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Agenda Sessions Archive - SOCAP Global

AI for Systems Change: How Entrepreneurs are Driving Progress and Innovation Towards the UN SDGs

Microsoft Entrepreneurship for Positive Impact provides support to the innovative entrepreneurs addressing our world’s most pressing challenges. We are at the halfway point for the 2030 target to deliver on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but falling behind on

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Equity in Action: Investing in the Future in the Face of Adversity

This session will answer the important question around the headwinds facing diversity, equity, and inclusion and how investors are addressing these challenges. This panel will feature allocators who are doubling down on their investments in diverse-led managers and companies; and

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Paying for Outcomes: A Key Strategy to Address Health Equity

The healthcare field has been in the midst of a debate around how—and if—health systems should be investing in the social drivers of health. United Health Group has been one of the largest—if not the largest—proponents of doing just that,

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Creative Tensions: Powering Systems Change

In our collective aspiration for systems change, we grapple with many false dichotomies that guide where we spend our money and time. Should we go top-down, or bottom up? Emphasize global frameworks or push for local adaptations? However, these seemingly

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Healthcare & AI: Bridging the Gap Between Innovation and Impact

Join us for a roundtable discussion on the transformative role of AI in healthcare, where participants are protagonists of the conversation. Facilitated by an expert bridging healthcare innovations and bigtech, this session will bring together healthcare professionals, impact investors, and

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Just Transition Workforce Development

How can we make sure that the transition to clean energy is done in a way that is just and safe – providing jobs to people who are displaced from fossil fuel jobs as well as to those whose land

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Unleashing an Ownership Economy

The Ownership Economy is no longer just a concept—it’s a movement. Our panel will explore how to scale ownership models and apply an ownership lens across every investment. Too few Americans have pathways to build wealth and assets over time,

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Catalyzing Nature-Based Investment: Collaborative Insights from Impact Investors and Conservations Experts

This interactive roundtable will explore the key gaps and opportunities in nature-based financing, focusing on challenges in deal flow, science-backed data, community-led projects, and scaling investment in nature-based solutions. Participants will engage in a dynamic, participatory discussion, contributing their insights

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Accelerating Community Investment: Strategies for Place-Based Capital Deployment

What does it take to unlock new capital for community-led redevelopment and drive truly equitable growth? This engaging fireside chat will explore the lessons learned and fresh strategies impact investors and their community partners are using to build new ecosystems

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Invest for Better: A Fireside Chat with Janine Firpo

This engaging discussion will explore the next frontier of female empowerment: achieving financial freedom through impact investing. Discover how women can leverage their financial resources to create positive change while building wealth. Experts will share insights on aligning investments with

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Founder Showcase: Women Entrepreneurs Driving Change

Meet the women impact entrepreneurs recognized and supported by the Cartier Women’s Initiative! Working in diverse industries ranging from education to food, they share one common passion: leveraging the power of business to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges.

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Invest in Success: How a Solutions Focus Can Supercharge Your Strategy and Maximize Impact

If a mechanic listed everything wrong with your car without offering a way to repair it, you’d find another shop. Yet philanthropists, funders, and investors are often left with just that: tons of information on the problems and little on

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