Impact Week
Impact Week

C Summit Exclusives

How can we create more coherence between business and impact agendas? How can we harness the power of deploying capital collectively?

 

Wednesday | 30 November

16.30

  

C Summit Opening  

16.45

  

The Big Picture  

Both the urgency to deliver on the SDG objectives by 2030 and the pandemic have been a stress test for responsible businesses. Corporates are under pressure to deliver on social goals, as they heed voices for change from inside their organisation (employees, clients, suppliers) and outside (government, regulators, society). Corporate social investors, for their part, are trying to accelerate their impact at scale. All this heralds the end of business as usual. What’s next is the Business of Impact.  

17.15

  

The Business of Impact

More coherence between impact and business agendas can make impact faster and bolder. But since there are many ways to achieve coherence, we’ve assembled a panel that can speak to the diverse strategies to be considered. Speakers will share concrete examples of coherence, such as thematic or business alignment of foundations and impact funds with corporate purpose, the coherence with their sustainability strategy and how they contribute to their company's global impact vision. You'll get perspectives on: managing interfaces with related corporates; interdependencies across the corporate and social impact ecosystems; and challenges and opportunities to contribute to corporate purpose and ESG strategy.

18.00

               

The Power of Together 

Discover the importance of cross-sectoral collaborations, pooled funds and coalitions of CSIs beyond business competition – all in service of more impact. EIT Food, Europe's leading food innovation initiative, will present how they are mutualising resources to make the food system more sustainable, healthy and trusted. Join us for this insightful perspective and more on collaborative approaches to capital deployment.

18.30

   Drinks and Magritte Museum Tour

19.30

 

C Summit Dinner

Thursday | 1 December

09.30

               

Putting the S in ESG 

Join us for a wide range of panelist perspectives on how CSIs manage their relationship with the S in ESG. Corporate social investing has an important and complex role to play in ESG, and we’ll focus our discussion on today’s key strategies, trends and challenges. We’ll leave plenty of time for peer-to-peer discussion and networking – bring your latest insights and questions to help drive the discussion!  

12.00

   Lunch

13.30

  

Corporate Impact Funds  

Join us as we put the spotlight on a new impact vehicle: the corporate impact fund. Speakers will explore how a corporate impact investing strategy may complement the philanthropic approach. The discussion will also highlight different models of deploying capital, and discuss opportunities and challenges for each. Meet the impact pioneers blazing new trails with corporate impact funds!

13.30

  

Building Impactful Corporate Supply Chains 

Yunus Social Business

The Hidden Opportunity of Social Procurement

Explore how CSIs can make business practices more sustainable and inclusive at the supply chain level, where the opportunities for impact are enormous. The session brings together corporate stakeholders and social entrepreneurs, both of whom seek to build supply chains that make people and planet a priority.  

13.30

  

Impact Integrity 

Risky business? When corporate social investors help their parent companies find the missing S in ESG

Understanding impact integrity is vital to the work of CSIs, especially those contributing to the S of their related company’s ESG strategy. Join us for a session that presents a full range of strategies, tools for assessment and the elements that define a CSI’s impact integrity risk. Every CSI falls somewhere in the risk quadrant for alignment with their corporate entity; we’ll spark a discussion on the opportunities and challenges of each (and show why ‘risk’ might not be such a bad word after all). We’ll discuss the practical implications for impact integrity when CSIs actively contribute to the S of their related company’s ESG strategy.

15.00

   Break

15.30

  

From Competition to Cooperation  

What happens when corporates form coalitions and pool their resources to solve a social challenge? Let's find out – with some of the most innovative coalitions in the sector to guide the discussion. We’ll address how corporate competitors can become active collaborators for impact – a bold approach with results worth examining.

15.30

  

Successful Collective Action  

Ashoka

Maximising impact at the system level needs new strategies for co-creation, and our diverse speakers from both the social and corporate sectors can show how it’s done. Speakers will detail their co-creative approach, with a focus on how to amplify innovation to propel systemic growth forward.

15.30

 

The Power of Together

Impact Week Joint Workshops
17.oo   Break

17.30

  

The Power of Together

Impact Week Joint Workshops

19.00

  

Impact Week Dinner

 

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