What should our audience for this show or attendees who are gonna be there in person expect in terms of what's gonna change in 2026, and what's gonna remain the same?

Well, one of the first things that I did in February when we took on the, The Nest Campus, was to kind of do something of a listening tour around participants and previous partners and sponsors and speakers and so forth that had been to The Nest Campus and engaged in one way or another, and to see what they loved about it.

And really, honestly, the, the feedback was pretty glowing across the board, so we never had the intention of coming in and reinventing the entire wheel.

There were things that we were always going to want to keep the same because people liked them, that simple.

But there were some things that we wanted to layer on top.

The key things that we're keeping the same are people loved that it was so accessible.

It was a free ticket.

I asked Peter how this impacts Climate Week NYC and his approach to The Nest Campus.

Tell us what the story is there.

Yeah, absolutely.

Well, when you said we've been working closely together for a year, I wish you were right.

We've been working closely together for- since, uh, about March.

So The Nest campus, for those of you that will have been before, will know it as The Nest Climate Campus.

So it's existed for five years prior, but myself, uh, well, two investors had the opportunity to acquire it this year.

And so, uh, Jonathan Weiner, uh, is one of them, and he's kind of one of the most prolific events entrepreneurs on the planet.

Yeah

Give us a, a, a sense of the current state of homelessness specific to Regina, 'cause I know that's where you focus a lot of your work.

Well, certainly what we've seen is a really big growth in the unhoused population, uh, since, uh, just kind of post-COVID, in particular.

Um, but we've long known that there have been many people on the cusp, and what we've seen in recent years is that people who are having difficulty being able to afford and maintain, uh, housing have fallen through the cracks in recent years.

Uh, but we continue to make the point that really this is the result of a real crisis in terms of lack of quality and affordable housing and, uh, also a lack of adequate income support.

Our office deals primarily with doing income assistance advocacy for people on the Saskatchewan Income Support program and the Saskatchewan Assured Income for Disability for people with significant and enduring disabilities.

And if we just start there, what we see is that, uh, for somebody in Regina or Saskatoon, they're only receiving $675 per month for all of their shelter-related needs.

So that's not just for rent.

How, how does that balance with communities that are also trying to address issues they're hearing from businesses and residents? Uh, h- how does this balance out in your mind, Peter?

What's the origin story and what's the journey there?

Yeah, thanks so much.

I guess the most relevant part of the story is Web Summit.

So I was part of the kind of original team.

As you said, we were very much a tech conference, even though we kind of touched all sectors and industries.

The common thread through all of our stages and startups and curations and topics was technology.

And that was at a time kind of probably like app boom time.

I wanted to ask about your your decision to adopt that language, what it means to you, how you define it, and why the shift to that language?