Speaking
Book Sporesight Founder Jess Jorgensen for a keynote talk at your event or organisation: hello@sporesight.co
The Summit 2026 || CIFS & Danish IndustryRot before regeneration
Keynote: Rot before Regeneration
This talk brings fungal intelligence to design and strategy; starting with decomposition. Instead of asking "what should we create next?", it asks: what needs to rot first? Amid 2026's collapse narratives, the provocation reframes rupture as raw material: new value unlocked by breaking things down, futures built regeneratively from the parts. Recently decomposed on stage: the systems of death (Future Days, Copenhagen) and the infrastructures of imagination (UAL).
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Copenhagen // March 2026being a decomposer mushroom
In Foresight x AI x Fungi, we explore how human foresight, artificial and fungal intelligences are powerful combined forces for organisational readiness through times of flux.
Our talk Fungi as your Futurist: How to think like fungi, shares nature’s intelligence for transforming how we think, work and design for regenerative futures.
< Good Innovation Nature Safari, London 2026
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< Futures friends london 2025
Our talk Myco Futures explores five ways in which fungi innovation is creating viable, regenerative options for how we heal, build resilience, live, eat and die. And, addressing the UN SDGs.
Meet Jess
Jess Jorgensen is the Foundress of Sporesight, shaping regenerative futures by tuning into nature's intelligence. As an ex-Global Insight Lead and Agency Director, her 20 year transdisciplinary practice bridges foresight strategy, design research and a 5+ year ethnographic tour exploring fungal futures. She is an educator, speaker, mycophile, imagination architect, mycomaterial experimenter and Board Vice Chair for refugee-led Hodari Foundation.
Talks & interviews (selection)
UPCOMING: RCA Design Futures Symposium 2026: Untangling Tomorrows: reserve a spot
UPCOMING: Psychedelic Design Awards Judge + Speaker - Nov 2026: enter here
UPCOMING: World Mushroom Forum - Growing the Decomposition Economy: tickets here
JUST GONE: Future Days 2026 in Copenhagen official side event: Growing the Decomposition Economy
JUST GONE: Better Questions with Firetail - July 2026
Psychedelics Design - Thinking like Fungi - July 2026
Sleight of Brand - How it was named: Sporesight - July 2026
EU Commission Collaboration Hub Knowledge Talk: Fungi as your Futurist - Oct 2025
UAL London College of Communication: MA Design for Art Direction - May 2026
UAL London College of Communication: MA Design Management - May 2026
Decomposition Day - UK May 2026
Good Innovation “Think Like Fungi” - UK Jan 2026
South London Mushroom Club: Fungi as your Futurist - Oct 2025
L*Osmonauta - Decompose to Recompose - 2026 edition
Spore Journeys podcast - Compost the Status Quo - Oct 2025
Culture Connectors podcast - A Love Letter to Mushrooms - Apr 2025
Futures Friends London - 3 Fungi Futures - July 2025
BAMM Raw - Innovation short film - 2025
BUNS - Embedding fungal intelligence in business ITALIAN / ENGLISH
The Independent Consultants Group: Mushrooms have a branding issue, with Kim Townend - May 2024
The Mix London: Mushrooms have a branding issue, with Kim Townend - 2024
Research Live - Off the beaten path: Leaving the agency world - Mar 2024
Research Live - A spore for success: My life researching mushrooms - Jun 2024
The Bento Club podcast - How mushrooms can inspire better insights in global research - Jan 2024