Impact Week 2023
Impact Week 2023

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 Impact Together Stage  Impact Heroes Stage  Accelerate Impact Stage 

Day 2 | Thursday 23 November
OGR Torino

9.30

Impact Week Opening:

The Big Conversation

The theme of the 2023 Impact Week is Impact Together. In our opening session, The Big Conversation, we want to talk about the ways for impact capital providers to work against the global forces of division – great power competition, war, economic nationalism, tech decoupling, social unrest and cultural strife – and foster collective impact action. We are looking for silver linings and windows of opportunities in the current polycrisis context to give an impetus to the crowd to find those crucial points for impact capital intervention that will accelerate and scale change.
 

Impact Generation Challenge

A group of 19 young people from Torino, assembled by Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, have now learned the basics of investing for impact. Now, their mandate is clear: establish a Youth Impact Agenda. It’s a unique challenge for impact people of the next generation, and Impact Week is the perfect place for these youth to get the perspective of seasoned changemakers.
 

Impact Together Launch

The Middle East and north Africa’s most impactful organisations and seasoned European players are coming together to drive impact further and wider: that’s Impact Together! We’re launching the Impact Together! project with this kick-off session, where we’ll unveil plans, challenges and big questions around how to build a thriving impact ecosystem in MENA. With speakers from the project’s partner organisations, the session will show how we’re leveraging knowledge and network to create more inclusive economies, increase access to finance for social enterprises, launch new impact funds and more.  
10.45 Break  
11.00

The Triple Crisis: 

The power of investing collaboratively

Creating impact through investment needs renewed perspectives, public-private alignment and creativity in collaboration.  We will introduce solutions in collaborative investment driving decision making, portfolio quality and investment value through the lens of the food system. We will also hear from EIT Food’s Venture Summit award winners on the value of collaboration in developing investment-ready start-ups creating healthier lives through food, a net zero food system and reducing risk for a fair and resilient food system.

 

Impact Together:

 

Talk of The Block:

 
 

Impact Heroes Pitches

Europe’s social innovation heroes take the stage! Selected in the EIB Institute’s Social Innovation Tournament, top impact enterprises and their founders are here to pitch big ideas in healthcare, sustainable cities, education and many more impactful themes, all seeking to create social, ethical and environmental impact for Europe. In addition to real opportunities to find synergies and aid scaling for the enterprises presented, attendees can expect perspectives on how the EIB Institute accelerates Europe’s most impactful innovations.
 

Impact People LIVE:

Crisis Mode

From impactful Ukrainians to the Arab region's first venture philanthropy organisation and soon regional impact fund, the Impact People podcast has often given the microphone to impact actors in conflict zones. Now, this live podcast recording session assembles a panel of new guests and old favourites, all of whom have in common courage, vision and resilience. How have these impact people overcome the barriers of conflict to make an impact? Join us to find out – and bring questions if you want to be on the podcast, too!
11.45

Impact Cities: 

Building smart and resilient cities

It takes the power of many to build a city; it takes the power of together to grow a urban ecosystem that fosters innovation and serves social and environmental impact. This panel introduces how a diverse set of competencies and collaboration among a plurality of city stakeholders on joint projects can align in making a city a frontrunner in social innovation. The panel presents the experience of Torino, where 270 public and private, profit and non-profit entities joined to strengthen the local system and qualify it as one of the best places in the world to do social business and impact finance. It presents how two major foundations join forces on social innovation projects. It explains the role of OGR, the physical place which hosts the Impact Week and a wide range of incubation and acceleration programmes for social businesses. It explains how local experiences can have an impact in a global dimension thanks to initiatives such us the European Mission for climate-neutral and smart cities. Social innovators from all European cities, and beyond, are welcome to join.

 

Impact Together:

 

Talk of The Block:
 

Impact Heroes Pitches

Pitches continue

  
11.30

Impact by Law: 

EU sustainability reporting rules & impact ecosystem

New rules, new impact? Join us as we kick off the discussions around EU sustainability disclosure rules and their effect on the impact ecosystem. Prominent impact actors will engage in a dialogue about the multifaceted effects of new rules and actors coming into the impact space. The primary goal is to evaluate the efficacy of these rules in promoting transparency and enabling the efficient mobilisation of additional capital towards impact.
12.30 Lunch  
13.45

Take Care: 

Mental Health & Impact Entrepreneurs

Ending disparities in health and wellbeing will require innovation and collaboration in equal measure. This panel brings together impact luminaries on the theme of health to raise their most pressing action points. Panelists will kick off the conversation with some insights on mental health and impact entrepreneurs, and raise lots of questions for follow-up in Friday’s workshops.
 

Talking Numbers 2024 

To define the boundaries and nuances of impact investing, providing reliable and comparable data about the market, the European Impact Investing Consortium was initiated in 2022 by EVPA, GSG and a group of NABs and their academic partners. Following the release of the landmark Accelerating Impact report, the consortium is now ready to scale its activities and methodology. During this session we’ll present the upcoming work of the consortium in 2024 and stimulate the audience to engage in different ways.
 

Social Economy:

From plan to action

In the dynamic landscape of social enterprise financing, impact investors are pivotal players – but what are the regulatory barriers standing in their way? Find out in this session! Let’s explore the multifaceted role of impact investors in achieving the EU’s goals for a just transition and boosting the social economy. As we mark the two-year anniversary since the adoption of the Social Economy Action Plan and the one-year milestone of InvestEU deployment, this session brings together an impact investor, the European Commission and the European Investment Fund to reflect on the state of play and the way forward of the social economy ecosystem in the EU.

Co-funded by the EU
14.30

Impact by Numbers:

Data for Impact Economy

Numbers matter – especially when problems outnumber solutions. Data can help impact actors measure, manage and meaningfully improve, but only if we work together and share know-how. Use of data and of data science is today's mantra and IT-based, data clouds and AI-backed solutions are everywhere and part of our everyday life. This panel explores how the use of the same tools represents a paradigm shift in social innovation and impact-oriented social and environmental actions. Data science helps predicting and managing pandemic outbursts, pollution and environmental challenges, social end poverty-related emerging needs. It helps sustaining social and environmental friendly choices, from everyday actions to investments, projects and policies. The set of solutions being explored by specialists is virtually unlimited and paves the way to new, innovative methods to scale up impact. Impact stakeholders should have an active role in shaping collaborative data spaces and blueprints for an ethical exchange of data between the private and the social sector. Explore the new frontiers of impact with a diverse set of panelists.

 

Impact Together:
 

Business of Impact

The role of corporates in the impact ecosystem is evolving – join us as we chart the journey! Discover how corporates can mobilise capital for transformative change, and how they engage in the impact space through ambitious sustainability and corporate social impact strategies. In our polycrisis moment, accelerating the corporate journey to purpose embedded at the core of the business strategy matters more than ever. You will also hear how they develop collaboration with other impact actors for a system change approach. 
 

Catalytic Capital: 

Building Organisational Capacity

Skilled for the purpose. Fostering the impact by strenghtening the social economy

The not-for-profit sector and the social economy are an engine of solidarity, development, and resilience. However, there are weaknesses in its intangible assets, which is why there is the opportunity for philanthropic foundations to intervene. 

Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo is creating a "hybrid" foundation model, which coordinates disbursement activities and directly managed or directed activities. In this context, the panel presents the work in supporting ecological, organizational and digital transition in the social economy, thanks to the voices of the actors working with the foundation to achieve the goal.
15.15

Break

  
15.45

Impact Works: 

Future impact generation

Young and future generations are among the most relevant stakeholders for any actor working for getting a positive impact on society. This panel presents three experiences of projects dealing with young people knowledge and professional experience not only as key for sustaining their life path but also as pivotal in any social innovation plan. The presented cases concern three areas of particular interest for philanthropic foundations interested in working for and with young people: NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training), local communities in peripherical areas, an open innovation project focused on business school students. 

 

Talk of The Block:
 

Catalytic Capital - let's take global action! 

Catalytic capital has raised its profile in the past year, with deployments globally and a glut of new research, training, deal sharing and online gatherings. This session offers a unique chance to hear from our sister organisations in Africa, Asia and Latin America, leaders on the ground globally of a network of over 1,500 investors. Armed with insights, together we can shift the focus to actionable outcomes and collective advancement. In 2024 and beyond, let's find the ways to translate knowledge into impactful joint efforts, within Europe and globally. It all starts with this session! 
 

Impact Deal Showcase

Meet the impact enterprises that completed the Impact Deal acceleration program! Eight enterprises will showcase their progress to data providers, program partners, impact investors, and session attendees! The session will show how the right data can scale up initiatives that combine economic, social and environmental sustainability with a view to long-term impact.

The Impact Deal Showcase is an inspirational experience on the practical use of data science and datasets by social innovators from all over Europe, active in different sectors: waste management, detection of health threats, sustainable consumption and mobility, CO2 reduction and reliability of critical infrastructure. Mingle with them and get a boost from their innovative experiences. If you are an impact investor, you can't miss this session.
16.30

Impact by Design

People who work in the design, culture and creative industries are no strangers to the power of together. But how can we apply these learnings when it comes to shaping the sustainable and inclusive economy? This panel will raise big questions about how partnerships fuel impact in design, setting the stage for further workshops on the topic.

 

Impact Together:

 

Talk of The Block:
 

Catalytic Capital Showcase 

It’s showtime for changemakers! Discover how catalytic impact looks in action and learn from success stories and achievements. Join us to celebrate catalytic capital stakeholders who have rolled up their sleeves by deploying catalytic capital for real impact.
 

Impact Deal Showcase

session continues

  
17.15

Impact Week Fireside

Coming back to the concept of Impact Together, we’ll look back at the day and search further for unexpected perspectives and innovative breakthroughs in impact finance, necessary to accelerate the journey, scale up what works and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals together. Together across the continuum of capital, together across the sectors and across the geographies.

Experience Impact:

Danielle Turkov Wilson, Founder and CEO, Think-Film Impact Production

Impactful Women:
 

From impact management to systems change

As the impact ecosystem evolves, impact management practices are more and more acknowledged, refined and standardised. At the same time, some capital providers are asking themselves if they are effectively addressing root causes of problems to drive long-lasting change in industries, markets and communities. In this session, we'll explore the relationship between impact management and systems change and understand how to embed systems thinking into impact finance.
 

Impact Deal Showcase

session continues

  
19.30 Experience Impact  
     

 

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