Types: Impact Forums & Labs

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

8:00am Registration Opens
9:00am Conference Opening
10:45am End of Opening Ceremony

Guest of Honour
Mr Desmond Lee, Minister for Education & Minister-in-charge of Social Services Integration

Welcome Address
Børge Brende, President and CEO of the World Economic Forum (Recorded Message)

Keynote Speech
Stefan Löfven, Former Prime Minister of Sweden

Opening Speech
Chavalit Frederick Tsao, Chairman, TPC (Tsao Pao Chee)

15 Sep 2025, 09:00:00 - 17:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Various Locations

A day dedicated to closed-door bilateral meetings, fostering focused dialogue and collaboration among key partners. This session is not available for open booking.

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, 13:15:00 - 14:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum

As the post-war world order fragments and financial systems strain under the weight of climate shocks, inequality, and demographic disruption, global leadership stands at a crossroad. From Washington to Beijing, the very foundations of how we govern, grow, and allocate capital are being recontested. In Asia—where China’s ascendancy, Singapore’s stewardship, and ASEAN’s emergence converge—a new centre of gravity is forming, with profound implications for the future of global finance, diplomacy, and civilisation itself.

This high-level fireside chat gathers leaders in governance, monetary policy, and regenerative economics to confront failing systems and explore bold alternatives. From Singapore’s unique position between East and West, the conversation reimagines capital in service of life, questions whether governance can move beyond zero-sum geopolitics, and challenges leadership to be defined by purpose, not profit. This is not about reform—it is about reconstructing how we lead, govern, and prosper in a multipolar, interdependent world.

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.