2025 (Re)Purpose Summit

Educate & Inspire

9:00 AM — Opening Remarks

Sam Ushio & Ryan Spies

Welcome to the (Re)Purpose movement and the Alaska Airlines Care Retreat.

9:25 AM — Flourishing Beyond Growth: Rethinking Prosperity for People and Planet

Gaya Herrington & Sam Ushio

Flourishing is not an individual pursuit, but a collective destiny. Beyond traditional economics lies a horizon of possibility.  How do we shift toward a vision of prosperity that is abundant, regenerative, and deeply human. Gaya offers a visionary path to flourishing, one that redefines what it means to prosper in harmony with our world.

10:00 AM — Finding Purpose: The Power of Connection in a Polarized (& Lonely) World

Leigh Morgan, Aaron Hurst, & Shelly Kurtz

In an era marked by isolation, loneliness, and division, connection has never been more essential or more powerful. This session explores how purpose can serve as the antidote to fragmentation, inspiring a new kind of “mesh network” that links people, ideas, and communities across geographies. Together, we’ll discuss how location-based movements can turn individual sparks into collective transformation, and how Seattle can emerge as the Purpose Capital of the World.

10:30 AM — Designing AI Systems with Purpose: Lessons from the Front Lines

Kate Starbird, Chris Emura & Shohei Narron

Join Kate Starbird and Chris Emura for a conversation on building AI, and the systems around it, that serve the public good. Drawing from their work in crisis informatics and open, responsible AI, Kate and Chris share hard-won insights on navigating competing values, measuring what matters, and staying mission-driven when incentives push elsewhere.

11:00 AM — Reimagining Capital: The Power of Investing on Purpose

Dana Frank, Toussaint Bailey, & Carolyn Paola

Join Dana Frank and Toussaint Bailey for a lightning-round conversation on what it truly means to invest with intention. In this fast-paced panel, Dana and Toussaint bring fresh perspectives on values-aligned investing—how it challenges traditional models, redefines success, and opens new pathways for impact. Expect an honest, energizing dialogue that sparks ideas for aligning your own capital with your deepest values.

11:30 AM — The Tensions of Purpose

Kenji López-Alt & Katherine Cheng

Our world celebrates growth — more followers, more clicks, more profit — but this Summit invites us to pause and ask: At what point is more actually less? Kenji López-Alt has built a career that millions trust — chef, author, journalist, teacher, musician, experimenter — but underneath all that is a constant curiosity about meaning: Why we cook, how we connect, and what’s really enough.