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 present to qualified* investors, providing attendees with potential investment opportunities.

* Qualified as “sophisticated” or “wholesale” investors

Impact Investing Conference 2025

Day 1

Plenary
Impact Investing For Advisers, Foundations, & Family Offices
Climate
Communities – Social Infrastructure & Inclusion
Healthcare

Day 2

Plenary
Impact Investing for Institutions
Climate Tech
Education
MedTech/BioTech

Day 1 - Wed 26 March 2025

7:30
Breakfast
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8:45
Welcome Address
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9:00
Welcome to Country
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9:15
The Twilight Before the Storm
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9:35
Institutional Investors - Investing In An Era of Turbulence
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10:10
Family Offices & Foundations: The Influence of the Next Generation
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10:50
Morning Tea
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11:20
Transition time to go to Streams
FOUNDATIONS
CLIMATE
COMMUNITIES - SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND INCLUSION
HEALTHCARE
11:30
FOUNDATIONS
Foundations & Family Offices shift towards Impact Investing
with Snow Foundation
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CLIMATE
Leveraging Australia's Advantages for Climate Investing In Our Region
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COMMUNITIES - SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND INCLUSION
Sustainable Investment Solutions For Australia's Housing Crisis
with NAB
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HEALTHCARE
The Future of Healthcare
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12:00
FOUNDATIONS
Blending a Smooth(ie) Deal: When, why and how to structure a blended deal
DFAT-hosted panel
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CLIMATE
Where capital at scale is required to address the Climate Crisis
with leading Australian funds managers
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COMMUNITIES - SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND INCLUSION
Inclusive Social Infrastructure
with For Purpose Investment Partners, Inclusive Housing Australia and Australian Unity
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HEALTHCARE
Identifying great investments in the Healthcare Sector
with Bell Potter and leading Australian funds managers
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12:30
FOUNDATIONS
A Creative Venture: Opportunities for impact investing in the arts
with Creative Australia and SEFA
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CLIMATE
Navigating the climate investment landscape - from start up to institutional investment
with Gilbert + Tobin
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COMMUNITIES - SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND INCLUSION
Beyond Market Returns - investing for real impact across the housing spectrum
with JBWere
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HEALTHCARE
Addressing the mental health crisis
with Mind Ventures
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13:15
Lunch
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14:15
FOUNDATIONS
Innovating how we invest in female, community-led solutions
with ygap and First Australians Capital
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CLIMATE
Gender and Climate-Smart Investing: Opportunities & Lessons Learnt in Asia-Pacific
with Minderoo Foundation
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COMMUNITIES - SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND INCLUSION
Scaling solutions helping young Australians with disabilities
with Control Bionics
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HEALTHCARE
Radiopharmaceuticals are transforming cancer diagnosis and treatment
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14:45
CLIMATE
Climate Companies Pitch Session
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COMMUNITIES - SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND INCLUSION
Infrastructure Funds Pitches
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HEALTHCARE
Healthcare Companies Pitch Session
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15:15
Afternoon Tea
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15:45
CLIMATE
Climate Funds Pitch Session
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COMMUNITIES - SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND INCLUSION
Communities Companies Pitch Session
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HEALTHCARE
Healthcare Funds Pitch Session
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16:15
Transition time - Buffer and transfer back to Plenary
16:30
Inside the Engine Room: How Koda Builds Impact-Driven Portfolios
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16:50
Program Related Investments
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17:10
MC Wrap - Close Day 1
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18:00
Australian Impact Investing Awards
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Day 2 - Thu 27 March 2025

7:30
Hosted breakfast with DFAT- Clean energy solutions driving social equity and empowerment.
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8:45
Welcome and intro by MC
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9:00
Invested: Australia’s Southeast Asia Economic Strategy to 2040
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9:20
Impact investing for the Billions: the South-east Asia Opportunity
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9:55
Building Integrity for Institutional Scale: International Trends in Impact Investing and a Framework for the Future
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10:30
Social enterprise sector and impact investing in Queensland
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11:00
Morning Tea
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11:25
Transition time
INSTITUTIONS
CLIMATE TECH
EDTECH
MEDTECH / BIOTECH
11:30
INSTITUTIONS
Major Asset Owner Perspective
with UniSuper
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CLIMATE TECH
How technology is key to addressing the climate crisis
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EDTECH
The new learning and education revolution
with Jan Owen AM
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MEDTECH / BIOTECH
The Path to an Australian Bionic Eye – Lessons Learned ?
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12:00
INSTITUTIONS
Risk Busting: assessing and mitigating emerging markets risk in practice
DFAT-hosted panel
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CLIMATE TECH
Accelerating the energy transition
with Boundless, Energy Networks Aust., Infrastructure Access Managers
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EDTECH
The Future of Education and Work: from the classroom to AI
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MEDTECH / BIOTECH
MedTech advances for women's health
with Ovum AI
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12:30
INSTITUTIONS
Challenges and opportunities from leading institutional investors in impact
with Australia Sustainable Finance Initative (ASFI)
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CLIMATE TECH
Where Australia can play and win in Climate Tech
with Climate Tech Partners
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EDTECH
Attracting capital to the education sector: the promise and the pitfalls
with Giant Leap, Phillips Foundation, Seek Investments
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MEDTECH / BIOTECH
Building and Scaling MedTech/Biotech companies
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13:15
Lunch Panel: Backstage Pass – The Surprising World of Investing in Theatres
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14:15
INSTITUTIONS
Impact Unplugged: A frank and fearless discussion about Australia’s impact investing landscape
IIA-hosted panel
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CLIMATE TECH
Opportunities for Climate Investors in 2025
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EDTECH
Optimising educational outcomes
with Cool Australia and Kip McGrath
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MEDTECH / BIOTECH
Finding the next med-tech breakthrough - from evidence to impact
lead by Evans & Partners
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14:45
CLIMATE TECH
Climate Tech & Education Companies Pitch Session
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EDTECH
Education Funds Pitch Session
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MEDTECH / BIOTECH
MedTech/Biotech Companies Pitch Session
with Cordis Asset Management
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15:25
Afternoon Tea
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15:45
CLIMATE TECH
Climate Tech Funds Pitch Session
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EDTECH
Education Companies Pitch Session
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MEDTECH / BIOTECH
MedTech/Biotech Funds Pitch Session
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16:15
Transition time - Buffer and transfer back to Plenary
16:30
The story behind Seaspiracy
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16:50
The Power of Collective Action: Unlocking the Leverage of Multi-Sector Partnerships
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17:10
MC Wrap
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17:30
Networking Drinks
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Partnership Opportunities