1:01Draw the decision before choosing the tool
Start with the workflow, human decisions and intended benefit.
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Research edition · Recorded claims, context and disagreements · About the collection ↗
ECOSYSTEM SUMMIT · BARCELONA 2026
Ideas.
Evidence.
Possibility.
What changes when people can shape the systems they depend on? Explore the claims, cases and tensions across three days of conversation.
START WITH THE QUESTION
1:0130 recorded sessions9 connected themes12 evidence-linked findings874 coded passages
START HERE
A way into the ideas.
A few connected clips. One question to follow. Choose a path through the conversations.
01 · 7 CLIPS · 9:18 WATCH TIME
The summit in 10 minutes
Seven short passages connect the summit’s questions: who decides, who benefits, and what turns a promise into practice?
Explore this path →02 · 5 CLIPS · 7:19 WATCH TIMEAI and development
Follow the journey from choosing a useful problem to access, skills, continued support and institutional change.
Explore this path →03 · 5 CLIPS · 7:16 WATCH TIMEOwnership in practice
Compare financial stakes, voting power, access to capital and the boundaries of cooperative membership.
Explore this path →04 · 4 CLIPS · 5:47 WATCH TIMEFrom information to trust
Explore what evidence can establish, where judgement remains necessary, and why incentives and infrastructure matter.
Explore this path →Follow an idea.
The event taxonomy →01 / 27 SESSIONS
People, needs and agency
Who defines the problem, can use the service, and has the power to respond?
Explore the theme →02 / 27 SESSIONSOwnership, control and benefits
Separate membership, decision rights, purpose protection and the distribution of value.
Explore the theme →03 / 29 SESSIONSInstitutions and accountability
Which rules, commitments and routes of challenge make participation consequential?
Explore the theme →04 / 29 SESSIONSEvidence and judgement
What does a record establish, how was it assessed, and what remains uncertain?
Explore the theme →05 / 28 SESSIONSShared data foundations
What can be shared, on whose terms, and who maintains it?
Explore the theme →06 / 30 SESSIONSPutting ideas to work
How do tools fit the workflow, context and continuing capacity of real organisations?
Explore the theme →07 / 26 SESSIONSFinance and viability
Which funding horizons, incentives and business models support sustained activity?
Explore the theme →08 / 24 SESSIONSMarkets and alternatives
How do concentration, competition and practical alternatives shape room to act?
Explore the theme →09 / 20 SESSIONSMaterial systems and place
How do physical resources, local institutions and demand shape a fair transition?
Explore the theme →Questions worth staying with.
Explore all evidence →Better information changes outcomes only through people and institutions able and willing to act.
The event repeatedly names a missing step between producing an answer and changing a decision. Evidence may reveal conflicting priorities without resolving them.
Follow the evidence →Ownership is a bundle of rights whose boundaries and distribution must be examined separately.
Profit participation, control, secure use and durable purpose can be combined differently. No legal label establishes all four, and membership boundaries matter.
Follow the evidence →Shared infrastructure needs sustained resources, lawful reuse and workable governance.
Interoperable records do not establish a commons. Maintenance, disclosure rules, liability and credible commitments determine whether sharing survives.
Follow the evidence →A fair material transition needs physical capacity and a debate about demand as well as credible reporting.
Standards and data can guide change, but processing capacity, feedstock, finance, incentives and who benefits remain material constraints. Sufficiency and end-use priorities challenge supply-only framings.
Follow the evidence →Go beyond the headline.
All 33 key passages →
1:02Why more data does not guarantee better decisions
Iggy Bassi argues that more data and AI tools do not automatically solve the decisions created by overlapping supply-chain risks.
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2:52A seat at the table is not a veto
A study distinguishes representation, votes and the power to stop a decision.
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Elizabeth A. BennettEndowed Professor; Strategic Advisor · UN Forum on Sustainability Standards (advisory role)LinkedIn ↗
1:47Verify the process behind the claim
Marc Boissonnet of the TIC Council explains a two-step approach: verify how sustainability data is produced, then verify the claims made from it.
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1:24Markets, institutions and people
Bhaskar Chakravorti connects competition, institutions and public agency as starting points for changing who benefits from AI.
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Bhaskar ChakravortiDean of Global Business; Chair, Digital Planet · The Fletcher School, Tufts UniversityLinkedIn ↗
1:49Forty shots on goal
Karan Chopra recalls a storm that destroyed a rice-processing facility in Ghana, then explains why a failed season can be far harder for a smallholder to survive.
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3:05Who will maintain AI when the project ends?
Rachel Coldicutt proposes shared maintenance and a culture of safety that continues beyond the pilot, the grant and the launch checklist.
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1:02Owning shares does not settle market power
A share of profits and influence over dominant firms are separate questions.
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0:42Adopt the technology. Look after the people.
MONDRAGON’s Ander Etxeberria Otadui describes training, transfers and supported retirement as responses to automation.
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0:52Greater uncertainty makes evidence more necessary
Becky Faith argues that shrinking budgets and pressure to move quickly make research and equitable partnerships more important. She speaks in a personal capacity.
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Becky FaithSenior Research Fellow; Development Lecturer · FCDO; Institute of Development StudiesSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗
2:09Why a shared registry closed
An API change exposed the recurring costs and legal responsibilities of shared data.
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Romain LiotCo-Founder & former COO, Adore Me; Advisor, CommonShare · Adore Me; CommonShareLinkedIn ↗
0:51Ownership beyond existing savings
Jens Lowitzsch explains how a renewable-energy ownership model uses trusteeship and future returns to include people without existing savings.
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1:43Purpose protection and democracy are different decisions
Sharetribe’s founders retained voting control before a later democratic transition.
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1:00Sustainability is business strategy
Lela Mélon urges businesses to use verified evidence to rethink their strategy and make sustainability work for their business.
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1:11AI infrastructure needs people
Nuria Oliver explains why AI infrastructure depends on talent, opportunity and support for people whose work is changing.
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0:50Certification needs evidence people can see
Rob Shaw explains why spreadsheets and manual transfers make it harder to substantiate certification claims—and why saying a system is audited is no longer enough.
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1:10The three rungs of human agency
In his day-two opening, Martin Smith sets out three foundations of human agency: security to plan, a meaningful say in decisions, and a lasting share in the value people create.
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1:23Trust depends on the promises we keep
Victoria Snelling explains what Leather Working Group must preserve as it digitises: trusted expertise, responsible data handling and promises kept.
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