10.30

Impact.be

Impact Capital

12 of Belgium's most promising impact organisations looking for funding and ready to scale: Impact pioneer Piet Colruyt has selected his favourites: from system changing non-profits, via promising start-ups and ambitious scale-ups to mature impact investing opportunities. It’s a chance for Belgian entrepreneurs to connect with Europe’s impact financiers and an opportunity for all attendees to get inspired by some mind-blowing impact initiatives!

• Homme & Terre
• DeltaQ
• JuuNoo
• ArmenTeKort
• Duo for a Job
• JobX
• Wequity
• Klimaatzaak
• G1000
• Impact Licensing Initiative
• Revive
• Hydrobox

12.00

13.30

Main Stage Conversation

15.00

15.30

Innovative Impact Investing

makesense 

makesense presents a curated selection of the most innovative ideas in impact investing, including: Place-based investing - Practical experience from Rotterdam; Steward ownership - a model for embedding long-term impact in social enterprises; ​​Result-based finance and social impact bonds - Inspiration from Denmark; and Incubation programme as selection mechanism for funding.

• Anne Gerset | Co-founder, makesense
• Pieter-Jan Van de Velde | Senior Investment Manager, Trividen
• Aglaé Touchard Le Drian | Co-head, RAISE Impact
• Jennifer Van der Merwe | Director, Kindred LCR
• Blandine Machabert | Impact Manager, RAISE France
• Tatiana van Lier | Head of Communications & Stakeholder management, DOEN Participaties

17.30

Affordable Housing

Erste Social Finance, Habitat & Humanisme

Housing is a recognised human right, a prerequisite for human well-being and peace, and a strong lever for the green transition; it is essential for financial health and social inclusion . Europe has experienced a significant rise in property prices over the last few years, and the affordability of homes is a generally recognised issue in most countries, with the strongest impact on the most vulnerable. A number of initiatives have been addressing this problem. By drawing on 3 different experiences - in Eastern Europe, United Kingdom, and France - we'll explore how mobilizing capital for impact and developing public-private partnership can provide solutions.

• Emmanuel de Lutzel | VP, Habitat & Humanisme
• Bernard de Coudenhove | Institutional and Financial Partnerships, Habitat & Humanisme
• Peter Surek | CEO, Erste Social Finance Holding
• Daniel Brewer | Chief Executive, Resonance

09.30

What Can Culture Do

MitOst

Arts and culture remain mostly unexplored territory for social impact investors. But why? A growing body of work shows that cultural participation can have long-term benefits for quality of life. Culture can also catalyse and embed greater equity and inclusion. With this in mind, culture begins to look like a high-impact investment opportunity worth closer consideration.  

This interactive workshop will explore the state of investing in arts and culture and its impacts related to diversity, equity and inclusion. What are success stories and barriers? What's needed to draw more investment into the cultural impact economy? After short introductory statements from our experts, participants are invited to contribute to the exciting and developing conversation on cultural impact investing. 

• Rana Zincir Celal | Director, Equality Impact Investing
• Idriss Nor | Executive Director Impact Investing, DOEN Participatie
• Fran Sanderson | Director of Arts Programmes and Investments, NESTA
• Farah Makki | Strategic Advisor, MitOst
• Bernd Fesel |Interim CEO, EIT Culture & Creativity
• Jotham Sietsma | Managing Director, MitOst
• Martijn Blom | Manager for Benelux & Impact Funds Initiative, EVPA

11.00

11.30

From ESG to Impact

Ageas

In this forum, Ageas will leverage first-hand experience and new angles to discuss how investments create impact. Using Ageas’s Impact24 strategy to show specific examples, we’ll cover topics such as ESG learnings in the impact context, how to develop a sustainable investment decision framework, the role of public-private partnerships, accelerating the positive transformation of cities and much more. Impact experts from the cases discussed and academia will lend perspective to the conversation.

• Nathan Rousseaux | Risk & ESG Analyst, AG REAL ESTATE
• Nicolas Godon | Marketing and Communication Manager at Interparking Group; Sustainability Business Ambassador, Ageas
• Kristien Doumen| PhD researcher, University of Antwerp 
• Luc Van Liedekerke | Professor, University of Antwerp

13.00