Upcoming events
Past events
Euclid Network Impact Summit
20 – 21 March 2024
The Hague, The Netherlands
About the event
The Euclid Network Impact Summit 2024 will create and strengthen meaningful connections between key impact leaders for a better world. It’s an opportunity to together align to effectively address global societal and environmental challenges and define innovative, sustainable solutions and partnerships. With the theme ‘Building Bridges – From Intention to Action’, the aim is to drive the important transformations of our time and reach together our common vision of a socially inclusive and sustainable society and economy.
Event website
https://summit2024.euclidnetwork.eu/
Our involvement
Our Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Specialist, Jens Andersson, will participate in a panel and workshop around Measuring Impact & ESG Reporting: The Importance & Where to Begin.
Åsa Skogström Feldt, our Managing Director, will be sharing more about our work on a panel titled Role of the Private Sector and Capital for Social Good on 20 April. She’ll also be participating in the panel Circular supply chains: challenges, opportunities, and a case study on the humanitarian sector on 21 March at 13:00 CET, as part of the World Sustainable Procurement Day's event hosted by the Sustainable Procurement Pledge (SPP).
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Impact Summit Europe
26 - 27 March
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
About the event
Impact Summit Europe is a highly curated institutional investor conference designed to bring together thought leaders and practitioners in impact investing with the objective to catalyse private institutional capital in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The Summit offers investors the practical instruments to increase their impact mandate, contributing to scale their positive impact on people and the planet. It also provides the necessary content and tools to start investing with impact.
Event website
https://impactevents.phenixcapitalgroup.com/impact-summit-europe
Our involvement
Gustavo Katz Braga, our Finance and Investment Specialist, be attending Impact Summit Europe to learn more about the challenges and opportunities in the impact investing space and share our approach to investing in social entrepreneurs across the globe.
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Waves Summit
3 – 4 April 2024
Helskini, Finland
Waves Forum for Changemakers is an ongoing platform that brings people together from different sectors and perspectives to discuss and address the most consequential topics of our time. The purpose of Waves is to challenge actors across different sectors to build a more sustainable future together, especially through social innovation.
At Waves you can develop as a changemaker, expand your networks, contribute to better collaborative responses to the complex challenges we face and celebrate transformative initiatives. Waves is a place to explore the deep emergent societal shifts.
Event website
https://www.ashoka.org/en-nrd/program/waves-summit-2024
Our involvement
Managing Director Åsa Skogström Feldt will be attending the Waves Summit, where she’ll be speaking on a panel titled Intergenerational learning: How can we support changemakers? She’ll be sharing more about what skills are needed in the future and how we cancreate a world where everyone is a changemaker.
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Ashoka Changemakers Summit
Hamburg, Germany
About the event
The Ashoka Changemaker Summit is Ashoka’s largest global gathering of changemakers.
Every year, the event brings together Ashoka’s global community of changemakers: social entrepreneurs, young changemakers, and leaders from business, government, and philanthropy to explore the most pressing issues of our time and together build a society in which everyone can contribute, participate, and actively engage in social change for the good of all.
Event website
https://community.ashoka.org/en/summit-2024
Our involvement
We'll be attending the event to connect with Ashoka fellows and social entrepreneurs in our Dela programme, co-created with Ashoka. We’ll be sharing more about our partnership with Ashoka to support entrepreneurs across the globe and promote intrapreneurship within IKEA.
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Read more about our partnership with Ashoka and the Dela programme
FLII
27 – 29 February 2024
Mérida, Mexico
About the event
FLII - Latin American Impact Investing Forum - is the leading summit in the Latin American Impact Investment sector that brings together investors, entrepreneurs, corporates, venture funds, organizations and relevant players of the impact ecosystem in Latin America,
Event website
www.flii.org
Our involvement
Gustavo Katz Braga, Finance and Investment Specialist at IKEA Social Entrepreneurship B.V, will be speaking on a panel on 28 February at 13:00 local time in Mexico. He’ll be talking on a panel titled ‘Investing in the 'Missing Middle': Unraveling the Complexities and Exploring Opportunities of Blended Finance’ where he’ll share more about setting up a fund with our partner, Viwala in Mexico.
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Read more about our fund with Viwala
Global Refugee Forum
Geneva, Switzerland
About the event
Held every four years, the Forum is the world’s largest international gathering on refugees, designed to support the practical implementation of the objectives set out in the Global Compact on Refugees: Ease pressures on host countries, enhance refugee self-reliance, increase access to third-country solutions and improve conditions in countries of origin.
Over 4,200 participants from 168 countries attended the Forum in 2023, including over 300 refugee delegates. A further 10,000 people followed the proceedings online.
Event website
www.unhcr.org/global-refugee-forum-2023
Our involvement
Managing Director Åsa Skogström Feldt will participate in the Global Refugee Forum as part of an IKEA delegation to represent our new and renewed commitments to support the integration of refugees across the IKEA business. With these commitments, we continue to support refugees in finding meaningful work, promoting their social inclusion, and empowering them to advocate for their rights.
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Read more about our pledge to support refugee integration
Impact Week
Turin, Italy
About the event
Impact Week, organised by Impact Europe (formerly the European Venture Philanthropic Association), is a unique opportunity for the global community of investing for impact changemakers to encounter cutting-edge ideas, discover new trends and engage with partners, old and new, to maximise their impact for people and the planet.
The annual conference as a chance to launch groundbreaking initiatives, foster unexpected partnerships and give every attendee a way to make their transformation count.
Event website
www.impactweek.eu/torino
Our involvement
Tirza Voss, our Social Impact Specialist, will co-host a workshop on Long-term Employment for Refugees together with NESsT, our partner for the Refugee Employment Initiative. The session focuses on the power of inclusive economies in addressing the needs of refugees and we’ll explore motivations, goals and learnings gathered from co-creating the Refugee Employment Initiative.
Managing Director Åsa Skogström Feldt will speak on the panel Business of Impact, discussing the role of corporates in the impact ecosystem and how we engage in the impact space through ambitious sustainability and corporate social impact strategies.
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