2025 Program

Impact Investing For Advisers, Foundations, & Family Offices

Access experts and specialists to advance your understanding of the opportunities available for investment in positive impact companies, organisations, and projects and share your ideas and deals with other advisers, foundations, and family offices. Sessions will focus on accessing and generating new ideas, researching funds and deals, and pitches from early-stage companies through to institutional-grade funds.

Impact Investing for Institutions

Hear from major funds, super funds, and Government institutions about their existing exposures to positive impact assets and companies and their processes to determine how they allocate capital. Sessions will also include presentations from existing portfolio companies and funds, asset consultants, and internal fund teams.

Impact Focus Areas

To identify investment opportunities and facilitate capital flows to address pressing social and environmental challenges, we will focus sessions on key impact investment sectors with keynote speakers, expert panels, dealmakers, and investors. Each sector will have a separate stream enabling Summit attendees to delve deeply into one area or join sessions most relevant to them across the themes. At the 2025 Summit, the streams will be:

  • Climate & Environment/ClimateTech: accelerating decarbonisation by transitioning faster to clean energy and a circular economy.
  • Communities – Aged care, built environment, childcare, housing, and inclusion: ensuring safer, fairer, more inclusive communities for all.
  • Education/EdTech: improving outcomes across all ages through better access to quality education tools and services and closing the education gap.
  • Healthcare/Biotech & Medtech: developing treatments and services to provide affordable, accessible healthcare and improve preventative and early intervention.

Pitch Sessions

Following the keynote presentations and panel sessions, companies and funds in each sector will pitch to investors, providing attendees with live capital raising opportunities.

Wed 26 March 2025

WELCOME

8:45

Welcome by MC + Welcome to Country

OPENING KEYNOTE

9:15

Keynote by Viktor Shvets, Global Strategist and Author, “The Twilight Before the Storm”

with Viktor Shvets

KEYNOTE PANEL

9:35

Institutional Investors – Investing in an era of Turbulence

with Australian Retirement Trust

KEYNOTE PANEL

10:10

Family Offices & Foundations – The Influence of the Next Generation

with Alberts

Morning Tea

10:50

Stream 1

Advisers, Foundations & Family Offices

PANEL
11:30
Foundations & Family Offices shift towards impact investing

with Snow Foundation

PANEL
12:00
When and why to include Blended Finance in a Portfolio

DFAT-hosted panel

PANEL
12:30
A Creative Venture: Opportunities for impact investing in the arts

with Creative Australia and SEFA

Stream 2

Climate

KEYNOTE
11:30
Leveraging Australia’s Advantages for Climate Investing
PANEL
12:00
Understanding the intersection of Climate & Gender

with Minderoo Foundation

PANEL
12:30
Navigating the climate investment landscape – from start up to institutional investment

with Gilbert + Tobin

Stream 3

Communities

KEYNOTE
11:30
Sustainable investment solutions for Australia’s housing crisis

with NAB

PANEL
12:00
Inclusive Social Infrastructure

with For Purpose Investment Partners, Inclusive Housing Australia and Australian Unity

PANEL
12:30
Beyond Market Returns – investing for real impact across the housing spectrum

with JBWere

Stream 4

Healthcare

KEYNOTE
11:30
Healthcare investing for an ageing population
PANEL
12:00
Identifying great investments in the Healthcare Sector

with Bell Potter and leading Australian funds managers

PANEL
12:30
Addressing the mental health crisis

with Mind Ventures

LUNCH

13:15

PANEL
14:15
Innovating how we invest in female, community-led solutions

with ygap and First Australians Capital

END
14:45
PANEL
14:15
Where capital at scale is required to address the Climate Crisis

with leading Australian funds managers

PITCHES
AFTERNOON TEA
15:15
PITCHES
PANEL
14:15
Scaling solutions helping young Australians with disabilities

with Control Bionics

PITCHES

with CASPA

AFTERNOON TEA
15:15
PITCHES
PANEL
14:15
Radiopharmaceuticals are transforming cancer diagnosis and treatment
PITCHES
AFTERNOON TEA
15:15
PITCHES

PLENARY KEYNOTE

16:30

Keynote by Roger Allen, Director, Indigenous Capital Limited

with Indigenous Capital Limited

17:10

MC Wrap

17:25

Close Day 1

18:00

Australian Impact Investing Awards at Dockside, Darling Harbour

Thu 27 March 2025

WELCOME

8:45

MC – Welcome

KEYNOTE

9:00

Keynote by Mengistu Alemayehu, Director, World Bank / IFC Asset Management Company

with the IFC

KEYNOTE PANEL

9:20

Impact investing for the Billions

DFAT-hosted panel

KEYNOTE PANEL

9:55

International Trends in Impact Investing

with BlueMark and Tideline

10:40

Announcements to come

Morning Tea

11:00

Stream 1

Impact Investing for Institutions

PANEL
11:30
Major Super Fund Deep Dive

with Australian super fund with >$100bn in assets

PANEL
12:00
Risk Busting: assessing and mitigating emerging markets risk in practice

DFAT-hosted panel

PANEL
12:30
Challenges and opportunities from leading institutional investors in impact

with Australia Sustainable Finance Initative (ASFI)

Stream 2

Climate Tech

KEYNOTE
11:30
How technology is key to addressing the climate crisis
PANEL
12:00
Accelerating the energy transition

with Boundless, Energy Networks Aust., Infrastructure Access Managers

PANEL
12:30
Where Australia can play and win in Climate Tech

with Climate Tech Partners

Stream 3

Education

KEYNOTE
11:30
The global reach of EdTech solutions
PANEL
12:00
Australian education: challenges and opportunities

with Jan Owen AM

PANEL
12:30
Attracting capital to the education sector: the promise and the pitfalls

with Giant Leap, Phillips Foundation, Seek Investments

Stream 4

MedTech

KEYNOTE
11:30
MedTech innovations revolutionising Healthcare and wellbeing
PANEL
12:00
MedTech advances for women’s health

with Ovum Technology

PANEL
12:30
Incubating new MedTech companies

LUNCH

13:15

LUNCH PANEL

How to fund high impact cultural infrastructure

With The Next Century Trust, a charity established by Century Venues, owners of the Enmore, Factory, and Metro Theatres

PANEL
14:15
Impact Investing Australia (IIA)

IIA-hosted panel

END
14:45
PANEL
14:15
Opportunities for Climate Investors in 2025
PITCHES
AFTERNOON TEA
15:30
PITCHES
PANEL
14:15
Optimising educational outcomes

with Cool Australia and Kip McGrath

PITCHES
AFTERNOON TEA
15:30
PITCHES
PANEL
14:15
Discovering the next Cochlear or Resmed

with Evans and Partners

PITCHES

with Cordis Asset Management

AFTERNOON TEA
15:30
PITCHES

PLENARY KEYNOTE

16:45

Keynote by Dr. Geetha Murali, CEO, Room to Read

with Room To Read

17:05

MC Wrap

17:20

Close Day 2

17:30

Networking Drinks at ICC Sydney