What if incubation shifted from scaling ideas to cultivating regenerative conditions—where innovation, investment, and resource flows are intentionally designed to restore planetary well-being, not merely accelerate growth or profit?

Now more than ever, we need bold innovation that transcends boundaries and transforms systems at their roots for a healthier planet. The question is: who will nurture it, and how?

Incubation has become the go-to answer, from Silicon Valley to grassroots hubs, but deep transformation demands more. Many existing incubators are playing a powerful role in bringing new ideas to life. But as the world now recognises, our challenges are interconnected and complex, and therefore there is a growing need for new models of incubation, ones capable of addressing the root causes of nature-society problems, and not just their symptoms, and doing so in alignment with planetary well-being.

In this session, you will join an Alternative Incubation Lab; a space of imagination and experimentation, where deep listening meets creative thinking, dialogue and collaboration. The Lab is designed as an interactive, action-oriented session to make this conversation visible, cut through the noise of polycrisis and catalyse action, replacing paralysis with possibility. 

Blending indigenous wisdom, systemic design and unconventional partnerships, we will draw on existing research1, and engage in collaborative futuring exercise to design incubation models for regenerative futures. We will also discuss what investing in innovation means when it becomes regenerative.