Future Economy Forum

Blue Zone Pavilion Program

DAILY SESSIONS THROUGHOUT COP28


Everyday of COP28 the Future Economy Forum Pavilion hosted
the following session types in collaboration with partner organizations. 

9.30-11.00

11.00-12.30

12.30-14.30

14.30-16.00

16.30-18.00

*All events are held in the Future Economy Forum Blue Zone pavilion, TA2-125, unless otherwise indicated.

10.00-11.00  

Private Event

Danone Session with Frontline Workers

By invitation only.

11.00-12.30 Solutions Dialogue

Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF): How Regenerative Farming can become the Future Mainstream of Agriculture
Co-hosts: 

  • Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF)
  • NOW Partners Foundation 
  • Future Economy Forum
  • Vijay Kumar, leader, Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF), fr. Government Minister
  • Walter Link, VP of Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka’s largest social and rural movement
  • Hunter Lovins, Managing Partner, NOW Partners 

Description: How do 850,000 Indian farmers who implement Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming method show the way to a new, chemical-free mainstream of agriculture that fully integrates the regeneration of nature and people with the economic success of farmers and the region?

12.30-14.30

Dialogue Lunch

Leadership Dialogue for Regenerative Food Systems:
Informal conversation about the importance of collaboration to accelerate and scale the transition to Regenerative Food Systems

Co-hosts: 

  • Future Economy Forum
  • NOW Partners Foundation
  • Food System Pavilion
  • EIT Food

By invitation only.

  • Helmy Abouleish, CEO, Sekem
  • Vijay Kumar, Leader, Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF)
  • Michiel Bakker, Vice President, Global Workplace Programs at Google, founder Google Food Lab
  • Dr Andy Zynga, CEO, European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT Food)
  • Michiel de Ruiter, Chairman, European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT Food)
  • Walter Link, President, Future Economy Forum and NOW Partners 
  • Merijn Dols, Managing Partner, NOW Partners and Future Economy Forum

14.30-16.00 Solutions Dialogue

APCNF: Blended Finance to Scale Regenerative Agriculture

Co-hosts:

  • Agroecology Coalition
  • Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF)
  • Sekem
  • NOW Partners Foundation 

Facilitated by:  Walter Link, President, NOW Partners Foundation  

Speakers:

  • Vijay Kumar, leader, Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF)
  • Helmy Abouleish, CEO, Sekem
  • Dr. Emile Frison, Co-founder, Agroecology Coalition
  • Annelies Withofs, Programme Manager, IKEA Foundation
  • Steven Lang, Pollination Group and Green Climate Fund 
  • Nyasebwa Chimagu, Ministry of Agriculture Tanzania

Description: How can we combine complementary types of finance to scale agroecology approaches such as India’s APCNF and Egypt’s Sekem, locally and internationally?

16.30-18.00  Cinema Club

The Biggest Little Farm

Speakers:

  • Michiel Bakker, Google
  • Merijn Dols, Future Economy Forum & NOW

 

Description:
The Biggest Little Farm chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature's conflicts, the Chester’s unlock and uncover a biodiverse design for living that exists far beyond their farm, its seasons, and our wildest imagination.

Featuring breathtaking cinematography, captivating animals, and an urgent message to heed Mother Nature’s call, The Biggest Little Farm provides us all a vital blueprint for better living and a healthier planet.

https://www.biggestlittlefarmmovie.com/

17.00-21.45  Evening Solutions Dialogue Series 

(By invitation. Terra Pavilion, Green Zone)

Financing the transition to a regenerative food system 
Transitioning to regenerative and resilient agricultural systems is widely recognized as one of the key solutions to reverse climate change and biodiversity loss. We present a call to action for the global finance community to unlock investments in food systems transformation, including public-private partnerships.

Event Co-Hosts: Future Economy Forum, OP2B & WBCSD
Dinner Event Series Sponsors: 

8.30-10.00*  

Innovation Lab
*note unique time

Designing Climate Positive Policy & PR

Co-hosts: As part of the Partnership for a Regenerative Economy by NOW Partners and the kyu Collective, Lexington & NOW Co-host 

Speakers:

  • Sarah Bartlett, Head of Middle East/Director, Lexington
  • Ryan Murphy, Lexington
  • Laura Santucci, fr. Chief of Staff of President Obama’s political operation and senior leader of both of his presidential campaigns
  • Merijn Dols, Managing Partner, NOW Partners Foundation and Danone’s fr. Head of Open Innovation and Circularity

10.00-11.30 Solutions Dialogue

Transforming our energy systems: Barriers and enablers of simultaneous transitions in the value chain from supply to demand

Co-hosts:

BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt
Future Economy Forum

Speakers:

  • Heba Aguib, Member of the Board, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt
  • Walter Link, President, Future Economy Forum and NOW Partners
  • Asami Miketa, Head of Energy Transition Planning and Power Sector Transformation at IRENA 
  • Rana Ghoneim, Chief, Energy systems and Infrastructure Division at UNIDO
  • Mark Kuschel, Head of International Standardization of Grid Technologies at Siemens Energy
  • Dietram Oppelt, Technology Executive Committee, UNFCCC, NDE Germany.
  • Thomas Becker, Vice President Sustainability Mobility at BMW Group.

Description:
The session will explore a holistic view of energy systems transformation towards renewability, efficiency, and sufficiency; including the perspectives of actors involved in transition processes in the different phases of the value chain from energy supply, through energy transformation and transport, to energy demand and end uses. Cross-cutting issues such as digitization and decentralized governance, and new public-private-community forms of system ownership, will run throughout the session.
 

12.30-14.30

Dialogue Lunch

Whole System Carbon Credits

Co-hosts:
Sekem, Egypt’s leader in regenerative agriculture and Whole System Carbon Credits
NOW Partners Foundation
Future Economy Forum

Speakers:

  • Helmy Abouleish, CEO, Sekem
  • Walter Link, President, NOW Partners Foundation
  • Justus Harm, Co-Executive Director of Demeter Egypt & Head of EoL Standard
  • Martin Stuchtey, Founder & CEO, The Landbanking Group
  • Hunter Lovins, Managing Director, NOW Partners
  • Gordon Bennett, Managing Director, Utility Markets
  • Gonzalo Munoz, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion
  • Patrick Holden, Sustainable Food Trust
  • Stephan Guimbert, World Bank Country Director
  • Dr. Mohamed Farid Saleh, The Financial Regulatory Authority

Description:
Financing the transition to regenerative agriculture & forestry with the help of high quality, high integrity whole system carbon credits that support Egyptian smallholder farmers to increase their income by transitioning from chemical to regenerative agriculture.
 

16.30-18.00

Cinema Club

SNV Short Films

Co-hosts: 

Future Economy Forum
Food System Pavilion
EIT Food

18.30+

(invite only)

private residence

Circles of Trust

Co-hosts: EIT Food, Future Economy Forum

Description:
Transforming the food system requires partnership from all actors, and lasting partnerships are built on trust and deeper human connections.  This dinner will bring together a small, carefully selected group of global leaders and decision makers from the private and public sectors in a closed-door conversation to explore the importance of trust and how the trust deficit is impacting on our ability to transform food systems for people and planet. 

9.00-10.30  

Closed door meeting
*Dubai location

Health Care Roundtable

Co-hosts: 
Impact Stewards
NOW Partners Foundation
Future Economy Forum

9.30-11.00  

Innovation Lab

Human Behavior Change

Co-hosts: As part of the Partnership for a Regenerative Economy by NOW Partners and the kyu Collective, BEWorks & NOW Co-host

  • Wardah Malik, BEworks
  • Angela Cooper, BEworks
  • Marta Guglielmetti , Future Economy Forum
  • Fritz Lietsch, Future Economy Forum

11.30-12.30 Solutions Dialogue

*note unique time

Launch of the Catalyst 2030 South - South Alliance: 
Within the Global South there is so much to learn and do with each other

Co-hosts:
Catalyst 2030
Future Economy Forum

Speakers:

  • Marcia Toledo, Director, Adaptation & Resilience, High Level Climate Champions (Moderator)
  • Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak, Managing Director, Environment Agency Abu Dhabi and President, International Union Conservation of Nature (Keynote Speaker) (TBC)
  • Sheela Patel, Founder SPARC and Director, Roof Over Our Heads
  • Helmy Abouleish, Chief Executive Officer, SEKEM Group
  • Brittany Boettcher, Managing Director, Skoll Foundation 
  • Ashley Marie Toombs, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, BRAC  

Contributors

  • Jamie Drummond, Co-Founder at ONE.org and Founder, Sharing Strategies
  • Neelam Chhiber, Co-Founder and Managing Trustee, Industree Foundation 
  • Michael Jarvis, Executive Director, Transparency and Accountability Initiative 
  • Gary Belkin, Director, Billion Minds Project

 

Description:

Meet the leaders of the Catalyst 2030 South - South Alliance to co-create passageways to mutual inspiration and collaboration

 

12.30-14.30  Dialogue Lunch

Access to Health Care, Healthy Nutrition and Climate

Co-hosts: 
Impact Stewards

 

Speakers:

  • Patrick Filius, Impact Stewards
  • Michiel Bakker, Google 
  • Hunter Lovins, NOW Partners
  • Walter Link, NOW Partners
  • Helmy Abouleish, Sekem
     

15.00-16.30* Solutions Dialogue
*note unique time

Climate Solutions: Unpacking the climate-tech innovation ecosystem to unlock the deployment of decarbonization and adaptation solutions

Co-hosts:

BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt
Future Economy Forum

Facilitator: Martin Wainstein, Founder at Open Earth – non-profit organization building digital architecture and open source tech to scale climate action.

Speakers:

  • Lubomila Jordanova, Founder at Plan A / Greentech Alliance – Startup combining advanced carbon accounting solutions with comprehensive decarbonization strategies / Greentech community.
  • Snehal Verma, Founder at Nature Dots - startup offering real-time water ecosystem monitoring for food & food-security.
  • Bradley Rochlin, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Running Tide – Startup accelerating natural processes in the ocean.
  • Hanna Ojanen, Policy Lead at Carbo Culture – Startup building a rapidly scalable biochar carbon removal solution.
  • Tanja Faller, Global Leader Climate Finance at GIZ – German International Cooperation Agency for sustainable development.

16.30-18.00 Cinema Club

Cinema Club TBD

Details Forthcoming

18.00-21.00

Evening Event

Opening Night Kyu House

Please join us at the kyu House that features many events that connect creativity to climate action. Future Economy Forum co-founder and secretariat NOW Partners Foundation entered in a Partnership for a Regenerative Economy with kyu Collective, through which we also offer daily Innovation Labs at our Blue Zone Pavilion with With ATÖLYE, BEworks, Gehl, IDEO, Lexington, NOW Partners, Neol, and SYPartners. 
Apply here.

9.30-11.00  

Innovation Lab

Coalition building and leadership

Co-hosts: As part of the Partnership for a Regenerative Economy by NOW Partners and the kyu Collective, SYPartners & NOW Co-host

Speakers:

  • Nicolas Matriet, SYPartners
  • Mikhael Cohen, SYPartners
  • Merijn Dols, Managing Partner, NOW Partners Foundation and Danone’s fr. Head of Open Innovation and Circularity

11.00-12.30  

Solutions Dialogue

Biodiversity Credits: 
Financing the transition to regenerative agriculture & forestry

Co-hosts:
Sekem, Egypt’s leader in regenerative agriculture
NOW Partners Foundation
Future Economy Forum

Speakers:

  • Helmy Abouleish, CEO, Sekem
  • Walter Link, President, NOW Partners Foundation
  • Éliane Ubalijoro, CIFOR-ICRAF
  • Max Cooper, Producers Trust
  • Ahmed Rushdy, FRA
  • Mahmoud Mohieldin, Executive Director, International Monetary Fund
  • Tu Doan Quynh Bui, Biodiversity Collage
  • Upendra Poudyal, GABV
  • Gonzalo Muñoz, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion 

12.30-14.30

Dialogue Lunch

TBD

Description:

TBD

14.30-16.00

Solutions Dialogue

Creating A Sustainable ‘Zero Carbon Footprint’ World: Accelerating & Connecting Business, Technology and Governance Solutions 

Co-hosts:

Sunways Global
Climate Governance Commission
Exponential Roadmap Initiative
Earthna Institute, Qatar Foundation
Amazon
Lighthouse Trust, Singapore
Dynaspede Integrated Systems
Maharashtra Government
Future Economy Forum
Sekem

Speakers:

  • Pankaj Sehgal, Director, Dynaspede Integrated Systems (Moderator)
  • Bhadra Kanaiya, CEO, Sunways Global, Innovator in Solar Power, Champion for Village Energy Empowerment
  • Sharan Burrow, Former General Secretary at International Trade Union Confederation, Commissioner at the Climate Governance Commission
  • Ma Jun, Commissioner of the Climate Governance Commission, Director, Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE), Beijing
  • Johan Falk, CEO and Co-Founder of Exponential Roadmap Initiative
     
  • Maja Groff, Convenor, Climate Governance Commission (Moderator)
  • Arunabha Ghosh, Commissioner of the Climate Governance Commission, Chief Executive Officer, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), New Delhi
  • Thoraya Seada, Director of the Carbon Footprint Center, SEKEM
  • Sylvie Maalouf, Programs Manager, Qatar Foundation CEO Office & Earthna Institute
  • Reema R. Nanavaty, Director, Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)

Description: 

The first panel will bring together government officials, investors, corporates, labor leaders, and developers to discuss practical steps in achieving a 'carbon reduction' future.

The second panel will broaden the global conversation, uniting corporate/labor leaders and policy experts for a comprehensive clean energy revolution.

16.30-18.00

Cinema Club

How Regenerative Farming can become the Future Mainstream of Agriculture: Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF)

Co-hosts:

Future Economy Forum
Food Systems Pavilion
EIT Food 

Speakers:

  • Facilitated by Walter Link, President, NOW Partners Foundation  
  • Vijay Kumar, leader, Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF)

Featuring Short films by:

  • APCNF & Rythu Sadhikara Samstha
  • "The Guardians of the Soil" world premiere,
    a film by Elisabetta Illy, Jaqueline Illy & Federico Gariboldi
     

9.30-11.00  

Innovation Lab

IDEO Climate Lab - Scaling Sustainability through Desirability 

Co-hosts: As part of the Partnership for a Regenerative Economy by NOW Partners and the kyu Collective, IDEO & NOW Co-host

  • Luis Cilimingras, IDEO
  • Bryan Walker, IDEO
  • Merijn Dols, NOW Partners Foundation and Danone’s fr. Head of Open Innovation and Circularity

11.00-12.30

Solutions Dialogue

TBD

12.30-14.30

Dialogue Lunch

16.30-18.00

Cinema Club

VIDEO Interviews with Marina Silva and Leontino Balbo

Co-hosts:
NOW Partners Foundation
Future Economy Forum
Food Systems Pavilion

Presenter: Walter Link interviewer and long time friend and partner of Marina Silva and Leontino Balbo

Description: 

In Walter Link’s interviews with Marina Silva and Leontino Balbo, you discover the depth of insight, wisdom and determination of two of the most inspired and inspiring leaders in the transition to a regenerative Future of Agriculture and Bioeconomy. 
 

10.00-11.30  

Innovation Lab

Creating Cities for Community and Planetary Health

Co-hosts: With partner organizations Gehl, NOW Partners and Pearl, as part of the Partnership for a Regenerative Economy by NOW Partners and the kyu Collective. 

Speakers:

  • Helle Soholt, Gehl
  • Blaine Merkel, Gehl
  • Fritz Lietsch, NOW 
  • Martin Kruczinna, Pearl
  • Feroz Saleem, Pearl
  • Hunter Lovins, Future Economy Forum

 

16.30-18.00

Cinema Club

Kiss The Ground

Co-hosts:
Future Economy Forum
EIT Food
Food Systems Pavilion
Soil4Climate Inc.

Speakers:

  • Seth Itzkan, Soil4Climate Inc.

 

17.30-19.30

Evening Event
*Green Zone

The Art of Leading With Vision

Co-hosts:
NOW Partners
SY Partners

Learn more here.

Speakers:

Dr. Pradeep Sharma
Director of Arts, Culture and Heritage
Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation

Sandrine Dixson-Declève
Co-President, The Club of Rome & Co-Founder
Women Enablers Change Agent Network

Laura Anne Edwards
Climate/Space Tech Evangelist
Data Oasis & NASA 2017 DATANAUT, NASA

Vijay Kumar Thallam
Executive Vice Chairman
Rythu Sadhikara Samstha

Walter Link
CEO & Co-Founder
NOW Partners and Future Economy Forum

Rie Norregaard-Madsen
Executive Director MENA & Partner
SYPartners

19.00-21.30 Solutions Dialogue

Enhancing multistakeholder food and agriculture collaboration

Hosts:
EIT Food

Facilitated by:

  • Lasse Bruun Director, Climate and Food, UN Foundation

Speakers:

  • Dr. Lucy Wallace, EIT Food

 

9.30-11.00  

 

Breakfast Session
By invitation.

11.00-12.30 

Kyu Collective Session
Details forthcoming.

12.00+

Farm Visit
By invitation.

9.30-11.00  

Innovation Lab

The Inner Work Required

Co-hosts: As part of the Partnership for a Regenerative Economy by NOW Partners and the kyu Collective, Neol & NOW Co-host 

Speakers:

Chris Grantham, NEOL
Kerem Alper, CEO, NEOL
Merijn Dols, Managing Partner, NOW Partners 

11.00-12.30 Solutions Dialogue

Credits for Cultural, Social & Economic Regeneration

Co-hosts:

Sekem, Egypt’s leader in regenerative agriculture and whole system carbon credits
NOW Partners Foundation
Future Economy Forum

Speakers:

Helmy Abouleish, CEO, Sekem
Walter Link, President, NOW Partners Foundation
Max Cooper, Producer's Trust
Heiner Baumann, Cash Coalition
Luea Ritter, World Ethic Forum
Adele Jones, Sustainable Food Trust
Amira Saber, MP Egypt
Dr. Rania El Mashat, Minister for international cooperation - Egypt

13.00-14.00

Dialogue Lunch
*unique time

Towards Regenerative Agriculture and Food Systems: Solutions Dialogue between Journalists, Farmers, Food System Leaders
Co-hosts:
Future Economy Forum
Food Tank
In partnership with:
The Nature Conservancy
#ActionOnFood Hub

Moderators:

Walter Link, Future Economy Forum
Danielle Nierenberg, Food Tank
Merijn Dols, NOW Partners Foundation

Dialogue Partners:

  • Daphne Ewing-Chow, Senior Correspondent, Forbes
  • Aryn Baker, Senior International Correspondent, Rome, TIME
  • Rod Oram, New Zealand journalist and columnist, Newsroom
  • Manoel Lemos, Owner, Farm Maringa in the State of Pará in Brazil
  • Christine Nabwami, Ugandan small-scale farmer
  • Hannah Heimbuch, US Fisherman
  • Vijay Kumar Thallam, Executive Vice Chairman, Rythu Sadhikara Samstha
  • Helmy Abouleish, CEO, SEKEM
  • Chris Adamo, Vice President Public Affairs & Regenerative Agriculture Policy, Danone North America, Danone

14.30-16.00

Solutions Dialogue

Executive Education for Regenerative Business & Economy

Speakers:

Michael Pirson, Fordham University
Hunter Lovins, NOW Partners
Walter Link, NOW Partners
Helmy Abouleish, Heliopolis University

16.30-18.00

Cinema Club

Circular Design for Food: Six Short Stories

Co-hosts:

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Future Economy Forum
Food System Pavilion
EIT Food 

Speakers:

  • Miranda Schnitger, Climate Lead at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation
  • Merijn Dols, NOW Partners Managing Director and Ellen MacArthur Foundation Food Advisory Board Member

17.30-21.30

(invite only)

Terra Pavilion

Strengthening Offer and Demand for Regenerative Products

The transition to farming and economic models that integrate economic success with regeneration of people and planet is necessary and already under way. At this event and in our ongoing initiatives, we discuss how farmers, businesses and regions can strengthen the offer and the demand for regenerative products, and how finance and policy can support them.

8.30-10.00  

Breakfast
*note unique time

Financing the Transition: Unilever, Tikehau Capital, AXA Climate Breakfast

Co-hosts: 
H.E. Sheikh Dr. Majid Al-Qassimi
Unilever
Tekehau
Axa Climate

10.00-11.00 Innovation Lab
*note unique time

Regeneraction and the algorithm of longevity

Co-hosts:

Future Food Institute 
NOW Partners Foundation
ISPO

Speakers:

Sara Roversi, Future Food Institute
Tobias Groeber, ISPO Group
Merijn Dols, NOW Partners Foundation and Danone’s fr. Head of Open Innovation and Circularity

11.00-12.30

Solutions Dialogue

Credits for the Water, Energy, Food Nexus:
Financing the Transition to Regenerative Agriculture and Food and other Industry Systems

Co-hosts:

Sekem
NOW
Future Economy Forum

Speakers:

Helmy Abouleish, Sekem
Walter Link, NOW & Future Economy Forum
Prof. Dr. Martin R. Stuchtey, Founder of The Landbanking Group
Hani Sewilam, Minister of Water Resources & Irrigation, Egypt
Tobias Bandel, The Landbanking Group
Julia Weatherhogg, Programme Officer Adaptation Division presso UNFCCC
Dr. Yasmine Foad, Minister of Environment of the Republic of Egypt

13.00-14.00

Dialogue Lunch
*unique time

Transition Pathways for Food Systems Financing to Align with Climate Goals
Co-hosts:

Food Tank
Future Economy Forum

In partnership with:
FAIRR

Moderators:

  • Danielle Nierenberg, Food Tank
  • Walter Link, Future Economy Forum


Speakers:

  • Jeremy Coller, Founder, FAIRR
  • Mahesh Roy, Director, IIGCC
  • Zitouni Ould-Dada, Deputy Director, FAO
  • Ambassador Ertharin Cousin, President and CEO, Food Systems for the Future

14.30-16.00 Solutions Dialogue

Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF): 
How Regenerative Farming can become the Future of Agriculture

Co-hosts:

Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming
NOW Partners Foundation
Future Economy Forum

Speakers:

Vijay Kumar, leader, Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF)
Walter Link, VP of Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka’s largest social and rural movement

16.30-18.00 Cinema Club

6 inches of Soil

Co-hosts:
Future Economy Forum
Food System Pavilion
EIT Food  

9.30-11.00  

Innovation Lab

Community-Powered Regeneration: The Playbook

Co-hosts: As part of the Partnership for a Regenerative Economy by NOW Partners and the kyu Collective: Atolye & NOW Co-host with ISPO

Speakers:

  • Engin Ayaz, Atolye
  • Gulin Olcer, Atolye
  • Tobias Gröber, ISPO
  • Merijn Dols, NOW Partners Foundation and Danone’s fr. Head of Open Innovation and Circularity

12.30-13.30  Dialogue Lunch
*unique time

Towards Regenerative Agriculture and Food Systems:
Solutions Dialogue between Journalists, Farmers, Food System Leaders

Co-hosts:

Food Tank
Future Economy Forum

In partnership with:

The Nature Conservancy
#ActionOnFood Hub

Moderated by:

  • Danielle Nierenberg, Food Tank;
  • Kenzie Wade, Food Tank;
  • Walter Link, Founding President, Future Economy Forum and NOW Partners; 
  • Merijn Dols, Managing Partner, NOW Partners

Speakers:

  • Tim Puko, Environmental Journalist, The Washington Post
  • Fiona Harvey, Environmental Journalist, The Guardian
  • Leon Lidigu, Science Journalist, Nation Media Group [Kenya]
  • Agnes Bweye, Practical Permaculture Institutes of Zanzibar
  • Karina David, Youth and female farmer, Rede Ecovida De Agroecologia, Brazil
  • Pavel Partha, Director, Bangladesh Resource Centre For Indigenous Knowledge (BARCIK)
  • Vijay Kumar Thallam, Executive Vice Chairman, Rythu Sadhikara Samstha
  • Helmy Abouleish, CEO, SEKEM
  • Hunter Lovins, NOW Partners & Natural Capitalism Solutions

14.30-16.00 Solutions Dialogue

Connecting Regeneration within Core Business

Co-hosts:

Natura
Future Economy Forum

Speakers:

  • Angela Pinhati, Head of Sustainability at Natura&co
  • Fernanda Fachini, Head of Climate Change at Natura&co
  • Vijay Kumar, APCNF
  • Hunter Lovins, NOW Partners

17.00-21.30

(invite only)

Terra Pavilion

Mainstreaming Regenerative Agri-cultures on the Road to COP30

Regenerative farming methods in diverse geographies and scales outperform the current chemical mainstream of agriculture in all regards - from productivity and farmers incomes to positive impact on health, biodiversity and climate. The key to their success does not only lie in their superior farming technology but in the human dimension of their implementation. To succeed, we need to strengthen the diverse ‘cultures’ that are central to successful agri-culture. By Invitation.

12.30-14.30

Dialogue Lunch

Regionally-adapted Executive Education for Regenerative Business Success

Co-hosts:

Soma Mater
NOW Partners Foundation

Speakers:

  • H.E. Sheikh Dr. Majid Al-Qassimi
  • Michael Pirson, Fordham University
  • Hunter Lovins, NOW Partners
  • Walter Link, Future Economy Forum & NOW Partners

14.30-16.00  

Innovation Lab

Empowering Climate Pioneers 

Co-hosts: As part of the Partnership for a Regenerative Economy by NOW Partners and the kyu Collective: Atolye & NOW Co-host 

Speakers:

  • Mert Cetinkaya, Atolye
  • Engin Ayaz, Atolye
  • Merijn Dols, Managing Partner, NOW Partners Foundation and Danone’s fr. Head of Open Innovation and Circularity

16.00-18.00

Cinema Club
*unique time

DOUBLE FEATURE: Abundance & RESPECT Farms

Co-hosts:
Future Economy Forum
Food Systems Pavilion
EIT Food

Speakers:

  • Owen Dubrick , Julia DeSantis, Aidan Reilly from Abundance
  • Robert Jones , Ira van Eelen, Illtud Dunsford from RESPECT Farms