Locations (Venue): Impact Labs

17 Sep 2025, 14:30:00 - 16:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 2 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

Asia’s rapidly ageing population presents both urgent challenges and unprecedented opportunities. This panel explores how visionary Asian family leaders are reshaping the “silver economy” by blending tradition, innovation, and cross-sector collaboration. From reimagining eldercare services to investing in health-tech and community well-being, these families are mobilising capital, influence, and partnerships to create sustainable, inclusive ageing ecosystems.

Featuring perspectives from leaders of the sector, the discussion will highlight philanthropic approaches, impact investing models, and next-gen leadership strategies that redefine ageing from a social burden into a platform for transformation. As the silver economy expands, these families are proving that addressing ageing needs can simultaneously generate social impact, economic value, and enduring legacies—offering a blueprint for others across the region to follow.

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, 17:30:00 - 18:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 5 (Level 3 Suntec Convention Centre)

As Impact Lab 5 draws to a close, one truth becomes clear: thriving is not a luxury — it’s a collective responsibility. Across our conversations, we have dismantled the myths of hustle culture, challenged inherited patterns of burnout, and reimagined leadership through compassion, collaboration, and systems thinking. We’ve explored the science of human connection, the strategic power of self-compassion, and the tools to regulate our minds and bodies in a world of relentless change. We’ve confronted climate anxiety, digital overload, and AI’s role in our mental health, and discovered pathways to restore clarity, care, and collective well-being.

Now, the challenge is yours: take what you’ve learned, question the systems you inhabit, and create spaces — in your teams, organisations, and communities — where people and purpose can truly flourish side by side. The reset begins with you.

17 Sep 2025, 16:15:00 - 17:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 5 (Level 3 Suntec Convention Centre)

In an age of accelerating change, we face a new era of psychological overwhelm. Climate anxiety, digital dependency, burnout, and AI are colliding in ways our nervous systems—built for nature and connection—were never designed to handle. Stretched across timelines, technologies, and crises, we are challenged at the deepest human level.

This panel examines the emotional and existential cost of modern life: from climate anxiety and eco-grief to algorithmic overload, attention fatigue, and tech dependency. We will explore AI’s mental health impact — friend, foe, or mirror? — along with the spiritual toll of speed and overstimulation.

Bringing together psychologists, technologists, ESG leaders, and well-being researchers, we’ll share strategies for digital hygiene, resilience, and hope-based action. Together, we’ll ask how to design ecosystems — natural, digital, and social — that protect and restore humanity, anchoring us amid chaos and reclaiming connection, meaning, and agency.

17 Sep 2025, 15:15:00 - 16:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 5 (Level 3 Suntec Convention Centre)

In high-pressure leadership roles, chronic stress often goes unnoticed until it takes a toll — not just on performance, but on health, relationships, and decision-making. This session explores how early signs of nervous system dysregulation can manifest in the body, mind, and behaviour, and examines the profound impact of stress and burnout on cognitive function, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Drawing on neuroscience and psychology, we will uncover the critical role the nervous system plays in shaping resilience, clarity, and leadership presence. Participants will learn practical regulation tools to restore balance and emotional well-being, while reflecting on the deeper drivers behind their work ethic — from perfectionism to people-pleasing and productivity-linked self-worth. The session will equip leaders with strategies for sustainable success, protecting personal wellbeing while sustaining high performance and fostering strong, authentic relationships.

17 Sep 2025, 14:15:00 - 15:15:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 5 (Level 3 Suntec Convention Centre)

We will explore the mental health challenges most likely to affect performance and team dynamics, including anxiety, depression, and burnout. Through a brief, confidential screening, participants will gain insight into their own mental patterns and learn how to recognise and respond to signs of distress in others. The session concludes with simple yet powerful, evidence-based techniques drawn from breathwork and visualisation to help leaders strengthen emotional steadiness, presence, and resilience in the face of pressure.

17 Sep 2025, 12:00:00 - 13:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 5 (Level 3 Suntec Convention Centre)

Burnout doesn’t always begin with us—and healing it isn’t just a personal act. In many communities, particularly those shaped by histories of sacrifice, displacement, or survival, the exhaustion we feel today is often rooted in expectations and patterns passed down through generations. Left unexamined, these patterns risk being repeated. But when brought to light, they offer an opportunity for transformation.

This panel brings together voices from psychology, community leadership, cultural studies, and lived experience to unpack intergenerational burnout, reveal the hidden weight of breaking barriers, and explore how we can transform inherited exhaustion into resilience and meaningful impact.

17 Sep 2025, 11:15:00 - 12:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 5 (Level 3 Suntec Convention Centre)

In today’s volatile workplace of burnout, uncertainty, and rapid change, resilience alone is not enough. This session explores self-compassion as a form of Mental Fortitude—a strategic capability grounded in psychological science and real-world organisational practice.

Far from a feel-good concept, mental fortitude drives performance, clarity, and sustainable leadership. Hiroshi Limmell, award-winning wellbeing leader at A*STAR, shares how self-compassion reduces self-sabotage, improves emotional regulation, and fosters healthier work relationships, especially during failure or complexity.

Through high-pressure case stories, cross-sector insights, and workplace-ready tools, participants will gain practical ways to embed mental fortitude into leadership, teams, and talent strategies—building cultures where people feel safe to learn, innovate, and thrive.

17 Sep 2025, 10:00:00 - 10:45:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 5 (Level 3 Suntec Convention Centre)

In today’s high-stakes leadership landscape, the ability to build trust, foster collaboration, and navigate complex human dynamics is more than a soft skill — it’s a strategic advantage. This session explores how relational intelligence — the intentional cultivation of trust, empathy, and psychological safety — can be a powerful lever for sustainable leadership and organisational success. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience, social psychology, and high-performing teams, we will unpack the science behind connection and share actionable strategies to enhance collaboration.

Whether you are leading through complexity, preparing the next generation, or building a culture of belonging and accountability, this session offers the insights and tools to help you lead with both clarity and care.