Making the Most of the Crisis - Harnessing Today's Disruptions to Align Finance and Economics with Sustainability Outcomes

Climate breakdown. Geopolitical fracture. An AI surge nobody has fully priced in yet. Most institutions are responding to this moment the same two ways: keep their heads down and hope it passes, or spend all their energy trying to blunt the impact.Both are the losing move. This disruption isn't going anywhere, so harnessing it is the only rational strategy left.That's the provocation behind "Making the Most of the Crisis - Harnessing Today’s Geo-Economic and Technological Disruptions to Align Finance and Economics with Sustainability Outcomes", a genuinely interactive plenary session at Building Bridges 2026 in Geneva, hosted by Morphosis and moderated by Simon Zadek.What to expect: leaders already treating disruption as raw material will open with short, sharp firestarter talks. You’ll then get pulled into direct table discussions testing what harnessing disruption actually means for your own mandate, including: Could geoeconomic tensions accelerate investments in clean energy and localised production for other basic needs, whilst advancing circularity? Could surging climate risks to physical assets drive innovations in financing nature investments as asset protection infrastructure? Could AI-driven productivity gains fund new enterprise ecosystems, and the safety nets like 'universal income' solutions, that come next? Buckminster Fuller had the line for it: "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”Will you help build that new model?Where: CICG, Room A (Plenary), GenevaWhen: 8 October 2026, 10:30–12:00