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• The Convergence. Where digital systems and biological intelligence merge into possibility networks—not as parallel paths but as the central strategic inflection of our moment.

• The Convening of Colleagues. Fortune 500 to startups, government to institutions, researchers to manufacturers, suppliers to policymakers—the full ecosystem required when you're trying to support an industry at scale.

• The Challenges We're Solving Together.Funding models and scaling frameworks that don't break under complexity, measurement systems that actually capture impact.

• The Infrastructure. A taxonomy and AI network of networks that are connecting what's been fragmented—the global biomimetics industry finally seeing itself as one possibility space.

• The Opportunities. BiosVerse-Compatible™ solutions crystallizing across additive materials and 3D printing, retail environments, data centers, and national security—places where nature's 4-billion-year R&D meets the systems we're building now.
   

Nature has spent nearly four billion years solving the exact problems your industry is wrestling with right now—how to build without poisoning, how to scale without depleting, how not to create costs that have to be paid a generation later. Biomimetics26 brings the people decoding that work into one room for two days: the researchers who read nature's blueprints, the founders turning them into products, the corporations and capital deciding what gets built next, and the policy voices drawing the lines around it.

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Who's Attending?

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Twenty-six speakers confirmed, with more to come, all drawn deliberately from four groups who rarely sit down together long enough to notice they're describing one thing.

• Buyers and builders. Global land strategy, the built environment, water systems, packaging, and retail — represented by people whose signature is turning a promising material into a purchase order. Present both days, willing to say out loud what stops them from signing.

• The research bench. Materials science, architecture and design, biosensing, biology, and entomology — with researchers traveling from Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Ohio, Illinois, as well as France and Peru — working on deployment problems alongside the people who actually have them.

• Founders and the capital that follows them. Companies at the point where the science is proven, and the scale-up isn't, in front of investors who read this field closely enough to move on what they see.

• Policy, civic, and global. The voices who draw the lines around everything above, joined by international delegations and a participation panel that closes the second day.

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This is where a startup meets its first enterprise partner before lunch, where a sponsor's logo sits beside the science it's making possible, where a speaker stops being a name on a panel and becomes the reason someone changes their roadmap.

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What's on the agenda?
 

• Living materials and regenerative technology at the market boundary.

• Water at scale, with operators and the incoming AWWA president-elect.

• The built environment, where builders and engineers work through what a generational specification does to a bid.

• Community-compatible data centers — new this year, because the decisions are being made this quarter and will be hard to revisit.

• Land strategy, anchored by a new report and a working session on what "compatibility" has to mean before the word means anything at all.

Last year opened with the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, the father of green chemistry, and the lead futurist of Tata is being assembled again. Participants this year are creating a workspace.

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An industry doesn't scale because one company grows larger. It scales when the people who specify, build, fund, and permit start working in parallel.  Whatever this decade settles, our objective is to make sure what we build is usable by the generations to come by making things and systems BiosVerse-compatible. 

Our question to you is simple: when this industry writes its next decade, will you be in the room where it happens? Join us and make a difference.