The Regenerative Platform
Sense-Making Event 

Indy Johar is architect and co-founder of Project 00 and most recently Dark Matter Labs. Indy is also well-known from his role as non-executive director of the WikiHouse Foundation and has - on behalf of 00 - co-founded multiple social ventures like Impact Hub Westminster and Impact Hub Birmingham and serves many different advisory and teaching roles. Indy is really a great thinker when it comes to going beyond “corner shop size” social transformation initiatives to explore the next generation of institutions living at the edge between public, open and private.

In our boundaryless conversation, we explore what he thinks will happen to organising, institution-building and human potential, as we move beyond an information age towards an era where building capabilities for antifragile institutions is key. As bureaucratic failures in the Industrial and Information ages have been driven by near-zero transaction costs, where autonomous technological development has taken over human-led managerial processes, existing governance models are left with no capacity to “govern complexity”. Indy posits that we need a new human development thesis and institution-building mechanisms, which depart from the failure we’ve seen in the past decades and which gives us the capabilities to: deal with risk, be creative, be emotionally intelligent, be collaborative and to learn.

With Indy, we ponder on how the political landscape is going to see tension between dissent and consent. In our current macroeconomic thesis focussed around a labour market, we have created precariousness that uses dissent as an operating and power-shaping tool. Instead, new politics need to be able to create multitudes of conversations that can evolve towards building consent as the core operational engine.

Glen Weyl works to collaboratively envision, design, experiment with and organize around next generation political economic institutions. He serves at Microsoft’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer Political Economist and Social Technologist (OCTOPEST), where he helps design and implement technology ambitious corporate social commitments. He is Founder and Chair of the RadicalxChange Foundation, a non-profit that coordinates a global social movement for social technology. Previously he was 2007 Valedictorian of Princeton University, received his PhD in economics from there in 2008, was Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, Assistant Professor of Economics and Law at University of Chicago, co-author with Eric Posner of Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society and co-author and technical lead of the Edmund J. Safra Center Rapid Response Task Force on Covid-19 that was a foundation of the Biden administration’s covid-19 response plan. In 2018, he was one of Bloomberg Businessweek’s 50 most influential people, WIRED’s 25 people shaping the next 25 years of technology and Coindesk’s 10 most influential people in blockchain.

Managing Director and Chief Architect for Prosocial World, a training and research non-profit organization based on evolutionary science and the Nobel Prize-winning work of Elinor Ostrom.

As an internationally recognized expert on Sustainability Thresholds, Thriveability, and Online Stakeholder Engagement, Bill Baue catalyzes systemic transformation. As a serial social entrepreneur, he has co-founded and instigated several enterprises: r3.0, Science Based Targets, Sustainability Context Group, Sea Change Radio, and Currnt.
Baue currently serves as Senior Director of r3.0 (Redesign for Resilience & Regeneration), a not-for-profit common good that networks a global community of Positive Mavericks focused on transcending incrementalism to trigger necessary transformations that enact living systems principles. In this role, he serves as the Systems Convener for the Connecticut River Valley Bioregional Collaborative of the Capital Institute’s Regenerative Communities Network.

Baue has worked with prominent organizations across the sustainability ecosystem, including Audubon, Cabot Creamery Coop, Ceres, GE, Harvard, International Integrated Reporting Council, several United Nations agencies (UNCTAD, UNEP, UNGC, UNRISD), Walmart, and Worldwatch Institute. He serves on the Board of Co-op Power and as Senior Advisor to Preventable Surprises.

He lives near the Connecticut River Valley bioregion, where his daughters Clara, Emma, and Aoife periodically visit. He is a diehard Deadhead who enjoys camping, hiking, kayaking, yoga, meditation, and dancing contact improvisation.

Ralph Thurm is a leading professional in sustainable innovation and strategy, operational sustainability, sustainability change management, sustainability reporting, transformation and ThriveAbility. With more than 30 years of experience working for major corporates, industry federations, governments, NGOs and advisory services globally, Ralph adds value as an advisor, trainer, facilitator, moderator and writer on a huge variety of sustainability topics. He is the Founder & Managing Director of A|HEAD|ahead, a management advisory focused on sustainable transformation and strategic positioning. Ralph blogs at www.aheadahead.earth, a very personal logbook on sustainable change. His book ’The Corona Chronicles - Envisioning a New Normal for Regeneration and Thriving’ was released end of April, 2021.

In 2012 Ralph co-founded the Reporting 3.0, a non-profit that instigates change towards a decision-useful new reporting impetus for a green, inclusive & open economy. In 2019 this platform changed its name to just r3.0 for Redesign, Resilience and Regeneration, to reflect the much broader and systemic work ecosystem approach for transformation. He was also appointed the first Managing Director of OnCommons gGmbH, the not-for profit home of r3.0. r3.0 often blogs on Medium and communicates via Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter.

Earlier, Ralph accepted roles as Director Engagement at GISR (2014-2017) and as advisor at various organisations and networks, including UNIDO or the Dutch Transparency Benchmark. Ralph was a co-founder of the ThriveAbility Foundation (2013 - 2016) and co-authored 'A Leader's Guide to ThriveAbility'. Before that he was the Head of the Sustainability Strategy Council at Siemens, CFO/COO of GRI and Director Sustainability and Innovation at Deloitte.

I have a deep desire for people and planet:
- for the formation of meta-infrastructures for cross-sector experimentation;
- for increasing community capacity that is rooted in healthy peer-to-peer agency; and
- a priority for blended finance to support ongoing gathering and dialogue in the name of all of it
- doing so in a way that is neutral from founder or funder / organizational or corporate agenda

As a transition specialist & mentor who works across public, private & philanthropic sectors, I’ve always loved working with the kind of leaders who really want to BE someone who makes a difference not just for their teams, but also for the world & for humanity.

The kind of people who are upping the ante for themselves & still appreciate having a beginner’s mind. The kind of people who are willing to go deeper & discover something different about what they thought they knew - especially about themselves - and bring wholeness to their role.

I access 25 years in non-profit, family-run business and family offices, and have served over 500 clients across 33 industries and 4 continents. I make it my mission to continually get to know what’s REALLY happening out in the field, and what it takes to BE in ongoing Practice with it daily.

John Hagel III has more than 40 years’ experience as a management consultant, author, speaker and entrepreneur. After recently retiring as a partner from Deloitte, McGraw Hill published his new book, The Journey Beyond Fear, that addresses the psychology of change and he is developing a series of programs to help people navigate through change at many levels. John has founded a new company, Beyond Our Edge, LLC, that works with companies and people who are seeking to anticipate the future and achieve much greater impact.

While at Deloitte, John was the founder and chairman of the Silicon Valley-based Deloitte Center for the Edge, focusing on identifying emerging business opportunities that are not yet on the CEO’s agenda. Before joining Deloitte, John was an independent consultant and writer and prior to that was a principal at McKinsey & Company and a leader of their Strategy Practice as well as the founder of their E-Commerce Practice. John has served as senior vice president of strategy at Atari, Inc., and is the founder of two Silicon Valley startups.

John is also a faculty member at Singularity University where he gives frequent talks on the mounting performance pressure created by digital technology and promising approaches to help traditional companies make the transition from a linear to an exponential world. He is also on the Board of Trustees at the Santa Fe Institute, an organization that conducts leading edge research on complex adaptive systems. He has also led a number of initiatives regarding business transformation with the World Economic Forum.

John is the author of The Power of Pull, published by Basic Books in April 2010. He is also the author of a series of best-selling business books, Net Gain, Net Worth, Out of the Box, and The Only Sustainable Edge. He is widely published and quoted in major business publications including The Economist, Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal, as well as general media like the New York Times, NBC and BBC. He has won two awards from Harvard Business Review for best articles in that publication and has been recognized as an industry thought leader by a variety of publications and institutions, including the World Economic Forum and Business Week.
John has his own website at www.johnhagel.com, and for many years wrote personal blogs at www.edgeperspectives.typepad.com as well as contributing postings on the Harvard Business Review, Fortune and Techonomy websites. He is active in social media and can be followed on Twitter at @jhagel and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhagel/
John holds a BA from Wesleyan University, a B.Phil. from Oxford University, and a JD and MBA from Harvard University.

Ted spends most of his time training and consulting in sociocracy and leading SoFA as an organization. Ted is co-author of the sociocracy handbook Many Voices, One Song. He enjoys writing articles, and teaching meeting facilitation. People and their universal need to connect and move things are at the center of his attention. He pays attention to the co-housing movement, transgender rights, and non-violent communication.

Outside of SoFA work, Ted is a parent of 5, former linguist, and singer-songwriter. His first career was in Academia where he worked in syntax/semantics and pragmatics -- and the big question of what's a fact from a linguistic perspective. Within the last few years, his life has changed in big ways. He worked full time, then spent 3 years as a stay-at-home homeschooling parent, now is back to working full time again. In the same time frame, he's done his gender transition.

The training in linguistics taught Ted to find patterns that work well for the human mind, to work empirically, and break things down so they can be understood. Being a parent of 5 had taught him to be extremely pragmatic... maybe this earned him the label of being a "manifestor"; at the end of the day, dinner must be on the table no matter whether the new vision statement is done!