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Road to Impact 🇮🇹

A meeting point for Italian corporate impact leaders, in partnership with Assifero. [in Italian]

Registration & Welcome Lunch

When Business Meets Impact

Integrating social and environmental impact into business strategy is key to ensure long-term success and resilience for the corporate. Indeed, embracing impact can be a way to reduce regulatory risk, attract and retain talent, and generate more shareholder value  in the medium- to long-run. But what about other benefits, like opening new revenue streams and lowering costs? Where are the limits to what impact can do for business? Join us and find out!

Embracing cooperation works, too. We'll explore the example of the Science Based Targets initiative, an initiative set to drive ambitious climate action in the private sector by enabling organisations to set science-based emissions reduction targets.

Impact Ready: How to influence corporate impact journey?

Only corporate readiness can make the pioneering ideas of  corporate impact actors reality. The big question is whether corporate decision-makers are sufficiently aware of this effect. We'll hear from leaders creating more coherence between impact and business agendas to serve their purpose, and empowering their sustainability and ESG teams, corporate foundations and impact funds to deliver on their goals for positive social change.

Break

Impact Highway: What's on the road to purpose-led corporate transformation?

Examine the culture shift of embedding impact into long term core strategy and planning of business. Let’s discuss the role of impact considerations across all major functions of the company (procurement, finance, HR, M&A, R&D); how to develop a deep understanding of stakeholders’ needs/expectations, willingness to invest patient capital, the ability to challenge choices contradictory to purpose/sustainability ambitions. Look at how board support to CEO & C-suite creates a management system more empowered and incentivized to make decisions for the long-term benefit of the company and society.

On Top of Impact: What's inside the CEO's mind?

What’s on the minds of today’s impact-driven CEOs? We'll get unique insights into their motivations to embark on the sustainable and inclusive business transformation journey – and, more importantly, what’s holding back acceleration. Outside of the C-suite, corporate social investors (CSIs) that want to influence their related company need the buy-in of the CEO, and therefore need to understand what’s necessary to create a convincing business case. Join the conversation for a deep dive on sustainable business transformation, driven by senior leaders’ perspectives.

A World of Potential

Suitable for visitors of all ages and focused on personal awareness, The Human Safety Net's A World of Potential exhibition offers visitors a fun and playful experience to understand and connect with their character strengths while also enabling them to see the best qualities in the people around them.

The Home of The Human Safety Net Tour

Reception

Business of Impact Dinner

Come Together for Youth

There are 1.2 billion young people aged 15 to 24 years across the globe - 16% of the global population. Youth development, in particular through education and employment, is one of the pressing challenges – and opportunities – of our times. Empowering young people is crucial to achieve just, green and inclusive societies. And youth employment and skills development isn’t just socially important – it’s also crucial for building a stellar talent pool for the impactful companies of the future. EVPA, in partnership with Schneider Electric Foundation, launched a new Youth Initiative to gather a community of practice that can work together to identify innovative and long-term solutions, catalyse collaboration and effective mobilisation of resources. The initiative is an opportunity to connect and engage the impact community for youth empowerment, with the end goal of launching collective and systemic actions.

Putting S in ESG

This session explores the barriers and strategies for contributing to the S in ESG, offering research-driven insights and a balance of perspectives. The workshop builds on the results of EVPA’s recent report, focused on CSIs, and the corporate perspective from Thomson Reuters Foundation. Join us to find out how to contribute to the S and maximise impact – while maintaining impact integrity.

Corporate Impact Investing

Speakers will explore how a corporate impact investing strategy may complement the philanthropic approach and contribute to the purpose of their company. The discussion will also highlight different models of deploying capital and discuss opportunities and challenges and opportunities for each. A diversity of speakers will showcase how they put corporate impact investing into practice.

Corporate Impact Measurement and Management

This workshop offers a look at how an established practice for impact – impact measurement and management (IMM) – can have applications for influencing the corporate impact journey, especially when strategic alignment between CSIs and corporate purpose is close. Can IMM provide CSIs with a blueprint for influence? Can employee engagement play a role? Let’s discuss!

CSI Empowerment and Visibility

Empowering CSIs is a clear path for accelerating corporate impact, and this workshop has actionable strategies for making empowerment a reality. We’ll show what it means for CSIs to contribute to senior management’s strategic discussions on purpose definition and sustainability. We’ll examine why joint governance is necessary (strategy/ CSI/ sustainability/ employee engagement) to create coherence between impact and business agendas. The C-suite can move toward net positive goals by understanding CSIs’ internal positioning and contribution to purpose and sustainability; this workshop shows the steps on that journey.

Financial Inclusion

Although a lot of progress has been made in promoting financial inclusion, billions of people in developed and emerging markets remain financially underserved. 54% of adults in developing economies had an account in 2014, up from 41% in 2011 – but 2 billion adults remain unbanked. What can banks and their foundations do to improve the situation for the financially excluded of this world?

Break

Come Together for Climate, Food & Energy

Shaping collective corporate impact action

Building the Business Case for Impact

Influencing business models: To make a company more inclusive and sustainable, start with the value chain – specifically supply chain and product and service development. This workshop will discuss successful solutions for using these entry points to drive more impact. We’ll also hear from CSIs on how they can implement these actions in their context. It all adds up to a more robust business case for impact and a more significant positive influence on business models.

Employee Engagement

This workshop shows how CSIs and corporate employees can find synergies for more impact. CSIs have a unique opportunity to mobilise corporate resources. Employees are a key asset because of their skills, expertise and knowledge, and because they can provide valuable support to CSIs’ portfolio organisations. But what are the most effective strategies for mobilisation? Which employee skills are frequently leveraged and which remain untapped? We’ll answer these questions and more, with a look at how employee engagement can drive more impact.

Impacting the Value Chain

To make a company more inclusive and sustainable, you need to aim for the value chain. There are two main entry points to achieve that goal: supply chain, and product and service development. During this session, successful solutions for these entry points and CSIs will discuss how they can implement them in their own context.

Migration

Millions of refugees have arrived in Europe in recent years, many of whom have the skills, the passion and the resilience to be successful entrepreneurs. Even when refugees are granted official status, they face special challenges when they want to launch a new business. Many find themselves confronted with complex regulations, an unfamiliar work culture, language barriers and difficulties obtaining accreditation. How can CSIs increase the access for this group to the labour market? Can they leverage their connection to a company?

A World of Potential

Suitable for visitors of all ages and focused on personal awareness, The Human Safety Net's A World of Potential exhibition offers visitors a fun and playful experience to understand and connect with their character strengths while also enabling them to see the best qualities in the people around them.

Lunch

Come Together for Health

Shaping collective corporate impact action 

Captains of Impact

Ashoka published the report “On the minds of CEO’s”. It provides unique insides into the motivations of CEOs to embark on the sustainable and inclusive business transformation journey, but more importantly what is holding them back to accelerate it. CSIs that want to influence their related company need the buy-in of the CEO and therefore need to understand what is needed to create a convincing business case.

Industry Transformation

Among the most ambitious CSIs are the ones who are aspiring to transform a whole industry. Such an effort can of course not be done by one actor alone. Hear from pioneering CSIs how they engage with unusual stakeholders among which sometimes even competitors to improve the standards within their related company’s industry.

Yes She Can!

Empowering women is essential to the health and social development of families, communities and countries. When women are living safe, fulfilled and productive lives, they can reach their full potential. contributing their skills to the workforce and can raise happier and healthier children. They are also able to help fuel sustainable economies and benefit societies and humanity at large.

E&S

We’ll take a close look at how the E and S are intertwined, further showing how the most carefully considered strategies can add up to more impact for all.

A World of Potential

Suitable for visitors of all ages and focused on personal awareness, The Human Safety Net's A World of Potential exhibition offers visitors a fun and playful experience to understand and connect with their character strengths while also enabling them to see the best qualities in the people around them.

Break

Back to Business

What's next for the business of impact?

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