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Sustainable Innovation 2019 will provide a platform to discuss future visions of how sustainability will impact on business models, products, services, technologies, innovation and design in 2030. Sustainable Innovation 2019 will include invited and refereed papers from academics, consultants, entrepreneurs, technology providers, designers, and innovation and sustainability directors. The international conference will create a unique space for learning, networking and thinking. Delegates will come globally from large companies, SMEs and start-ups, as well as academia, government and non-governmental organizations.

This year’s theme, "Africa Forward: Forging New Alliances for the Future", recognises calls for increased intra-regional trade, direct investment, and collaborative innovation from thought leaders in African business, macroeconomics and politics.The conference will bring together over 1,000 people from the African continent and the diaspora to explore this theme through inspirational keynote sessions and interactive panel discussions.

Nonprofit organizations have moved well past the time when technology and data were treated as standalone entities. Now they are an integral and critical part of our organization’s operations, on par with fundraising, communications, and other core functions. And like those other core functions, we must examine our technology and data strategies to properly evaluate and prioritize our needs and successfully build our digital capacity. How we do this is the theme of this year’s "Data on Purpose 2019: “Navigating the Digital Now.”

SSIR will assemble leading experts and scholars to weave together the latest research- and practice-based insights from data scientists and researchers, nonprofit and foundation leaders, policymakers, and other prominent experts, to help identify what is truly important, versus simply what is possible or what is urgent. 

The Latin American Impact Investing Forum has positioned itself as the most important gathering of social entrepreneurship and impact investing in Latin America. Since 2011, the FLII facilitates meetings and dialogues between the main actors from different sectors across the region: social and environmental companies, corporates, investment funds, foundations, NGO's, business schools, business media, among others. 

Since it's inception in 2014, Sankalp Africa has become one of the region's leading events for social entrepreneurship and impact investing. The summit witnesses hundreds of game changing social entrepreneurs interact with investors and ecosystem builders every year. The 6th edition will take place in Nairobi.

The third annual Investing for Impact event will analyse:

• Where the worlds of corporate bosses and seasoned impact investors align and where they collide
• The possibility of making every investment an impact investment
• The realities for leaders of funds, companies and NGOs alongside the rise of impact investing
• Impact investing spin vs substance
• The varying meanings of purpose for companies and investors 

The Summit will bring together a diverse group of funders and resource providers from Myanmar and the Asian region to discuss collaborative and outcome-focused social investment strategies and opportunities. From corporate philanthropy to CSR to impact investing, the conference will cover a range of investment approaches, as well as concentrate on selected impact areas and AVPN’s curated selection of Social Purpose Organisations – NGOs and social enterprises – listed on its Deal Share Platform.

The event offers a rich blend of presentations, workshops and networking opportunities framed by the State of Green Business report that analyses key sustainability metrics and trends.

The ARE Energy Access Investment Forum is a well-established political exchange and business supporting platform to assist ARE members, partners, panellists, participants and interested stakeholders from the private and public sector in their efforts to run their clean energy access activities more effectively by:

• getting informed early on about future off-grid sector developments and upcoming initiatives and
• identifying and getting introduced to the most interesting actors to present their own business proposals

With a lack of national leadership, business must lead the way to a sustainable, clean and responsible future. The environmental threats facing the planet are unprecedented, and it’s up to businesses and investors to provide the blueprint for innovations which will create a global economy fit for purpose and one that prospers. The Responsible Business Summit New York is North America’s leading platform where global businesses gather to create partnerships, share practical insights and shape the future sustainability agenda.