During AGU 2025 in New Orleans, we are hosting two small, invite-only dinners to dig into how biodiversity and nature data can actually be used in real-world decisions, especially in coastal systems.

These conversations build on a series of recent workshops with finance, conservation, and policy stakeholders. Over dinner, we will share a few distilled insights from those sessions and focus on listening to participants’ experiences and needs. Topics may include:

• Making biodiversity and eDNA data deployable for risk, resilience, and investment decisions

• Practical metrics and baselines that can drive action

• Tools and mapping approaches that support developers, states, and companies (e.g., 30x30, adaptation, disclosure)

• How to better connect scientific innovation with economic, policy, and market realities