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.
What they're bringing

Sara Blenkhorn, director of innovation at the Buckminster Fuller Institute. She’ll get into life-centred AI, better ways to govern and own what we build, and institutions that serve more than shareholders.

What you'll walk out with

Real alternatives to shareholder-first ownership for whatever you're building, and the institutions already trying them.

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.

At the festival

Where to find Sara

  1. Friday · October 30
    2:35–3:30 PM
    2 talks + Q&A

    At planetary scale

    Sara on life-centred design and who gets to own what we build. The second talk on regeneration at the largest scale anyone designs at. Planetary scale, from two people who mean it literally.

Times are Vancouver time and can still move. See the full program

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