OUR SPEAKER:
Our new friend Manuel Maqueda is an entrepreneur, a professor, a speaker and an international innovator focused on restoring the balance of living systems, and reversing climate change.
Manuel is Special Programs Instructor of Applied Circular Economics and Regenerative Economics at Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education. Previously, he created the Circular Economy online course at the University of California, Berkeley. Manuel teaches and lectures on circular and regenerative economics and innovation at other universities and international business schools.
Recognized as an expert in plastic pollution, he is also co-founder of several landmark organizations, such as the Plastic Pollution Coalition, and SUPER (Single-Use Plastics Elimination or Reduction), a non-profit organization that enables companies to eliminate single-use plastics. through a tiered certification program.
As a futurist, Manuel is a member of the Strategic Foresight Board of the Circular Economy Alliance, and has been an adviser to renowned futurist organizations, including the Jeff-Bezos-funded Long Now Foundation, dedicated to fostering long-term thinking in the context of the next 10,000 years.
More recently, Manuel is investigating how artificial intelligence can partner with human ingenuity to enable a regenerative economy. He is co-founder of Viento.ai, an organization pioneering the use of artificial intelligence to design proactive responses to weather disasters.
