Locations (Venue): Impact Lab 1

18 Sep 2025, 08:45:00 - 10:00:00 (GTM+8:00)
Impact Lab 1 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

At the Himalayan foothills, Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) is a Special Administrative Region and living experiment in redesigning the human construct—an urban platform where well-being, values, and human connection drive regeneration, resilience, and flourishing over extraction. As a trusted gateway for global partnerships and investment, GMC aligns investor confidence with Bhutan’s values-led model while enabling green industries, mindful tourism, finance, health, education, and technology.

Grounded in a new model for life—inner cultivation expressed as outward impact, it advances a philosophy where philanthropy, love, and sustainability are one. Using the OCTAVE concept as a reference lens—human-scale “code” informing city-scale choices—GMC elevates ecological stewardship and cultural integrity alongside modern economic drivers.

This session is the grounding: to turn vision into reality through co-creation among governments, philanthropies, investors, business, and communities to build a city where people and nature thrive. Through dialogue with visionary leaders, the session will highlight GMC’s global relevance—inviting governments, philanthropies, investors, private sector partners, and communities to co-create the future of cities.

16 Sep 2025, 16:30:00 - 17:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 1 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

As the world faces accelerating disruption—from AI to ecological instability—traditional leadership models are no longer enough. This immersive session invites leaders to move beyond performance and adaptation, towards regeneration and wholeness.

Blending Regenerative Systems Thinking with Quantum Leadership, the session explores how today’s complex challenges require not just smarter strategies, but deeper inner clarity, relational awareness, and systemic coherence. Co-facilitated by practitioners from multiple disciplines, including neuroscience, coaching, economics, and somatics, the session offers a collective space for experimentation and renewal.

Participants will experience live demonstrations of regenerative coaching and consciousness-based leadership, engaging in dialogue and reflection to explore how transformation begins within. This is not a theoretical masterclass. It’s a living lab for leaders ready to realign their inner compass, rewire outdated assumptions, and take bold, regenerative action—within their organisations and beyond.

17 Sep 2025, 09:00:00 - 09:45:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 1 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

This is the first session of a four-session series.

Before we can regenerate forests, systems, or economies, we must first ground ourselves. This guided session offers delegates a reflective space to connect with personal clarity, shared values, and systemic awareness ahead of co-creation workshops on rainforest revitalisation, food sovereignty, and community renewal. Using Perennial’s proven methodology, it helps align inner leadership with the complexities of ecological and social change.

Open to policymakers, entrepreneurs, funders, and practitioners, the session provides a vital pause to anchor purpose, resilience, and presence. It poses a bold question: could stillness and reconnection with values be the most radical starting point for true transformation?

16 Sep 2025, 15:00:00 - 16:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 1 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

Join us for an in-depth discussion with senior leaders in the carbon credits ecosystem on the challenges to scaling carbon finance; how innovations in carbon finance can help unlock private capital; the potential role of philanthropic capital; and the biodiversity and community impact of carbon projects. This event is curated by JPMorganChase.

17 Sep 2025, 11:45:00 - 12:45:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 1 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

This is a fourth session of a four-session series.

This final chapter builds on the morning panel and place-based sessions to co-design a Singapore-based blended finance platform aimed at mobilising capital to transform Asia’s economic systems.

Drawing on insights from nature restoration and place-based investing, participants will explore how philanthropic, public, and private capital can be combined to finance well-being economies—absorbing risk, stabilising markets, and enabling investment in regenerative value chains. Through interactive design sprints, the session will examine governance models, capital stack structures, and MRV (measurement, reporting, and verification) systems to support equitable, nature-positive growth.

Participants will work collaboratively to co-create a foundational roadmap for launching the platform, complete with actionable strategies for aligning capital flows with ecological resilience, community prosperity, and long-term market health.

17 Sep 2025, 10:45:00 - 11:45:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 1 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

This in the third session of a four-session series.

This interactive workshop builds on the morning panel discussion by taking participants into Indonesia as a living laboratory for regenerative local economies. Using SecondMuse’s Economic Design and Development Tool (EDDT), it will explore how place-based investing can connect biodiversity protection with sustainable livelihoods and inclusive economic growth.

Participants will engage in collaborative mapping, apply the EDDT framework across different landscapes, and examine how strategic capital deployment can generate mutual ecological, social, and commercial value. The workshop will also focus on identifying scalable solution pathways, co-designing procurement strategies, and establishing KPIs that align financial returns with nature-positive, community-centred outcomes.

By the end, attendees will gain actionable insights and tools to invest in place—transforming landscapes into engines of regenerative prosperity while safeguarding ecosystems and communities.

17 Sep 2025, 09:45:00 - 10:45:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 1 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

This is the second session of a four-session series.

As nature degradation accelerates and institutions rethink their role in shaping a well-being economy, a new frontier is emerging: mutual value creation through nature restoration. This 40-minute dialogue brings together key leaders to explore how protecting nature is not only a moral imperative—but a strategic one.

Drawing from experience across corporate value chains, philanthropic capital, and ecological science, the conversation will spotlight how regenerative investments can align stakeholder interests, build resilient markets, and co-create shared prosperity. They will equip participants with a robust understanding of mutual value creation, from theory to market applications, enabling them to integrate purpose, ecosystem thinking, and outcome-linked procurement strategies within their organisations and investments.

This session also sets the stage for workshop sessions which will happen after this dialogue. Together, we ask: What does it take to make restoration not just viable—but vital for business, communities, and the planet?

18 Sep 2025, 11:30:00 - 12:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 1 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

Every meal we eat reflects a journey from farm to table—one shaped by local systems and global supply chains that directly impact people and the planet. Yet many staple ingredients still come from agricultural systems that degrade ecosystems, undervalue farmers, and leave rural communities at risk.

Regenerative agriculture presents a powerful alternative, using practices such as intercropping, agroforestry, and diversified farming to restore nature, boost farmer incomes, and build climate resilience. Despite their benefits, these approaches often remain small in scale, blocked by challenges such as fragmented supply chains, market and finance failures, social inequality, and gaps in technical knowledge.

This session examines these barriers through the lens of a typical meal—featuring rice, vegetables, spices, oil, or coffee—and explores how collaborative, multi-stakeholder action can overcome them. It brings together businesses, farmer cooperatives, NGOs, policymakers, and ecosystem builders to spotlight real-world solutions like the Regenerative Food Facility and inclusive retail models.

Together, these efforts show how we can move from aspiration to action—transforming the food system one seed, one plate, one partnership at a time.

18 Sep 2025, 12:30:00 - 13:45:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 1 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

Asia wastes over 230 million tonnes of food annually, even as more than 375 million people across the region remain undernourished. This stark contrast highlights food waste as not just an inefficiency, but both a social injustice and an environmental crisis.

This session reimagines food waste not merely as a challenge, but as a catalyst for regeneration. It explores how circular, inclusive, and low-carbon food systems can turn waste into value—economically, socially, and ecologically. From community food banks and food recovery to upcycled ingredients and nutrient reintegration, a range of practical models are already emerging across Asia. By treating food waste as a starting point for innovation, ASEAN and Asia more broadly can build food systems that restore equity, reduce environmental harm, and create new pathways for sustainable development.

Rather than promoting a single solution, the session showcases approaches such as redistribution, bioconversion, fermentation, and circular logistics. It examines what is needed to scale these models, including policy reform, shifts in consumer behaviour, inclusive financing mechanisms, and appropriate infrastructure.

18 Sep 2025, 10:45:00 - 11:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 1 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

For centuries, Asian traditions such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, and ancestral kitchens have treated food as both nourishment and healing. Modern science now confirms what ancient wisdom long understood: diet can prevent, manage, and even reverse chronic disease. A plant-forward diet—centered on grains, legumes, and vegetables—is one of the most accessible ways to support both personal health and the planet.

Yet across much of Asia, meat remains central to the plate, often seen as a symbol of wealth and strength. This cultural norm persists despite livestock contributing 14% of global greenhouse gas emissions and accelerating land degradation. The gap between what we eat and what we know is growing.

This session reframes ‘food as medicine’ as both a personal wellness philosophy and a climate solution. It explores the potential of holistic diets, culinary innovation, and a systemic shift from meat-centric to plant-forward eating. It also asks how we can move beyond awareness to embed ancient wisdom into modern food systems—transforming trend into tradition and healing both people and planet.