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WORKSHOP SALONS
FROM CURIOSITY TO CLARITY
DEEP DIVE
THEMES, TRENDS & OPPORTUNITIES
Intimate, curated sessions where Asia Pacific's leading family offices and impact investors dive deep into specific themes, regions and asset approaches.
Thematic Salons turn curiosity into clarity for impact investors navigating complex issues and regions. Inspired by our Thematic Clusters, each salon is a small facilitated convening dedicated to one topic, such as investing in biodiversity oceans or sustainable food, tackling greenwashing with fintech, or advancing mental well being and social innovation in Asia Pacific. By bringing together experienced practitioners and peers with shared questions, these sessions help refine your thesis, surface blind spots and translate emerging insights into focused and actionable strategies.
OVERVIEW
Whether you choose to deep dive into critical impact themes at our Thematic Salons or hear exciting startups pitch their innovative solutions at our Innovation Lab, every interaction promises to generate the systemic energy required to power an entire region. The paths lie before you. The choice is yours.
Thematic Track
ROUND A
13:30 - 14:45
ROUND B
15:05 - 16:20
Climate Adaptation & Environmental Markets
Salon 1:
Investing in Resilience: Securing Long-Term Value in a Changing Climate
Salon 5:
Unlocking Markets Through Collective Catalytic Capital
Stewardship & Intergenerational Capital
Salon 2:
Accelerating Your Family’s Journey as a NextGen
Salon 6:
Values-Aligned Investment Framework : Integrating Faith and Purpose in Family Office Portfolios
Capital Stack Design & Market Unlocking
Salon 3:
Ocean Impact Across the Capital Spectrum
Salon 7:
Spectrum Blended Finance in Practice : How Philanthropy Unlocks Social Investment
Scaling Impact
Across Asia
Salon 4:
Regional Synergies – Advancing Impact Across Asia Pacific
Innovation Lab
Part 1:
Lightning Pitches & Investor Q&A
Part 2:
Lightning Pitches & Investor Q&A
ROUND A
Choose one Session
13:30 – 14:45
1
Salon 1
Climate Adaptation & Environmental Markets
Investing in Resilience: Securing Long-Term Value in a Changing Climate
Join us for a dynamic discussion on how embedding resilience into your assets and portfolios can drive long-term investment value whilst addressing the climate and nature imperative. Through real-world case studies and expert insights, participants will explore practical ways to leverage cutting-edge solutions and tap into the rapidly growing market for climate adaptation.
The conversation will span from fortifying core business operations to transforming entire investment portfolios, highlighting actionable approaches reshaping environmental risk into strategic, future-proof advantage. Participants will leave with practical tools, new perspectives, and valuable connections to help advance both sustainability goals and investment returns.
SPEAKERS
Marie-Laure Schaufelberger
Chief Sustainability Officer
Pictet Group
Christine Loh
Chief Development Strategist at the Institute for the Environment
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Alan Chan
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
Full Vision Capital
2
Salon 2
Stewardship & Intergenerational Capital
Accelerating Your Family's Journey as a NextGen
Getting your family to join, shift or accelerate the impact investing and philanthropy journey you've begun as a NextGen can be challenging. This session, facilitated by specialists from Barclays who have inspired, engaged, and connected hundreds of families on similar journeys, will provide insights from their experience, tools you can adopt, and a chance to hear and learn from your peers. Designed for family members who want support to assess likely obstacles and to be better equipped to overcome them, it clarifies how you can increase your influence within your family, and beyond.
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SPEAKERS
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Damian Payiatakis
Head of Sustainable & Impact Investing
Barclays Private Bank
Juliet Agnew
Head of Philanthropy
Barclays Private Bank
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Carissa He
Head of Impact
ACTMAX
3
Salon 3
Capital Stack Design & Market Unlocking
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Ocean Impact Across the Capital Spectrum
Oceans underpin climate stability, food security, and economic resilience — yet remain significantly undercapitalised. This interactive Salon convenes funders spanning philanthropy, catalytic capital, blended finance, and impact investing to examine how capital across the spectrum can be strategically aligned. Participants will explore how to sequence funding, share risk, and unlock scalable solutions — mobilising larger pools of capital to accelerate a regenerative and resilient blue economy.
SPEAKERS
James Lindsay
Director Investments
Builders Vision
Patti Chu
Managing Director
Mana Impact
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Clare Shakya
Global Managing Director of Climate
The Nature Conservancy
Tina Chan
Group Head of Philanthropy
Swire Trust
4
Salon 4
Scaling Impact Across Asia Pacific
Regional Synergies: Advancing Impact Across East Asia
This Salon will explore the evolving impact investing landscape across South Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong as a lens into the broader development of an East Asia–based impact ecosystem. The discussion will examine regional trends, shared challenges, and emerging opportunities for cross-border collaboration. Expanding beyond these markets, it will also consider how East Asia connects with and contributes to the wider Asia Pacific impact investing community, highlighting pathways for deeper regional integration and ecosystem building.
SPEAKERS
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Motoi Kawabata
Impact Catalyst, Impact Economy Lab
Japan Social Innovation and Investment Foundation
Wonsik Jeong
Senior Investment Manager
D3 Jubilee Partners
Innovation Lab
Innovation Lab
The Innovation Lab showcases early-stage ventures working on climate, oceans, inclusion and other critical challenges across Asia Pacific. In fast-paced lightning pitches, founders will share the challenges they are solving, how their model works, and what type of capital they need to scale. The session is designed to maximise interaction: short pitches, focused Q&A, and plenty of time to connect with founders throughout the day in the Innovation Lab zone.
FEATURED PITCHES TO BE ANNOUNCED.
5
Innovation Lab
Innovation Lab
The Innovation Lab showcases early-stage ventures working on climate, oceans, inclusion and other critical challenges across Asia Pacific. In fast-paced lightning pitches, founders will share the challenges they are solving, how their model works, and what type of capital they need to scale. The session is designed to maximise interaction: short pitches, focused Q&A, and plenty of time to connect with founders throughout the day in the Innovation Lab zone.
FEATURED PITCHES TO BE ANNOUNCED.
Salon 6:
Unlocking Markets Through Collective Catalytic Capital
Innovation Lab
ROUND B
Choose one Session
15:05 – 16:20
5
Salon 5
Climate Adaptation & Environmental Markets
Unlocking Markets Through Collective Catalytic Capital
This Salon will examine the understated power of aligned investors whose individual commitments, intentionally structured and aggregated, can form vehicles able to absorb risk, send credible market signals, and unlock significantly larger flows of capital.
Through a nuanced conversation on blended finance, shared standards, and cross-sector collaboration, we will explore how coordinated pools of purpose-driven capital can shift incentives, widen access in overlooked markets, and catalyse durable, inclusive, climate-aligned growth at meaningful scale.
SPEAKERS
Chii-Fen Hiu
Director
Centre for Impact Investing and Practices, Temasek Trust
Marie Ekeland
Founder and CEO
2050
6
Salon 6
Stewardship & Intergenerational Capital
Values-Aligned Investment Framework: Integrating Faith and Purpose in Family Office Portfolios
A practical and interactive framework designed for family offices, faith-aligned investors, and institutional stewards exploring how to translate deeply held values into investment practice. This session bridges timeless principles of stewardship with modern portfolio implementation, providing practical frameworks alongside real-world stories from family offices navigating values alignment. Participants will learn systematic approaches to values-based capital allocation, ways to integrate both impact and financial objectives, measurement aligned with faith principles, and actionable strategies for whole-of-portfolio alignment across asset classes and generations.
SPEAKERS
Ivan Chew
Deputy Chief Investment Officer
Brightlight
Samuel Richards
Managing Director
Brightlight
7
Salon 7
Capital Stack Design
Blended Finance in Practice: How Philanthropy Unlocks Social Investment
Increasingly, the most urgent question in strategic philanthropy is not just what to fund, but how philanthropic capital can unlock far greater flows of capital for impact. This session explores how next-generation philanthropists can leverage their resources beyond grant-making, but as catalytic capital that can absorb risk, strengthen organisations, and unlock investment through tools such as first-loss capital, guarantees, impact funds, and ecosystem building.
Bringing together leaders from across the field – including practitioners working at the intersection of philanthropy and social investment — the conversation will examine how funders can move beyond traditional giving to design capital stacks that drive systems change. Speakers will explore the tensions and opportunities involved, moving beyond feel-good philanthropy to interrogate what rigorous, effective, and equitable capital deployment looks like in practice.
SPEAKERS
Bonnie Chiu
Managing Director
The Social Investment Consultancy
Lawrence Tsang
Chief Executive Officer
The D. H. Chen Foundation
Martin Tan
Chief Executive Officer
The Majurity Trust
Innovation Lab
Innovation Lab
The Innovation Lab showcases early-stage ventures working on climate, oceans, inclusion and other critical challenges across Asia Pacific. In fast-paced lightning pitches, founders will share the challenges they are solving, how their model works, and what type of capital they need to scale. The session is designed to maximise interaction: short pitches, focused Q&A, and plenty of time to connect with founders throughout the day in the Innovation Lab zone.