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Book Sporesight Founder Jess Jorgensen for a keynote at your event or organisation.

The Summit 2026 // Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies + Danish Industry

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Jess is a leading voice in regenerative foresight, bringing nature's oldest intelligence to business's biggest decisions.

Jess Jorgensen on stage at the Royal College of Arts 2026

Meet Jess

Jess Jorgensen is a leading voice in regenerative foresight, bringing two decades of strategic insight to the question of what a we must let go for something better to grow.

Having expanded her first agency Instant Grass into 18 African regions before taking up roles in London as agency director and Global Insight Lead for two brands at Pernod Ricard, her transdisciplinary practice continues through Sporesight and foresight consultancy with Shift Happens, while serving as Board Vice Chair at nonprofit Hodari Foundation.

As a proven strategic partner, fungal futurist, educator, speaker and imagination architect, Jess's talks deliver both a provocation and a practice. Grounded in a five year world research tour, her Rot + Regeneration framework gives leaders a concrete method for naming what needs to rot and redirecting the value into what regenerates next.

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Copenhagen // March 2026

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An amazing presentation we’re still talking about. Thank you for opening our minds to a direction we hadn’t seen coming.
Bugge Holm-Hansen, CIFS

If there’s one thing I love, it’s meeting fellow futurists and getting inspired. Like when Jess spoke at The Summit about foresight, mushrooms, tech and inner worlds. Yes, we even took a moment to meditate to feel like mushrooms. Nothing short of amazing.
Louise Healy, Senior Lecturer, LCC

Jess is the most wonderful and enthusiastic presenter, every single person who was in class now loves mushrooms!
Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

My takeaway? We need to talk more about mushrooms. And not least, the idea that things need to die for something else to grow.
COO, Bird & Bird Denmark

I was especially blown away by the speaker Jess Jorgensen. One super important takeaway from being a fungus for five minutes: in order to build and expand you need to dispose and let go of everything that isn’t working.
Dr. Franny Hsiao

I love Jess’s infectious passion for fungi and immediately incorporated the analogy of mycelium as I explained the power of systems thinking and holistic intelligence to anticipate and simulate emergent scenarios.
Bianca Negrea

I loved how Jess Jorgensen wove together AI, fungi, and foresight in one of the most unexpected and compelling talks of the day.

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1: SIGNATURE KEYNOTE

Rot before Regeneration is a provocation for embracing decay before creating anew. It invites us to reframe ‘collapse’ as intentional decomposition, letting go of what isn't serving to make space for renewal.

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2: KEYNOTE

Foresight x AI x Fungi shows how human foresight, artificial and fungal intelligence together are powerful combined forces for organisations to be future ready through times of flux.

3: KEYNOTE

Fungi as your Futurist: How to Think Like Fungi shares nature’s intelligence for transforming how we think, work and design, leaving rooms with a profound shift in how they approach work.

Image description: Jess Jorgensen, presenting on stage at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies & Danish Industry “The Summit in March 2026.

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This was one of the most beautiful talks. So much to reflect on and learn from nature.
EU Commission Collaboration Hub Knowledge Talk

Brilliant talk. Accessible and so interesting.
EU Commission Collaboration Hub Knowledge Talk

I’m looking forward to the weekend so that I can rot, compost and regenerate something (or myself?!) Thanks for this great talk.
Preena Mistry, Shelter / Good Innovation Lessons from Nature

I found the talk really interesting and I'm keen to explore how I might be able to use some of the thinking in my work. Jess was a really engaging speaker!