
The Future Is Collaborative: Taking Impact Mainstream
For more than 15 years, SOCAP Global has convened the full spectrum of the impact investing ecosystem, holding space to gather around action and lasting change. We believe there is an unparalleled energy in bringing together visionary leaders—across sectors, industries, and geographies who are committed to creating real, transformative results. It’s the power of human connection, amplified by purpose, that ignites momentum and accelerates impact. It’s a catalyst for change, a reminder that when we unite in our passion for a better future, we become a powerful force for progress.
Urgent challenges like climate change, social inequality, economic and political instability have always driven our field in pursuit of a greater purpose — taking impact mainstream. This collaborative pursuit brings us closer to fully realizing a future where the desired outcomes and principles of our field are commonplace across economies, sectors, and the world.
SOCAP25 will have a new look this year, with new opportunities to make capital connections and for leaders from across sectors to design the future economy together—including corporates, institutional investors, LPs and GPs, entrepreneurs, and impact-driven organizations—ensuring that our work is genuinely driving systemic change and shifting from niche to mainstream influence.
Join us for SOCAP25 in San Francisco from October 27 to 29 — find the details and register here.
SOCAP25 Tracks
We take the content curation process seriously — it goes beyond selecting and organizing quality presenters and topics. We want our attendees to be part of the sessions and the takeaways that build a better future and advance our community’s global mission. Within our theme, we have identified five tracks around which we will organize the SOCAP25 programming; DEI, impact measurement, and the role of technology as well as global and regional perspectives will be interwoven throughout the entirety of the conference agenda. Each track and each session is the result of a months-long process designed to present a SOCAP25 experience that helps our community accelerate relationships, break down silos, and identify gaps — then bridge them.

How We Are Organizing the SOCAP25 Programming
This year, SOCAP will focus on fostering a sense of belonging, trust, mutual respect, and genuine collaboration in gathering our community toward action-oriented conversations; empowering attendees to collaborate, share ideas, and take concrete steps toward a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable future.
With this goal in mind, we are dedicating the first day of SOCAP’s agenda to focus directly on creating capital connections — connecting our attendees with one another to tap into the power of shared purpose, while creating authentic relationships that drive shared action, innovation, and funding opportunities. Facilitating new connections can help funding partners access new, high-impact opportunities that meet both financial and social/environmental objectives while enabling changemaking organizations to scale and achieve sustainable growth. The entirety of SOCAP25 will have a focus on facilitating meaningful interactions to spark collective action. Sessions will range from macro-level policy discussions to place-based thought leadership, workshops for learning new skills and tools, and relationship-building sessions to clear the way to broaden the scope of impact.

How Is Content Curated for SOCAP25?
To ensure an agenda that responds to the needs and challenges of the impact community, SOCAP’s content curation is a collaborative process that ensures a diverse and comprehensive program for our annual event. At SOCAP25, our content will be curated through three distinct sources, each contributing to one-third of the sessions.

A third of our program is shaped by our vibrant community through SOCAP Open. This inclusive process invites impact leaders from around the world to submit session, proposals ensuring the agenda reflects the pulse of global conversations on money and meaning. The SOCAP Open call for proposals launches on February 17, 2025.
Another third of our content is sourced from our trusted partners, organizations that are deeply aligned and that have long supported SOCAP’s community and mission. Working closely with our content team throughout the year, they bring highly curated sessions and experts in the field to the SOCAP stages. For more information on Content Partnerships, email our Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships, Tova Lobatz (tova@socapglobal.com).
The final third is curated directly by the SOCAP team to create sessions designed specifically for fostering relationships and building meaningful, long-lasting connections. These sessions aim to provide attendees with opportunities to network, share ideas, and work together on transformative solutions.
Through this aligned and collective framework, SOCAP25 promises to deliver a program that champions diversity, sparks innovation, and mobilizes the community to make a lasting impact on the future of our global economy.
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