Futureproof voice · Vancouver 2026

Sara Blenkhorn

Director of Innovation

Buckminster Fuller Institute

October 28–30 · Vancouver

Illustrated Futureproof Festival featured speaker card for Sara Blenkhorn, Director of Innovation at the Buckminster Fuller Institute, beside a geodesic dome framework merging with living mycelial systems under an aurora night sky.
Why this voice is here

Sara brings anticipatory design science and life-centered AI into the room — what it actually looks like to build technology and institutions that serve all of life, not just shareholders.

About

About Sara Blenkhorn

Sara Blenkhorn is Director of Innovation at the Buckminster Fuller Institute, where she's redesigning how founders and institutions govern, own, and structure themselves for the AI era. She founded Canada's first circular economy lab for the fashion industry, is a C40 Women4Climate award recipient, and has shaped climate policy across multiple levels of government. She's a serial builder with a track record of reviving legacy institutions through deep listening and strategic reset, leading a successful turnaround for SVN - Social Venture Network.