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11-13 Oct — Bristol

2022 Themes

  • Purpose-Led Business
  • Outdoor Use & Participation
  • Health & Wellbeing
  • Regenerative Food Production
  • Ocean & River Conservation
  • Energy Transition
  • Diversity, Youth & Inclusion
  • Responsible Investing

Purpose-Led Business

Purpose-driven companies go beyond their role of offering a product or service and develop programs that have a social or environmental impact. Social entrepreneurship is bringing more meaning to what businesses do, and it’s an exciting trend to explore if one wants to make a difference in their career.

Sir Tim Smit – KBE

Co-founder of the Eden Project, Executive Vice Chair of Eden Project Ltd and Executive Chairman of Eden Project International Ltd.

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Kresse Wesling CBE

Founder of Elvis & Kresse, multi-award winning environmental entrepreneur and Young Global Leader with a background in venture capital and significant start-up experience.

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Richard Walker – Iceland

Managing Director, Iceland Foods Chairman, Bywater Properties

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Fi Macmillan

Adventurer, coach, speaker and entrepreneur. Inviting leaders and changemakers into their own potent intelligence in Nature.

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Kate A Larsen

Kate A Larsen has over 17 years experience in Responsible Sourcing and Supply Chains Environmental and Social issues management.

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Melissa Thorpe

Melissa is the head of Spaceport Cornwall

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Andrew Bacon

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Space Forge Ltd

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Rob Webbon

Rob is founder and CEO of the worlds first climate positive sports apparel company, Presca.

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Tom Locke

Tom is the founder of Noughts and Ones helping planet-friendly ecommerce brands sell their products in the right way on Shopify.

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Jarvis Smith

Proud hippy, tree-hugger, thought leader, media entrepreneur and online businessman.

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Katie Hill

Investigative journalist, entrepreneur, podcaster and anti-greenwash activist.

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Dan Macaulay

Pioneering sports marketing consultant, entrepreneur and Blue Earth amabassador

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Andy Hawkins

Founder of Business on Purpose and Blue Earth Summit Ambassador

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Joss Ford

Founder of sustainability communications consultancy & certified BCorp, Enviral. Blue Earth Summit ambassador.

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Marta Torner

Marta is the Sustainability Manager at outdoor accessory brand BUFF®.

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Tessa Wernink

Impossible team lead and founder of Fairphone

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Dr Gail Bradbrook

Co-Founder XR

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Laura Sanderson

Founder of We Swim Wild, Environmentalist, Activist, Adventurer and Hydro Flask Ambassador 

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Jax Davey

CEO of Nuevo

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Kathrin Dimai

Kathrin is a Design Lead at Impossible, where she has been contributing in shaping the Planet Centric Design methodology and developed the Planet Centric Design Toolkit.

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Kwame Ferreira

Kwame Ferreira is an artist, founder and entrepreneur. Kwame founded impossible.com, home of Planet Centric Design.

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Clare Brook

CEO Blue Marine Foundation A pioneer of ESG investing, Clare Brook ran sustainable funds at Jupiter, NPI and Henderson.  In 2000, she set up the sustainable investment division of Aviva.  In 2010 she co-founded WHEB Asset Management, an environmental investment specialist.  In 2014 she joined Blue Marine Foundation as CFO and became CEO in 2015.

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Duncan Ray

Duncan Ray is the Founder of Remarkable City, which he started because he thinks it’s time to encourage broader ways of approaching regeneration and urban renewal, to take into account challenges such as those posed by climate change.

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Simon Hill Norton

Co-Founder, Sweaty Betty.

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Rich Philip

Brand & Marketing Director of Stance

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Latest articles on this theme

  • COP27 – The Inflection Point
  • Earthly x Blue Earth Summit – Where Are We Now?
  • BES’22 One Month On – Catching up with Koolstof

Outdoor Use & Participation

The great outdoor is an inspiring place to be and needs to be made accessible to all. To properly understand what our natural world needs to survive, we need to go out and play in it. In doing we find a way to better connect with people and move forwards together.

Kate Rawles

Freelance writer, environmentalist & outdoor philosopher

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David Lindo

David (AKA The Urban Birder) is on a mission is to engage city folk around the world with the plentiful urban nature that surrounds them.

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Naveed Bakhsh

Nav co-founded Boots & Beards after assessing the needs of the local community and lack of outdoor activities.

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Ted Simpson

Ted is a self shooting director and editor, working across commercial and documentary. His main interests lie in exploring stories of human connection to wild land and wild spaces

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Cath Pendleton

Cath Pendleton, also known as "The Merthyr Mermaid" is an open water and ice swimmer from Wales.

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Harrison Ward

After discovering a passion for hiking in 2016 following a drastic life change, it wasn’t long before a lifetime love of cooking was merged with my new vice. These days I can often be found creating delicious, restaurant style meals on minimal camping equipment in the hills.

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Huw James – RAB

Huw is a professional science communicator who mixes mountaineering with education on scientific influences in the outdoors.

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Rob Webbon

Rob is founder and CEO of the worlds first climate positive sports apparel company, Presca.

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Phil Young

A power house advocate for diversity and inclusion in the outdoors.

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Marta Torner

Marta is the Sustainability Manager at outdoor accessory brand BUFF®.

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Nick Hounsfield

Founder, The Wave

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Latest articles on this theme

  • The Pitch Tent: Impact Projects – What Happens Next?
  • BES’22 Through the Eyes of Ticket Holders
  • ‘The Pitch Tent: Pioneering Adventure’ Wrap Up

Health & Wellbeing

Whether in business or in wider society be it locally or globally, people hold the key.

The health and wellbeing of people is the starting point when it comes to understanding how business can deliver positive change for our blue earth planet.

Magnus Wood

Founder | Kindness Advisor | Reimagining business with Kindness to leave people and the planet better.

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Cath Pendleton

Cath Pendleton, also known as "The Merthyr Mermaid" is an open water and ice swimmer from Wales.

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Benjamin Casteillo

Transdisciplinary Research & Education to pioneer Global Sustainability with Human Solutions

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Laura Sanderson

Founder of We Swim Wild, Environmentalist, Activist, Adventurer and Hydro Flask Ambassador 

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Laura Crane

Athlete and Wellness Advocate

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Latest articles on this theme

  • Gail Bradbrook – “The human body is ingesting a credit card size amount of plastic every two weeks”
  • Tim Smit – “Citizenship, Consumerism and Visions of the Future”
  • We kick off 2022 plans with a launch party in Bristol, a new podcast series, the first confirmed speakers and partners for the three day, purpose-led business festival in October

Regenerative Food Production

The true power of nature is in its ability to renew itself. As people in business we must realise that now is the time to take our foot off the gas to give the natural world a chance to regenerate.

Regenerative food production good for business,  good for people and good for the planet.

 

Will Rolph

Co-Founder of Two Fields Olive Oil, a Regenerative Olive Oil Producer and a designer.

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Sarah Bentley

Sarah is the founder of pioneering plant-based community cookery school and charity Made In Hackney. The cookery school opened it's doors in 2012 and have since collaborated with over 400,000 Londoners inspiring them to grow, cook and eat more plants.

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Harrison Ward

After discovering a passion for hiking in 2016 following a drastic life change, it wasn’t long before a lifetime love of cooking was merged with my new vice. These days I can often be found creating delicious, restaurant style meals on minimal camping equipment in the hills.

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Richard J Lilley

RJ is the CEO and a co-founder of Project Seagrass.

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Latest articles on this theme

  • Blue Earth Summit’s final programme for Oct 11-13th is HERE
  • Food Production and Regenerative Solutions – Part 1.
  • How to radically re-think what a successful business looks like

Ocean & River Conservation

The oceans are the lungs of our blue earth planet. This untapped water world is the true source of sustainable life on earth. Together we need to act fast to protect our playgrounds and reinstate a natural order through our inbuilt respect for our great oceans and rivers.

Chris Bertish

Chris Bertish is a Professional Speaker; Big Wave Surfing Mavericks champion; Stand Up Paddle Boarding Guinness World Record Holder and Ocean Pioneer.

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Pip Hare

The 8th women ever in history to complete the Vendee Globe race, a 24,000 mile, single-handed (solo) non-stop yacht race around the world.

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Charles Watson

Charles is focussed solely across the areas of environmental campaigning and conservation, sustainable development and impact investment

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Dr Ian Hendy

As a professional marine conservation ecologist, the main goal of my research is to understand how human interactions, environmental variation and climate change are responsible for altering biodiversity, biomass and productivity.

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Hugo Tagholm

Hugo leads campaigning charity Surfers Against Sewage and drives government legislation to protect our seas.

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Charlotte Young

Award-winning marine scientist, expedition leader, presenter and ocean advocate.

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Richard J Lilley

RJ is the CEO and a co-founder of Project Seagrass.

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Laura Crane

Athlete and Wellness Advocate

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Clare Brook

CEO Blue Marine Foundation A pioneer of ESG investing, Clare Brook ran sustainable funds at Jupiter, NPI and Henderson.  In 2000, she set up the sustainable investment division of Aviva.  In 2010 she co-founded WHEB Asset Management, an environmental investment specialist.  In 2014 she joined Blue Marine Foundation as CFO and became CEO in 2015.

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Lizzie Daly

Wildlife biologist, broadcaster, filmmaker and conservationist

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Xavier Baker

Co-founder of Mermaid Gin ~ Isle of Wight Distillery

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Latest articles on this theme

  • Planet Positivity with BES Partners, Presca
  • How Do We Grow a New Generation of Outdoor Stewards?
  • The Wyes and Wherefores of the River Crisis with River Action

Energy Transition

With a spiralling cost of living and a geo-political change in our world order, the call for a transition to renewable energy has never been greater. For people in business the opportunities come from making the change.

Sir Tim Smit – KBE

Co-founder of the Eden Project, Executive Vice Chair of Eden Project Ltd and Executive Chairman of Eden Project International Ltd.

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Melissa Thorpe

Melissa is the head of Spaceport Cornwall

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Andrew Bacon

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Space Forge Ltd

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Tessa Wernink

Impossible team lead and founder of Fairphone

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Dr Gail Bradbrook

Co-Founder XR

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Latest articles on this theme

  • Tim Smit – “Citizenship, Consumerism and Visions of the Future”
  • Summit Theme Spotlight: Energy Transition
  • We kick off 2022 plans with a launch party in Bristol, a new podcast series, the first confirmed speakers and partners for the three day, purpose-led business festival in October

Diversity, Youth & Inclusion

Getting outdoors, staying healthy and choosing to live a more sustainable life can no longer be an achievable ambition for a privileged few. Today’s problems can only be solved through collaboration and inclusion. Blue Earth Summit continues to breakdown barriers ensuring we can all move forwards together.

Bianca Pitt

Bianca is the co-founder of SHE Changes Climate, an advisor to the environmental charity sector, an activist and campaigner

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David Lindo

David (AKA The Urban Birder) is on a mission is to engage city folk around the world with the plentiful urban nature that surrounds them.

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Maxwell Ayamba

Maxwell is a PhD student research whose research interests transcends the trajectories of race, ecology and environmental justice

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Naveed Bakhsh

Nav co-founded Boots & Beards after assessing the needs of the local community and lack of outdoor activities.

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Poppy Stowell Evans

A 16 year old feminist, climate activist, internationalist who is quite frankly obsessed with all things social justice.

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Cath Pendleton

Cath Pendleton, also known as "The Merthyr Mermaid" is an open water and ice swimmer from Wales.

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Phil Young

A power house advocate for diversity and inclusion in the outdoors.

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Latest articles on this theme

  • As we explore our Blue Thread theme, our next speaker on the podcast is Maxwell Ayamba
  • Our second speaker featured on the podcast is Poppy Stowell-Evans, internationalist and chair of Youth Climate Ambassadors for Wales
  • We kick off 2022 plans with a launch party in Bristol, a new podcast series, the first confirmed speakers and partners for the three day, purpose-led business festival in October

Responsible Investing

Investing in a sustainable future holds the key to longterm returns. Blue Earth Summit brings founders and investors  together investors through a shared ambition to make the world the better place.

Mike Weeks

Former professional rock climber, Mike Weeks is now the lead global business development at Laconic Infrastructure Partners

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Grace Smith

Grace leads Laconic Infrastructures communication's and business development. She is a passionate and committed climate change and human rights activist.

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Latest articles on this theme

  • Aqua Libra Takes Us ‘Beyond the Bottle’
  • ‘Rewilding the Sea’ with Charles Clover
  • Talking Power of the Pension with Circa5000

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