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Ferial Puren - Co-Founder & CEO - Living Cities Earth/ ECOBI / BAMA Maps and Collaborator in Zero Emissions Consortium, co-designer of SRG Journeys technology©Ferial's mixed heritage, her upbringing in Apartheid South Africa, the fact that she has now lived and raised her own family in Scotland for the past 20 years and her own profound personal development journey, all deeply inform her work in Evolutionary Social Systems Development.As a strategist specialising in Evolutionary Social Systems, she educates, nurtures, and connects innovators and thought leaders to co-develop eco-technologies. These technologies leverage personal growth and social development to fuel systemic changes, fostering a more equitable and regenerative society. Her passion for balancing personal and cultural evolution has resulted in solutions that support disruptive behavioural change, provide transformative tools, and empower change agents to maximise their impact.Ferial is currently the CEO of Living Cities Earth (LCE), where she coordinates the strategic flow and realisation of the organisation’s overall vision and mission. LCE, an Action-Research Ecosystem, facilitates and enables the Integral Development of Cities. It offers consultancy to city administrations and their local governments to engage in a co-creative process with their citizens. This process invites all major stakeholders to work and learn together, transcending current paradigms to co-create an environment where all their inhabitants can thrive.The Integral City Development Approach employed by LCE emphasises the importance of nurturing personal happiness, deep awareness, harnessing empowering capabilities, implementing green, zero-emission technologies and living in harmony with nature. By adopting this holistic approach, they aim to help people transcend current paradigms and create a regenerative future for both human and non-human inhabitants of our planet.

Joe Brewer has three bachelors degrees in physics, mathematics, and interdisciplinary studies and a masters in atmospheric sciences. He is a complexity researcher, innovation strategist, experience designer, and serial social entrepreneur who brings a wealth of expertise to the adoption of sustainable solutions at the cultural scale. Among his notable achievements are the creation of an undergraduate degree program in Earth Systems, Environment and Society at the University of Illinois and design of new collaboration protocols for strategic communications among European NGO's with WWF-UK and Oxfam, Great Britain. He was an active member of the Center for Complex Systems Research from 2001 to 2005, where he studied pattern formation in self-organizing systems. He was a research fellow at the Rockridge Institute in 2007-08 analyzing political discourse in the United States. He contracted with the International Centre for Earth Simulation in Geneva in 2010-11 to help build a globally-focused high performance computing facility dedicated to holistic simulations of the dynamic Earth. His experiences as a social entrepreneur and cross-disciplinary scholar weave together a combination of skills dedicated to open collaboration, interactive design, and empowered civic action for catalyzing change toward greater resilience in our turbulent world.

Melina Angel - Biosphere translator, Melina started her professional path in theoretical and evolutionary biology applying a systemic and cognitive view of living systems to social systems as communities and economy. She is a Biomimicry Professional with master at ASU, working in Bioregional Regeneration in LATAM, Colombia and globally. Teaches Biomimicry for social systems at UCI, activates process through Art and consults worldwide on Regeneration and BioSystemics.

Karin Müller is Co founder Bioregional Weaving Labs Collective,  a growing assembly of 25+ international system-changing organizations, funders and impact investors, initiated by Ashoka, co-led by Commonland and grounded in a community of practice. It´s mission is to mobilise & support 1 million changemakers who together contribute to restoring, protecting, and regenerating 1 million hectares of land and sea in Europe, with significant and observable impact on 4 returns by 2030: natural, social, financial returns and the return of inspiration. To this end, we are establishing Bioregional Weaving Labs in 10 different countries in Europe before 2025, that build capacity and catalyse multi-stakeholder partnerships. Karin is also Co director Ashoka Netherlands, the biggest social innovation network of the world and co founder of multiple other social and cultural enterprises like The Good Family and  Braenworks Karin is author of the BW insights report and white paper. https://www.ashoka.org/en-nl/program/bioregional-weaving-labs-collective

Samantha Power is the Founder and Director of the BioFi Project and the Founder and Principal Consultant of Finance for Gaia. She is a Regenerative Economist, Futurist, and Bioregionalist based in Oakland, CA on the ancestral land of the Ohlone people. Samantha has harnessed her experience working at the World Bank and in the financial sector — advising finance ministries, central banks, and investors — and is now telling a story about the need to build a new layer in the global financial architecture that decentralizes financial decision making and puts resources in the hands of people living in relationship to place. Samantha and her co-author published a book entitled, 'Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet' in June. The same day the BioFi Project launched — a collective of experts supporting bioregions around the world to design, build, and implement Bioregional Financing Facilities or 'BFFs.' The book makes the case for and explains how to shift capital to place-based regenerators in order to achieve global climate and nature-related goals.