Where is capitalism taking us? Can we use it to climb out of the vulnerabilities we face? Or will the system itself make them worse? Do we need alternatives to capitalism? Or alternatives for capitalism? And what should these alternatives look like?

In this xChange we’ll ask radical questions that get to the heart of the big ideas we need to turn to with a distinguished panel, including Professor Tim Jackson, Daniela Barone Soares and Sir Tim Smit.

Sir Tim Smit is Executive Vice-Chair and Co-founder of the multi award-winning Eden Project in Cornwall. Since its opening in 2001, over 22 million people have come to see a once sterile pit, turned into a cradle of life containing world-class horticulture and startling architecture symbolic of human endeavour. Tim is also Executive Co-Chair for Eden Project International which aims to have an Eden Project on every habited continent by 2025. He also ‘discovered’ and then restored ‘The Lost Gardens of Heligan’ with John Nelson, which is now one of the UK’s best loved gardens having been named ‘Garden of the Year’ by BBC Countryfile Awards (Mar 2018). Tim’s book The Lost Gardens of Heligan won Book of the Year in 1997.

Daniela Barone Soares is CEO of Snowball, a diversified, multi-asset investment vehicle that aims to create positive outcomes for people and planet whilst generating sound financial returns. She is also a non-executive director at Halma Plc, a Trustee of the Institute for the Future of Work and a Senior Advisor for the Forward Institute. She was selected by the Financial Times and Inclusive Boards as one of the top 100 women in engineering (2019), by Brazil’s Istoé Dinheiro magazine as one of "20 People who are Changing Brazil and the World for the Better" (2017) and by the Independent on Sunday as one of 100 people who make Britain a better place (“Happy List” 2008). Daniela holds a MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSc in Economics from Unicamp.

​Tim Jackson is an ecological economist and the author of Prosperity without Growth and Life after Capitalism. Since 2016 he has been Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) at the University of Surrey in the UK, where he is also Professor of Sustainable Development. From 2004 to 2011 he was Economics Commissioner for the UK Sustainable Development Commission. In 2016, Tim was awarded the Hillary Laureate for exceptional international leadership in sustainability. In addition to his academic work, he is an award-winning dramatist with numerous radio-writing credits for the BBC.

This xChange will be co-hosted by Claire Kennedy, a Founding Member of MarketingKind and Co-founder of Atticus Social Purpose, and Paul Skinner, Founder of MarketingKind.

This gathering also leads the way into our June xChange, How can we prepare for the worst while aiming for the best? With Rebecca Henderson, author of Reimagining Capitalism; Sir Oliver Letwin, author of Apocalypse How? And Rita Chadha, CEO of the Small Charities Coalition.