About Us
Our Mission
The Regenerative Technology Project’s mission is to reimagine technological innovation as a catalyst for thriving societies, ecologies, and economies. As ecosystem builders, our work is to co-create open resources, help people help each other, and guide entrepreneurs, investors, and organizations in regenerative technology and innovation.
Jessica Groopman
Technology Industry Analyst, Innovation Advisor
Jessica Groopman is the founder of RegenTech. A technology industry analyst, author, and speaker, she studies the intersection of emerging technologies and regeneration, and advises forward-thinking leaders globally on disruptive “horizon 3” innovations. She has published over 50 reports on a wide range of emerging tech applications and implications across culture, business, economics, and environment.
Jessica was also included in Onalytica’s list of the 100 Most Influential Thought Leaders on the Internet of Things and Top Women in AI Ethics, and recently co-authored a book about converging trends called The Fast Future Blur.
Prior, she founded research firm, Kaleido Insights, and was formerly principal analyst at Tractica, Harbor Research, and Altimeter Group, later serving as Digital Strategy & Innovation Director, now Senior Innovation Advisor with impact consultancy, Intentional Futures. Jessica is also a distinguished fellow at RegenIntel, ambassador at Capital Institute, faculty at Fast Future Fundamentals, part of the Nexxworks’ collective of futurists, and serves on CapGemini’s Net Positive Advisory Board. Trained in anthropology, Jessica loves helping leaders think differently about the future.
Her study of digital economics led her to a study of Regenerative Economics. Through Jessica’s network and portfolio of projects in regenerative world, she connected with…
Danielle
Lanyard
Sustainability, Technology & Storytelling
Danielle Lanyard is the cofounder of RegenTech and the founder of big deep digital. She is an environmentally focused entrepreneur whose career path has been a lovely intermeshing of impact, sustainability, technology and storytelling. Danielle’s background of life & work experience includes environmental study, community action, and business development, beginning as a child when she worked on her first local campaign and charity, and now spanning two decades and four continents.
Her volunteering and activism melded into her career path when she left the US at 22 for five years of independent, international travel, development work and intensive meditation practice in the vipassana tradition. She lived in Laos and created the region’s first college course in Sustainable Development, she volunteered in the Peace Corps in Senegal in Environmental Education, and served in Berlin as the Development Director for the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy. Back in the U.S., she worked in various green and social startups before founding her own ecotravel startup. When this first startup failed, Danielle learned how to code, and launched Green Breakfast Club, a monthly networking event and speaker series for bartering and sharing resources to grow the green startup ecosystem.
Then some health issues happened, and Danielle unexpectedly tabled this venture, giving rise to her next chapter in Tech. She founded and leads big deep digital, a boutique tech firm providing digital services to mission driven ventures. Her passion for technology grew to fully entangle with her love for deep ecology, environmental action and regeneration. This long strange trip led to her joining forces with Jessica Groopman to cofound RegenTech, a new venture to help usher in a new era of technology that is regenerative and in service to life.
WHY MUTUAL AID?
Ecology operates in a constant symbiosis. RegenTech seeks to grow a community around this premise of how species in nature cross pollinate. The is why the directory and mutual aid component were created. Rarely does Tech foster the roots and root system that lay underneath it all, and its relationship between technology and ourselves. These roots are stronger than steel, carrying out complex interactions within the soil in an interconnected root system that extends deep and wide, fostering all life. Big Tech doesn’t do this. Yet. RegenTech’s mutual aid feature seeks to plant this seed and be part of this emergent process.
