The Rainforest Biome played host to dinner on day two of the event
challenge as Eden Project is not a conference venue per say , so we have had to bring a lot of the event essentials in , but that ’ s part of what makes it exciting . Eden Project has not previously closed its doors for three days for a private event of this nature , so we ’ ve been working very closely with them and we are really thrilled as this is such a fabulous place to work at .”
Best foot forward Broadly , the event has touchpoints in sustainability , social impact and government policy , but the overarching theme of the conference was about facilitating conversations between exhibitors , delegates and speakers .
Smit said : “ What we ’ re hoping to achieve is a bunch of people realising that some of the things we believe in collectively should not be allowed to be political , they should not be left wing or right wing , they should be about being humans . Things like trying to save our water and make it clean or make our air breathable and make our soil fertile . Those things should be rights for future generations .”
“ A lot of the conversations that have taken place have been pretty cool , it ’ s been about how do you create an agenda in which you take a run up at spending a lot of money , but as if you were borrowing it from the future with their permission , what would you do ?”
Creating this environment was a core tenant of the organiser ’ s work in putting together the conference itself . Michael Wyrley-Birch , CEO , TRO , said : “ We don ’ t want to control that narrative . What we do want is our audience ’ s future vision . But how do we get there ? We wanted to make sure that this was audience-sourced . So , on a very practical level , we then looked at getting in the most diverse audience . We have got local councillors , union leaders , journalists , young people from the local university , young people from the local community and everything in between . But they can still have a voice . Everybody is represented .” www . conference-news . co . uk