Program highlights

Breakthrough Innovation

We’re thrilled to announce that the SB’24 San Diego program is now available. This year’s program will focus on breakthrough innovation opportunities in service of smarter, healthier, and faster transitions to sustainable and regenerative business models. For business and society to thrive in harmony with nature, virtually all industries will need innovative solutions that are adequately and ethically deployed at scale. We will dive into a number of promising directions through a variety of session formats.

Find Inspiration on the Plenary Stage

Hear from purpose-driven, action-oriented visionaries from the world’s leading brands who are focused on delivering positive results for businesses, consumers, the planet, and society.

Multidisciplinary experts will present the latest leadership skills and capacities, case studies of reinventing business models at scale, and inspiration to transform your relationship with customers, suppliers, investors, employees, and communities.

Plenary speakers include

Hear from purpose-driven, action-oriented visionaries from the world’s leading brands who are focused on delivering positive results for businesses, consumers, the planet, and society.

Building shared understanding, in practical business terms, of the value of bioregional regeneration and prosocial governance
Designing and advancing partnership-centric solutions with local impact at the core
Fueling neighborhood and regional economies while equipping communities for a just and restorative future
Combining radical new relationships and revolutionary technologies to create regenerative supply chains
Applying key lessons from 3D printing, microgrids, vertical farming and other location-based new business models in a variety of contexts and industries
Making productive use of the unique energy and stakeholder engagement talents of Gen Z, including in innovation labs and boardrooms

Shelton Mercer

Award winning Innovation Pioneer, Serial Entrepreneur and Humanitarian, Founder & CEO

Virtuous Innovation™

Dr. Neil Theise

Professor of Pathology; Author, Notes on Complexity: The Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Monique Oxender

Chief Sustainability Officer

Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.

Victor Casale

Co-Founder, Pact Collective, Co-Founder and CEO, MOB Beauty

Dr. Katherine Hoffman

PhD, Sustainability Strategic Initiatives

Eastman

Take Aways from Breakout Sessions

Turn theory into practice with breakout sessions led by subject-matter experts who help you to understand regeneration on a deep level and walk away prepared to drive regenerative innovation at your organization.

Materials & Packaging

Examining the most promising categories of next-gen materials and packaging that could, and likely will, play big roles in navigating and addressing the polycrisis we are currently in.

Uniting for innovation: Transforming cosmetics packaging through collaboration
New frontiers in seaweed-based bioplastics innovation
An exploration of direct air capture, integrated C02 conversion, and low-carbon materials
Technological advancements in recycling and upcycling, mechanical recycling, dissolution, and recovery

AI & Sustainability

Analyzing how to leverage the power of artificial intelligence for good through employing AI safely in all aspects related to advancing sustainability and regeneration agendas as well as addressing and mitigating challenging climate impacts of AI.

Assessing energy and water requirements to power AI at scale
Transforming product development through innovative AI applications
AI tools that make sustainability professionals more efficient and effective
Inside ‘Water, United’: The brand-led water positive movement using AI to save the Colorado River Basin

Supply Chain Management & Monitoring

Finding paths to transforming and monitoring supply chains to ensure they support the health, resilience and flourishing of both society and the environment.

Regenerative forestry through a multi-industry collaboration at the nexus of climate, nature, and nature-based commodities
Next-horizon supply chain partnerships with indigenous groups and other under-served and under-represented stakeholders
Alternative supply channels and the rise of fashion re-commerce, recycling, upcycling and buy-back models
Supply chain data and best practices in supply chain engagement

Nature-Friendly Design Paradigms in Practice

Exploring the most promising product and service design principles gaining momentum at the intersection of positive impact and business value, including circularity, regeneration, biomimicry and more.

Alternative protein game-changers: The exciting potential of cell-cultivated, fermentation, and plant-based food innovation
The 50 Liter Home: Lessons from a multi-industry global collaboration
A new approach to value management–a critical capacity essential for breakthroughs in business model design
Rethinking funding strategies, investment, R&D and more to cale breakthrough design paradigms

Organizational Transformation & Governance

Evolving governance and organizational behavior to deliver forward-looking leadership, strong employee engagement and cross-functional cooperation, as well as goal-setting, measurement and reporting fit for a regenerative and just economy.

Evolution of Marketing

Unlocking impactful new approaches to customer engagement focused on shifting demand and driving behavior change in favor of sustainability- and regeneration-centric innovation and brand preference.

Communicating new, complex, and unfamiliar sustainability claims on CPG packaging
Trashy behavior: Engaging consumers in waste sorting and diversion at scale
Driving consumer engagement in clean beauty and transitions to refillable, reusable, and circular packaging
Partnering with content creators and influencers to amplify sustainable product awareness and adoption

Purpose-Led Corporate Communications

Harnessing purpose-driven storytelling, media relations, powerful messaging and the full corporate communications practice in service of sustainability and regeneration strategies.

Youth engagement and intergenerational collaboration: Where we are, what’s working and what isn’t
Alleviating consumer hesitation and distrust of AI and other emerging technologies
Aligning and engaging diverse and geo-distributed teams around sustainability programs, volunteerism and corporate sustainability values
Engaging with news media to create better, more informed storytelling and combat misinformation

Take a deep-dive and hear about the latest research in Workshops

Be sure to get an All-Access pass! Tailor your experience to the needs of your business through these two-hour deep-dive insight series and workshops.

Compliance with EPR laws for packaging in the US and Canada: What to know, what to do, how to save
Quantifying and reducing GHG emissions from marketing and advertising workstreams
Keep me in the loop: Proven strategies for integrating circular practices and designing products for circularity
Convergence on quality: High-integrity approaches to carbon markets and credits
Centering value propositions on the principles of biomimicry and regeneration

Event Add-Ons

Don’t miss the SB’24 San Diego Regen Ag Summit–where brand and product leaders, technology innovators, finance experts, and the farmers and ranchers at the forefront of the regenerative agriculture movement come together to envision a sustainable and resilient future. Through engaging panels, case studies, insights into powerful partnerships and collaborations, and networking opportunities, you’ll learn strategies to combat the impacts of climate and decreasing land productivity. Additionally, you will discover solutions that are driving positive change and business value in the agricultural sector.

The inaugural SB’24 San Diego Resilience Summit will assemble business leaders looking to prepare their organizations for adaptation and resilience amid ongoing climate volatility, insurance industry instability and bluelining, threats to markets around the world, supply chain disruptions, and social unease. This summit will feature data-informed strategic discussions to provide insights to the business community and their stakeholders. The program will surface proactive measures organizations can take now to navigate uncertainty, mitigate risk, ensure continuity, and focus on evolving sustainably in a chaotic world.

The SB'24 San Diego Experience

Connect with your community of change-makers and innovators from dawn til dusk. Whether it is sunrise activities, cocktail receptions, or intimate dinner discussions, you’ll discover a myriad of ways to mix and mingle with the best and brightest in sustainability, virtually or in person.

If the above isn’t enough to convince you, stay tuned! We have more exciting announcements coming in the next few weeks. But don’t wait—register today to secure the best rate and get a code to book your hotel room. We are expecting a sellout!