Innovate to Regenerate 2030

Reece Proudfoot is Head of Innovation at WWF-Australia. In 2017, Reece founded WWF's 'Panda Labs' - a global innovation accelerator designed to solve some of the world's most complex social and environmental problems in collaboration with influential partners. Successful ventures to date include 'OpenSC', a profit-for-purpose venture launched with BCG DV to transform global food supply chains, which raised US$4million at seed round, and 'Impactio.Global', a global venture and deal flow curation platform, that surfaces and supports portfolios of high impact ventures. Reece is currently leading WWF's post-bushfire resilience and innovation Program “Innovate to Regenerate", with a mission to help transition Australia’s economy to a regenerative economy and help future-proof Australian communities and natural environment, involving a $2 million innovation challenge and solutions fund, impact investing strategy, nationwide narrative and storytelling initiative, capacity and capability building and partnership engagement.

Dr Dimity Podger is Regenerative Communities Project Manager with the Innovate to Regenerate team, Panda Labs WWF-Australia. Dimity leads on the Regenerative Enterprise Local Learning Labs and Our Community Vision Workshop. She is a regenerative practitioner, with 20 years of experience as a sustainability educator, learning designer, facilitator, and advisor to purpose-driven business. Dimity supports entrepreneurs as a Regenerative Business Thinking Partner and is a mentor to the growing community-led regenerative ecosystem, bringing her experiences with for-purpose business, innovation processes, participatory community development, social impact, and natural system management. She resides on the lands of the Wodi Wodi people, Dharawal Country.