Locations (Venue): Impact Lab 3

Mission Neptune: Exploring the Ocean, Renewing Abundance

Tue 16 Sep 2025, 4:30 pm (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 3 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

Abundance today means reconciling economy and ecology — proving that prosperity can grow from protection. Nowhere is this clearer than in the ocean. By investing in a regenerative blue economy, we can restore ecosystems while creating jobs, securing food, and generating long-term value. Science and innovation — from exploration to data, biotechnology, and marine energy — are the engines of this vision. Through the Neptune Mission, launched after the UN Ocean Conference in Nice, we aim to turn ambition into action: implementing the High Seas Treaty with new marine protected areas and shared scientific capacity. The ocean is our renewed abundance.

From Start-Up to System Shift: Redesigning the Climate Innovation Landscape

Tue 16 Sep 2025, 3:00 pm (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 3 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

Realizing the full potential of climate innovation demands more than technology—it demands transformation. While groundbreaking climate solutions are emerging across Asia and the world, many remain disconnected from the systems they aim to change. Start-ups face fragmented support, short-term expectations, and limited pathways to scale—especially when their impact defies conventional ROI metrics.

This session convenes a new generation of climate entrepreneurs, investors, and ecosystem architects to reimagine what it takes to move from breakthrough idea to real-world transformation. We’ll spotlight founders who are regenerating ecosystems, healing communities, and reframing growth as service to life—not just shareholder value. Together, we’ll ask: how do we fund, scale, and support innovation that doesn’t just solve for carbon, but redefines value itself?

This is not a pitch competition. It’s a call to redesign the very systems that support climate innovation—from capital and community to narrative and policy.

Driving Impact Through Systems Innovation: A Climate KIC Academy Workshop

Tue 16 Sep 2025, 1:30 pm (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 3 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

In a world defined by accelerating complexity, no single solution, leader, or institution can solve the challenges we face. What’s needed is a shift—not just in tools or policies, but in how we see, relate, and act within systems.

This interactive workshop—led by Climate-KIC, Europe’s leading climate innovation agency—invites participants into a hands-on journey of systems thinking in action. You’ll learn frameworks that help you navigate uncertainty, uncover leverage points, and build personal and organisational resilience. Through real-world application, collaborative reflection, and practical exercises, you’ll gain the tools to envision and catalyse transformative change in your own sphere of influence. Because systems change doesn’t begin out there—it begins with how we show up within the systems we are part of.

Beneath the Waves: Catalytic Stewardship from the OceanXplorer

Wed 17 Sep 2025, 3:45 pm (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 3 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

Step aboard OceanX’s state-of-the-art research vessel, the OceanXplorer, for a rare glimpse into the hidden world of the deep ocean. Guided by Mario Tadinac, Media & Mixed Reality Technology Specialist, this immersive storytelling session will transport you to the heart of a live expedition in Indonesian waters.

Through powerful visuals and real-time footage from submersibles, ROVs, and advanced mapping tools, you will explore uncharted seamounts, survey vibrant coral reefs, and witness marine biodiversity. Learn how science, storytelling, and public engagement converge aboard the OceanXplorer to spark partnerships, inform policy, and strengthen community-led marine conservation. You will leave with a deeper understanding of the ocean’s role in our shared future and clear ideas for how institutions and leaders can help protect and restore its health.

From “Interconnection to Integration”: Advancing Regional Energy Cooperation for a Low-Carbon, Competitive ASEAN Economy

Thu 18 Sep 2025, 10:30 am (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 3 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

The energy transition in ASEAN is not solely a technological challenge, but also a structural and economic one. Advancing national energy goals in isolation will fall short; instead, a coordinated regional approach is essential to ensure energy remains reliable, affordable, and sustainable—while bolstering economic resilience and industrial competitiveness.

ASEAN has laid important groundwork through initiatives such as the ASEAN Power Grid, the ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation (APAEC), and the Enhanced ASEAN Power Grid MoU. The next step is to shift from fragmented national efforts to a coherent regional system, underpinned by harmonised infrastructure, regulatory frameworks, and financing strategies.

This session convenes energy ministers, multilateral banks, regulators, and planners to explore how greater regional integration can accelerate both the energy transition and economic transformation. Coordinated power systems have the potential to reduce costs, attract investment, and strengthen ASEAN’s industrial competitiveness in a decarbonizing global market.

From “Load to Leverage”: Aligning Digital Infrastructure with Energy System Transformation in ASEAN

Thu 18 Sep 2025, 11:30 am (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 3 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

ASEAN is at a pivotal moment as digital infrastructure rapidly expands, and governments push to improve access to affordable, reliable, and clean energy. Without careful coordination, these dual priorities risk clashing—putting pressure on power grids, slowing decarbonization efforts, and entrenching inefficiencies. However, with strategic frameworks, digital infrastructure can become an asset rather than a burden in ASEAN’s energy transition.

As the region’s digital economy grows, data infrastructure—particularly hyperscale data centers—is emerging as a significant energy consumer. Yet, if effectively integrated, these hyperscale’s can help tackle the very challenges they contribute to. They can anchor investment in clean energy, support grid resilience, and promote regional energy integration.

The question now is whether ASEAN can bypass outdated models and position itself as a global leader in aligning digital growth with a sustainable energy future. With the right policies and collaboration, the region has a unique opportunity to shape a model where digital and energy transitions work hand in hand.

The Fifth Element: Learning, Life & the Future — Catalysing Regenerative Systems

Thu 18 Sep 2025, 9:00 am (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 3 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

We live in a world where fragmentation of knowledge and sectors into bubble logics and the imperative of one-dimensional growth have deepened our collective crises from climate breakdown to widening inequality. The Fifth Element, an initiative by the Club of Rome, invites us to reimagine learning not as instruction, but as a living, relational practice rooted in life’s complexity. In a truly regenerative economy, one that fosters inclusive and sustainable prosperity, learning is not secondary to change; it becomes the core element of any strategy and the medium through which change becomes possible. Regenerative organisations, led by regenerative leaders, move their strategy beyond sustainability and circularity toward a net-positive impact on people and planet and they do so by embracing learning at the depth required, not as a silo but as culture in motion.

This session calls upon leaders, professionals, and change-makers of all ages to engage in intergenerational and intercultural learning alliances for regeneration, spaces where ancestral wisdom meets scientific inquiry, and community practice meets systems thinking. Together, we aim to explore how learning that is embedded in life itself can seed the skills, literacies, and worldviews we need to transform our economies and societies.

From Climate Talk to Climate Action: Storytelling, Youth Aspirations & Collective Impact

Wed 17 Sep 2025, 4:30 pm (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 3 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

This interactive session blends hands-on science communication with a high-energy, youth-led panel to explore how storytelling, digital media, and intergenerational dialogue can turn scientific knowledge into collective climate action.

Participants will dive into the power of science communication — learning how to make biodiversity personal and visible, to reframe overlooked urban nature, and activating citizen science to transform passive observation into public stewardship. It will also spotlight youth climate aspirations and how younger generations are reshaping the way we communicate, collaborate, and care for the planet. By building bridges between generations and disciplines, this session aims to spark a shared culture of environmental responsibility — one story, one voice, one action at a time.

Real Stories, Bold Actions, A Call to Collective Courage

Wed 17 Sep 2025, 2:30 pm (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 3 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

In a world on fire, your story matters—what will you risk, what will you heal, what will you stand for?

Beyond the data and the frameworks, the most powerful driver of change is human courage. This closing session lifts up real stories of people and organisations who turned conviction into action—shaping a regenerative future one bold experiment at a time. As we listen, reflect, and share our own aspirations, we invite each other to go beyond incremental steps and become agents of transformative change—rooted in the shared story of our Earth.

Can Technology Innovation Heal What It Once Harmed?

Wed 17 Sep 2025, 1:30 pm (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 3 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

If our technology is smarter than our hearts, it will never serve the Earth—can we design tools that honour the intelligence of nature itself?

Once seen as a driver of environmental harm, climate tech is now racing to redeem itself. This session brings together climate investors backing innovations from carbon removal to regenerative agtech to explore a powerful question: How can we design and harness technologies that work with nature, rather than override it?

With a focus on ecological impact, panelists will share bold ideas, ethical guardrails, and the shifts needed to ensure that technology amplifies nature’s intelligence, not replace it. Because in nature, nothing goes to waste. Can we say the same of what we fund?