Types: Impact Forums & Labs
From “Interconnection to Integration”: Advancing Regional Energy Cooperation for a Low-Carbon, Competitive ASEAN Economy
18 Sep 2025, 10:30:00 - 11:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 3 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
From “Interconnection to Integration”: Advancing Regional Energy Cooperation for a Low-Carbon, Competitive ASEAN Economy
18 Sep 2025, 10:30:00 - 11:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 3 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
The energy transition in ASEAN is not solely a technological challenge, but also a structural and economic one. Advancing national energy goals in isolation will fall short; instead, a coordinated regional approach is essential to ensure energy remains reliable, affordable, and sustainable—while bolstering economic resilience and industrial competitiveness.
ASEAN has laid important groundwork through initiatives such as the ASEAN Power Grid, the ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation (APAEC), and the Enhanced ASEAN Power Grid MoU. The next step is to shift from fragmented national efforts to a coherent regional system, underpinned by harmonised infrastructure, regulatory frameworks, and financing strategies.
This session convenes energy ministers, multilateral banks, regulators, and planners to explore how greater regional integration can accelerate both the energy transition and economic transformation. Coordinated power systems have the potential to reduce costs, attract investment, and strengthen ASEAN’s industrial competitiveness in a decarbonizing global market.
Impact Architects:
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Jackie Surtani
Regional Director, Asian Development Bank, Singapore Office
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Sue-Ern Tan
Head of the IEA Regional Cooperation Centre, International Energy Agency
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Jonathan Goh
Director for External Relations, Energy Market Authority, Singapore
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Mylene C. Capongcol
Undersecretary, Department of Energy - Philippines
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Beni Suryadi
Senior Manager of APAC and Strategic Partnership, ASEAN Centre for Energy
Content Partner
From “Load to Leverage”: Aligning Digital Infrastructure with Energy System Transformation in ASEAN
18 Sep 2025, 11:30:00 - 12:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 3 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
From “Load to Leverage”: Aligning Digital Infrastructure with Energy System Transformation in ASEAN
18 Sep 2025, 11:30:00 - 12:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 3 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
ASEAN is at a pivotal moment as digital infrastructure rapidly expands, and governments push to improve access to affordable, reliable, and clean energy. Without careful coordination, these dual priorities risk clashing—putting pressure on power grids, slowing decarbonization efforts, and entrenching inefficiencies. However, with strategic frameworks, digital infrastructure can become an asset rather than a burden in ASEAN’s energy transition.
As the region’s digital economy grows, data infrastructure—particularly hyperscale data centers—is emerging as a significant energy consumer. Yet, if effectively integrated, these hyperscale’s can help tackle the very challenges they contribute to. They can anchor investment in clean energy, support grid resilience, and promote regional energy integration.
The question now is whether ASEAN can bypass outdated models and position itself as a global leader in aligning digital growth with a sustainable energy future. With the right policies and collaboration, the region has a unique opportunity to shape a model where digital and energy transitions work hand in hand.
Impact Architects:
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Spencer Low
Head of Sustainability, APAC, Google
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Su Yin Anand
Head of Strategy & Transformation, International Business Machines Corporation
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Poh Seng Lee
Head of Mechanical Engineering Department and Executive Director of Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore
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Jeffrey Tan
Senior Operations Officer, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
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Mylene C. Capongcol
Undersecretary, Department of Energy - Philippines
Content Partner
Closing the Loop: From Waste to Wealth—Asia’s Food Circularity Playbook
18 Sep 2025, 12:30:00 - 13:45:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 1 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
Closing the Loop: From Waste to Wealth—Asia’s Food Circularity Playbook
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.
Content Partner
Plant-Forward Food-as-Medicine: Prescription for Body and Planet
18 Sep 2025, 10:45:00 - 11:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 1 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
Plant-Forward Food-as-Medicine: Prescription for Body and Planet
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.
Content Partner
De-Risk & Scale: Blended-Finance Pathways for Climate-Smart Food & Agri-tech
18 Sep 2025, 10:00:00 - 10:45:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 1 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
De-Risk & Scale: Blended-Finance Pathways for Climate-Smart Food & Agri-tech
18 Sep 2025, 10:00:00 - 10:45:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 1 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
Piloting innovative agri-food and climate solutions is difficult, but the greater challenge lies in scaling these from promising pilots to viable market-ready solutions. Traditional finance often views such ventures as too risky, creating a funding gap known as the “valley of death” where many breakthroughs stall.
This session highlights practical cases demonstrating how catalytic philanthropy and blended finance can bridge this gap. Examples include catalytic grants that support farm-level validation and attract early-stage investors, and integrated financing models like risk waterfall and landscape-scale agroforestry that balance community livelihoods with nature restoration.
Together, these cases provide a clear, actionable playbook for a complete capital continuum—from philanthropy through risk-sharing capital and concessional finance to market-rate investment—emphasising the value of intentional financial partnerships.
Redefining Value: From Extraction to Regeneration Across Global Flows
18 Sep 2025, 10:00:00 - 11:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
Redefining Value: From Extraction to Regeneration Across Global Flows
18 Sep 2025, 10:00:00 - 11:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
Global production and consumption systems currently drive material waste, social inequality, and environmental degradation. The critical question is how to reimagine global value chains to shift from waste to worth.
This session, positioned as an East-West bridge, examines how these systems can evolve from linear extraction to regenerative flows, with industrial material recycling serving as a key entry point. Central to this shift is redefining waste—not as mere byproduct, but as a vital resource within a circular, interdependent economy.
From metals to microplastics, transformation will be emphasized as a systemic change involving diverse actors across finance, industry, policy, and community. Anchored in partnership with Michael Smith of Regeneration VC, the discussion explores how industrial recycling and design-led innovation can reduce emissions, enable circular business models, and unlock new wealth creation. It also examines how culture, capital, and cross-sector collaboration can embed regeneration into the global economy.
Flourishing Across Generations: Youth as Co-Stewards of a Well-being Future
17 Sep 2025, 16:00:00 - 17:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 2 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
Flourishing Across Generations: Youth as Co-Stewards of a Well-being Future
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.
Content Partner
Voices for a Living Future: Storytelling as Climate Leadership
16 Sep 2025, 15:30:00 - 17:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 4 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
Voices for a Living Future: Storytelling as Climate Leadership
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.
Impact Architects:
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Frederic Hoffmann
Chair, Unearthodox
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Mohamad Maliki Osman
Former Cabinet Minister and Consultant, Social Transformation Project, OCTAVE Institute
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Nikola Ivezaj
Senior Vice President and Deputy Chief, Policy, Government and Impact Office, Global Citizen
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Man Jing Kong (Biogirl MJ)
Co-Founder, Just Keep Thinking
Content Partner
Power of the Narrative: Funding and Framing Impact Storytelling for a Fractured World
16 Sep 2025, 13:45:00 - 15:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 4 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
Power of the Narrative: Funding and Framing Impact Storytelling for a Fractured World
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.
Content Partner
The Fifth Element: Learning, Life & the Future — Catalysing Regenerative Systems
18 Sep 2025, 09:00:00 - 10:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 3 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
The Fifth Element: Learning, Life & the Future — Catalysing Regenerative Systems
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.
