Locations (Venue): Impact Labs

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

In a world marked by rapid change and overlapping crises, the responsibility for shaping the future cannot rest solely on the next generation, nor should the past be the burden of those who came before. What’s needed now is a new kind of leadership—shared, intergenerational, and regenerative.

This session challenges traditional ideas of leadership succession and legacy. It is not about transferring power or debating who leads, but about uniting generations around a common purpose to lead together. When young people are seen not just as “leaders of tomorrow” and elders are respected as keepers of wisdom, we unlock a more holistic model of leadership—one that combines urgency with patience, imagination with experience, and courage with care.

Participants will explore how to design institutions, movements, and financial systems that embody this intergenerational ethic. The goal is to shift leadership from a vertical hierarchy to a collective model of stewardship.

16 Sep 2025, 15:30:00 - 17:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 4 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

In an era of climate disruption and ecological collapse, the future will be shaped not only by today’s leaders but by the next generation inheriting the consequences of current decisions. This masterclass gathers up to 50 emerging leaders to explore how climate engagement and storytelling can become vital tools for regeneration, activism, and hope.

Participants will learn to translate climate science into personal narratives, bridging facts with emotions, and data with humanity. They will develop skills to shift mindsets, inspire action, and engage their peers, communities, and institutions through stories that resonate deeply.

Beyond communication, the session challenges the next generation to become narrative architects of the well-being economy—crafting stories that plant seeds for planetary healing and collective flourishing.

16 Sep 2025, 13:45:00 - 15:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 4 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

From climate change to global health, we live in a time when the stories that matter most are often the hardest to tell—and even harder to hear. As trust in media declines, misinformation surges, and audiences turn away from complex narratives, how can storytelling still serve as a catalyst for societal transformation?

This panel brings together the actors at the frontlines of impact storytelling and will examine how capital, creativity, and collaboration can shape stories that are seen, believed, and acted upon. It will explore the evolving role of media as a tool not just for reporting facts—but for sparking empathy, amplifying marginalised voices, and influencing systems change.

18 Sep 2025, 09:00:00 - 10:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 3 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

We live in a world where fragmentation of knowledge and sectors into bubble logics and the imperative of one-dimensional growth have deepened our collective crises from climate breakdown to widening inequality. The Fifth Element, an initiative by the Club of Rome, invites us to reimagine learning not as instruction, but as a living, relational practice rooted in life’s complexity. In a truly regenerative economy, one that fosters inclusive and sustainable prosperity, learning is not secondary to change; it becomes the core element of any strategy and the medium through which change becomes possible. Regenerative organisations, led by regenerative leaders, move their strategy beyond sustainability and circularity toward a net-positive impact on people and planet and they do so by embracing learning at the depth required, not as a silo but as culture in motion.

This session calls upon leaders, professionals, and change-makers of all ages to engage in intergenerational and intercultural learning alliances for regeneration, spaces where ancestral wisdom meets scientific inquiry, and community practice meets systems thinking. Together, we aim to explore how learning that is embedded in life itself can seed the skills, literacies, and worldviews we need to transform our economies and societies.

18 Sep 2025, 11:00:00 - 12:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 2 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

In a time when trust in institutions is eroding, and decision-making is driven more by metrics than meaning, the call to restore values at the heart of organisations is not just ethical—it’s strategic. In this session, the speaker will present a bold and timely case: what if institutions were evaluated not only by their return on investment (ROI), but by their Return on Values (ROV)?

Drawing from practice within higher education, this session opens a wider conversation for business, philanthropy, and public institutions alike: how do we redesign organisational cultures, incentive structures, and performance indicators to be anchored in values such as integrity, equity, compassion, and stewardship?

The session will unpack how polycrisis can be transformed into poly-opportunities in a post-pandemic, polycrisis world, where values-aligned institutions are not only more trusted but also more adaptive, resilient, and future-fit.

18 Sep 2025, 09:00:00 - 11:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 2 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

Universities are more than centres of learning—they can serve as epicentres for inclusive urban transformation. With their research expertise, intellectual capital, and convening power, universities are uniquely positioned to address entrenched social and environmental challenges. Sunway University’s Desa Mentari Community Development Programme illustrates this potential, revitalising a marginalised, high-density urban community through data-driven solutions, student involvement, and multi-stakeholder collaboration.

This workshop explores how universities can become anchor institutions for urban resilience, partnering with communities, local governments, and businesses to co-create solutions for urgent social issues such as poverty, housing insecurity, and systemic inequality. It showcases how academic research can influence policy, inspire innovation, and deliver practical support beyond campus walls. Participants will engage in hands-on work to design adaptable, community-focused frameworks for transformation, tailored to local needs. The session also highlights the importance of embedding real-world challenges into curricula, nurturing student leadership, and practising inclusive governance.

It poses a powerful question: What if a university’s legacy was not in rankings, but in the lives and neighbourhoods it transformed—through bold, collaborative Public–Private–People Partnerships that begin just beyond its gates?

16 Sep 2025, 13:30:00 - 15:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 1 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

Helping Homeless Families Find HOPE through Project 4650 highlights a critical tension in today’s social support systems: how to provide safety and compassion without fostering dependency or disempowerment. Emerging from the urgent needs of families living in Interim Rental Housing (IRH) blocks in Singapore’s Siglap division, the initiative reveals the layered challenges of poverty, housing insecurity, and fragmented services that often trap families in prolonged instability.

More than a welfare scheme, Project 4650 is a model for collaborative governance. Spearheaded by then MP Dr Maliki Osman, the project brings together government agencies, businesses, and community groups to co-create an ecosystem of transitional, empowering, and dignity-based support. It asks vital questions: how can public assistance uplift without creating long-term dependency? How can communities show solidarity without letting compassion become entitlement?

This session explores the design and scaling of “transitional support” frameworks that integrate trust, accountability, and empowerment. It invites us to rethink social services—from static safety nets to dynamic springboards—and to cultivate a shared culture of contribution over consumption.

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

In a world dominated by dashboards and compliance, impact measurement risks becoming a hollow exercise—focused on accountability rather than transformation. While environmental metrics have advanced, social and human indicators remain fragmented and disempowering, often serving funders more than communities. Measurement tends to overlook what truly drives change: relationships, trust, and collaborative systems.

This session challenges the idea that more data equals more progress. Instead, it calls for a shift from activity tracking to agency-enabling, from siloed compliance to technology-powered, systemic learning and capital alignment. Drawing from grassroots innovations, financial rethinking, and digital intelligence, the session reimagines measurement as a living tool—not to control change, but to unlock it.

Participants will explore where current metrics may be muting their mission, and how rethinking what and how we measure can center equity, enable partnerships, and fuel systems change. Through provocations, case studies, and a hands-on Breakout Lab, this 90-minute session invites changemakers to reclaim measurement as a catalyst for meaningful, systemic transformation.

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

In a world facing deepening social, ecological, and economic disruption, transformation is no longer a choice—it is a necessity. Yet while impact capital continues to grow, the kind of capital needed to drive systems-level change remains scarce. Too often, brilliant ideas fail to scale because the infrastructure that enables lasting collaboration and integration—the “connective tissue” of change—is underfunded and overlooked.

This session, co-hosted with Catalyst Now and anchored by the 99 for Humanity initiative, explores how we can reimagine capital as a force for coherence rather than fragmentation. It invites participants to consider how funding can move beyond isolated innovation to support systems integrators, enable cross-sector ecosystem building, and embed shared value frameworks rooted in community wisdom, aligned policy, and long-term trust.

Through storytelling, immersive dialogue, and bold future-framing, the session offers a chance to experience what it means to fund the deeper infrastructure of transformation—where impact is not only sparked, but sustained, scaled, and stewarded over time.

17 Sep 2025, 09:00:00 - 11:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 4 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

Cities are not just where crises converge—they are where solutions must be born. Are we bold enough to redesign urban systems for the well-being of both people and planet?

Cities stand on the frontline of our era’s most urgent challenges—from escalating climate shocks to deepening health inequities and social fragmentation. Yet cities are also uniquely positioned to lead transformation. This panel hosted by Resilient Cities Network (R-Cities) explores how urban resilience is being redefined across Asia-Pacific.

Anchored in the Penang Resilience Strategy, a city-wide roadmap that integrates infrastructure, policy, and community voice, the session reveals how urban resilience can be both systemic and human-centered. Case studies such as Resilience for Communities (R4C) in Melaka and the OASIS Schoolyards initiative in Quezon City and Semarang illustrate how cross-sector collaboration—rooted in the 4Ps model of Public, Private, Philanthropic Partnerships—can activate city-wide change while keeping people at the heart of every intervention.