ActivEnviro, along with our local hosts through the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis, along with Lacy Consulting and other partners, invite you to a week-long gathering to bring together the best elements of the former Active Living Conference and the Global Outdoor Health Summit into a unified, multidisciplinary event called the Active Living + Outdoor Health Summit. Grounded in the theme Stronger Together: Transforming Lives, Communities, and Planetary Health, the conference explores how physical activity and nature experiences, indoors and outdoors in all forms, can contribute to preventive health, well-being, equity, and environmental sustainability. 

This AL+OH Summit 2026 provides a space for dialogue and shared learning across sectors, including public health, planning, parks, recreation and tourism, environmental science, community development, researchers, students, academia, and allied organizations. Sessions will highlight research, policy, and practices that support active living and outdoor engagement as strategies to improve quality of life—particularly in the context of social connection, mental and physical health, environmental resilience, economic development, and systems-level change.