Alex Tveit (CA) is a systems-focused leader working on community empowerment and inclusive innovation. He is Co-Founder and CEO of the Sustainable Impact Foundation, which helps communities shape innovation on their own terms, and an Emerging Technology Fellow at Community Foundations of Canada. He also serves as AI Project Steward in the Transformations Community, Complexity Field Catalyst with the Canadian Network for Complex Systems, Lab-to-Land Steward within Pale Blue AI, and a Board Member at Polity Cooperative, a democratic decision making platform. Across these roles his attention sits where climate, affordable housing, education, healthcare, democratic deliberation, systemic investing, and AI meet. His work brings systems thinking together with community-centred practice, with a steady focus on shifting power and making sure technology serves the people it claims to help.
Alex’s recent work
Alex’s work usually starts with listening. The thread that runs through it is public- interest AI, and in particular the link between AI, democracy, and the natural systems, like water, that it quietly draws on. Through the Sustainable Impact Foundation that question takes shape in a provocation series on AI, water, and democratic governance, and in the AI for Social Impact Alliance with Community Foundations of Canada, where the work is to build shared infrastructure so AI in Canada is shaped with communities rather than only for them.
He is also helping develop a health sandbox between Canada and the Nordics that holds health, community wellbeing, and planetary health in one frame, and exploring how to sense the social soil of a place by listening to systems through the data communities already hold. Closer to the ground, the Foundation’s Pages to Practice work walks alongside the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation Government as they bring the Dënezhu Framework into everyday learning, in a territory where co-governance of education is a legal framework.
Across all of it, the instinct is to scale deep, into relationships, place, and trust, more than out.
Alex’s Call to Action for the Transformations Community
Alex would welcome connections with researchers and practitioners working where AI, community knowledge, democracy and just transitions meet. If you are exploring how communities can shape technology on their own terms, working with knowledge that resists easy capture, or building bridges across academic, Indigenous, and practitioner ways of knowing, he would be glad to hear from you. He is especially keen to meet people who can open doors to communities and networks beyond Europe and North America.
