EarthxFuture500 Summit

Conference Overview 

The world’s oceans, forests, and climate systems are no longer just “challenged” – in many places, they’re in crisis. And while the stakes are high, so too are the opportunities. Businesses, policy makers, and civil society organizations all have a role to play in stopping and reversing the damage. Each of us can learn from – and lift up – the others, while building stronger solutions by working across these sectoral divides.

The Future500 mission is to advance business as a force for good by building trust between companies, advocates, investors, and philanthropists. In our work, we favor bridges over walls, engagement over polarization, and results over ideology. We put these values into practice by regularly convening diverse and often adversarial interests in trusted forums to advance systemic solutions to environmental and social challenges.

EarthxFuture500 Summit 

Our invitation-only EarthxFuture 500 Summit is our signature event. Hosted annually in Dallas the week of Earth Day, the Summit attracts leaders from the NGO, corporate, philanthropic, investor, and policy communities who are getting things done, but looking to build broader capacity for collective action and be even more effective with their resources.

Whether you’re an environmental campaigner, a C-suite leader, or a foundation program officer, we promise you’ll head home from the EarthxFuture 500 Summit with insights that will make you more effective and more strategic. The mix is unbeatable, and the value is real. To be candid, you just can’t get this kind of cross-pollination anywhere else.

A Beyond-the-Bubble Perspective

We curate the guest list to craft an eclectic mix of the pragmatists and the visionaries, the right and the left, the activists and the executives. Leave your biases at home, step outside your comfort zone, and come build relationships with the most unlikely of influencers.

Actionable Insights

Under Chatham House rule, our speakers and delegates share “warts and all” advice from the trenches of change. You’ll learn what has worked, what has flopped, and where the up-and-coming opportunities lie to scale protection of our oceans, forests, climate, and the communities that depend on them.

Productive Partnerships

We curate the guest list to craft an eclectic mix of the pragmatists and the visionaries, the right and the left, the activists and the executives. Leave your biases at home, step outside your comfort zone, and come build relationships with the most unlikely of influencers.

Our past events have forged professional collaborations and kindled enduring friendships between delegates from different worlds who would not otherwise have met.