Nature Tech Unconference 2026 | Highlights
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On May 14 and 15, 2026, Nature Tech Collective and LSE Generate brought the nature tech community together at the London School of Economics for the second Nature Tech Unconference. Two days. 320 people from 250 organizations. 35 sessions built entirely by the people in the room.
❋ Community-built programme
Sessions were proposed and voted on by attendees before the event. The agenda belonged to the room, not the organizers.
❋ Cross-sector in practiceResearchers, investors, founders, field practitioners, and policymakers, all in the same sessions, working on the same problems.
❋ 52 proposals. 62 voters.Anyone could propose a session. The whole ecosystem voted on what made it in. The result was a programme people had already invested in before they arrived.
❋ Open and on the recordThe Unconference runs on the principle that the best ideas come from the community. Every recording is published here for anyone who wants to go deeper.
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Every session from the 2026 Nature Tech Unconference was recorded. All 35 are available below.
Nature tech providers
Capital providers
Project developers
Knowledge & research
Market infrastructure
Corporates & enterprise
Standards & accountability
Enablers
Day 1 - Thursday, May 14, 2026
19 sessions
Opening Plenary
Gilad Goren (Nature Tech Collective), Ben Goldsmith (Conservative Environment Network), Lucy Almond (Nature4Climate)
Nature-adjusted capital - turning ecosystem accounts into investible cashflows
Rebalance Earth
Nature tech beyond dashboards - turning monitoring data into conservation action
HCV Network
The adaptation paradox - why are markets still retreating and how do we build an adaptive finance architecture?
University of Oxford
From remote to field intelligence - scaling tropical agroforestry with smallholder farmers
PUR Project
Corporate needs for nature tech - which areas are well served? Where are the gaps and barriers?
Nature and Biodiversity Peer Group
Surfacing the nature data you need with a knowledge graph
Climate Policy Radar
Nature benchmarks to accelerate nature tech
Vizzuality
Country digital acceleration for biodiversity
Connected Conservation Foundation
A VC perspective on nature tech - theory of change, diligence and what actually gets funded
Sand River
Ecosystem condition - the metric everyone cites and nobody agrees on
Echo Laboratories
Enabling systems-oriented reasoning of landscape resilience
Rainforest Alliance
Breaking biodiversity data silos - LUCA's ingestion pipeline and species richness API
SimplexDNA / Rainforest Connection
From renewables to nature - how do we scale the next mainstream asset class?
Reforest Italy
Nature-adjusted GDP - a new vision made possible by large open source geospatial datasets
Nature Data Lab
From the Collective - member platforms shaping the future of nature tech
Lemu and Beeodiversity
Decision-ready nature - applying AI to what we can measure and act on today
Gentian
Nature tech for insurance - initial working group
Pemberton
Disclosure ready? Trends and gaps in nature tools and corporate sustainability disclosure
UNEP-WCMC
Day 2 - Friday, May 15, 2026
16 sessions
Opening Plenary
Gilad Goren (Nature Tech Collective)
Building the OS - what we learned building the world's most advanced nature compliance market
Verna
The 10 billion acre question - assembling the nature tech stack for cattle grazing
Cow Patrol / WRI
Can technology strengthen integrity in nature markets? Lessons from the Amazon
Amazon Investor Coalition
Fibre sensing as nature tech - rethinking digital infrastructure for environmental monitoring
Open Reach
From commitment to delivery - why nature programmes stall and how to operationalise them
Verna
Augmented nature - scaling marine restoration with AI and natural capital intelligence
Repsol and Nabat.ai
From nice-to-have to critical infrastructure - carbon credits as required tools for adaptation
Nature Focus
Mining's role in supporting a nature-positive future - key challenges and solutions
ICMM
How can we, the nature tech community, deliver more impact?
Vizzuality
Building ARIA's accelerated adaptation programme for impact
ARIA
The value of on-ground data in today's modelled world
Nature Metrics
Ecoacoustics in nature tech - making sound decisions
Nature Sound Lab
Satellite, drone or field data? Designing scalable nature monitoring systems
Nabat.ai
Nature as a client? How legal personhood creates a market for nature tech
Nature Inc.
In this economy? How to raise a nature tech fund
Afloat
Closing Plenary
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