With Vicki Robin, co-creator of the Conversation Cafes; and Bob Stilger, Ph.D., Vice President of New Stories.

Join master world café facilitators Vicki Robin and Bob Stilger for dynamic conversations with other bioneers about how to create resilient communities.

Embassy Suites Private Dining Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Hosted by Dennis Martinez (O’odham-Chicano-Swedish). With Nick Tipon (Coastal Miwok); Corrine Gould (Ohlone); Sage La Pena (Nomtipom Wintu).

Join us for total immersion into the history, traditional indigenous knowledge and sophisticated sciences of the Bay Area Natives working to protect their cultures, resources and landscapes.

Dennis Martinez (O’odham-Chicano-Swedish) will guide the audience through Native perspectives on sustainability including controversial REDD laws.

Indigenous Forum | 4:30pm-5:15pm, Fri

Hosted by Kate Lipkis, Certified Council Trainer; and Casey McCarroll, rites of passage guide, Founder of LAUNCH.

Join with fellow young bioneers to swap story, build community and share your dreams for your lives and the world.

Youth Unity Center | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Presented by the Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and 350.org.

With Anna Goldstein, US Campaign Manager of 350.org, Rachel Butler of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Oil team, and Amanda Starbuck of the Energy and Finance at Rainforest Action Network.

Three of the leading organizations working to halt and reverse climate change and move to a post-carbon energy future join forces to show us how to get involved. Come learn about the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, which has blocked the construction or reopening of over 100 coal burning plants to date; 350.org’s incredibly successful grassroots movement to pressure political leaders to address climate change; and RAN’s potent direct action campaigns to pressure polluters.

The Tent of Inspiration | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Hosted by Connie Cagampang Heller, Co-Founder of Linked Fate Fund for Justice at the Tides Foundation.

With: john a. powell, Director of the Haas Diversity Research Center at UC Berkeley; Shakti Butler, Executive Director of World Trust; Eveline Shen, Executive Director of Forward Together; Grace Bauer, Co-Director of Justice for Families.

An uncertain economy, changing demographics and shifting social norms all contribute to a growing, almost palpable anxiety that has gripped much of America. Persistent anxiety about difference — or the lack of difference — acts as a powerful force that re-inscribes social separation and even isolation for individuals and their communities. Perhaps something more fundamental is driving this disquiet. Perhaps we are uneasy with an uncertain world that might not just threaten our way of life, but also our sense of who we are.

Restoration Nation Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Presented by RSF Social Finance. Hosted by John Bloom, Senior Director of Organizational Culture at RSF

With Don Shaffer, RSF President/CEO; Carol Newell, Founder of Renewal and Co-Founder of Play BIG; Deborah Frieze, Board member and former Co-President of The Berkana Institute and co-founder of the Berkana Exchange

What are the challenges of and tools for building or re-building local, regional economies? Leading figures in socially responsible and community-based investment explore how conscious financing can be a force for regional sustainability, the development of enterprise, and the building of community capital.

Epiphany Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Hosted by Arty Mangan, Bioneers Food and Farming Director

With Caleen A. Sisk of the Winnemem Wintu nation; John Williams of Frog’s Leap Winery.

Once incredibly abundant, salmon have become severely diminished or even extinct in many Northern California watersheds. Come hear how the Winnemem Wintu, through spiritual ceremony and ecological activism, are restocking the McCloud River with ancestral Chinook from New Zealand; and how Napa Valley vineyard owners have rededicated millions of dollars worth of productive vineyards to help restore the Napa River and encourage the return of Steelhead and Chinook.

Santa Rosa Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Hosted by Anneke Campbell, author and activist.

With Peggy O’Mara of Mothering.com; Vanessa Daniel, Executive Director of Groundswell; Maame Yelbert-Obeng of Women’s Earth Alliance.

As women’s roles are undergoing revolutionary change, also changing are ideas of who can beget and raise children, motherhood as women’s destiny, and concepts of leadership. Many of the qualities deemed necessary for effective and transformational leadership are some of the very skills traditionally developed in mothering: organization, teaching, guiding, handling conflicting claims and disturbances, multi-tasking, split-second decision-making based in intuition and values, nurturing and collaboration, and resolving differences. Mothers have throughout time been leaders in homes, families and communities, but our notions of leadership are still based in the heroic business-political-military model, hence we do not recognize leaders all around us, or inside us. How might changing models of motherhood and leadership coalesce to free both from conventional constraint?

Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

With Steven Waddell, Founding Executive Director of Global Action Network; Scott Spann, Founder of Innate Strategies; Ruth Rominger, Consultant to REAMP network.

Global Action Networks (GANs) are tying together businesses, governments and NGOs in a super-web of connections to realize the scale and direction of change necessary to address the 21st century’s critical challenges and opportunities. They are a new organizational form, as different from business as business is from government, and as both those are from NGOs. The emergence of GANs holds great promise to respond effectively to complex paradoxes and dilemmas through support for diverse perspectives, cultural variety, and transcendent action.

Embassy Suites Ballroom | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri