Nature-Positive Fashion: The Next Era of Leadership for Long-Term Resilience

A one-day convening for leaders across design, sourcing, conservation and investment, focused on the challenges, solutions and trade-offs shaping nature-positive fashion. Dates for the next convening are being set.

In-person convening
ASU California Center, Los Angeles

$399
Total cost
TBD
Next start date
One day
Full day and  reception
In person
ASU California  Center, Los Angeles
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Overview

Why this convening exists

Beyond sustainable, toward nature-positive

The fashion industry is at an inflection point. Sustainability commitments are common, and the harder question is what it takes to run design, sourcing and supply chains so nature ends up better off rather than less damaged.

This convening puts the people who make those decisions in one room for a day. Designers and sourcing leads sit with biodiversity scientists, Indigenous practitioners and investors, and the agenda stays on current challenges, emerging solutions and the real trade-offs rather than on commitments.

The global fashion industry is worth  more than $1.7 trillion a year

and the UN estimates it produces up to 8% of global carbon emissions.

The size of the problem is the size of the opportunity.

The next convening is being set.

Share your information with us and you will hear first when the date  and location are set. Tell us what you would want on the agenda. Request info

The June 2026 convening

An inside look at the first event

Conservation Futures Academy held the first Nature-Positive Fashion convening on June 9, 2026 at the ASU California Center in Los Angeles. Sessions ran from 9am to 5pm, followed by a reception.

Speakers at the June convening included Virginia Keesee, senior director of global fashion and nature initiatives at Conservation International; Sara El-Sayed, director of The Biomimicry Center; Asha Singhal, director of Nature of Fashion; and Quinn Manson Buchwald, director of the Indigenous and Traditional Peoples Program at Conservation International and a citizen of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana and the Manitoba Metis Federation. Van Anderson, director of executive learning, opened the day.

Who is in the room

The mix is the point

Attendance is built to cross the boundaries the industry usually keeps. A materials innovator, a sourcing manager at a large brand, a conservation scientist and an impact investor all working the same problem from different sides.

Design

Sourcing and supply chain

Materials and textile innovation

Corporate sustainability

Biodiversity and climate

Circular economy

Indigenous artisans and enterprises

Impact investing

Retail and merchandising

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What you leave with

A working view of where the industry actually is
Current challenges, emerging solutions and the trade-offs nobody resolves in a panel.
Contacts across the supply chain
The people you would otherwise spend a year trying to meet, in one room for a day.
A certificate and digital badge
From Conservation Futures Academy, to add to a professional profile.

Details

What we know, and what is still being set

2027 Convening
TBD Share your information and know first
ASU California Center, 1111 S. Broadway, Los Angeles
One day in person with reception
$399
Certificate and digital badge