California Economic Development Summit, Long Beach, 13 to 15 October 2026

Island Lab

Island Lab builds maps and scoring tools for regional economies from public data. Each card below is one finished case for one kind of group.

One project for each kind of group · 6

California basin, tract-level map from the San Joaquin Valley to the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports
Regional collaboratives

California basin

Water, food need and capital for every tract from the San Joaquin Valley to the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, on public data.

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Pollica investment plays, screen capture
Cities and towns

Pollica investment plays

From a seagrass map of the Cilento coast to programs the town can invest in and the year each pays back. With FFI and the Municipality of Pollica.

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The Tideline, Bellingham Ocean Cluster, screen capture
Industry clusters

An ocean cluster's front door

The public site for The Tideline, Bellingham Ocean Cluster: gatherings and trips from the downtown Bellingham waterfront.

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Counties and supply chains

Supply-chain resilience

Who holds each step of Whatcom County's organic food chain, and where one failure would stop it.

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Companies raising capital

Seafood cold chain

A funder pitch for a seafood venture, built around where the catch is frozen.

Passphrase on request
Funders and development organisations

Development scoring

Scores and maps regions on the same fixed measures, so any two regions can be compared.

Passphrase on request

Hazel Henderson: ideas to local moves

Greg Wendt: ideas to local moves

Sean Kolk, Island Lab

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