Edward West is an entrepreneur, designer, engineer, educator, and executive. He does strategy, network design, as well as builds and funds companies to help address the most significant and pressing challenges that we face, with a portfolio of work spanning from renewable energy, to regenerative agriculture, to vehicle electrification, to curriculum design and cultural preservation.

Some of his selected projects include, as an Adventure Partner at Salmon Nation Trust, the co-creation of The Edge Prize, a new decentralized accelerator and fund to support bioregional regenerative projects and companies.

He was Co-Founder and CEO of Hylo, a new kind of social network that helps members of communities-of-purpose to connect, collaborate, share resources, and build things together.

In 2006, he served as Co-founder and President Mission Motors, manufacturer of high performance electric motorcycles and advanced electric vehicle components.

He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University, and an MBA from Presidio Graduate School.

Nathanael Miksis is an energy and technology strategist with a passion for solving complex infrastructure challenges and designing systems that support long-term sustainability. With a master’s degree in operations research, he brings analytical precision and systems-level thinking to energy and materials flows, resource optimization, and financial modeling—turning technical expertise into practical, impactful solutions.

Over the course of transacting more than $1.2B in wholesale electricity deals, Nathanael has worked with large utilities, community energy agencies, and public institutions like the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART). At BART, he led efforts to secure 75% of the system’s power needs from renewable sources, delivering $174M in savings while advancing decarbonization at scale.

More recently, Nathanael has focused on leveraging AI to transform how we gather insights and make decisions. He created Civiai.org, a retrieval-augmented research and governance platform, and leads workshops that explore how AI can help professionals navigate complexity and design adaptive solutions. Nathanael sees technology as a dynamic tool for uncovering opportunities, creating abundance, and empowering communities to thrive within the systems they depend on.

Grounded in long-term thinking and a commitment to sustainable innovation, Nathanael’s work connects data, strategy, and human potential to build a more resilient and regenerative future.

Samantha is a Nature Finance Specialist and Ecological Economist. She supports clients in the public, private, and non-profit sectors, promoting collaboration and cooperation to develop and implement visions and strategies leading to transformative economic change. This approach positions finance in service to life.

Her clientele includes financial institutions, project developers, multilateral development banks, and non-profits. Through her expertise in advisory, strategy, communications, storytelling, investment opportunity mapping, impact assessment, ecosystem services valuation, policy analysis, and nature MRV, she guides these entities toward their objectives.

It is her personal mission to heal the interaction between humans and the Earth through the economy, shifting the focus from extraction and destruction to regeneration. She views biodiverse ecosystems as the Earth's organs, requiring immediate protection for climate resilience, to fulfill the needs of all, and to ensure the continued ability of humanity to thrive.

Her professional background includes a 5-year engagement with the World Bank, during which she contributed to research publications on nature-related risks, policies to halt nature loss, and strategies to mobilize private finance for nature.

She holds a Master's degree in International Affairs and International Economics from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a Bachelor's degree in International Economics from Louisiana State University.

Taya Seidler is a deep generalist who's passionate about storytelling and creating content that educates, inspires, and moves people to embrace the complexity of the climate emergency. With 15 years of experience working across sectors, including government and civil society groups, she's an expert in systems change, impact strategy, and mobilizing networks of change agents to design and implement solutions.

As the Director of Climate Communications & Content at Earthbanc, she played a pivotal role in solidifying their green/climate brand and narrative across all communication channels. She created science-based content that told the full story of their rapid decarbonization pathway, the complexity of the solutions, and what is needed to enable and accelerate rapid carbon removal through voluntary carbon markets and green finance. By building community and customers through her content, she helped to promote a more sustainable future for all.

Looking forward, she believes that rapid decarbonization is one of the most complex problems in human history, and it will require disruptive, innovative, and exponential change like nothing we've ever seen before. To succeed, we need to collaborate across trans-disciplinary and trans-sectoral networks, eliminate old competitive mindsets, and remove long-standing barriers. Through her work, she aims to encourage curiosity and foster a sense of togetherness, so that we can stand together and create the change we need.

Aaron Brodeur is a versatile designer, developer, and entrepreneur based in San Francisco. He serves as the head of design at Terran Collective, where he helps create exceptional products for diverse clients. His expertise spans user experiences, interfaces, visual design, illustration, and branding, and he is dedicated to empathizing with end-users.

As a developer, Brodeur consistently updates his knowledge of new technologies and libraries, working on projects ranging from large systems to smaller-scale products. His background in design ensures that his work is visually appealing and user-friendly. He has experience working both as part of larger development teams and independently.

In his entrepreneurial journey, Brodeur's first success came after joining Virgance in 2008 as its first employee. As the design and front end development lead, he played a crucial role in the company's growth, which led to its acquisition by NRG for over $100 million.

Clare is a community organizer, systems designer, and technologist running experiments in bioregional coordination and weaving tech and ecology to create a regenerative future.

Through her background in non-profit communications, government relations, and software engineering, Clare has spent over a decade at the forefront of using technology as a tool to build and mobilize communities to create positive change. As a Core Steward at Terran Collective, she builds systems and tools for a regenerative future, including Hylo, the prosocial coordination platform for a thriving planet. She is also an Adventure Partner at Salmon Nation Trust, where she co-leads the Edge Prize, a distributed bioregional accelerator.

Clare now leads partnerships, communications, and product development for Hylo. She facilitates conversations with Hylo partners to co-design tech solutions to the challenges they face—which are rarely purely technical. Through this work, Clare has developed a specialization in participatory governance and community stewardship, guiding numerous groups to grow communities that are equitable and impactful.

Clare is a land steward who is passionate about place-based organizing and regenerative agriculture, participating in community governance experiments with Regen Foundation and OpenTEAM. She is a ProSocial facilitator and a proponent of the Sociocracy method of dynamic governance. She holds a B.A. in Politics from the University of Virginia.

John Manoochehri is an architect and environmental scientist based in Stockholm and San Francisco.

He has a diploma in architecture from the graduate school of architecture in Stockholm, at KKH, and has taught technical courses and design studios at Master’s level at the Stockholm undergraduate architecture and planning schools, at KTH.

His sustainable design company Resource Vision has been on design teams with BIG, White, Strategisk Arkiekter, and other major Scandinavian offices, working on some of the largest projects in Swedish history, including Kiruna city move. He has written an architectural design method handbook with Kjellander + Sjöberg Architects, and contributed technical advice to modular housing fabricators. He founded the Resource Talks podcast to investigate sustainable architecture and modern environmental science and policy.

He started an architectural design technology company, Last Meter®, with the support of the Swedish Real Estate Federation, to enable the integration of service-based consumption into the spatial and financial models of modern real estate, to facilitate the adoption of circular consumption models at scale.

Treasury was founded in 2022, by him together Zaha Hadid Architects, and Spaceform, a visualization platform backed by BIG, Thomas Heatherwick Studio, UNStudio and more, asa registry and discovery system for the world’s most valuable spatial assets – architectural design, film scenes and sets, real estate, world monuments, experiential art, nature scans, and other spatial content.

Treasury protects and distributes the work of spatial creators – architects, real estate owners, artists, engineers, and reality capture professionals – in the era of spatial computing and generative AI.

Previously, he worked at the United Nations Environment Program in Geneva, where he wrote UNEP’s policy framework on sustainable urban consumption, ‘Consumption Opportunities’. He wrote the World Wide Fund for Nature’s global handbook on sustainable cities, ‘Urban Solutions’, integrating the UN Sustainable Development Goals framework with the WWF Urban Solutions model.

He has a degree from the University of Oxford and lives in Stockholm and San Francisco.

Josiah Cain is a landscape architect and ecological design consultant with over two decades of experience working at the nexus of ecology, infrastructure, and urban design. For the past 12 years, he served as a Principal and Director of Innovation at Sherwood Design Engineers. Prior work experience includes building two companies, and a senior leadership role at Rana Cohabitat. Josiah has also lectured widely, taught studio courses, and was Program Director for UC Berkeley’s Professional Certificate in Sustainable Design.

In addition to a BS in landscape architecture from UC Davis, Josiah holds an advanced degree in Design, Technology, and Environment from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He also has design certificates in Permaculture, Green Roof Design, Rain Harvesting, and Constructed Wetland Treatment Systems.

A third generation resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, Josiah grew up in the back to the land movement of the 1970s where he developed a strong ethos that drew him to sustainable design, permaculture and regenerative systems.

Inspired by institutions such as Rocky Mtn Institute, Ocean Arks, Esalen, and The Center for Maximum Human Potential, Josiah co-purchased a 172 acre working farm where he lives and works. Green Valley Farm + Mill (gvfam.com) is a mixed use property in Sonoma County which supports 7 households and approximately 12 commercial tenants who share a passion for land based resilience and regeneration, including a vegetable farm, organic dairy, hospitality, and environmental education.

Lisa Chacón (she/her) is a transdisciplinary innovator, strategist, entrepreneur and systems thinker/designer with a background in science, technology and sustainability. She co-founded Impact Hub Oakland, with a mission to cultivate, connect and support social entrepreneurs as they pioneer solutions for a world that works for all.

Lisa brings two decades of leadership in contexts from startup entrepreneurship and social innovation to corporate and non-profit consulting, and technology R&D. Her passion lies in developing collaborative ecosystems of aligned organizations, cultivating communities of purpose, and empowering changemakers for systemic and cultural transformation. She is deeply inspired by the original principles and natural laws of Indigenous cultures, and the potential for these principles to guide us toward a regenerative relationship with self, other and nature. Lisa holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley, and a master’s degree in sustainability from Sweden’s Blekinge Institute.

Matt Jorgensen (he/him) is focused on how we come home to ourselves, both internally and externally. Externally, he has been a social entrepreneur, founding and serving as CEO of home-cooked food platform Josephine.com and nonprofit COOK Alliance.

He has also spent years helping to innovate new "commons-based" legal & financial stewardship structures (e.g. Purpose Economy, Zebras Unite). Internally, he's gratefully (if not always gracefully) falling down the rabbit-hole of not-knowing and greater aliveness. He's supported by long periods of meditation, the grace of good teachers, and the gentle power of nature (especially the wild ocean and forests of Northern California).

Matt serves our universal evolution towards remembering our wholeness in practical, day-to-day contexts. How can deepening into self-awareness and collective sensitivity allow us to serve/lead as fully integrated humans, from a place of rootedness, care, and authentic power?

Sarah Baxendell is an ecological designer and serial entrepreneur. She designs, builds, and iterates places and products as solutions to climate change. She is obsessed with group decision making, shared ownership, systems change, and public goods funding.

She recently led ecosystem and product strategy at Regen Network, a platform to reward ecological regeneration using blockchain. She is the designer and founder of Hilltop Urban Farm, the largest urban farm in the USA. She led master plan designs for 750+ acres of urban parks and vacant land in the City of Pittsburgh. She has raised $46M+ for climate impact projects, and speaks on technology’s role in addressing climate change on NPR and Bankless.

She holds bachelors degrees in Finance and Marketing from the University of Delaware, and was trained is Sustainable Design at the Fashion Institute of New York and Permaculture Design from the Center for Bioregional Living.