
Global Philanthropy Forum 2026
Capital as Code: Rearchitecting the Rules of Ownership, Power, and Agency
Session: “Shared Protocols for a New Operating System”
Closing presentation at the marquee 'Capital as Code' session. Addressed how capital-exhaustibility drives authority substitution and how regenerative capital design can capitalise institutional agency rather than reproduce scarcity. The session featured speakers from Ford Foundation, GiveDirectly, B Lab, Ownership Works, Artha Impact, and Full Spectrum Capital Partners.
- •Introduced circulatory economics to a philanthropy audience for the first time
- •Connected capital-exhaustibility theory to GiveDirectly's velocity evidence
- •Proposed shared protocols for regenerative capital as an alternative to the current grantmaking operating system
Also featuring: Ford Foundation, GiveDirectly, B Lab, Ownership Works, Artha Impact, Full Spectrum Capital Partners

