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THE CONFERENCE

September 25th - 26th, 2025

The Charleston Museum

The Conference is an opportunity for the global community of solutions creators, practitioners, and accelerators to exchange knowledge, experience, and best practices to strengthen community-driven solutions in the South Carolina Lowcountry and beyond.

 

This year, the conference will explore "community-driven solutions that promote resilience, regeneration, and the restoration economy." Paul Hawken defines regeneration as “putting life at the center of every action and decision.” By centering living communities at the heart of our visions for the future, we can restore and foster new vibrant, resilient ecologies with people at the heart of them.

 

In the Conference’s third year, we will welcome 250 attendees to the Charleston Museum in the heart of downtown Charleston for two days of high-level panels and conversations. Of those attendees, we seek to welcome 100 young leaders and early-career professionals through The Hope Summit Next Generation Fund-sponsored conference passes. Attendees are encouraged to remain on-site for lunch in the museum's courtyard to network, build community, and participate in mentorship opportunities with young attendees.

 

The conference program will feature two days of diverse multi-disciplinary and intersectional panels and fireside chats concluding with the opening featured film and after-screening panel of The Hope Summit 2025 Film Festival.

 

Potential Panels & Fireside Chat topics:

 

  • “Re-story-ation”: How hearing ecosystems’ stories can help us heal our planet

 

  • ReWilding the Built Environment: Embracing Nature-Based Solutions, Biodiversity, and Ecological Corridors as Resilience Strategies

 

  • Good Gardeners: How Human Beings Can Play a Vital Role in the Fight Against Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss through Regeneration and the Restoration Economy

 

  • Oysters, Wetlands, & Natural Climate Solutions for Coastal Communities

 

  • The Circular Economy

 

  • Building Resilient Communities Through Ecological Thinking

 

  • The Best Old Ideas: Rediscovering Lessons from the Past to Create Regenerative Communities of the Future

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