We are delighted to share the Executive Summary and Rapporteur’s Report from “The Humanverse™ Summit: Adapting Business to 2030.”

At our firm, every team member believes that when capital is invested in nature- and humancentric design, profit becomes an outcome of sustainable development. That's why we brought together chief executives and other leaders on Oct. 9th to launch and help us begin the cocreation of The Humanverse. We couldn’t have been more pleased with the way the Summit unfolded.

James Diebel, Sustainability Analyst for DevryBV Sustainable Strategies, highlights the benefits of deploying biomimicry in business. The inagural Biomimetics24 Summit is taking place today, Ocober 8, 2024, at the University of Minnesota. The Summit is the brainchild of Michael Wright, a successful tech executive and leading futurist in business.

It all started at a local chamber of commerce meeting. What sorts of problems are your businesses dealing with regarding waste?

During our first week working as DevryBV’s Summer Interns, we were given an unusual assignment: knock on doors at small businesses in Excelsior, the lakeside town in which our firm is headquartered, and see if they have common interests centered around waste.

Could we help our local businesses connect and work with each other to solve shared problems?

Expo 2031 is pleased to announce that DevryBV Sustainable Strategies has joined the organization as a Founding Partner.

DevryBV Sustainable Strategies is delighted to announce that the firm has become a founding sponsor of Biomimetics24, the inaugural Biomimetics International Industry Strategy Symposium.

Why did we commit to sponsoring?

Simply put, our firm helps companies put nature and people at the center of their business strategy. Meanwhile, biomimicry is an innovative approach that emulates nature’s designs to solve human problems, promoting sustainability and efficiency.

The conference is truly a natural fit with our firm’s mission to help companies get grounded in what we call the Humanverse, a place where people and nature are valued and prioritized to achieve societal impact and profit.

In its May 22 edition, the daily Latin America Advisor published Devry’s comments on Cuba’s latest efforts to reach out to Russia for support as the island struggles with a crumbling economy and continuing food crisis.

Foreign Affairs published "Food Weaponization Makes a Deadly Comeback," an article Devry co-authored alongside Princeton University’s Zach Helder and three former U.S. secretaries of agriculture, Mike Espy, Dan Glickman and Mike Johanns.

Last December, DevryBV Sustainable Strategies crossed a critical threshold by entering into a strategic partnership with Improvability AI.

Together, our companies set an ambitious goal: to transform sustainability at the local level for businesses by using artificial intelligence to manage a company’s data.

Courts across the United States have been put in the position to reconsider how much power federal regulatory agencies should have over rulemaking following the U.S. Supreme Court's June 28 decision to overturn the decades-old “Chevron doctrine.”

Why does it matter, and what does it mean for the future of corporate sustainability?

Big tech companies failed to anticipate the negative consequences that artificial intelligence is having on their energy use and sustainability goals.

That’s unfortunate and important, but there are some specific steps they could begin taking now in order to address the problem.

After four years of contentious debate, in May the European Parliament gave its final green light to new due diligence rules that obligate firms to mitigate negative impacts of their businesses on human rights and the environment.

An overview of extended producer responsibility and the requirements for reducing single-use plastics in your business.

On the 54th occasion of celebrating Earth Day, this article acknowledges the importance of corporate leadership on sustainability. The author digs into several leadership personas that can either speed up progress on sustainability or sadly, stall change. The Humanverse requires better leadership at every level of a company.

We present our unique approach to ESG and sustainability materiality assessments. It’s about managing risks, simplified!

Read about the 12 gifts ESG offers businesses in 2024.

Information on DevryBV and Improvability AI

Today, the world is intimately connected, but more disconnected than ever before: the repercussions of technology have instigated loneliness and social cascades, people are afraid of AI taking away their jobs, technology shifts have impacted the workforce on countless levels, we’re experiencing food insecurity like never before, the list goes on. As business drives capital toward things that are not necessarily good for society and ignores problems that have been ever-present that we have yet to solve, sustainable growth becomes difficult.

Article | Published on ForeignPolicy.com

Last year, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the world feared a collapse of the global food system. The war did end up triggering a food crisis, leading to rising hunger and soaring food prices. Yet one of the bright spots of 2022 was that the international community came together to prevent a full-blown meltdown of the world’s food system. In short, 2022 was bad, but it could have been much worse.

Podcast | Ideas that Grow

On the the Ideas that Grow podcast, Devry Boughner Vorwerk talks to Bryan Gibson about The Humanverse™, and breaks down some of the key points from her session at the 2023 Rural Leaders Agribusiness Summit. Devry explains that The Humanverse™ concept asks farmers to take a bigger picture view by building longer term strategies - instead of dealing only with immediate challenges. It asks farmers to look beyond the boundaries of the farm and to be open to adopting innovative farming methods.