Planet
Stewardship of land, water, climate, and energy. We move from stories of sacrifice and scarcity toward credible forms of sustainable flourishing.
Future Together Summit · Celebrating SDG achievements each August
Celebrating those who turn aspiration into action.
The SDGs provide the shared destination. Future Together is where 1,000 leaders from every part of society discover, celebrate, and learn from the people already showing us how to get there.
Blue Mountain, OntarioLate August 2027Three days in nature
1,000leaders, youth, and wisdom-keepers
10constituencies of about 100 people each
3 daysin nature, in cohorts of ten
Each Augustand every second year, in another part of the world
Planet · People · Purpose
The “triple P,” reread through the SDGs.
Future Together highlights proven practice across three dimensions, so SDG alignment becomes a natural part of how leaders design projects, invest, and evaluate. It starts with better questions at budget time.
People
Dignity, learning, belonging, and inclusive prosperity. Human capability is treated as a central outcome, not a side effect.
Purpose
Leadership that serves. Institutions that answer to the generations who will live longest with today’s decisions.
Lighthouses
Nominate a lighthouse
Proven solutions, ready to be adapted.
Each year the Summit identifies and honors real-world initiatives that others can learn from, adapt, and replicate. We measure success by how many are taken up and put into practice.
SDG 14 · Life below water
Illustrative example
A coastal community restores its fishery
Local fishers, scientists, and an Indigenous council co-manage stocks. Their model is now being tested in two other regions.
SDG 10 · Reduced inequalities
Illustrative example
Youth-led learning circles in rural towns
Young people teach digital skills to their neighbors. Learning grows as it is shared: learning as capital.
SDG 7 · Clean energy
Illustrative example
A family firm powers its region with community solar
Ownership is shared with the town, and the returns fund local schools.
What Future Together is
Where sustainable development, entrepreneurs, and resources meet.
One platform that brings together the goals the world has agreed on, the people building real solutions, and the capital, knowledge, and institutions that can carry those solutions further.
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are the shared destination. Every lighthouse, match, and commitment on the platform is tagged to the goals it advances.
- 1No poverty
- 2Zero hunger
- 3Good health
- 4Quality education
- 5Gender equality
- 6Clean water
- 7Clean energy
- 8Decent work
- 9Industry & innovation
- 10Reduced inequalities
- 11Sustainable cities
- 12Responsible consumption
- 13Climate action
- 14Life below water
- 15Life on land
- 16Peace & justice
- 17Partnerships
Sustainable development
The 17 SDGs, from ending poverty (Goal 1) to partnerships (Goal 17), as the shared destination, with the governments, communities, faith and Indigenous leaders who hold that direction.
Entrepreneurs
Founders, family firms, researchers, and young people already turning aspiration into action: the lighthouses others can learn from.
Resources
Capital, research, institutions, networks, and media that can adapt, fund, and scale what works.
One platform, all year. Nominate and be matched before the Summit, meet in August, and follow through together afterward.
The Summit
Not another conference.
The difference isn’t the speaker list. It’s how people meet. Every part of the three days is designed to produce learning, real relationships, and the confidence to act.
Instead of: Panels of prominent peopleCohorts of tenA small, cross-sector group you meet online before arriving and return to throughout.
Instead of: Leaders speak firstYoung people open and closeThe Summit begins with what young people care about, and ends with their verdict.
Instead of: Convention-center hallsWalk and talkConversations in pairs and trios on the trails of Blue Mountain.
Instead of: VIP tablesLeaders serve the mealFamily-style dinners where status is set aside and people meet as people.
Instead of: Collect business cardsStructured serendipityBring a challenge and an offer, and we match you with people you’d never meet otherwise.
Instead of: Forget by MondayThree months afterCohorts test ideas, report back, and shape the next Summit.
Who takes part
Ten constituencies. One room. Equal voice.
Invitations follow transparent, mission-based criteria: what you have built, led, or learned, not your title. Once inside, everyone takes part as an equal.
Government & public leadersNational and international
Local & regional leadersCities, provinces, communities
BusinessListed and family-owned
FoundationsFor substantive work
AcademiaAcross regions and disciplines
Civil society & NGOsPractitioners and builders
YouthAlready leading real work
Faith communitiesWisdom traditions
Indigenous & First NationsKnowledge often absent
MediaIncluding emerging formats
Particular emphasis on First Nations, other Indigenous peoples, and Small Island Developing States. Fees stay within the range of major academic conferences, and support is available so cost never keeps an important voice away.
Suggest a participant
Global Youth Poll
820,000
young voices across 82 countries set the opening agenda.
Rather than deciding what future generations should care about, the Summit begins by listening to what they report caring about, what frustrates them, and where they are already acting.
TRUST AI Research Awards
Annual recognition of research and innovation, presented at the Summit as part of its tradition of saying “thank you” to those who lead with purpose.
The place
Blue Mountain, Ontario. Late August 2027.
Held in the midst of nature, because movement, open air, and the absence of a stage change how people talk to one another. Family members are welcome at social activities: we come as whole people.
2027Blue Mountain, Ontario, Canada · late August
NextEvery second year, the Summit travels to another part of the world
Founding group
Guided by a small, rotating founding group.
We keep our operations deliberately lean, so that every resource serves the mission. Our partners make the Summit possible, and the stage belongs to ideas, with every voice heard on its merits.
- Rakesh Khurana
- Kumar Murty
- Natalia Pavlov
- Roland Schatz
- Luis Seco