Anastasia speaks at the World Beautiful Business Forum

Melina Dunham (left) and Anastasia Linn on stage at the Athens Regenerative Exchange: A Game, held at the former Athens Stock Exchange building.

The House of Beautiful Business is an event series dedicated to offering “a brave new space for an honest conversation about tech, society, and business.”

For their tenth anniversary edition, they convened over one thousand participants and speakers in Athens, Greece for the first World Beautiful Business Forum.

Arketa Institute co-founder Anastasia Linn and Jeni Miles of Wholeloop Labs were invited to join leaders like Indy Johar of Dark Matter Labs, Ilektra Kouloumpi of Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL), Courtney Savie Lawrence of the UN-founded innovation platform C3 Labs, and Simon Berkler of TheDive in amplifying post-growth ideas at the Forum, as part of the Ministry of Regeneration track.

For Anastasia, this included co-moderating 'The Athens Regenerative Exchange' with Melina Dunham in the former Athens Stock Exchange building and hosting two intimate high-stakes poker games inspired by key insights from our recent pension paper.

The Demos Center at the American College of Greece where Pensions Poker was held. Photo credits: (left) Eugene Theodore, (right) Anastasia Linn.

The poker games were very successful, inspiring many deeper conversations about the forms of value we need in retirement and the sorts of economies that could make realizing wellbeing in older age possible.