2024 ASIA IMPACT NIGHTS
Forum & Retreat on Oct 16 - 18
“Investing in a Sustainable Future of Asia”
Asia Impact Nights brings together a diverse group of investors, asset managers, philanthropists, and recognized thought leaders from around the world to Jeju for the reflection and discussion on scaling up impact and sustainable investing in Asia. This is a forum and retreat with 150 people gathering, including speakers and attendees by invitation only. Featured speakers in the past events include Lisa and Charly Kleissner(co-founder of Toniic), Annie Chen(RS Group), Jed Emerson(Tiedemann Advisors), Fleur Pellerin(Korelya Capital), Dominic Mellor(ADB Ventures), Arun Asok(Bamboo Capital Partners), Ingrid Kylstad(Katapult Ocean), Eugenia Koh(Standard Chartered), Nami Chung(Asan Nanum Foundation), Nicholas Parker(Parker Venture Management) and Kelvin Chiu(Silverstrand Capital). The first Asia Impact Nights took place in 2016, and we welcome the 5th event for this year.
Opening Remarks
Welcome to Asia Impact Nights 2024! Thank you all for being here.
We often rush decisions without deep thought, yet act slowly when speed is crucial. This is especially true in responding to climate change, pandemic and conflicts.
Asia Impact Nights brings together investors, philanthropists, businesses, and non-profits to boost impact investing in Asia and beyond. This is our 5th event since 2016. Asia Impact Nights is not an initiative of D3 Jubilee Partners alone, but always collaborated with many friends in Korea and overseas, particularly with Toniic, which is a trailblazer in the global impact investing scene.
I would like to express my gratitude to my D3 team, our partners, and sponsors, especially Asan Nanum Foundation and AWS for making this possible.
As we start, I would like to set the tone with two principles which I learned from the Toniic community.
- Bring your whole self, not just your job title
- Don’t sell, but share your ideas plainly
- Everyone's voice matters - we're all here to learn
Last week a Korean writer Han Kang became the first Asian woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her work challenges us to think about what it means to be human. Our world is wealthier than ever. At the same time, we are losing rapidly the abundance we have inherited from our ancestors and nature. The foundation of our civilization is fragile, with elements bound together in a grim cycle. Where should we begin to untenable this thread?
Amadeo Giannini, Founder of Bank of America, said that serving the needs of others is the only legitimate of business today.
Wealth must serve humanity. Otherwise, it may forfeit its mandate to help our lives thrive. We need change, and we know that system change begins with a profound shift in mindset.
Let's use these two days to explore how we can employ our minds and hands to create positive change in Asia and beyond.
Thank you.
Doug Lee
Agenda
- Unlocking Private Impact Capital in Asia
- Catalytic and System Change Investing
- Decarbonizing Key Industries in Asia
- Climate Investing and Just Transition
- Next Generation & Family Office
- Climate Action & Reflection
Timetable
Oct 16 (Wed)
Retreat (recommended)
- 15:30
- Bus departs from Jeju Shilla Hotel
- 16:00~17:15
- Local Garden Tour: Veke Garden
- 17:30~18:30
- Jeju Olleh Trail 7 Course
- 19:00~20:30
- Local Dining
- 20:30
- Back to Jeju Shilla Hotel
Oct 17 (Thu)
Forum, Day 1
- 09:00
- Register
- 09:30~09:45
- Welcome & Intention Setting
- 09:45~10:15
- Keynote: How Our Clothing Explains the World & Our Role In It
- 10:15~10:45
- Keynote: AI & Frontier Tech as a force for good – building a responsible AI future, lucratively
- 10:45~11:25
- Fireside Chat: Welcoming the Next Million Impact Investors from Asia
- 11:25~12:15
- Panel: Next-Gen Family Office in Asia
- 12:15~13:30
- --- Lunch ---
- 13:30~14:20
- Track1: Decarbonizing Heavy Industry
- Track2: Decarbonizing Consumer Industry
- 14:20~15:10
- Track1: Investing for the Low Carbon Transition in Asia
- Track2: Climate Solutions with Social Integrity
- 15:10~15:40
- --- Break ---
- 15:40~16:30
- Panel: Climate Action & Policy
- 16:30~17:45
- Panel: Impact IPO (Part 1&2)
- 17:45~18:15
- Group Photo & Break
- 18:15~20:00
- --- Dinner + Sponsors Appreciation ---
- 20:00~21:00
- Wining
Oct 18 (Fri)
Forum, Day 2
- 06:45~07:45
- (Optional) Sunrise Mat Pilates
- 07:30~09:30
- --- Breakfast ---
- 09:30~09:40
- Welcome & Reflections from Day 1
- 09:40~10:00
- Keynote: Micro-finance to Macro Impact
- 10:00~11:40
- Workshop: System Change & Catalytic Capital
- 11:40~12:00
- Open Mic
- 12:00~13:00
- --- Lunch ---
- 13:00~14:00
- Regional Roundtable
- Track1: Japan - "Strategic Impact Partnerships"
- Track2: Southeast Asia - "Trends and Opportunities"
- 14:00~14:50
- Panel: Shaping the Next Phase of Korea Impact Investing from Reflection to Action
- 14:50~15:40
- Closing Keynote & Dialogue: What Dreams to Chase, and How to Pursue Them
- 15:40~16:00
- Audience Sharing & Closing
Program Details
*The timetable is tentative and subject to a change
2024 Speakers
We were thrilled to welcome a distinguished speakers and attendees, which will be added more :
Chief of Impact Economy Lab, Japan Social Innovation and Investment Foundation (SIIF)
Investment Manager, New Heritage Investments Limited
Programme Manager, C.F. & Nancy Tao Family Foundation
Programme Manager, C.F. & Nancy Tao Family Foundation
Managing Director, 1.5DO Climate Innovation Lab
Partner, Impact Hub Shanghai
Climate Director, SE Asia, Japan, Korea at Children Investment Fund Foundation
Impact Catalyst, Japan Social Innovation and Investment Foundation (SIIF)
Speakers Detail
Retreat
🧘 Yoga 🚵 Hiking 🥣 Local Dining 🧑🌾 Natural Gardening
The Venue of 2024: The Shilla Jeju
Join us in Jeju Island, South Korea to reconnect, recharge and rejuvenate and work towards a collective impact.
Public Transportation from Jeju International Airport to the venue:
Limousine Bus No. 601
Limousine Bus No. 601
- Operating Hours: 06:00 - 21:00
- Frequency: Every 50 minutes
- Boarding Location: Airport Arrival Hall, Gate 5
- Travel Time: Approximately 70 - 90 minutes
- Drop-off Location: Jeju Shilla Hotel
- Payment(4,500 KRW):
- QR - Code : Alipay, WeChat Pay, Octopus, OCBC etc(Find Here)
- T-money Card: buy at the CU convenience store at Gate 5
Previous Asia Impact Nights
The 4th Asia Impact Nights 2022 Sketch
Organizer
D3 Jubilee Partners is a venture firm dedicated to impact investing with USD 110M in AUM. Established in 2011 by a number of successful Korean entrepreneurs, the company invests on the interface of entrepreneurship, technology and social impact. The company opened its office in San Francisco where it became an early member of Toniic in 2012, and since then, actively present in the global impact investing scene. D3 has pioneered several initiatives to shape Korea's impact investing landscape; including, setting up an impact venture fund, social venture acceleration programs, and investor conferences, and also endeavored to uncover the enormous potential of Asia connecting with the global impact investing community. Asia Impact Nights was first launched in 2016, with the backdrop.
Sponsors & Partners
The Asan Nanum Foundation is a nonprofit foundationestablished in October 2011 to commemorate the 10th anniversaryof the death of Hyundai founder Chung Ju-yung. Since its inception, the Asan Nanum Foundation is carrying out various programs throughout the society to spread the entrepreneurship that inherited Asan's creative spirit. To foster the people and institutions that drive change into a better world, we want to create a foundation for young entrepreneurs and social innovators to challenge, grow and share under the vision of "A world where if you believe it, you can achieve it." To that end, we are promoting diverse programs spreading entrepreneurship, supporting young entrepreneurship, enhancing non-profit competency, and building innovation ecosystem.
AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering, with millions of global users depending on it every day. To build a sustainable business for our customers and for the world we all share, we’re designing data centers that provide the efficient, resilient service our customers expect while minimizing our environmental footprint—and theirs.
Toniic is a global community of over 500 high net wealth individuals, family office and foundation asset owners who are seeking deeper impact in investments, and in their lives. Our member include active impact investors, as well as those who are just beginning their journey. We provide peer-sharing opportunities, educational resources, and curated investments to our members, who use Toniic to amplify their positive net impact
The Climate+Positive Investing Alliance (C+PIA) cuts through greenwashing and empowers investors to align all portfolio assets with a Climate+Positive planet now, not decades in the future. Net Zero by 2050 pledges are at least a decade too late to keep global warming below the 1.5°C Paris Agreement targets, and truly solving climate change requires reducing GHG pollution to pre-industrial levels to reverse the damage that has already been done. To get there, we must help all portfolios become net Climate+Positive as quickly as possible, where the climate impacts from all investments fund more climate benefits than harm. C+PIA helps Members do the full Scope 1-3 climate math necessary to ensure that investments are really Climate+Positive solutions instead of greenwashed distractions. C+PIA Members pledge to make their portfolios aligned with net climate solutions instead of net climate pollution, while sharing best practices and supporting each other in this journey.