Sustainable Brands Turkey 2024 🌍🇹🇷🎤 took place in Istanbul on Sept 17/18 !
What an amazing edition and will to transition to a more sustainable world tomorrow. I had the honor to deliver 2 presentations :

1) A poetic Speech : “POETIC REVOLUTION : The Regen Narrative journey of corporations”

2) A keynote “POETIC LEADERS : The Storytelling of the future : Between AI and PI”.

Thanks for the warm welcome and thanks for the wonderful organization SB team as always Semra Sevinc Aysun Sabanli Ceren Demirbag Cansu Duran Aynur Beyli Furkan Mutluol 🙏 It was my 6th time being here, always a blessing. Such a delight and pleasure to gather with this dedicated sustainability community of activists of the future 💙💙💙 Thomas Kolster Afşin Yurdakul Antti Isokangas Elif Eldener Altaşlı and more… Thanks to the Quiero agency for the images of the living in the poetic speech experience.

Let’s enchant the world and cowrite the future together! 💛✊✨

Sustainable Brands Turkey : A WORLD POETIC REVOLUTION
The Regen Narrative Journey of soulful Leaders and organizations

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Dear poetic leaders,
Welcome to a poetic revolution which flows like this :

One for the living
Two for the dreaming
Three for the giving
Four for believing
Five for the healing
Six for the loving
Seven for the feeling
Eight for enlightening
Nine for our siblings
Ten for a brand new beginning

So welcome to the enchanting story of the future of earthlings
That we as humans are cowriting
With the motto : “how can we all be win-winning”
As we’re all responsible for the same thing
And that is for the living ?

What will your verse be this evening in our collective soul awakening ?
This is the Regen Narrative and WE ARE the Regen Natives
With harmony between all our human family relatives as our sole objective.

In 2024, let’s do something that has never been done before
And seek inside us what’s in the core to go to the other shore.

I have a dream, yes I have a dream, as a matter of fact, we all have a dream,
Like the Paris Olympics, for a future to be majestic and poetic
A moment in time when Humanity is united, not conflicted
But a world where love is ignited and a common goal is decided.

It’s like a fight for light, a pact for life,
We’re all on a flight off track to a nightmare trap
So why are we off guard not able to really love our human kind
And paint the future as a common work of art ?

You may say I’m a dreamer but I’m not the only one
We all are, searching for our star, your star, to become who we truly are,
From our deepest scars to our shining star
As our wildest but truest singular plural and natural human card.

What if climate warming was just a warning,
And now we’re facing “climate boiling”.
How about we replace this climate soiling of the world
By more climate loving of the soil?
Not that worst nightmare oiling of the fuel or that private owning of us all,
But more wise men soaring to their souls.
The climate loving of the soil, may it blossom and unfold.

Because Millions, Billions, Trillions… until we reach Centillions
When will we learn that money cannot be eaten
And that what matters is our children?

Our regenerative journey must end this nature abuse
As what we need is to find new ways and not an excuse.
I mean, what is the price of life?
It’s time to do, not what’s easy, but what’s right.

All together, here united, we are the RE-Generation.
Elevation is our revolution to end the “story of separation”
Of humans and nature for a new declaration
Of interdependence and reconciliation.

As Einstein said “Everything is vibration”
From the call of the wild to the vibe of the ocean,
Let’s amplify the reforestation inside all of the nations
And embody a sufficient economy of moderation.

Dear activists of our future, we need Ambition.
So what will be your contribution to lower emissions,
Organize a fair transition and design an enchanted horizon
For future generations?

As leaders, let’s become our most beautiful version
And be part of the pact of impactful solutions
Apart from the parc of these harmful pollutions.

And let’s all rise, us, not the temperature
But us as mature creatures to create a future
In harmony with nature that we can all nurture

This is our call for a world Poetic Revolution…
A human elevation, a harmony evolution
With the garden of Eden, as a possible destination!

All of us, yes, let’s become Poetic Leaders,
For Humanity, beauty and sustainability:
Imaginary, visionary, even revolutionary.

So that we can lead by principle and by example
From business as usual to business with a soul,
From what’s viral to what’s vital for our survival
In order to demonstrate that “Good + Growth = Great“
For the fate of this civilization and planet as a whole.

So using your pioneering spirit,
Please make sure your global profits, take into account your carbon footprints.
As the future will be magic or tragic, depending on how we act in it to save it.

You know, even if you’ve proven that you or your brand can be THE very best,
Maybe It’s time to prove to the future that we did OUR very best, to create a better place.
So that in 15-20 years from now, in 2040 we can all turn around and say:
Yes.. We did the best we could, as a force of good, as a force of Greater Good,
As a force of Common Good.

And finally, to talk about the current conflicts around the globe, some near here,
In the end, it’s not about being the best, to win the war.
It’s about doing our best, to heal the world.
We more than ever need human kindness, less guns and more hugs.
Because whomever your God bless, it’s always the same love, all around the world.

So cheers to a world poetic revolution
This is our answer, as a rebel’s anthem
That you may also call: RE for Regeneration & Elevation
Because we collectively are the RE Generation !

Thank you and let’s all cobuild this Poetic Revolution
For a world of balance, peace and emancipation.
And at last, If the best is history, may the next be Harmony
For a worldwise win win to finally, ALL, be ONE, with the living…

Author : Vincent Avanzi
Chief Poetic Officer – The Ink of the Future

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The KEYNOTE : Poetic Leaders :

The storytellings of the future between AI & PI

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What will be our storytelling for a desirable future of regeneration tomorrow and how we can put our singularity in service of Humanity as poetic leaders? Let’s put some poetry, some soulfuness, some love and light, some spirit of revolution inside it and go back to the essentials!
It was a pleasure to close this storytelling session with a live demo song creation generated by AI on stage and see how we can use AI as a tool with our human conscience to poetize the future. The song was called “Cowrite the future” ! Let’s go !

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Author : VINCENT AVANZI is a Chief Poetic Officer, world artist, sustainability activist, leadership coach and speech writer. Residential artist at the Institute for Desirable Futures, he founded The Ink of the Future and is the author of ten books including « Poetic Leaders : Poetry will save the world and we’re all poets » (Human Odyssey) and “Trouver son Point Génial” («Finding your Genius Spot » Editions Hachette). Former Microsoft manager and passionate for poetry, he developed the concept of “Corporate Poetry” after having gone on two world tours to bridge the gap between business and wisdom, poetry and prospective, innovative and narrative, leadership and harmony. He now accompanies leaders, brands and organizations on the enchantment of their storytelling, the elevation of their leadership and their transition towards regeneration. He furthermore delivers inspiring poetic speeches in international conventions and keynotes on the art of speech to enchant the future as poetic leaders. For poetic speeches and keynotes, send a email to contact @ odysseehumaine.com.