2026 Program
Program Overview
Impact Investing for Advisers, Foundations and 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 2026 Summit, the streams will be:
- Climate and environment: Investing in solutions that reduce emissions, protect ecosystems, and build a more sustainable, low-carbon future.
- Healthcare: Better health through equitable access, early intervention, and investment in systems that prioritise wellbeing.
- Communities and inclusion: Improving outcomes and ensuring safer, fairer, more inclusive communities for all.
- BioTech and MedTech: Accelerating breakthrough innovations that enhance diagnosis, treatment, and the delivery of affordable, scalable solutions.
- Systems change investing: Adopting a systems lens to investing to both drive change and benefit from change in the global economy.
- Asia Pacific investment opportunities and partnerships: Engaging with our region to identify investment opportunities in developing and frontier markets and develop partnerships to scale impact investing.
Pitch Sessions
Following the keynote presentations and panel sessions, companies and funds in each sector will present to investors, providing attendees with live capital raising opportunities.
2026 Program
Day 1
Wednesday 25 March 2026
Join the Foundations Group for Impact Investing (FGII) for a pre‑conference briefing, breakfast, and networking opportunity with FGII members and guests.
(Additional registration required, numbers are limited. BUY TICKETS to secure your seat.)
This session will explore FGII’s strategic priorities, with a particular focus on the role of the Market Information Days in reducing fragmentation costs and improving the flow of impact capital to For Purpose Organisations.
We’ll also hear from past Market Information Day speakers across both investor and investee perspectives who will share their journey and progress since participating in FGII’s program, including representatives from:
Investors today face a structural paradox: the same economic systems that generate portfolio returns are also producing systemic risks—from climate instability and widening inequality to democratic fragility and financial volatility. Diversification, ESG integration, and even traditional impact investment strategies are proving insufficient to manage these interconnected and highly complex threats.
In this keynote, William Burckart, CEO of The Investment Integration Project (TIIP), will trace the evolution from conventional and sustainable investing toward system-level investing—an approach that redirects financial strategies to strengthen the health and stability of the systems upon which long-term value creation depends.
Drawing on global case studies and emerging investor practice, Burckart will explore what it means to treat systemic risks as financially material, how fiduciary duty intersects with systems change, and why long-term investors are uniquely positioned to lead.
For asset owners, managers, and field builders, this keynote offers a pragmatic roadmap for translating system awareness into action.
Impact Investing for Advisers, Foundations, and Family OfficesUnlocking value across the capital spectrum: Gender-smart investing in action
Communities and InclusionTo be announced
Biotech/MedtechSector Keynote: The journey to disruption: What it really takes
Systems Change InvestingInvesting to accelerate ethical AI
Impact Investing for Advisers, Foundations, and Family OfficesPortfolio construction: Risk, return, liquidity and impact
Impact investing is typically assessed at the asset level – evaluating individual companies or funds in isolation. But what happens when we treat impact not as a discrete allocation, but as a lens through which to construct an entire portfolio?
This workshop is intended to shift the conversation from asset selection to portfolio design. In it, we will explore how to build a cohesive impact portfolio while navigating the diversification, liquidity, and risk management considerations that underpin sound portfolio construction. Drawing on practical examples and grounded in portfolio theory, this session is designed to equip investors with a framework to overcome common barriers to scaling impact - moving from intention to implementation across a total portfolio.
Communities and InclusionFor-purpose: The shift to outcomes-based funding
Biotech/MedtechGovernment backing medTech
Systems Change InvestingStewardship and activism: friends or foe
Impact Investing For Advisers, Foundations and Family OfficesDeconstructing a liquidity event
Communities and InclusionCatalytic philanthropy x scalable solutions
Biotech/MedtechThe Epiminder journey: From concept to ASX listing
Systems Change InvestingPublic private partnerships: Higher returns and impact
Impact Investing for Advisers, Foundations, and Family OfficesFoundations' journey to impact
Communities and InclusionChild lens investing - the generational new social investing frontier
Biotech/MedtechWhat are fund managers looking for in Biotech and Medtech investments?
Systems Change InvestingSystems aware investing launchpad: Deep dive
Communities and InclusionCommunities, companies and funds pitch
Biotech/MedtechMedtech/biotech companies and funds pitch
The XX Edge shows that when women make financial decisions and apply their skills across all capital markets, it leads to higher returns and greater economic growth. In her keynote address, Ruth Shaber will discuss the evidence and the rationale behind this phenomenon.
An exclusive evening of connection and conversation, hosted by Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific, Impact Investing Australia and Creative Australia — where capital, creativity and purpose meet after hours.
Additional registration required, numbers are limited. BUY TICKETS to secure your place.
Day 2
Thursday 26 March 2026
Impact Investing for InstitutionsSystems influence stewardship
Climate and EnvironmentGreening infrastructure
HealthcareMental health crisis: How impact capital can fund solutions
Asia Pacific Investment OpportunitiesMore bang for your buck: Maximising Impact in Emerging Markets
Impact Investing for InstitutionsLeading the pack: Institutional investors developing impact investing strategies
Climate and EnvironmentBeyond carbon: Biodiversity as the next emerging asset class
HealthcareWomen’s health: Solving a trillion dollar market failure
Asia Pacific Investment OpportunitiesInvesting in nature: Adaptation finance for the Indo-Pacific
Impact Investing for InstitutionsInnovative finance in Asia Pacific
Climate and EnvironmentAg and natural capital: A $10 trillion pathway to returns and impact
HealthcareImproved access for under-served and regional communities
Asia Pacific Investment OpportunitiesPacific focused panel
Impact Investing for InstitutionsImpact at scale through listed equities
Climate and EnvironmentInvesting in innovative climate and nature tech
HealthcareWhat's holding us back in aged care?
Asia Pacific Investment OpportunitiesEye of the adviser: How advisers are capturing financial and impact value in emerging markets
Climate and EnvironmentClimate and environment companies pitch
HealthcareHealthcare funds pitch
Asia pacific investment opportunitiesAPAC companies pitch
Climate and EnvironmentClimate and environment funds pitch
HealthcareHealthcare companies pitch
Asia pacific investment opportunitiesAPAC funds pitch
2026 program is subject to change.
