Talks

Inspiring speaker on international venues

2025

18/11/’25 – COP30 – Blue Zone Talk – Scaling Regenerative Agriculture
17/11/’25 – COP30 – Solutions Dinner – Carbon Markets, Innovative Finance and Regenerative Solutions
12/11/’25 – COP30 – Blue Zone Talk – Scaling Regenerative Agriculture from India to Zambia, Ghana and Brasil
25/07/’25 – Fordham Lecture – Systems Change & Innovation
24/07/’25 – New York Climate Week – Integrating Nature’s Value Into Financial Systems: Making the Balance Sheet Reflect Reality
24/07/’25 – New York Climate Week – Beyond Net Zero: Tackling Scope 3 Emissions in Healthcare
23/07/’25 – New York Climate Week – The Healthy Future Network: Mobilizing Health Leaders for Systems Change
23/07/’25 – New York Climate Week – Planetary Health at the Nexus of Healthcare and Nutrition
09/07/’25 – Paris – Client Visioning Workshop
25/06/’25 – London Climate Action Week – Valuing Forest & Farm: Leveling the Playing Field
20/06/’25 – Bonn SB62 – Side Event – Scaling Regenerative Agriculture: Global Farmer Networks
06/06/’25 – Venice Climate Week – Future Lands – How marginal territories can nourish systemic regeneration
04/06/’25 – London – Client Integrated Value Creation Workshop
21/05/’25 – London – Leaders in Sustainability 2025 – Designing a Regenerative Future
25/04/’25 – ChangeNOW – Innovative Finance Solutions for Climate and Regenerative Land Use
24/04/’25 – ChangeNOW – Sports for Change
07/03/’25 / 09/03/’25 – Fordham Lecture – Fordham University – …
07/01/’25 / 09/01/’25 – Fordham Lecture – Fordham University –

2024

07/03/’25 / 09/03/’25 – Fordham Lecture – Fordham University – …
17/01/’25 – WEF Davos –

2022

29/11/’22 – ISPO Munich – Innovation Workshop – How to benefit from becoming a B Corp

29/11/’22 – ISPO Munich – Master Class – Benefit Corporations and B Corp Certification

29/11/’22 – ISPO Munich – Innovation Workshop – Lobbying for Sports, Health & Climate

28/11/’22 – ISPO Munich – Innovation Workshop – Benefit from Real ESG Finance & Market Changes 

28/11/’22 – ISPO Munich – Innovation Workshop – Resilient & Regenerative Supply Chains

16/11/’22 – Future Economy Forum – COP Dialogues – Rapidly Scaling the Regenerative Economy & Climate Solutions 

16/11/’22 – IICA Sustainable Agriculture of the Americas at COP27 – Solving for Scope 3 reporting on Agricultural Supply Chains 

13/11/’22 – Future Economy Forum – COP Dialogues – Regenerative Agriculture Solutions

11/11/’22 – World Bank – GLF Climate Frontiers of Change – Unlocking Financing Solutions to Ecosystem Restoration

11/11/’22 – WeMeanBusiness Coalition at COP27 – COP Dialogues – Unleasing the Power of Business to create a Regnerative Future in Africa 

09/11/’22 – Future Economy Forum & Club of Rome – COP Dialogues – Scaling Regenerative Economies & Businesses

09/11/’22 – Future Food Institute at COP27 – Feeding the planet, energy for life – Regenerative Action

06/11/’22 – Future Economy Forum – Cairo Solutions Summit – The Future of Agricultuire as a Solution

05/11/’22 – Future Economy Forum – Cairo Solutions Summit – Food Systems Dialogue 

26/10/’22 – Google Food Lab – Regeneration through regional food systems: A Distributed Food Future 

10/10/’22 – Future Economy Forum – Webinar – Regenerative Agriculture: Key Climate Solutions & Beyond

03/10/’22 – HEC Paris – Regenerative Business

16/07/’22 – B for Good leaders Summit

13/07/’22 – Outdoor by ISPO – How to integrate business success with regenerating people, societies and nature 

09/07/’22 – Climate Farmers – The Fourth Soil Carbon Removal Thinktank 

29/06/’22 – World Design Organization & Dassault Systems  – Design in the age of transition

07/06/’22 – Thought For Food – the Business Case for Regeneration

02/06/’22 – The Circular Economy Master Class – The Role of Measurement and Metrics

10/05/’22 – Future of Food Forum – Regeneration in action: What does a regenerative food company look like in practice? 

12/04/’22 – Expedition to the Source #7 – The Interdependence of BCorps

02/03/’22 – The NICER Programme Circular Economy Showcase – Circular Industrial Implementation

08/03/’22 – Foodvalley – Upcycling Food: Brewers Spent Grain Event

2021

29/11/’21 – Fi Europe ’21 – Interview: Danone & HowGood partner to regenerate food systems

25/11/’21 – EIT FAN Demo Day

08/11/’21 – The NYT Climate Hub at COP26 – CBI live: Is shopping sustainably an oxymoron?

08/11/’21 – TEDx Thought For Food – Food is the Climate!

05/10/’21 – The Nature for Life Hub 2021 – Transforming food production systems

02/10/’21 – Thought For Food: The 2021 Summit – “Generation Food”

28/09/’21 – The big food redesign: Circular Economy on the Menu

20/09/’21 – London Design Festival – The Circular Design Project: Food

15/09/’21 – WCEF 2021: Biodiversity as a circular business opportunity

06/09/’21 – YPO Peru: How businesses can drive and thrive in the Circular Economy for Food and a regenerative food future

15/06/’21 – IKEA Innovation Talks: Open Innovation for a Circular Economy 

25/05/’21 – EMF CE Show – Design leaders: what does Circular Design mean to them?

21/05/’21 – UN Food Systems Summit Dialogue with reNature

15/04/’21 – TFF Circular Economy of Food Topical Day

12/04/’21 – Thought For Food (TFF): The Challenge 2021 Kick Off

2020

25/11/’20 – EIT Circular Food Systems workshop

24/11/’20 – Advance London – Navigating Procurement

27/10/’20 – Re-think Circular Economy Forum

16/10/’20 – Thought For Food: The 2020 Challenge Finale

13/10/’20 – Food Tech Matters 2020

12/10/’20 – Food Tech Matters 2020

05/10/’20 – EIT FAN Demo Day

09/09/’20 – RSM (Guest Lecture)

14/07/’20 – AI For Good Global Summit 2020

07/07/’20 – RSM Net Impact Club

07/05/’20 – AI For Good Global Summit 2020

2019

04/12/’19 – Innovation Roundtable (@ DSM)

05/11/’19 – Innovation Roundtable Summit

07/10/’19 – SPC Advance 2019

23/09/’19 – FoodTech IL

19/07/’19 – Circularity 2019

08/05/’19 – Seeds & Chips Milan

01/05/’19 – GreenBiz Insights

17/04/’19 – Google Food Lab

2018

30/10/’18 – Google Food Lab

19/10/’18 – IDEO BluePrint Summit

18/10/’18 – VERGE 2018

17/10/’18 – Circular Plastics Summit

“Innovation is the adaptive power of the system”

Merijn Dols