A GATHERING OF PURPOSE
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Visionaries leading the charge for global change
America Ferrera
America Ferrera is an Oscar®-nominated and Emmy®, Golden Globe®, and SAG Award–winning actress, director, producer, and activist. America co-founded Harness and co-leads Poderistas, and has been appointed a Global Goodwill Ambassador for the UN’s International Organization for Migration, championing safe migration, women’s rights and civic engagement.
Lemn Sissay
LEMN SISSAY OBE is a BAFTA nominated International prize winning writer. He was awarded an MBE for services to literature by The Queen of England and an OBE for services to literature by The King of England, The Pen Pinter Prize and a Points of Light Award from The Prime Minister.
Boyan Slat
Boyan Slat is a Dutch inventor and entrepreneur, passionate about creating megaprojects to address planetary problems. He is the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup; a non-profit organization developing and scaling technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic. The organization aims to put itself out of business, with the goal of removing 90% of floating ocean plastic by 2040.
Dev Sharma
Dev Sharma is an 20-year-old Food Activist, former Youth MP in the UK Youth Parliament and a founding member of Bite Back 2030, a youth activist movement challenging the rigged food system. With accomplishments from helping spark the UK’s child food poverty campaign to most notably spearheading the world's first online junk food marketing ban campaign, successfully getting it included in the Queen's Speech in 2021.
Lady Edwina Grosvenor
Lady Edwina Grosvenor is a Justice System Reformer with over 20 years of experience and expertise working in the criminal justice sector. Since graduating from Northumbria University in 2005 with a degree in Criminology and Sociology, Edwina has combined her work as a criminologist, prison philanthropist, adviser and reformer to create systemic change within the Justice System.
Kate Raworth
Kate Raworth is an economist and Senior Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute known for "doughnut economics", an economic model that balances between essential human needs and planetary boundaries.
Giorgiana Notarbartolo
Gio is a wealth inheritor advocating for positive impact and systems change. She is the Head of Impact and Philanthropy at her Family Office PFC (Partners For Change), advocates for other wealth owners and financial institutions to deploy capital for positive impact, and works towards the redistribution of her wealth to help promote a more equitable society through fairer tax systems. Gio has a BA from Bocconi University, an MBA from INSEAD, is a mother, and is passionate about furthering her personal and professional growth for a more equitable world.
Giles Duley
Giles Duley MBE (born 15 September 1971 in Wimbledon, London) is an English portrait and documentary photographer, chef, writer, CEO and presenter. Duley also cooks, and writes about food and food politics, under the moniker The One Armed Chef. He is best known for his work documenting the long term impact of war. He is the founder and CEO of the NGO Legacy of War Foundation, and in 2022 was announced as the first United Nations Global Advocate for Persons with Disabilities in Conflict and Peacebuilding Settings.
Sam Lee
Sam Lee is a Mercury Prize nominated folk singer, conservationist, song collector and activist. Sam plays a unique role in the British music scene as a highly inventive and original arranger, folksong interpreter, passionate conservationist, song collector and creator of live events. Sam’s work as an artist has shaken up the music scene breaking boundaries between traditional and contemporary music and the assumed places and ways folksong is appreciated.
KEY TOPICS
Explore the themes that will shape our conversations and drive our collective action
Climate and Sustainability
Innovative approaches to environmental sustainability and climate justice
Mental Health and Wellbeing
Breaking stigma and building systems of care and support
Innovative Philanthropy
New models for giving, impact, and systemic change
Business as a Force for Good
Building businesses that create both profit and purpose
The Future of Food
Transforming food systems for sustainability and equity
Impact Investing and Finance
Deploying capital for social and environmental returns
Storytelling and the Arts
The role of creativity in social change and healing
Migration and Refugee Solutions
Addressing displacement with dignity and innovation
Education and Equity
Transforming learning for the next generation
