Conversations
THEME 2025: OUR PLACE IN THE FUTURE
This year’s theme, Our Place in the Future, carries a double meaning. It speaks to our responsibility to create a kinder, more exciting, and regenerative future and to leave a legacy as future ancestors that we’d be proud of.
At the same time, it recognizes our commitments to the places we live, work, and travel and asks us to imagine how our actions today might leave those places better than we found them.
Deep conversations happen over shared meals, in round table discussions, panels, workshops and over joint experiences such as volunteer work, quilt making, food preparation or a community music project.
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Track 1 - Weaving our legacy
Legacy is not a static inheritance – it’s a living, evolving fabric shaped by the stories we tell, the choices we make, and the futures we imagine. This series invites entrepreneurs, creatives, investors, and community leaders to explore legacy as an active, collective process -- one that weaves together voice, vision, and values across generations, disciplines, and geographies.
Through sessions on intentional impact, the power of narrative, and future-focused design, we’ll examine how we can shift mindsets, embrace complexity, and engage with diverse perspectives to co-create meaningful, systems-level change. Whether activating capital with purpose, crafting stories that resonate, or imagining bold new possibilities, participants will be challenged to think systemically and act with intention – connecting the threads of past, present, and future to shape a legacy that is inclusive, regenerative, and enduring.
WORKSHOPS
Legacy Reimagined: Activating Impact with Intention
This session invites family offices, impact investors, and philanthropists into a space for reflection, dialogue, and discovery that expands on existing approaches to impact and legacy. Rather than prescribing solutions, we’ll offer perspectives that will broaden how investment and giving strategies align with personal values, family goals, community ties, and global challenges. Designed as a space for connection, insight, and the weaving of networks, this session will offer a deeper understanding of how legacy can be reimagined through intentional, values-aligned action.
Narrative Threads: Weaving Voice, Vision, and Value
This session will explore the power of narrative as a tool for connection, identity, and impact. Drawing on the perspectives of playwrights, documentarians, brand strategists, and poets, we’ll examine the many ways stories can be shaped and shared – whether for personal growth, business, or creative expression. Participants will be guided through a process of envisioning and articulating their own narratives, discovering how to communicate value and meaning in ways that resonate. Together, we’ll ask: How do you tell the story of who you are? How do you listen to the stories of others? And how can story become a bridge between vision and action?
Imagined Futures: Reframing Time, Change, and Collective Possibility
This session will explore how reimagining our relationship to time can unlock new ways of thinking about the future, inviting us to move beyond reactive problem-solving and toward intentional, regenerative design. Featuring voices from across disciplines — screenwriters, archivists, futurists, and more — we’ll engage with creative prompts that challenge conventional assumptions and expand our capacity to anticipate, adapt to, and shape the transformations ahead.
