We are excited to invite you to join us for the 5th annu
al Sun Valley Forum on Resilience, The Future We Want: Transforming Leadership, Accelerating Innovation and Unlocking Imagination, July 23-26, 2019, at the Argyros Performing Arts Center in Ketchum, Idaho!
The Sun Valley Forum gathers leaders and innovators from business, government, investment, advocacy, the food system and energy, entertainment, academia, the arts and philanthropy from across the globe (New Zealand, the Netherlands, Guam, Geneva, the Amazon!) for three days together to accelerate action toward a healthy, prosperous and equitable world.
Investment speakers include Julie Shafer Davitz of BNP Paribas/Bank of the West, Kristin Hull, Founder & CEO, Nia Impact Capital, Robyn O'Brien of RePlant Capital, Matthew Weatherly-White of Caprock Group, Erik Snyder of the Drawdown Fund, Ashley Schulten, Head of Responsible Investing, Global Fixed Income, BlackRock, Daniela Fernandez, Founder & CEO, Sustainable Ocean Alliance, Jennifer Kenning, CEO and Co-Founder, Align Impact, Mike Kreidler, Insurance Commissioner, State of Washington, Jodi Bond, Executive Vice President, Global Government & Industry Affairs, Chubb, Olaf Sleijpen, Director of Insurance Supervision, Central Bank of The Netherlands, Ksenia Koban, Vice President, Payden & Rygel Investment Management, Matthew Petersen, President & CEO, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator and Bruno Sarda, President, CDP North America.
We're offering you a special $75 off any of our Forum passes (including VIP!) using the code FriendofSVI75 on the Event Brite page. There are also passes for nonprofits and educators, day passes, and scholarships as needed, subsidized by our amazing sponsors/partners including BNP Paribas/Bank of the West, S'well, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at ASU, Nia Impact Capital, The Wilderness Society, The Hillary Institute (New Zealand), The Weather Company/IBM, American Farmland Trust, New Barn Organics, Hawaiian Cloud Forest Coffee, Idaho Public Television and Lonely Whale.
Please see the Forum schedule here where you can download the
full program. Join us and enjoy the amazing speakers, the local, mostly organic meals, the information, inspiration, connection and the art, and be part of building a better world.
We have a deeply discounted hotel room block at the gorgeous, new Limelight Hotel across the street from the venue.
Topics include: military security and climate change; investing for resilience (risk and opportunity); cities as innovation laboratories; building rural resilience; transforming our food and agricultural system; transforming our energy system; women in leadership; youth action; islands as innovation laboratories, oceans plastic pollution solutions and indigenous leadership for resilience.
Those joining us include: Justin Winters, Executive Director of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation; Admiral Paul Zukunft, the 25th Commandant of the Coast Guard (and head of the BP oil spill response now focused on Arctic security); Dune Ives of the Lonely Whale Foundation leading on ocean plastic pollution; Jennifer Morris, the President of Conservation International; the Head of Insurance Regulation for the Netherlands Central Bank on climate risk; State of Washington Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz; Jeff Goodell of
Rolling Stone magazine and author of The Water Will Come; Ashley Schulten of BlackRock; Nainoa Thompson, President ofthe Polynesian Voyaging Society; Peter Horton, director, producer, writer and advocate; Louis Psihoyos, Director of The Cove & Racing Extinction; David Gelber, Co-Creator and Executive Producer of The Years of Living Dangerously; and Julia Pyper of Greentech Media, host of the podcast
Political Climate, (which will be recorded live on stage).
Register today!
