2026 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 2026 Summit, the streams will be:
- Climate & 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 & Inclusion: improving outcomes and ensuring safer, fairer, more inclusive communities for all.
- Biotech & 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.
See the Summit Program from 2025 below
8:45am-9:00am - WELCOME
9:00am-9:15am - WELCOME by MC + Welcome to Country
9:15am-9:35am - OPENING KEYNOTE
Keynote by Viktor Shvets, Global Strategist and Author, “The Twilight Before the Storm”
with Viktor Shvets
9:35am-10:10am - KEYNOTE PANEL
“Institutional Investors – Investing in an era of Turbulence”
10:10am-10:50am - KEYNOTE PANEL
“Family Offices & Foundations – The Influence of the Next Generation”
Advisers, Foundations & Family Offices
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Wed 26 March 2025
WELCOME
Welcome by MC + Welcome to Country
OPENING KEYNOTE
Keynote by Viktor Shvets, Global Strategist and Author, “The Twilight Before the Storm”
with Viktor Shvets
KEYNOTE PANEL
Institutional Investors – Investing in an era of Turbulence
KEYNOTE PANEL
Family Offices & Foundations – The Influence of the Next Generation
with Alberts
Morning Tea
Stream 1
PANEL
PANEL
PANEL
12:30
A Creative Venture: Opportunities for impact investing in the arts
with Creative Australia and SEFA
Stream 2
KEYNOTE
11:30
Leveraging Australia’s Advantages for Climate Investing
PANEL
12:00
Where capital at scale is required to address the Climate Crisis
with leading Australian funds managers
PANEL
12:30
Navigating the climate investment landscape – from start up to institutional investment
with Gilbert + Tobin
Stream 3
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
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
PANEL
14:15
Innovating how we invest in female, community-led solutions
with ygap and First Australians Capital
END
14:45
PANEL
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
Keynote: Investing without limits: Global impact investing opportunities for Australian investors
With Norman Zhang, Chief Investment Officer, Koda
Keynote: Program Related Investments
With Roger Allen, Director, Indigenous Capital Limited
MC Wrap
Close Day 1
Australian Impact Investing Awards at Dockside, Darling Harbour
