Agenda
Day 1
The SDGs Five Years On
- A summary of the SDGs, successes and failures.
- Understanding the business relevance of the SDGs on strategy and financial performance.
- Creating new markets? The role of business/government in innovation.
- Understanding the business relevance of the SDGs on strategy and financial performance.
- Environmental sustainability at the heart of growth strategy.
New Business Models for a Sustainable World
- An Assessment of the World’s Natural and Social Capital.
- Redefining Business, Redefining ‘the ‘Bottom Line’.
- B-Corps.
- The Co-operative movement: old idea, more relevant than ever.
- Understanding changing patterns in the concept of “Value”.
- Harnessing the SDGs for future strategy and growth.
The Circular Economy
- Transitioning from a Linear to a Circular industrial strategy.
- Deriving Value from the Circular Economy.
- The Circular Economy as a source of innovation and industrial renewal in Europe.
- Technology and the Circular Economy: new innovations and trends.
- Circular Economy Investment Opportunities:
– Recycling and Waste Management.
– Packaging Design and New Solutions.
The Future of Food
- Plant based foods and a shifting protein landscape.
- Preventing food waste.
- Innovations in Ecological and Sustainable Farming.
- Aquaculture.
- New Agricultural Technologies driving Sustainability.
Sustainable Cities and Communities
- Financing Sustainable Infrastructure.
- Unlocking finance for low-carbon urban investments.
- Sustainable Infrastructure and Transport:
– Mobility and Transport.
– Low Emission Vehicles.
– Eco-building and the Built Environment.
– Urban Waste and Water Management.
Day 2
Impact Investment
- Introduction to Impact Investing and the SDGs.
- Understand the difference between ESG and Impact Investing.
- Generating financial returns and Impact: is this possible?
- Taking Impact Investing into the mainstream.
- Large Enterprises: Transitioning towards Impact.
Inclusive Financial Services
- Applying the “Triple Bottom Line” to Banking.
- Banks and Societal Purpose: influencing mainstream banks to adopt Impact strategies.
- Meeting human needs in the real economy.
- Values-Based Banks: a model for the future?
Affordable Housing and Property
- Addressing the UK Housing crisis via Social Finance.
- Funding Solutions for Housing Associations and Local Authorities.
- Sources of capital to unlock and facilitate the delivery of UK housing.
- Investment Opportunities: Affordable Housing and Property.
Healthcare and Social Care
- Responsible Pharma. Improving access to medicine.
- Evaluating how Impact Investment can support a new social care system.
- Social Enterprises with disruptive healthcare technology.
- Innovative models to support the integration of health and social care.
