November 4-6, 2025
San Francisco, California

We invite you to the inaugural Economic Futures Summit—a first-of-its-kind, Indigenous-led gathering to galvanize sustainability solutions and create new pathways for evolving the economy and confronting the climate and nature crises.

We need to create solutions for a livable climate, resilient communities, sustainable economies and a thriving planet. Indigenous People know many of these solutions and can be partners in innovating many more.

But as conservation and climate finance options rapidly evolve and billions of dollars are invested in seeking solutions, Indigenous People are seldom engaged.

Why?

Many Indigenous communities are not aware of the full range of finance opportunities that exist and how to access them. Many investors are not connected to Indigenous communities’ ideas and solutions. This means that Indigenous economic and finance ideas and leadership are not engaged in today’s solutions, and are not systematically informing the next generation of new investment models.

How do we change that, so that we can co-create the solutions our Earth critically requires?

A unique, first-of-its-kind summit

Hosted in-person on Turtle Island (North America) and open to participants from around the globe, this 2.5-day summit will convene 400-600 Indigenous and non-Indigenous practitioners, investors, academics, thought-leaders and policymakers in climate, conservation and sustainability.

This isn’t your typical conference. We’re not just watering seeds of ideas through hours of conversation without action. We’re actively tending to, investing in and harvesting solutions with the highest return on investment for our shared planet.

Are you ready to shape our economic and environmental future together?

Get involved

Participants

Registration details for participants are coming soon, as well as scholarship options for Indigenous attendees.

Sponsors

We are currently seeking partners and supporters for this unique, Indigenous-led Summit.

Buffalo Sponsor

$300,000+

An opportunity to co-sponsor this groundbreaking inaugural event with strategic design input on the agenda and speaker selections (final decisions remain Indigenous-led).

Have your organization represented on all website and conference materials.

5 free registrants.

Tree Sponsor

$100,000

Invest in scholarships for Indigenous attendees, speakers or Summit reports.

2 free registrants.

Bee
Sponsor

$50,000

Sponsor a coffee break or lunch for attendees.

1 free registrant.

Rain Sponsor

$10,000

Support event functions.

What to expect at the inaugural Economic Futures Summit

Networking to leverage existing finance solutions in Indigenous communities, and with Indigenous Peoples

Creating opportunities for strategic connections between Indigenous and non-Indigenous climate, conservation, and economic leaders and investors to explore existing mechanisms and evaluate options for collaborative and sustainable economic planning.

Elevating current approaches

Seeding near-term pathways for existing credits, standards and brokerages to evolve and become more Indigenous-led and effective.

Evolving the future

Shaping, investing in and taking action on novel future economic models for conservation and climate finance, driven by Indigenous concepts of finance and trade.