A corporate investor actively deploying capital into nature tech opens a brainstorm on alternative uses of Aurora, Microsoft's AI model for Earth system forecasting, for nature applications. What else could a model built to forecast weather and climate be used for here?

Every nature business case hits the same wall: what's the ROI, and can you actually defend the number? This session surfaces which ROI methods practitioners are really using, and which of them survive real financial scrutiny.

What makes landscape data fit for nature action, not just collection?

We'll source a few geographies from attendees, places like Brazil and the Amazon's flying rivers, where local economies depend heavily on water that nature regulates. In facilitated breakouts, each group works out who's most likely to pay to protect or restore those services before they fail.

Sustainability is usually evaluated after product concepts are developed, not treated as a design requirement from the outset. This session tackles what would have to change for it to sit alongside cost, performance, and quality from the very beginning, and what's actually working in practice today.

Unlike climate, there's no established nature scenario framework for consistent financial quantification. This hands-on session walks participants through a working framework that translates nature scenarios into financial risk estimates.

In most agricultural supply chains, value and information get captured at the first point of leverage and rarely travel further upstream, so the producer making the decisions is usually last to know how they performed. Using beef and leather as the case, this session tests whether that incentive gap is fixed, or something that can be designed around.

Over 730 companies have committed to TNFD disclosure, but fewer than 500 have published credible nature impact reports. This session asks the harder question underneath that gap: which of your reported numbers would actually survive peer review?

There's real tension between biodiversity metrics suited to location-specific management decisions and those suited to corporate reporting. This session presents new guidance under development for reconciling standardised metrics across business decision-making scales, and how to apply it in your own local context.

Nature MRV is good at counting trees and carbon units, and largely silent on people. This session confronts three unanswered questions: what social data actually makes the work better, who collects and owns it, and which data is relevant for whom.