Rather than treating nature, humans, and technology as separate domains, Impact Days ‘26 brings them into a single system. 

Nature sets the boundaries within which economies must operate. Humans bring values, judgment, care, and responsibility. Artificialsystems extend our capacity to sense, analyse, and act at scale.

This tension is about integration rather than opposition. It asks how technologies, including artificial intelligence, can be designed to strengthen human agency and regenerate natural systems, rather than override, replace, or extract from them.

Core question: How do we design technologies and systems that operate in service of human dignity and planetary health?

Most economic and institutional systems are built on assumptions of stability, predictability, and control. The reality we face is one of accelerating change, complex feedback loops, and unintended consequences.

Impact Days ‘26 explores how entrepreneurs, investors, and leaders can operate responsibly without the illusion of certainty. This includes rethinking metrics, governance models, and decision-making processes suited to complex adaptive systems; where not all outcomes can be forecast in advance.

Core question: How do we lead, invest, and innovate when the most important outcomes cannot be fully predicted?

Economic systems constantly move along a spectrum between value extraction and value regeneration. Extraction enables speed, efficiency, and concentration of returns, while regeneration sustains the social and ecological foundations on which long-term value creation depends.

Anchored in the Donut Economy, this tension reframes success as operating within planetary boundaries while strengthening social foundations. Capital, enterprises, and innovation are examined not as ends in themselves, but as tools for long-term system health and resilience.

Core question:What would it mean to design businesses and investments that leave systems better than they found them?