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.

View the 2026 program below

Day one: Wednesday 25 March, 2026

2026 program is subject to change

7:30am for 8am start
Hosted breakfast with Foundations Group for Impact Investing (FGII)
8:45am
Welcome and introduction by MC
9am
Welcome to Country
9:10am
Keynote: 21st century investing: Redirecting financial strategies to drive systems change
9:25am
Keynote panel: The reality of systems investing
9:55am
Keynote: Putting Humanity in the Driver's Seat in the AI Economy
10:25am
Keynote: The new Australian dream: Unbundling innovation, investment and impact
10:45am
Morning tea
11:10am
Transition time for streams
11:20am

Impact Investing for Advisers, Foundations, and Family OfficesGender Lens Investing in Practice: Embedding Equity Across the Capital Continuum

Communities and InclusionTo be announced

Biotech/MedtechSector keynote: The journey to disruption: What it really takes

Systems Change InvestingInvesting to accelerate human-led AI

11:55am

Impact Investing for Advisers, Foundations, and Family OfficesPortfolio construction: Risk, return, liquidity and impact

Communities and InclusionM&A to scale the for-purpose sector

Biotech/MedtechGovernment backing MedTech

Systems Change InvestingStewardship and activism: Friends or foe

12:30pm

Impact investing for advisers, foundations and family officesDeconstructing a liquidity event

Communities and InclusionTo be announced

Biotech/MedtechInvesting In the next epiminder

Systems Change InvestingPublic private partnerships: Higher returns and impact

1pm
Networking lunch
2pm

Impact Investing for Advisers, Foundations, and Family OfficesFoundations' journey to impact

Communities and InclusionTo be announced

Biotech/MedtechTo be announced

Systems Change InvestingSystems aware investing launchpad: Deep dive

2:35pm

Communities and InclusionCommunities, companies and funds pitch

Biotech/MedtechMedTech/BioTech companies and funds pitch

3:15pm
Afternoon tea
3:40pm
Keynote: Our backyard, our future: Investing in the region's rainforests
4:10pm
Keynote: The XX-edge: Gender lens investing
4:30pm
Keynote panel: Intergenerational wealth transfer and the role for aligned advisers
5:20pm
MC wrap: Close day one
6pm - 10pm
Summit dinner with Impact Investing Australia and Creative Australia

Day two: Thursday 26 March, 2026

7:30am for 8am start
Hosted breakfast with Australian Embassy Jakarta and Indonesia Impact Alliance
9am
Welcome to day two and Welcome to Country
9:10am
Keynote: Australia's Southeast Asia economic strategy to 2040
9:30am
Keynote panel: Proof is in the pudding: Bridging the gap between the perceived and real risk of investing in emerging markets
10:05am
Keynote: Rolling out regional renewable energy hubs with positive place-based and community impact
10:25am
Keynote panel: Investing for the future economy: Taking impact mainstream
10:50am
Morning tea
11:20am

Impact Investing for InstitutionsSystems influence stewardship

Climate and EnvironmentGreening infrastructure

HealthcareMental health crisis: Impact capital funding solutions

Asia Pacific Investment OpportunitiesSEA change: How Australian investors are maximising impact in emerging markets

11:55am

Impact Investing for InstitutionsLeading the pack: Institutional investors developing impact investing strategies

Climate and EnvironmentBeyond carbon: Biodiversity as the next emerging asset class

HealthcareInvesting in women's health

Asia Pacific Investment OpportunitiesInvesting in nature: The adaptation finance opportunity in the Indo-Pacific

12:30pm

Impact Investing for InstitutionsInnovative finance in Asia Pacific

Climate and EnvironmentAG and natural capital: A $10 trillion pathway to returns and impact

HealthcareBest ideas: Healthcare stocks

Asia Pacific Investment OpportunitiesPacific focused panel

1pm
Networking lunch
2pm

Impact Investing for InstitutionsImpact at scale through listed equities

Climate and EnvironmentTo be announced

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

2:35pm

Climate and EnvironmentClimate and environment companies pitch

HealthcareHealthcare funds pitch

Asia pacific investment opportunitiesAPAC companies pitch

3:15pm

Climate and EnvironmentClimate and environment funds pitch

HealthcareHealthcare companies pitch

Asia pacific investment opportunitiesAPAC funds pitch

3:50pm
Afternoon tea
4:25pm
Australian Impact Investment Awards
4:50pm
Keynote panel: The (star) power of gathering
5:20pm
MC wrap: Close day two
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Networking drinks at ICC Sydney