About the Innovation Zone

The Innovation Zone is an open area of the Stockholm Conference designated to promote information sharing through the demonstration of promising strategies, tools, and practices to scale-up efforts to secure Indigenous Peoples’, communities’, and rural women’s land rights.

The 9 Innovation Zone Partners, listed below, were selected from a competitive application process to host a space throughout the conference to share their innovation with conference participants and participate in the talk-show style plenary session “The Download” on the afternoon of October 4.

Innovation Zone Partners include:

• Africapacity
  Presenter: Jean de Dieu Wasso Milenge
• Amazon Conservation Team
  Presenter: Mark J. Plotkin
• Canopy
  Presenter: Nicole Rycroft
• Center for Environment and Development
  Presenter: Samuel Nguiffo
• Forest Trends
  Presenter: Beto Borges
• Indonesia Community Mapping Networks (JPKK)
  Presenter: Dewi Sutejo
• Terra Firma
  Presenter: Simon Norfolk
• TIMBY (This is My BackYard)
  Presenter: Anjali Nayar
• We Effect
  Presenter: Nasieku Kisambu
• WeRobotics
  Presenter: Adam Klaptocz

In addition, each Innovation Zone Partner will present one 8-min “flashtalk” in a dedicated area to demonstrate their innovation. These flashtalks are scheduled to take place throughout the conference. Below is the flashtalk schedule.

Day 01, October 4

Day 02, October 5