The Next Horizon of Social Innovation
Wed 17 Sep 2025, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
If social innovation depends on extraction to survive, is it really innovation? What if every solution seeded dignity and scaled itself?
As investment paradigms shift to serve a well-being economy, so too must our vision of social innovation. No longer can social initiatives be confined to short-term impact or charitable models. To truly transform systems, social innovations must evolve into self-sustaining, regenerative enterprises—capable of scaling impact without perpetual subsidies.
This plenary reimagines social innovation as a bold design strategy for the future economy. We will showcase a series of powerful case studies to unpack the substance of that success. What are the principles, practices, and pathways that can be adapted and scaled elsewhere? Through catalytic insights and grounded conversation, we’ll explore what it takes for social solutions to become investable, adaptable, and rooted in the logic of long-term value creation. We’ll also examine how integrated capital stacks—from grant capital to impact-first equity—can support models that generate both income and impact, and how social entrepreneurs can design for durability, dignity, and depth.
