From June 18th to June 21st, 2026, USSEE held their biennial conference. Matt attended the conference and spoke to attendees on the issue of post-growth pensions.

Anastasia joined leaders like Indy Johar, Ilektra Kouloumpi, and Simon Berkler in amplifying new economy ideas as part of the Forum’s ‘Ministry of Regeneration’.

Steve helped ensure that Ecological Economics and the limitations of Sustainable Finance-as-usual were a part of the week’s discussions.

Steve recently joined Joel Lindefors, Carolina Sachs, and Sasja Beslik on the ‘What is to be done?’ podcast.

Steve spoke about his career path, what it takes to go from Wall Street to Ecological Economics, and what degrowth means, for the finance industry and society at large.

Matt was invited to present at the session “Making Degrowth Happen: The What, How, and Why for Climate Advocates” held at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC).

After giving two lectures there in 2025, Matt was invited back to the University of Richmond in April 2026 to speak to a wider audience about Ecological Economics and degrowth.

On March 25th, Matt met with finance students at Georgetown University to discuss the work of Arketa Institute and introduce the concepts of Ecological Economics and degrowth.

The GAME Forum is the largest student-run financial conference in the world, bringing in students from over 140 universities to learn from industry leaders. This year, Matt was among them.

On March 19th, 2026, Anastasia returned to the WWF offices in Zurich, Switzerland, to give an internal presentation about Arketa Institute’s approach to creating financial systems change.

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Anastasia was invited to speak to students in a class taught by Lorenz Keysser and IPCC report co-author Professor Julia Steinberger.

On Feb. 25th, 2026, Arketa Institute Co-Founder Anastasia Linn presented as part of the Sustainability Talks series at Franklin University Switzerland.

On Feb. 4th, 2026, the team from Arketa Institute presented the key insights from their paper 'A Path to Post-Growth Pensions'. The conversation was moderated by Gaya Herrington.

Last week, Anastasia presented to the Sustainable Finance team of World Wildlife Fund Switzerland at their offices in Zurich.

Steve recently spoke to purpose-focused entrepreneurs about Ecological Economics, our thoughts on post-growth finance, and what to keep in mind when looking for funding.

Matt joined Gabriel Bonnamy of MIT for a bold conversation on ‘By Disaster or Design’ to kick off this new podcast.

On September 25th, Anastasia was invited to present to the Catalyst Network, an interdisciplinary group of high-impact change leaders largely based in Australia.

Earlier this month, Matt attended r3.0's annual conference and presented to r3.0 and its members on their Partner Day the day after the conference.

In late August, Arketa Institute was invited to present to the leadership of a Swiss pension fund. We introduced Ecological Economics and degrowth and shared ideas for how pension funds could continue delivering value in this context.