Programme Calendar

17 Sep 2025, 13:00:00 - 14:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 2 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

As the boundaries between philanthropic intent and institutional strategy blur, family capital is increasingly stepping into roles once held by large foundations and multilateral agencies. More than just financial contributors, family offices bring long-term vision, intergenerational values, and the agility to take risks that institutional players often avoid. This session will explore how family capital can match, complement, and even redefine the role of institutional capital in advancing catalytic philanthropy.

Featuring insights from pioneering foundations, family offices, and institutional investors, including a keynote contribution, the discussion will highlight models where family capital has driven systemic transformation—from education to climate resilience and social equity. It will examine how family offices can evolve beyond funders to become field builders, mobilising blended finance, co-creating with communities, and influencing policy change.

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, 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.

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?

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.

16 Sep 2025, 13:30:00 - 15:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 3 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

In a world defined by accelerating complexity, no single solution, leader, or institution can solve the challenges we face. What’s needed is a shift—not just in tools or policies, but in how we see, relate, and act within systems.

This interactive workshop—led by Climate-KIC, Europe’s leading climate innovation agency—invites participants into a hands-on journey of systems thinking in action. You’ll learn frameworks that help you navigate uncertainty, uncover leverage points, and build personal and organisational resilience. Through real-world application, collaborative reflection, and practical exercises, you’ll gain the tools to envision and catalyse transformative change in your own sphere of influence. Because systems change doesn’t begin out there—it begins with how we show up within the systems we are part of.

16 Sep 2025, 15:00:00 - 16:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 3 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

Realizing the full potential of climate innovation demands more than technology—it demands transformation. While groundbreaking climate solutions are emerging across Asia and the world, many remain disconnected from the systems they aim to change. Start-ups face fragmented support, short-term expectations, and limited pathways to scale—especially when their impact defies conventional ROI metrics.

This session convenes a new generation of climate entrepreneurs, investors, and ecosystem architects to reimagine what it takes to move from breakthrough idea to real-world transformation. We’ll spotlight founders who are regenerating ecosystems, healing communities, and reframing growth as service to life—not just shareholder value. Together, we’ll ask: how do we fund, scale, and support innovation that doesn’t just solve for carbon, but redefines value itself?

This is not a pitch competition. It’s a call to redesign the very systems that support climate innovation—from capital and community to narrative and policy.

16 Sep 2025, 16:30:00 - 17:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 3 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

Abundance today means reconciling economy and ecology — proving that prosperity can grow from protection. Nowhere is this clearer than in the ocean. By investing in a regenerative blue economy, we can restore ecosystems while creating jobs, securing food, and generating long-term value. Science and innovation — from exploration to data, biotechnology, and marine energy — are the engines of this vision. Through the Neptune Mission, launched after the UN Ocean Conference in Nice, we aim to turn ambition into action: implementing the High Seas Treaty with new marine protected areas and shared scientific capacity. The ocean is our renewed abundance.