Commitments to "collaboration" aren't enough to solve our most immediate challenges. We need to go further, faster, together. Truly cooperative systems are designed for mutual benefit, and as such must permit us to work together outside of organisational and operational siloes.

Join us for an intimate discussion with leading systems thinkers, designers, and activists on the subject, as we contemplate how best to design and implement society-scale interventions that reach across the siloes.

Note: We will hold the discussion open for 1.5 hours,  for anyone who wants to stay past the 1 hour mark for ongoing Q&A.

Aniyia L Williams:  Aniyia is a principal on the Responsible Technology team at Omidyar Network, empowering people to help the tech world live up to its promise of changing lives for the better. Aniyia is also co-founder of Zebras Unite, founder and board chair of Black & Brown Founders, co-convener of the Black Innovation Alliance, and previously founded the fashion tech company Tinsel.

Tara Chklovski: As CEO of Technovation, Tara has been featured in the award-winning documentary Codegirl, and named “the pioneer empowering the incredible tech girls of the future” by Forbes. She has led the Global Online Education Taskforce to address education needs during COVID, the 2019 education track at the UN’s AI for Good Global Summit, presented at the International Joint Conference on AI, and the Global Partnership on AI for Humanity convened by the French Government.

Stuart Fulton:  As Director of Change at Comunidad y Biodiversidad (COBI), Stuart is intimately involve with the systems thinking that is transforming COBI's deep partnership with over thirty Mexican coastal communities, to produce significant improvements in ocean and community health for Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Julia Solano: Julia Solano is a multidisciplinary designer, futurist, facilitator, and bamboo architect passionate about imagining and actualizing diverse, equitable, and hopeful futures.  She is a Partner Program Manager at Armillaria, an ecosystem design lab building digital infrastructure for collective impact. She was previously part of Omidyar Network's Exploration and Future Sensing Lab, co-founded Humanitas.AI, and has designed and built bamboo and earth community spaces and land art installations around the world.

Design Principles for Systems Change: Cooperative