The Program for 21-22 March 2026
Join the event via this direct link from 15:00 UTC, 21 March.
For registration and more information, visit our LinkedIn Events page.
Hour 1: The Opening ceremony.
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15:00 UTC
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In the Connectathon inaugural hour, we begin by collectively setting our intentions, recalling our roles as co-creators, listeners, and keepers of love, spirit, and hope, inviting participants to join us in shaping our shared rituals for a graceful, interconnected 24 hours, emphasizing the Red Thread of meaning that unites us throughout the event.
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Hosted by Alexander Laszlo, Tim Olsson and more.
Hour 2: What Lies Beyond Smart Cities?
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16:00 UTC
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Beyond Smart Cities: Measuring the Human and Cultural Foundations of Urban Wellbeing explores why cities can become more efficient, data-driven and digitally advanced, yet still struggle with mistrust, fragmentation, weak civic agency, ecological disconnection and declining social coherence.
The presentation argues that urban wellbeing cannot be understood through service delivery and satisfaction metrics alone, because cities are living ecosystems shaped not only by infrastructure and policy, but by relationships, values, trust, agency, identity and shared responsibility.
Drawing on the integral ecosystemic framework and the INNER KEY methodology, it shows how city leaders can begin to measure what conventional dashboards often miss: relational trust, cultural coherence, developmental tensions, ecological reciprocity and intergenerational responsibility across personal, organisational and societal layers.
Based on findings from Russian cities and UK communities, it suggests that the future of urban governance depends not only on smarter systems, but on the human and cultural capacities that make long-term flourishing possible.
Hosted by LCARE
Hour 3: What about Love?
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17:00 UTC
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Dialoguing Original Love and the timeless source of wholeness with Glenn Aparicio Parry, Thomas Rain Crowe & the Connectathon community
Hour 4: Might together we move mountains?
18:00 UTC
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The power of collective manifestation - Presencing Circle campfire reunion - come one & all, new friends & old
Hour 5: What if the woo is the way?
19:00 UTC
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Inquiring into manifesting together
Hour 6: What becomes possible when we are truly present together?
20:00 UTC
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A taste of Collective Presencing - deep dialogue with the community
Hour 7: Can Land Have a Soul?
21:00 UTC
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This year’s Spring Equinox Connectathon the Living Cities Action Research Ecosystem (LCARE) will host a session under the theme Voices of the World's Cities and Places: Mexican experiences on recovering the soul of the land through participatory and intercultural projects.
Topics for the discussion:
1. Participation and intergenerational responsibility
In complex or conflict-affected settings, participatory projects often need to respond to urgent and immediate concerns. From your experience, how can these processes also make room for dialogue across generations and help build a shared sense of responsibility over time, so that they contribute to intergenerational justice?
2. Participation as a relational process
Working in contexts of conflict or social tension can make participation especially challenging. Based on your experience, what helps participatory projects become spaces of genuine connection and trust, where different voices feel heard and can develop a sense of shared ownership?"
This year’s Spring Equinox Connectathon the Living Cities Action Research Ecosystem (LCARE) will host a session under the theme “Voices of the World's Cities and Places: Mexican experiences on recovering the soul of the land through participatory and intercultural projects”.
Discussion facilitated by Alejandra Chacón Gallardo and Aitana Amezcua Chacon.
Hour 8: Open circle
22:00 UTC
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Bring your question. Hosted by Alexander Laszlo
Hour 9: It's a question of time and place, part one
23:00 UTC
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It's a question of time and place…from a traditional understanding and technologies to present and future possibilities via. Polynesian view of the world.
With Gordon and Kialoha Fuller and host Dave Tex Smith.
Hour 10: It's a question of time and place, part two
00:00 UTC
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It's a question of time and place…from a traditional understanding and technologies to present and future possibilities via. Polynesian view of the world.
With Gordon and Kialoha Fuller and host Dave Tex Smith.
Hour 11: Bring your question
01:00 UTC
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Hosted by Dave Smith and Friends
Hour 12: What is the Future of Energy?
02:00 UTC
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Hosted by Arti Ahluwalia
Hour 13: Does cultural diversity help us to navigate polarities in the AI era?
03:00 UTC
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Hosted by Aitana Amezcua and Alejandra Chacón Gallardo
Hour 14: Tending to the We
04:00 UTC
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Hosted by San Naidoo, Suzie Jenkins, Stella Madre and Tim Olsson
Hour 15: How do we decouple from the Moloch?
05:00 UTC
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An exploration into live in a better system.
Hour 16: Can stories change our world?
06:00 UTC
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Exploring Kasala with Jean Kabuta, hosted by Arti Ahluwali
Hour 17: Can leadership exist without a leader?
07:00 UTC
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Leads for the discussion:
- If no one is in charge, who is responsible?
- Can power circulate without being accumulated?
- Are we co-leading to distribute power — or to avoid the discomfort of authority?
- What happens to co-leadership when fear enters the room?
- Is co-leadership possible without inner leadership?
Participants:
- Vladimir Huba Aradi (Project Developer and Coordinator, Ecocivilisation Seerbia)
- Rajni Vohra (Founder - WahWoman | Board Member|, curator Ecocivilisation)
- Gabrielle Marcelja (Entrepreneur - Building the Businesses of the Future)
- Alice Namuli Blažević (Top 5 Most Influential Women in Legal Tech 2020 - International Legal Technology Association, Ecocivilisation Ambasador for Africa; Ecocivilisaiton Uganda)
- Violeta Bulc (founder and curator of Ecocivilisation), G100 Global Chair)
Hosted by Ecocivilisation
Hour 18: Are we growing food or commodities?
08:00 UTC
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Participants:
- Dr Ingrid Epezagne, Agribusiness Incubation Expert and Advocate for Women Empowerment, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
- Mr Malik Jahan Zeb, a progressive farmer from Multan, Pakistan, who has his own radio show on agriculture
- Dr Rislan Kanya, CEO and Founder of the Centre for Climate Smart Farming, Cosmopolitan University, Abuja, Nigeria
- Dr. Bui Chuc Ly. Rural development specialist focusing on sustainable agriculture, agroecology, rice-based farming systems and gender equality in the Mekong Delta, Can Tho, Vietnam.
- Moderator: Prof Jeff Camkin, Adj. Prof (Water Resource Management), Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia
Hosted by Ecocivilisation
Hour 19:
Can Stories Help Us Re-member Ourselves as Earth Citizens?
09:00 UTC
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Part one
This year’s Spring Equinox Connectathon, the Living Cities Action Research Ecosystem (LCARE) will host a session about the power of stories and seasonal timing.
We invite you to listen deeply to the Voices of the Cities and discover how different cultures across the world connect with soul and the sacred spirit of the places across time.
The theme for this session will be on the Ancient Calendars of those places across the world, and how they linked and connected its people of the land and to the sky's. These ancient calendars were sophisticated systems of timekeeping which is linked to the rhythms of the natural world. We will hear the ancient stories and of the rituals and festivals which were used as a mechanism of celebration and to relay information to its people enabling them to make sense of and to flow in unison with the natural world.
We will explore together the ancient Celtic, Maori and Slavic Calendars and in doing so uncover the wisdom of our ancestors.
Participants will be Dave Smith, Dr Dumi Magadleda, Maria Gillen, Jim Brule, Omar Belaarej and Marina Demchenko. Valerie Gleeson will be our host.
Hosted by LCARE
Hour 20: How Might We Measure Wellbeing in Cities?
10:00 UTC
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Part two
This year’s Spring Equinox Connectathon, the Living Cities Action Research Ecosystem (LCARE) will host a session about the power of stories and seasonal timing.
We invite you to listen deeply to the Voices of the Cities and discover how different cultures across the world connect with soul and the sacred spirit of the places across time.
The theme for this session will be on the Ancient Calendars of those places across the world, and how they linked and connected its people of the land and to the sky's. These ancient calendars were sophisticated systems of timekeeping which is linked to the rhythms of the natural world. We will hear the ancient stories and of the rituals and festivals which were used as a mechanism of celebration and to relay information to its people enabling them to make sense of and to flow in unison with the natural world.
We will explore together the ancient Celtic, Maori and Slavic Calendars and in doing so uncover the wisdom of our ancestors.
Participants will be Dave Smith, Dr Dumi Magadleda, Maria Gillen, Jim Brule, Omar Belaarej and Marina Demchenko. Valerie Gleeson will be our host.
Hosted by LCARE
Hour 21: Is AI Winning?
11:00 UTC
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Hosted by Ecocivilisation
Hour 22: Question on the way
12:00 UTC
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Hosted by Living Cities Earth
Hour 23: Question on the way
13:00 UTC
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Hosted by Living Cities Earth
