Generation Regeneration

How the next generation is redefining purpose, prosperity, and the planet’s future.

A generational inflection point is reshaping how progress, prosperity, and responsibility are understood. For a rising cohort of leaders, regeneration—not extraction—has become the organizing principle for economic value and planetary stewardship. This is not a branding exercise, but a challenge to the foundations of how systems are designed and success is measured.

This cross-generational dialogue brings emerging leaders into direct conversation with established thinkers to examine how values, incentives, and power are evolving across economies and institutions. Participants will interrogate what a regenerative mindset demands in practice: from rethinking growth and capital allocation to redefining environmental responsibility, intergenerational equity, and long-term risk.

The session moves beyond sustainability as damage control and toward regeneration as strategy; systems designed to restore, renew, and create shared value over time. Expect candid debate, bold propositions, and a reframing of what it means to build a future that heals rather than depletes, and to lead in a world where legitimacy increasingly belongs to those who do.

Learn more and inquire further about this event here.

Hosts

Ana C. Rold
CEO & Founder
Diplomatic Courier & World in 2050
Dr. Shane C. Szarkowski
Editor-in-Chief & Executive Director
Diplomatic Courier & World in 2050

Speakers

Dr. Carol O'Donnell
Director
Smithsonian Science Education Center
Emma Jurczynski
Architectural Designer
MIT
Raphael Gielgen
Trendscout Future of Work Life & Learn
Vitra
Stefan Aerni
Head of Quality & Sustainability
Dolder Hotel AG

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