June 28
Resilience Now: Wellbeing and Our Food System
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Welcome to Resilience Now: Wellbeing and Our Food System
July 28, 2020, 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM MDT(-06:00)
Aimée Christensen, Shawn Shepherd, Mike Gordon
Aimée Christensen, CEO of Christensen Global Strategies and Founder of the Sun Valley Forum welcomes everyone to the second Resilience Now Summer Series event: Wellbeing and Our Food System and provides an overview of the day to come. Shawn Shepherd, Director of Development & Strategic Engagement for American Farmland Trust will also preview the Sun Valley Spark Project, A Regenerative Agriculture Fund for Idaho.
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Opening Keynote and Q&A: Food Fix: Transforming the Food System to Heal Humans and the Planet
July 28, 2020, 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM MDT(-06:00)
Dr. Mark Hyman, Kristin Coates, Aimée Christensen
We welcome Dr. Mark Hyman, Head of Strategy and Innovation for the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, and founder and director of The UltraWellness Center, for a keynote and question & answer session on the ways that a regenerative food system can help heal the planet and people. Dr. Hyman's latest book: Food Fix! maps out a new food system that can improve public health, have a positive economic impact, and address climate change.
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Keynote: Telling the Story of a Food Transition with Louie Psihoyos
July 28, 2020, 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM MDT(-06:00)
Louie Psihoyos, Aimée Christensen, Leilani Munter
Louie Psihoyos is the Executive Director of Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS) and is widely regarded as one of the world’s most prominent still photographers, and is a major contributor to National Geographic. He also directs films with the intention of inspiring social impact. His film, "The Game Changers," focused on the power of a plant-based diet for health and the environment, and his film, “The Cove,” won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. During this session, Psihoyos will discuss the power and importance of storytelling to driving the transition to a new food system.
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Sun Valley Spark Project: Regenerative Agriculture Fund for Idaho
July 28, 2020, 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM MDT(-06:00)
Amy Mattias, Robyn O'Brien, Shawn Shepherd, Sharon Patterson Grant, Aimée Christensen, Don Shaffer, Mike Gordon
Sun Valley Spark Projects focus the Forum community to advance specific initiatives that have the potential to make significant near-term impact. This collaboration between American Farmland Trust (AFT), rePlant Capital and Sun Valley Institute (SVI) is prepared to accelerate the transition to regenerative agriculture by providing opportunities for capital, education, technical services, and network connections for Idaho farmers and food producers. This session seeks your input and expertise with active participation, so please join and share your insights and resources with the collaborators as we work to rapidly scale this project.
Cocktail Party
Session Break Virtual Speed Networking
July 28, 2020, 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM MDT(-06:00)
Even though we are not together, we can still connect. Join us on the Run the World mobile app for a virtual speed networking event during the session break! Using Run the World's Cocktail Hour feature, you'll be randomly paired with other Forum participants and partners for five-minute one-on-one chats. After you connect during the cocktail hour, Run the World makes it easy to follow-up with the people you met.
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Responsibility and Community: A Call to Action
July 28, 2020, 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM MDT(-06:00)
Mark Brand, Eamonn Store, Aimée Christensen
With eleven businesses under his belt, Chef Mark Brand is an example of a new form of leadership that encompasses good in every step. Mark joins Eamonn for a discussion about food as a social justice issue. Using Mark's work with Food Bank of NYC, A Better Life Foundation, Save On Meats and others, they will focus on how food security and access are at the center of building community and resilience.
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Local to Global Conversation Education, Innovation and Inclusion in Agriculture
July 28, 2020, 02:30 PM - 03:15 PM MDT(-06:00)
Amy Mattias, Jonathan Webb, Geof Rochester, Aimée Christensen
CEO of App Harvest, Jonathan Webb, and co-director of Sun Valley Institute's Food & Farm program, Amy Mattias, discuss strategies to drive the broad adoption of regenerative agriculture and its benefits such as job creation and economic opportunity, the role of education in the growth of the local and regional food economies, and the importance of diversity and partnerships in building thriving and regenerative systems.
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Designing the Future Food System: Vision, Innovation, Investment
July 28, 2020, 03:15 PM - 04:15 PM MDT(-06:00)
Sara Farley, Lila Preston, Kristin Coates, Ron Finley, Daniel Moss
Kristin Coates, Senior Director of SecondMuse, moderates a discussion with Sara Farley, Managing Director of The Rockefeller Foundation’s Food Initiative, the gangsta gardener Ron Finley, founder for the Ron Finley Project, Lila Preston, Co-Head of Growth Equity Strategy at Generation Investment Management and Daniel Moss, Executive Director of the AgroEcology Fund on the future of our food system. Their discussion will touch on the importance of multi-stakeholder, regional visions, making space for the innovations that disrupt the system and how we'll finance the transition to a regenerative food system.
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The Power of Food to Transform Communities
July 28, 2020, 04:15 PM - 04:45 PM MDT(-06:00)
Nate Mook, Aimée Christensen, Eamonn Store
Nate Mook, CEO of World Central Kitchen, works hand-in-hand with the non profit’s founder, world renowned activist and humanitarian Chef José Andrés. He will discuss how food has the power to transform communities and build resilience in the face of disasters.
Cocktail Party
Session Break Virtual Speed Networking
July 28, 2020, 04:45 PM - 05:45 PM MDT(-06:00)
Even though we are not together, we can still connect. Join us on the Run the World mobile app for a virtual speed networking event during the session break! Using Run the World's Cocktail Hour feature, you'll be randomly paired with other Forum participants and partners for five-minute one-on-one chats. After you connect during the cocktail hour, Run the World makes it easy to follow-up with the people you met.
June 29
Resilience Now: The Power of We
Panel
Welcome to Sun Valley Forum Summer Series and Updates from Our Forum Partners and Advisers
June 29, 2020, 01:00 PM - 01:45 PM MDT(-06:00)
Mitch Anderson, Aimée Christensen, Maggie Kaplan, Amanda Ellis, Shawn Shepherd, Georgie Benardete
Aimée Christensen, CEO of Christensen Global Strategies and Founder and Board Chair of the Sun Valley Institute, welcomes all of you to the first virtual Sun Valley Forum event. She will give a preview of the Summer Series and invite our Forum community to kick off the conversation and curated connections that define the Sun Valley Forum. Following Aimée's introduction, we will jump right into the Partner and Adviser updates. The past year has been filled with new challenges and opportunities. Our Forum partners have been on the front lines, building local and global resilience. We are taking a chance to catch up with all of them. To hear what they have been working on and what is inspiring them to keep working!
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Updates from Our Forum Partners and Advisers continued
June 29, 2020, 01:45 PM - 02:15 PM MDT(-06:00)
Barney Swan, Geof Rochester, Ruby Horton, Eamonn Store, Daniel Dart, Bruno Sarda, Aimée Christensen
The past year has been filled with new challenges and opportunities. Our Forum partners have been on the front lines, building local and global resilience. We are taking a chance to catch up with all of them to hear what they have been working on and what is inspiring them to keep working!
Cocktail Party
Session Break Virtual Speed Networking
June 29, 2020, 02:15 PM - 02:30 PM MDT(-06:00)
Even though we are not together, we can still connect. Join us on the Run the World mobile app for a virtual speed networking event during the session break! Using Run the World's Cocktail Hour feature, you'll be randomly paired with other Forum participants and partners for five-minute one-on-one chats. After you connect during the cocktail hour, Run the World makes it easy to follow-up with the people you met.
Cocktail Party
Session Break Virtual Speed Networking
June 29, 2020, 03:15 PM - 03:30 PM MDT(-06:00)
Even though we are not together, we can still connect. Join us on the Run the World mobile app for a virtual speed networking event during the session break! Using Run the World's Cocktail Hour feature, you'll be randomly paired with other Forum participants and partners for five-minute one-on-one chats. After you connect during the cocktail hour, Run the World makes it easy to follow-up with the people you met.
Talk
Video: BongoMedia: Covid Through the Eyes of Dr. Lief and Dr. Griffin
June 29, 2020, 03:15 PM - 03:30 PM MDT(-06:00)
Mike Gordon
Two doctors take you across the full arc of their harrowing journey through New York City’s battle with Covid. This video that chronicles the conversations between two doctors at New York-Presbyterian during the pandemic sets the stage for our conversation between Dr. Terry O'Connor and Lisa Wing, RN.
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Wellbeing and Resilience in the Time of COVID-19
June 29, 2020, 03:30 PM - 04:15 PM MDT(-06:00)
Terry O'Connor, MD, Lisa Wing, RN, Peter Horton, Aimée Christensen
Insights from the heart of impact: learning from the heads of emergency at hospitals in two disproportionately affected communities, one rural and one urban, each who had the highest per capita rate of infection within weeks of each other. What can we learn about ourselves, about community, and about resilience? Join us for a very special conversation.
Fireside Chat
Reception Networking Room Hosted by Amanda Ellis and Georgie Benardete
June 29, 2020, 04:15 PM - 04:45 PM MDT(-06:00)
Amanda Ellis with Georgie Benardete
Reception networking rooms allow you the opportunity to connect with Forum partners and go into more detail about what you heard during the Forum updates. Connect with Amanda Ellis, Executive Director Hawaii & Asia-Pacific for the ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, based in Hawaii, where she serves on the boards of Hawaii Green Growth, Bishop Museum, East-West Center and the Institute for Climate and Peace.
Cocktail Party
Session Break Virtual Speed Networking
June 29, 2020, 04:15 PM - 04:45 PM MDT(-06:00)
Even though we are not together, we can still connect. Join us on the Run the World mobile app for a virtual speed networking event during the session break! Using Run the World's Cocktail Hour feature, you'll be randomly paired with other Forum participants and partners for five-minute one-on-one chats. After you connect during the cocktail hour, Run the World makes it easy to follow-up with the people you met.
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Closing Session & Call to Action
June 29, 2020, 04:45 PM - 05:00 PM MDT(-06:00)
Aimée Christensen, Amanda Ellis, Peter Horton, Geof Rochester, Eamonn Store, Shawn Shepherd, Maggie Kaplan, Mike Gordon
To end the day of connection we will come back together as a group, where Sun Valley Forum Founder Aimée Christensen will preview the next Sun Valley Forum Resilience Summer Series events and lead us in a call to action for building the future.
June 30
Resilience Now: Rebalancing the Human Relationship with Nature
Fireside Chat
Welcome to Resilience Now: Rebalancing the Human Relationship with Nature
July 30, 2020, 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM MDT(-06:00)
Lexie Praggastis with Aimée Christensen
Welcome to the third Resilience Now Summer Series event! Sun Valley Forum Founder, Aimée Christensen kicks off the day by providing a glimpse of what we will cover.
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Reciprocity: The North Star of Earth Guardianship
July 30, 2020, 12:15 PM - 01:00 PM MDT(-06:00)
Peter Seligmann, Aimée Christensen, Nia Tero
Remarkable places within Indigenous territories persist because of what we call guardianship: time-earned knowledge systems and place-specific technologies linked to the right, responsibility and capacity to sustain vital natural systems. Supporting the rights and livelihoods of Indigenous peoples, and following their leadership, is critical to the health of our planet as a whole and to its human and nonhuman inhabitants. Nia Tero founding CEO, Peter Seligmann, describes how the support of Indigenous cultures can safeguard not only their homes but the entire planet.
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Defending Land, Lives and Culture: A Conversation with Mitch Anderson and Nemonte Nenquimo
July 30, 2020, 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM MDT(-06:00)
Mitch Anderson, Peter Seligmann, Nemonte Nenquimo, Aimée Christensen
Mitch Anderson and Waorani member Nemonte Nenquimo join Peter Seligmann to share their practical approach to defending the land, lives and culture of the Kofan, Secoya and Waorani peoples in the Amazon rainforests and how COVID-19 has changed the face of their work.
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Divestment and Investment: Political Climate Podcast Interviews Ellen Dorsey
July 30, 2020, 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM MDT(-06:00)
Ellen Dorsey, Julia Pyper, Aimée Christensen
Ellen Dorsey, Executive Director of Wallace Global Fund and founder of DivestInvest will be interviewed by host and producer of Political Climate Podcast, Julia Pyper. Dr. Dorsey will focus on the urgency of shifting our financial resources including divesting from fossil fuels and aligning capital to what is needed at this moment.
Cocktail Party
Session Break Virtual Speed Networking
July 30, 2020, 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM MDT(-06:00)
Even though we are not together, we can still connect. Join us on the Run the World mobile app for a virtual speed networking event during the session break! Using Run the World's Cocktail Hour feature, you'll be randomly paired with other Forum participants and partners for five-minute one-on-one chats. After you connect during the cocktail hour, Run the World makes it easy to follow-up with the people you met.
Panel
The Power of Place Based Experiential Learning
July 30, 2020, 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM MDT(-06:00)
Dr. Jesse Senko, Dr. George Basile, Sharon Patterson Grant, Dan Lutkenhouse Jr., Lindsay Mollineaux, Eric Palola, Paul Prosser, Kellie Lauth
Leaders from Arizona State University, Hawai'i Tropical Bioreserve and Garden, and mindSpark Learning address education as the cornerstone of rebuilding a mutually beneficial relationship with nature. Place-Based Experiential Learning (PBEL) is an approach to education that combines teaching methods from the separate fields of place-based education and experiential education. As an educational methodology, it engages people in hands-on learning activities that empowers them to observe and reflect on topics centered around a specific location. PBEL immerses people in the local history, culture, and ecosystems of a certain region, while also promoting interactive, immersive experiences.
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A New Purpose for Business
July 30, 2020, 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM MDT(-06:00)
Eamonn Store, Geof Rochester, Sarah Cone, Leah Seligmann, Aimée Christensen
For businesses to succeed long-term, they will have to start measuring beyond the financials to include the wellbeing of people and the planet. Courageous brands are leading the way in redefining the role of business in building resilience and meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Geof Rochester, marketing expert and founder of GRC Advising, Eamonn Store, founder and CEO of FairShare, and Sarah Cone, founder and managing partner of Social Impact Capital discuss a new model for business, one that considers social purpose and impact in every decision.
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Local to Global Conversation: Scaling Regenerative Models
July 30, 2020, 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM MDT(-06:00)
Barney Swan, Eric Palola, Lexie Praggastis, Aimée Christensen, Mike Gordon
International Director of ClimateForce and polar explorer Barney Swan, discusses the process of restoring his home place in the Daintree Rainforest of Australia, the oldest rainforest in the world. He is joined in conversation by Lexie Praggastis, Executive Director of Sun Valley Institute and Eric Palola, Executive Director, Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund to address the power of knowing home and the process of building resilience.
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The Call for a Natural Security Policy
July 30, 2020, 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM MDT(-06:00)
Sherri Goodman, Johan Bergenas, Lisa Friedman, Isabella Caltabiano, Aimée Christensen
Sherri Goodman, Senior Fellow at the Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program and Polar Institute joins Johan Bergenas, Senior Director for Public Policy at Vulcan Inc. in a conversation about the need for a cohesive “natural security policy” for the United States. Such a policy would address and respond to the "growing geopolitical threats stemming from poorly managed wildlife, rapidly declining ocean health and a warming climate," and once again put the United States on a leadership footing. https://morningconsult.com/opinions/the-united-states-needs-a-natural-security-strategy-to-regain-our-global-leadership/
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Closing Session
July 30, 2020, 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM MDT(-06:00)
Aimée Christensen, Geof Rochester, Eamonn Store, Dan Lutkenhouse Jr., Peter Horton, Maggie Kaplan, Shawn Shepherd, Mike Gordon
Sun Valley Forum Founder Aimée Christensen welcomes our Forum partners back on stage to reflect on the three Resilience Now Summer Series events and call all of us to action towards catalyzing an Equitable, Secure and Thriving World!
Cocktail Party
Reception Cocktail Hour
July 30, 2020, 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM MDT(-06:00)
Even though we are not together, we can still connect. Join us on the Run the World mobile app for a virtual networking session to close the day! Using Run the World's Cocktail Hour feature, you'll be randomly paired with other Forum participants and partners for five-minute one-on-one chats. After you connect during the cocktail hour, Run the World makes it easy to follow-up with the people you met.