Why Trust is the Missing Ingredient in Global Solutions

The Power of Sitting Together in Community

ICWF is motivated by one simple goal: to build community using the connecting power of food.

We use food because it touches every part of our lives, from the natural to our social worlds. Through food we can explore issues and challenges across a wide range of topics, creating an ecosystem of diverse, innovative people seeking solutions for our communities and our world.

At ICWF, cultural practitioners and experts in traditional resource management sit with leaders at the forefront of AI to imagine how tradition and technology can inform crucial issues affecting the planet’s well-being. For those focused on healing our environment, ICWF is an opportunity to learn directly from people at the forefront of regenerative aquaculture and agriculture about the needs of our soil and water while learning about the practices having the most impact.

 ICWF is a place where impact investors can learn from community members and leaders about what measurable impact might look like in local contexts and why it might not be what investors expected. This not only helps investors be more discerning about their impact processes, but also ensures that capital is being allocated in the most effective way.

Most importantly, ICWF is an opportunity to build trust. At a time when the state of the planet requires global scale solutions, we believe it is the act of sitting together, talking, listening, and sharing – coming together in community – that establishes the trust that is required to coordinate the large-scale responses necessary. By attending ICWF you are joining a community committed to this simple idea.

By interacting around the table, ICWF offers our community the opportunity to have “ah-ha” moments where new perspectives spark new ideas and new acquaintances become new colleagues. When you leave, you will have with you new insight, new perspectives, and most crucially, new friends to help support you on your journey.