limited Companies & Cooperatives Break Regenerative Economies; and How the FairShares Commons Makes Them Antifragile.

Join us on a playful journey to found a company and compare two company stories from founding to exit to show what else we need to to create a regenerative and distributive economy because both are in the DNA of incorporation.

Presenter:

• Graham Boyd
• Magdalena Schäfer

 Presentation

Day 3 – Thursday, September 10

Interactive  Breakout 2nd plenary (Finance & Growth)

Introduction

Interactive  Breakout 2nd plenary (Finance & Growth)

PACE: Post-Growth for Intergenerational Equity

Provocateur:

• Susan Paulson
• Beth Stratford

Facilitator:

• Kees Klomp

Interactive  Breakout 2nd plenary (Finance & Growth)

SCALE: Regenerative Finance from the Bioregional to the Global Scale

Provocateur:

• John Fullerton
• Laura Ortiz Montemayor

Facilitator:

• Stuart Cowan

Interactive  Breakout 2nd plenary (Finance & Growth)

SCOPE: Delivering Sustainable Finance

Provocateur:

• Tjeerd Krumpelman
• Geeta Aiyer

Facilitator:

• Emilie Goodall

Break

Rejuvenating, Tension-Dissolving Mindful Movement for 15 minutes with Jennifer Dhyana Nucci

Introduction

Slot 4: Practical Tools for Designing, Managing, and Monitoring organizations and networks as Regenerative Living Systems.

“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.” – Buckminster Fuller

The dominant model for organizational design and management today is that of a machine. We design our departments as gears to run “like a well-oiled machine”, treat our people as replaceable and expendable parts and ensure they “have enough bandwidth” and monitor our operations by checking if we have things “dialed in”. As a result, the design and management of our organizations is extracting from employees, communities, and our ecosystems. Alternatively, there is increasing interest in viewing our organizations and networks as living systems that regenerate the well-being of their employees, the communities they are a part of, and the ecosystems they depend on. While this new organizational paradigm is promising, the need for operational design, management and monitoring tools remain.
This session will share how nRhythm is using its Regenerative Framework and Organizational Health Index to design, operate, scale and monitor complex organizations and multi-sector networks as living systems. We will share practical examples from our work with diverse clientele from private manufacturing and agriculture businesses, architecture and law firms, non-profits/NGOs advancing racial equity to global networks working to regenerate grasslands and build regenerative economies.

Presenter:

• Jeff Su

Presentation

Slot 5: Market Traction – Innovating Strategy Development for Flourishing Enterprise Futures

This session will explore how the Business Evolution approach, including the Flourishing Strategy Design Method and other innovative design tools, were deployed to member firms of the Global Centre of Expertise – Norwegian Offshore Drilling and Engineering (GCE NODE) cluster. To accelerate the mobilization of this applied learning program globally, a train-the-trainer model is being employed that enabled GCE NODE to rapidly build the expertise needed to lead and scale delivery without support.  The success achieved has prompted GCE NODE to begin licensing the program and delivering training to other Norwegian clusters keen to bring this leading innovation to enterprises in their own sectors. The session will also examine the potential for applying the Business Evolution approach within the municipal sector, with a focus on an engagement recently established with the fastest growing city in Canada and an international applied research project being led at Wilfrid Laurier University and focused innovation in city planning.

Presenter:

• Randy Sa’d
• Stephen Davies
• Claire Bennett
• Manuel Riemer

Presentation

Slot 6: Redesigning Products and Value Chains using Digital Platforms

Based on blockchain use cases, this session will show how you can use digital platforms to redesign products and value chains. Moreover, it will focus on cloud technologies that support resilience, transparency, and sustainability in these volatile times and beyond.

Presenter:

• Martina Prox
• Jörg Walden

 Presentation

Day 4 – Friday, September 11

Interactive  Breakout 3rd plenary (Value & Circularity)

Introduction

Interactive  Breakout 3rd plenary (Value & Circularity)

PACE: Shifting to Economies as Ecosystems

Provocateur:

• James Quilligan
• Michel Bauwens

Facilitator:

• Adam Garfunkel

Interactive  Breakout 3rd plenary (Value & Circularity)

SCALE: Seeding Circular Economies through Regional Doughnuts

Provocateur:

• Salomé Galjaard
• Teina Boasa-Dean

Facilitator:

• Martina Prox

Interactive  Breakout 3rd plenary (Value & Circularity)

SCOPE: The Value of Thrivability

Provocateur:

• Jean Russell
• Michelle Holliday

Facilitator:

• Trae Ashlie-Garen

Break

Rejuvenating, Tension-Dissolving Mindful Movement for 15 minutes with Jennifer Dhyana Nucci

Interactive  Breakout 4th plenary (Governance & Education)

Introduction

Interactive  Breakout 4th plenary (Governance & Education)

PACE: Educational Transformation to Regenerative Holism

Provocateur:

• Anneloes Smitsman
• Joe Brewer

Facilitator:

• Bill Baue

Interactive  Breakout 4th plenary (Governance & Education)

SCALE: Regenerative & Distributive Governance & Ownership

Provocateur:

• Marjorie Kelly

Facilitator:

• Lynn Benander

Interactive  Breakout 4th plenary (Governance & Education)

SCOPE: Transformative Governance & Bioregional Education

Provocateur:

• Greg Watson
• Michael Quinn Patton

Facilitator:

• Glenn Page

Conference Closing