Themes: Nature Restoration
Rethinking Food Systems: Mobilising All Voices for People, Resilience & Climate
18 Sep 2025, 09:00:00 - 10:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
Rethinking Food Systems: Mobilising All Voices for People, Resilience & Climate
18 Sep 2025, 09:00:00 - 10:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
Food systems are a mirror of society, reflecting how we nourish, govern, employ, and sustain ourselves. Yet today, these systems are under extraordinary stress. From rising malnutrition to climate-induced crop failures, from chemically intensive agriculture to fragile global supply chains, the way we produce and consume food is becoming increasingly unsustainable, inequitable, and unsafe.
At IMPACT WEEK, we ask: How can food systems be reimagined to truly support human well-being, ecological regeneration, and societal resilience?
This session explores food systems transformation not as a technical fix, but as a collective shift – one that mobilises the full spectrum of actors shaping what we grow, eat, and value. We will spotlight voices that are often absent from global food dialogues, including retailers, food entrepreneurs, investors, and public agencies—all of which play a critical role in redefining demand, influencing markets, and shaping future food experiences.
Partnering with the World Economic Forum, the discussion will explore how consumer demand, trade, and procurement can serve as powerful levers for change – driving lower emissions, enabling more inclusive innovation, and opening new opportunities across the value chain, particularly in enhancing farmer productivity and the resilience of rural communities. It will also explore how philanthropy, public policy, and purpose-led business can help turn vision into action – not just for climate, but for people’s public health, access, and dignity.
Impact Architects:
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JY Chow
Managing Director, Food System and Supply Chain at OCTAVE Capital
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Corinna Chan
Chief Executive Officer, Singapore International Foundation and Lead, Southeast Asia Partnership for Adaptation through Water (SEAPAW)
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Yvonne Pinto
Director General, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
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Erica Chan
Group Chief Legal, Sustainability and Corporate Affairs Officer, DFI Retail Group
Content Partner
Extraction to Regeneration: Reimagining the Green and Blue Economies
17 Sep 2025, 16:30:00 - 17:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
Extraction to Regeneration: Reimagining the Green and Blue Economies
17 Sep 2025, 16:30:00 - 17:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
If today’s extractive industries became tomorrow’s regenerative engines, what would business look like—and are we bold enough to fund that transition?
Green and blue economies are no longer abstract ideals—they are the necessary frameworks for planetary survival and economic renewal. Yet for many business leaders, policymakers, and capital allocators, the question remains: What do these models actually require?
This plenary moves beyond critique and explores the real decisions businesses must make today—from biodiversity conservation and community-based economies to the financing mechanisms needed for ecological and financial resilience. What if extractive industries—such as agriculture, forestry, and shipping—were retooled to serve the green and blue economies fully? What new metrics, mindsets, and market structures would we need? How can investments in carbon, conservation, and community become drivers of systemic value? This is not about greening business-as-usual—it’s about redesigning our economies to regenerate the very systems they once depleted.
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Impact Architects:
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Siddharth Chatterjee
Former UN Resident Coordinator, UN
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Ashley Brooks
Asia Director, Re:wild
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Christine Loh
Chief Development Strategist, Institute for the Environment, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Melanie Ryan
Chief Executive Officer, Unearthodox
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梁国勇 Guoyong Liang
Chair, UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative
Content Partner
From Carbon to Coherence: ASEAN’s Leap into Regenerative Climate Economies
17 Sep 2025, 15:15:00 - 16:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
From Carbon to Coherence: ASEAN’s Leap into Regenerative Climate Economies
17 Sep 2025, 15:15:00 - 16:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
If carbon is the currency of our time, will we spend it on survival—or invest it in a regenerative future?
Carbon is evolving from a pollution metric to a driver of economic design and investment. In ASEAN, where climate risk threatens up to 11% of regional GDP by 2100, there’s a growing need to shift from offsetting to transforming systems. This high-level plenary convenes changemakers from across the carbon economy: policy architects, technologists, regenerative finance pioneers, and bio-economy innovators. They will explore how carbon can catalyse inclusive growth and ecological restoration. Anchored in the work of ASEAN Green Future, it will highlight real examples of regional collaborations — from interoperable carbon markets and cross-border green grids, to biobased materials and regenerative investments that are turning nature into infrastructure and restoration into economic value.
Impact Architects:
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Yuen Yoong Leong
Director, Sustainability Studies, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
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Matthew Rycroft
Senior Diplomat and Civil Servant, UK Government
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Wayne Mulligan
Chief Executive Officer, NZ Bio Forestry
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Satya Tripathi
Secretary-General, Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet
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Weerawat Chantanakome
Senior Policy Counsel on Energy, The Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)
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Ed Peng
Co-Founder & Partner, Canopy Generations Fund
From Within to World: Healing the Planet Starts by Healing Ourselves
16 Sep 2025, 14:45:00 - 16:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
From Within to World: Healing the Planet Starts by Healing Ourselves
16 Sep 2025, 14:45:00 - 16:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
What must we unlearn to become truly regenerative? And what new form of leadership will it take to restore both the Earth and ourselves?
As our planet reels from rising temperatures, degraded ecosystems, and resource exploitation, it becomes clear that these crises are not just environmental—they are deeply human. We cannot renew Earth’s systems without first addressing the internal systems that drive our decisions: the values, mindsets, and blind pursuits that normalise separation, excess, and control. This plenary challenges us to see the climate crisis not only as a technical failure but as a failure of orientation. What if pollution begins not in the factories or forests, but in the stories we tell, the ambitions we chase, and the leadership we elevate? We will explore the profound link between how we lead and how we live—how the same disconnection that damages ecosystems also fragments our societies and diminishes our humanity.
Impact Architects:
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Rajeev Peshawaria
Chief Executive Officer, Stewardship Asia Centre
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Carlos Álvarez Pereira
Secretary General, The Club of Rome
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Poman Lo
Vice Chairman, Regal Hotels Group & Co-founder, One Earth Alliance
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Anthea Ong
Chairperson, WorkWell Leaders; Former Nominated Member of Parliament, Singapore
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Chavalit Frederick Tsao
Chairman, TPC (Tsao Pao Chee)
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Yung Pueblo
NYT Bestselling Author & Partner, Wisdom Ventures
