Welcome to The Hope Summit 2025!

The Hope Summit is an annual conference and festival held in Charleston at the end of September to highlight multidisciplinary and intersectional challenges facing our world and celebrate community-driven solutions that create agency and hope for communities worldwide to adapt for a bright, regenerative, equitable future.

We believe that to heal our world, and ourselves in the process, we must see ourselves as a part of the natural world, not apart from it. We must reframe our understanding of community to embrace its ecological definition of all interconnected life that sustains and regenerates itself within a shared locality.

At The Hope Summit, we aspire to inspire three kinds of hope. The first kind comes from agency, the feeling that you have the knowledge, tools, or solutions to be the change you seek. The second comes from finding a welcoming and compassionate community that reconnects us with why we work to protect what we love. The third is the experience of being part of something bigger than ourselves and realizing that what we do in service to our community is enough.

In 2025, The Hope Summit will explore how community-driven solutions can promote Resilience, Regeneration, and the emerging Restoration Economy. The future must include people because we are a part of this world and are responsible for protecting what is in danger, restoring what was lost, remembering what was forgotten, and uplifting the regenerative powers of our world to heal our planet, grow biodiversity, and forge a future in which our children and grandchildren can thrive.

The Hope Summit 2025 organizers invite leaders and solutions practitioners from all walks of life, disciplines, and stages of their professional journey to join us in Charleston from September 24th to 28th to cultivate ideas, accelerate solutions, and inspire hope for the future of our communities and the future of our planet.