Three Soul-Sparkling Days
For founders, CEOs, and investors who run their businesses with purpose.
Real-Time Evolution of Ideas
Honest peer conversations, not endless panels or boring keynotes.
A Living Exchange of Bold Thinking
Working sessions on issues your business is facing during these times.
Unexpected Connections
Leave with investor introductions, customer leads, board candidates and a peer group you'll be texting for years.
Four Decades in the Making and Still Going Strong
Join us to reignite your vision for the future of social good.
Meet the Catalysts
More speakers will be joining us, so stay tuned!
General Partner, JumpScale
Alexis Bunten-Naficy
(Unangan/Yup’ik) Award-winning author, anthropologist & General Partner at JumpScale. She works at the intersection of Indigenous economics & decolonization to build regenerative enterprises that honor land, reciprocity & the strength of community.
Artist & Founder of Amplify the Human
Vincent Ferguson
Brooklyn-based artist, educator & founder of Amplify the Human. He blends music, technology & social-emotional learning to unlock human potential, helping communities reimagine connection & collective learning in the AI era.
Program Director, NMCC
Henry Jake Foreman
Henry Jake Foreman (Absentee Shawnee) is an Indigenous technologist. He bridges traditional wisdom with emerging tech to build AI & Web3 tools that center reciprocity, data sovereignty & Indigenous values within the next economy.
Executive Director, NMCC
Liz Gamboa
Liz Gamboa is a strategist for Indigenous economic empowerment. She leverages her background in finance & technology to support Native entrepreneurs in building sustainable, community-driven businesses through technical excellence.
Founder of the FREEDOM Band
Brian Hardgroove
Santa Fe-based bassist for Public Enemy, Grammy-winning producer & educator who founded the FREEDOM Band. He uses music & mentorship for social change to drive unity, resilience & empower the next generation of creative leaders.
Managing Director, Common Future
Jaime Gloshay
Jaime is Managing Director of Impact Investments at Common Future and co-founder of Native Women Lead. From the Navajo and Apache Nations, she drives equitable capital strategies and community-rooted lending from Tiwa Territory.
Founder & CEO, RUNWAY
Jessica Norwood
Financial activist, author & CEO of RUNWAY who pioneers “Believe-in-You Money.” She leads a reparative fund resourcing Black communities through restorative capital, centering Black joy, liberation & community care across the global diaspora.
CEO, Roanhorse Consulting
Vanessa Roanhorse
Vanessa Roanhorse is a Diné entrepreneur. She creates economic models rooted in relationship & self-determination to lead Indigenous capital strategies that align investment with community priorities, generational impact & rematriating the economy.
Founder, ACE Hardware stores
Gina Schaefer
Founder of a $55 million, employee-owned hardware store business spanning 13 locations & 300 teammates, author of Recovery Hardware, & keynote speaker on culture, employee ownership, & women in business.
CEO, Turtle Island Community Capital
Alexander Sterling
Alexander “Brave Journey” Sterling (Ramapo Lenape/Black/Cuban) is CEO of Turtle Island Community Capital, a Native-led CDFI. He transforms capital into a vehicle for repair, self-determination, and economic resilience across historically excluded communities.
Founder & CEO, Hello Wellness
Erin Doerwald
Erin Doerwald is a psychotherapist, mindfulness teacher, and founder of Hello Wellness. She trains clinicians and community members in resilience and wellbeing practices that integrate mental health, mindfulness, yoga, and human connections.
Have an idea for a Conversation Circle? Share your vision with us here.
What We Do When We’re Together
Over three days, we forge deep trust and lasting connections. We create a space to share our greatest wins and our toughest lessons so we can all move forward together.
From doing business together to serving on boards, we show up for one another to ensure that no one has to do this work alone.
Here is how we will spend our time:
Conversation Catalysts
We’ve brought in visionaries to spark the questions our community must answer together. These are the strategic dialogues that only happen when values-aligned leaders share the same room to tackle the future.
Conversation Circles
We gather in small circles for deep, honest dialogue where no performance is required. You will sit across from peers wrestling with the same challenges and leave with breakthrough insights to move you forward.
Strategic Collaborations
This is a dedicated space to do business together and form the partnerships that carry our values forward. From supply chain relationships to helping each other raise capital, this is where we do the business of building the future.
Community Immersion
We immerse ourselves in the people, food, and culture of this magic of Santa Fe. New Mexico's ecosystem of entrepreneurs and community leaders are fellow participants, not hosts.
Prepare for a Revival
Our Home to Gather
The Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Pavilion building is located in the historic Railyard, which is a nationally renowned transformation of a 50-acre industrial site. It is a living demonstration that sustainable design and cultural preservation can amplify one another. This space is a physical expression of our shared values.
Help Shape the Conversation
Thank you for considering to submit your ideas for hosting Conversations Circle topics at SVN Global Gathering - Revival. Before you propose a topic, please read this thoroughly.
Important Things to Know:
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Conversation Circles are a deep dive discussion where all participants can contribute to a broad topic, share ideas and peer support, offer input, give feedback. This is NOT the place to pitch or focus just on your business.
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Anyone submitting to host a Conversation Circle is required to register for the SVN Global Gathering.
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We are reviewing all submissions as they are submitted and we will be accepting submissions for topics until the day of the event.
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We honor an emergent process and reserve the right to combine similar ideas and topics and hosts.
Our Process:
We are curating the Conversation Circles and will announce some of the topics a week in advance of the Gathering event. Additionally, each day at the Gathering we will announce the topics that have been chosen for the Conversation Circles during the sessions where we have allotted time and spaces to gather. We will provide a “live board” of topics and times/locations for the conversations.
If your topic is not chosen for a Conversation Circle time slot you are still welcome to host a Circle on your own. Please feel free to gather others and use the time at a walkable gathering space in the area. There are cafes, and park benches, picnic tables around the Railyard for these small group conversations.
What We Are Requiring of Conversation Circle Hosts:
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Anyone submitting to host a Conversation Circle is required to register for the SVN Global Gathering.
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We are looking for broad topics and ideas where many participants can have a deep dive discussion, offer support to each other, and contribute. For example: “Regenerative Agriculture” is a great broad topic. “How my business is creating a product in the regenerative agriculture sector” is not a broad topic.
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Prepare 3-5 thought provoking questions on your topic to discuss with your Conversation Circle. Please don’t prepare a short talk focused on you or your business. We want an open, inclusive discussion among the participants in the Conversation Circle.
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All voices should be included in the Conversation Circles. These are inclusive discussion circles where we value everyone’s input, challenges, ideas, and contributions.
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No pitching of your business. It’s ok to talk about your challenges and wins in your business and your business ideas but it’s not ok to pitch or focus solely on your business.
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During your Conversation Circle session you’ll have access to large notepad paper and markers to capture input. These captures will be presented in our “group share outs” and posted on the walls around the Farmers Market Pavilion for others to review and respond to. Please capture input from your group members or appoint a “scribe” in your group to capture these notes.
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If you intend to pitch your business, you are welcome to host a lunch or dinner offsite on Wednesday afternoon or Thursday evening and invite participants to attend. Please let us know where you intend to gather and how many people you will provide with a meal and/or drinks if they attend. We will happily publicize this for you.