Last week the impact investment summit took place with the 2023 program titled “Mainstreaming Impact – Collective Courage, Wisdom and Action’. Now in its 7th year, it has been growing rapidly since inception with its origination seeded in bringing like-minded people of purpose together to learn, connect and help to equip themselves with the tools they need to mobilise capital (financial & resource) towards impact & impact investing. The conference spanned the full depth and breadth of impact from gender lens investing, first nations funds, the current state of play of impact investing, the role of decarbonisation in climate change, regenerative agriculture, the role of philanthropy in impact and so much more.
I was given the opportunity to speak on a panel ‘Creative solutions for driving impact in family offices’ alongside Adam Milgrom (Tripple), Fergus McKenna (Barlow Impact Group) and Andy Davy Hou (Just World) moderated by Lillian Kline (Impact Outfit). Our conversation discussed the journeys of each family office to impact, what helped accelerate the shift and creative solutions we have needed to deploy to tackle barriers along the way.
Later that day, I was also part of a panel with other impact investment award winners from 2022 led by Social Impact Hub founder Jessica Mendoza-Roth. Alberts were alongside organisations The Snow Foundation, LendforGood, Conscious Investment Management and Covidence.org where we illustrated our work from 2022 that led to our win and what’s ahead in 2023.
There were many insights from the two-day conference to help the sector accelerate further towards impact, but the critical importance of sharing, partnership and collaboration was a clear theme that came through on almost every panel. On behalf of Alberts, we invite those on a similar journey to impact to reach out to us, our doors are always open.
