Breakfast

Opening Remarks and Welcome

America at 250: Can Nature Heal a Divided World?

Michael Vandenbergh in Conversation

Welcome to the Arena

Feeding a Growing World While Powering a Digital One

Ed Begley Jr. in Conversation

Bridging a Broken Nation at 250: An EarthX Call to Unity

Bridging a Broken Nation at 250: An EarthX Call to Unity

How Is the Arena Changing?

A National Perspective on Agriculture Policy

Making Sustainability Desirable: How Biodegradable Materials Can Reduce Plastic Pollution and Reinvent Fashion

Rachelle Carson-Begley in Conversation

Either You Have Property Rights or you Are Property

Break

The 765 kV Land Grab & Impacts to Agriculture

State of Regenerative Agriculture

Beyond Gloom, Doom, and Division: A Reward-Driven Path to a Bright Energy Future

Opening Address

Opening Remarks

Shannon McLinden in Conversation

The Iran Market Shock: War, Disruption, and the New Global Energy Order

Regenerative Agriculture Creating Opportunities

Panel and Q&A: Protecting Agricultural Land in an Era of Expanding Infrastructure

Keynote

Bringing Back Small Farms

Traditional Nuclear Bottlenecks, Obstacles: Permitting, Waste, and Political Support

Healthcare Industry Being Impacted By Regulated Substances

Sweta: We Don't Have Time

How the Market Wants to Change

Can We Power The Next Industrial Era? Onshoring, AI Infrastructure, and the Data Center Energy Demand

Regenerative Agriculture All Around

Converging Crises, Converging Opportunities: Food & Water Security in the AI Era

Blueprints to Heal the Planet: I — Coral Reefs Art and Design for Nature-Based Solutions to Coral Reef Restoration

State Energy Spotlight: Colorado

Browngirl Green

Session 1

Texas as a Testbed: Lessons from the Frontlines of Nuclear Deployment

LOVE as a Pathway to Environmental Change: How Small Actions Spark Big Shifts

What If the Water We Need Is Already Being Produced?

Not Your Usual Networking Session: Community Building Across Sectors

Trump, Tariffs, and the New Rules of the Clean Energy Transition

Structured Networking and Collaboration

Lunch

Session 2

Investor

Welcome Back and Reintroduction

America First Led by Texas Agriculture Applications

Innovator Workshop (Innovators Only)

Session 3

Opportunities Through Rural Development

NEI Nuclear Energy Q&A

Funding Early-Stage Climate and Sustainability Solutions Beyond Traditional Venture and Grants

Smart Communication for a Warming World: Why Storytelling Is Climate Infrastructure

Unleashing Energy Abundance for Consumers

Advancing Soil Health and Biological Solutions at Scale

Beyond Washington: How States Are Shaping the Future of Environmental Policy

Session 4

Roosevelt as a Role Model for Modern Conservation

Conscious Capital

Torrei Hart in Conversation

Designing Urban Industrial Interfaces

Getting Gen Z and Alpha in the Arena

State Energy Spotlight: Washington

Style as a Sustainability Solution: Reimagining Fashion & Home Through Circular Living

Chelsea Boyle in Conversation

Conservation Bridges Gaps

High-Impact Climate Action: Tackling Super Pollutants Through Corporate Investment

Break

Closing Remarks

Who Pays for the Gigawatts? Financing the Next Energy Buildout

Session 5

Climate Activist Xiye Bastida

From Waste to Wisdom: Composting Solutions That Stick

Green Jobs: The Market for Conservation

Women's Leadership Symposium

Institutional Investor Workshop (Hosted by Ceres - Invitation-Only)

Break

Explorations Role in Restoration

Science Communication in a Polarized World

State Energy Spotlight: South Carolina

The Built Environment Is the Climate System We Can Actually Control

Solar Choices: From City Strategy to Neighborhood Action

Closing Address

The Future of the Arena

Manufacturing & Workforce: Winning the Race for Talent and Supply Chains

Allison Fundis & Michael Ulica in Conversation

John Dabbar in Conversation

Sylvia Earle

Closing Remarks

Ana Ambrosi in Conversation

Reinventing Solar: How 3D Energy Infrastructure Unlocks the Next Era of Clean Power

E-Capital Summit Opening Reception

Small Group Networking Dinners

Breakfast

Investment Forum Networking Breakfast

Opening Remarks and Welcome

Investment Forum Welcome

The Foundation for Climate Restoration

Setting the Stage

Andrew Winston

Opening Remarks

Tim Kearns in Conversation

State of the Sustainability Investment & Innovation Markets

Foundation For Cllimate Restoration Keynote

Unlocking the Bioecoeconomy Across Food, Nature, Waste, Energy, and Jobs

Canada Providing Investment & Innovation Leadership

A New Era of Resilience: From Vulnerability to Global Leadership

Opening Remarks

From a Nimble Team to a Global Conservation Network: How Capacity, Capital, and Trust Scale Impact

Can we restore pre-industrial CO2 levels by 2050? Nature's Pathway to Gigaton-Scale Carbon Removal

The New Rules of Corporate Responsibility: What’s Real, What’s Not

Ask Me Anything: Driving Business Value With Sustainability (hosted by ClimeCo)

Why This Room Matters: The Power of Convening Capital and Leadership

Bridging a Divided World: The Partnerships That Will Define Our Future

Texas Providing Leadership in Energy

Urban & Regional Agrisystems as Transformative Engines of Local Prosperity and BioEconomy Innovation

Play to Win: The Power of Sports for Sustainability

The Bridge in Practice: Turning Partnership into Action

Kristen Sissener in Conversation

Bob Ballard & Tim Gallaudet in Conversation

Climate Restoration: Making Your Voice Heard

Y'all Street: Why Innovators & Investors Should Look to Texas

From Breakthrough to Buildout: Deploying Innovation at National Scale

Food Systems as Bioeconomic Infrastructure

Networking Break

Hilton Anatole Master Beekeeper Shannon LaGrave in Conversation

Financing Resilience: The Pacific’s Blueprint for Collective Action

Break

Coffee Break

Athletic Spotlight

The Pacific Agenda: Aligning Nations, Priorities, and Partnerships

Food, Health & Workforce: Pathways That Center People, Jobs, and Well-Being

Scaling what works: A global Plan to Reverse the Red & Deliver GBF Target 4

Carbon Capture: By Nature & Technology

US Federal Government Driving Pragmatic Innovation Across All Industries

Guy Harvey Foundation

A Novel, Low-Cost Measurement System for Marine CO2 Removal

Ricardo Nascimento in Conversation

Unlocking Nature's Capital

Non-Obvious Idea: Where does Industry Go from Here?

Dallas 2026: How North Texas is Redefining Host City Sustainability

Ocean Mapping with Greenwater Marine Sciences Offshore

Airport Decarbonization

Environmental Sustainability & Conservation are National Security Imperatives

Valuing What Matters: Turning Natural Capital into Financial Systems

Guardians of the Grid: Autonomous Defense for the Frontlines of Resilience

Earthx2026 Keynote Luncheon

E-Capital Summit Networking Luncheon

Lunch - Exploration, Discovery & the Stakes Beneath the Surface

Networking Lunch

Networking Break

Welcome Back

CEO Glass Boxes Modern Prefabricated Homes

Patrick Carreno in Conversation

Soil Is Infrastructure: Coordinating Restoration at Scale

Barger Tech: Creating Economic and Environmental Sustainability at Scale

The Climate Repair Café

Pitching for the Planet

The Nature Pledge — A Blueprint for a Unified Planet

EarthX Climate Tech Prize Semi-Finals Pitches

From Vision to Framework: Inside the Nature Pledge

West Hansen in Conversation

The Secret World of the Explorers Club

Traditional Energy Industry: Why Innovation Matters

The HVDC SuperGrid BioEconomy Panel

The New Energy Reality: Security, Scale & Resilience in the Age of AI (hosted by Calpine, invite only)

The Nature Record: Conversation and Comments on the First-Ever US Nature Assessment

Digital Sovereignty: Rebuilding Nations Through Technology

Sustainable Solutions Driving Profitability & Risk Mitigation in the Built Environment

Inspiring the Next Wave of Explorers: Storytelling, Science & Planetary Curiosity

Frontier Capital: Investing in the Technologies That Will Define Resilience

The Ecology of Resilience: Inner Development and Sustainable Regenerative Living

Coffee Break

The Eagle and The Condor

The Mangrove Economy: Investing in Nature as Critical Infrastructure

Investing in a Circular Economy in a Resource Constrained World

Hacking the High Seas: The Electric Revolution in Maritime Autonomy

Athletic Spotlight

Restoring the Ocean Economy: From Policy to Scalable Solutions

Isolde Fair in Conversation

Innovative Water Solutions Needed to Solve Critical Industry Challenges

Empowering Resilient and Productive Landscapes: Expanding Biobased Products Manufacturing in California

Oceans, Security & Technology: The New Geopolitics of the Deep

Positive Polar: Whale Poop, Citizen Science, and CO2

From Carbon Removal to Climate Sovereignty: Scaling Direct Air Capture for Island Nations

Break

Community, Fans & Facilities: Designing Legacy at Scale

Networking Break

Jeremy McKane & Ralph Chami in Conversation

Mariel Hemingway in Conversation

Powering Resilience: Securing the Energy Systems of the Future

Developing the Circular Forest Economy on the California North Coast

Where Circular Strategy Meets Reality, hosted by CHEP

Two Cycles, One Economy (hosted by CHEP)

EarthX Climate Tech Prize Semi-Finals Pitches

Common Ground: AI and the Planet — Breakthrough or Burden?

A New Playbook for Scale: The International Solar Alliance’s Next Chapter

Proactivism in Practice

Sustainable Rubber: From Crops to Industry

From Scarcity to Systems: Delivering Power at Scale Across the Global South

From Asphalt to Ecosystems: Rebuilding Water, Energy, and Food Systems at the Community Scale

Richard Wiese in Conversation

Sustainable Innovation Driving Profitability in the Industrial World

Hunter Lovins: Much More Than This, I Did It My Way

ISD Exhibits and Pop up Booths

The Organics Value Hill: An Engine for Regional Economic Growth

From Science to Statecraft: Governing the Ocean for Resilient Nations

Institutional Investor & LP Perspectives: What has Changed?

Supreme Court Update: What the Court Is Reshaping

Earth Recovery: From Awareness to Action

The Blue Economy: Art, Innovation, and Ocean Solutions with ORAI

Ocean Elders & Intergenerational Leadership

Catalyzing Capital & De-Risking Investments Through Philanthropic Capital

The BioEconomy: Economic & Workforce Development

The Partnership Mandate: Scaling Solutions Across the Frontlines

In Conversation with Gaelin Rosenwaks: Let's talk about Community and Sperm Whales!

Climate in a Time of Conflict

EarthX Ocean Innovation Prize Finals Pitches

Networking Happy Hour

Recycling Food, Crop & Animal Waste for a More Secure Food Future

Breakfast

E-Commercialization Connections

E-Capital Connections

Opening Remarks

Opening Remarks and Welcome

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Game-Changing Circularity: Lessons from Q2 Stadium and Austin FC

Intro & Welcome

Designing for Life

Opening Session: The Future Is Circular

Welcoming Remarks

Disputes Impacting the Energy Transition

Setting the Stage: The Eco Future of North Texas

Opening Keynote

Opening Exercise: Why Are You Here?

Water and the Next Century: Security, Scarcity, and the Future of Cities

Opening Remarks

Beyond Permits: Designing Water Agreements for Data Center Growth

Welcome Remarks

Framing the Ocean Enterprise

Host Country Remarks

Defining the Mission & Objectives

Trinational Business Conference

Green Chemistry as the Foundation for a Circular Economy

Goals and Vision for the Day

Host Interview: The Next Generation of Global Leadership

The Sushi Warrior - Human Enslavement in Illegal Fishing

Sustainability as Competitive Advantage: How Businesses Drive Impact and ROI

Break

Regional Outlook: Growth, Systems & Interconnection

Early Dispute Resolution

Morning Panel

Frontline Leadership: The Pacific Perspective

The New Infrastructure: Nature-Based Systems for Water Resilience

Networking Break

AI Governance Framework Development

Break

Table Session I: Regional Challenges & Perspectives

Nature as Technology: The Next Generation of Advanced Materials

Keynote Address: The Nature Pledge — A Blueprint for a Unified Planet

From Vision to Framework: Inside the Nature Pledge

Superhuman Without Limits (No queremos ser expectadores, queremos estar en la cancha)

Radical Reduction Roundtable

Break

Spotlight Presentations: People as the System

The Understory: Climate, Biodiversity, Communities — Do We Have to Choose?

Focus Area I: Human Infrastructure

Jim Keyes in Conversation

The Nature Pledge In Action - Bridging a Fractured Multilateral System

Renewable Fuels in North America

Nature Based Solutions - Carbon Offset / Carbon Credit Markets

Table Session II: Building Human Infrastructure

Mangroves as Infrastructure - Financing Nature’s Frontline Defense

Dr. Serena McCalla in Conversation with Kelly Liu

Quantum for Nature — How the World’s Largest Quantum Fund Is Unlocking the Power of the Planet

Tools for Connecting Intelligence in the Ocean Enterprise

Guardians of Nature -- Autonomous Defense on the Frontlines

Lunch - Ken Salazar

Welcome Back

The Generative Organization: Leading with AI Without Losing the Human

Spotlight Presentation: Regional Water Systems

Talent Without Borders: Health, Engineering, and Sustainability for North American Competitiveness

Focus Area II: Water and the Watershed

Private Capital in Low Carbon Financing

EarthX Climate Tech Prize Finals

Future of Sustainability Forum (Senior Sustainability Leader Conversation)

Turning Nature into the World’s Most Valuable Economy

Blue Capital Stack Panel

From Protection to Prosperity — Building the Amazon’s New Economic Model

Table Session III: Water Challenges & Solutions

Centre People, Connect Systems: Integrating Environmental Science into Meaningful Social Impact Practice

Returning Home: Health, Nature & the Human Spirit

CSO Roundtable

Nature-Based Cities — Designing the Future of Urban Resilience

Let’s Save the Jungle

From Waste to Power — Turning the World’s Largest Liability into Energy

Hilton Anatole Executive Chef Arnaud Masset

Spotlight Presentations: Nature in the Built Landscape

The Business of Nature

Focus Area III: Land Use Meets Biodiversity

Community Engagement / Developing Community Support for Project Success

Circular Policy Roundtable: EPR, Design for Repair, and Pollution Pricing

Breakout Instructions

From Scale to Soul: Leaving the Boardroom to Find Health, Nature & Responsibility

Denmark’s Blueprint — Scaling Clean Energy and Nature-Powered Solutions

Table Session IV: Biodiversity & Conservation

Restoring the Human Ecosystem: Sound, Stress, and Modern Life

Blockchain for Nature — Building the Trust Layer of the Global Economy

Breakout Sessions

Break

Break

Musical Interlude: Songs from the Edge of Fire & Water

Rebel with a Rake: Nature Based Solutions

Recycling Innovation Roundtable

Creating a Circular Culture

Spotlight Presentation: Rethinking Urban Form

Closing Keynote: Nature as Common Ground — A Path Forward in a Divided World

Reverse the Red Panel Discussion

Voices of the Next Generation: Culture, Creativity, and the Future of Enviromental Leadership

Focus Area IV: Land Use & the Built Environment

Molding Legal Professionals for 21st Century Challenges

Water is a Gift of Life

Table Session V: The Future of the Built Environment

Breakout Results Plenary

Resilience in an Age of Uncertainty: Small Nations and the Future of the Global System

World Cup in Monterrey, Mexico & Investment Opportunities in Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Assessing AI for Climate Restoration: Delivering higher ROI on Restoration with bioregional knowledge

Closing Session: What Now? What Next?

Closing Session: United by Nature for America 250

Wrap, Review and Charge

Closing Celebration

Closing Remarks

Strategic Networking

Trade Under Pressure: Elections, Protectionism, and Supply Chains