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
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
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
PANEL
12:30
Navigating the climate investment landscape – from start up to institutional investment
with Gilbert + Tobin
Stream 3
Communities
KEYNOTE
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
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
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
PANEL
12:30
Attracting capital to the education sector: the promise and the pitfalls
with Giant Leap, Phillips Foundation, Seek Investments
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
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