Will was a member of the co-founding team of Regen Network in the summer of 2017. He is co-founder of Origins Co-op, a confederated regenerative commodity brokerage, and currently serves as a Board Member and Treasurer at Terra Genesis International PBC, as well as a Steering Board Member at Redesigning for Resilience and Regeneration. Will lives in rural New England, and is passionate about the domains of regenerative agriculture, alternative and gift economics, phenomenology, animism, and myth. He is a citizen of the Connecticut River watershed, and his new endeavor, Hyperbeings, is an ontological framework to see bioregional-scale entities, such as watersheds, from an animist perspective.

Dr. Dorn Cox, PhD, is the Research Director for the Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment, and Founder of FarmOS and the Farm Hack community. Dr. Cox was recognized in 2018 by the National Association of Conservation Districts with the inaugural Hugh Hammond Bennet award for excellence in conservation. Active in the U.S. Soil Health movement, he speaks regularly nationally and internationally about participatory science, open agricultural knowledge exchange, soil health, and regenerative agriculture. He is passionate about the potential for open source agriculture to accelerate innovation and quantify environmental services.

Kei Kreutler is a researcher, writer, and artist interested in how cultural narratives of technologies shape their use. Previously, she worked at Gnosis, building decentralized infrastructure for cryptonetworks, and in 2021, she co-created Gnosis Guild, a small team behind the Zodiac open software standard for interoperable and modular organizational governance tools. She is currently developing a book project on memory as a way of seeing technology, ecology, and economics.

Austin Wade Smith (they/them) is an artist, ecologist, writer, and technologist based in Brooklyn, New York. They served as the Executive Director of the Regen Foundation until moving on to River Computer in 2026. Their research explores the interrelation of mutualism, animism, and bioregionalism in decentralized technical and economic infrastructures. Previously, they taught critical methodologies on climate justice in art and engineering at universities in New York. They enjoy cultivating orchids, and flying kites.