Types: Impact Forums & Labs

Gelephu Mindfulness City isn’t a Project, it’s a Term Sheet for Flourishing

Thu 18 Sep 2025, 8:45 am (GTM+8:00)
Impact Lab 1 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

At the Himalayan foothills, Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) is a Special Administrative Region and living experiment in redesigning the human construct—an urban platform where well-being, values, and human connection drive regeneration, resilience, and flourishing over extraction. As a trusted gateway for global partnerships and investment, GMC aligns investor confidence with Bhutan’s values-led model while enabling green industries, mindful tourism, finance, health, education, and technology.

Grounded in a new model for life—inner cultivation expressed as outward impact, it advances a philosophy where philanthropy, love, and sustainability are one. Using the OCTAVE concept as a reference lens—human-scale “code” informing city-scale choices—GMC elevates ecological stewardship and cultural integrity alongside modern economic drivers.

This session is the grounding: to turn vision into reality through co-creation among governments, philanthropies, investors, business, and communities to build a city where people and nature thrive. Through dialogue with visionary leaders, the session will highlight GMC’s global relevance—inviting governments, philanthropies, investors, private sector partners, and communities to co-create the future of cities.

Global Citizen Nights: Singapore

Thu 18 Sep 2025, 6:00 pm (GTM+8:00)
Impact Forum

Global Citizen Nights: Singapore will bring together artists and leaders for an unforgettable evening of music, culture, and purpose. As the culminating moment of IMPACT WEEK 2025, the event will feature electrifying performances by RRILEY, Galdive, and Jinan Laetitia, showcasing the power of creative expression to inspire action on global challenges from climate change to inequality all towards advancing the Well-being economy.

By weaving artistry with advocacy, Global Citizen Nights brings the themes of IMPACT WEEK to life,  transforming dialogue and commitments into a shared cultural experience. More than a concert, it is a call to action, closing the week with inspiration, connection, and momentum for lasting change.

Global Citizen x IMPACT WEEK: The Future of Education & Rethinking Systems

Tue 16 Sep 2025, 4:00 pm (GTM+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

Global Citizen believes the success of young people is the success of everyone. But classrooms cannot deliver if students are hungry, offline, or unwell. Ending extreme poverty means removing barriers to learning such as nutrition, healthcare, connectivity, reliable energy, safety, and equitable opportunity. Education is not a line item; it is a growth strategy that builds skills, jobs, and resilient communities.

This plenary also confronts the systems that shape progress. Multilateral frameworks, governance structures, and financial models are not permanent; they are choices. Reform is needed, from the very top to the grassroots, to sustain progress on education and development.

Curated by Global Citizen, the session will showcase the organisation’s unique advocacy model, demonstrating how citizen action can drive systemic reform, and how quality education delivers only when connected to healthcare, energy, and equity and how reimagining governance and finance can expand opportunity, supercharge development, and build a future that works for all.

The program blends keynotes, discussions, and performances with practical solutions and a public call to take action, so every young person has the chance not just to learn, but to lead.

Global Citizen x IMPACT WEEK: Climate & Power of Partnerships

Thu 18 Sep 2025, 11:45 am (GTM+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

Through campaigns like Protect the Amazon and Scaling Up Renewables in Africa, Global Citizen has shown how citizen action can drive bold climate solutions that also fuel economic growth. Investing in renewable energy, carbon markets, and ecosystem protection creates jobs, strengthens communities, and builds resilient economies.

Curated by Global Citizen, the closing plenary will bring together the themes of IMPACT WEEK: finance, governance, equity, and innovation into practical pathways for progress. With Singapore at the heart of global finance, and Asia-Pacific leadership shaping the future of clean energy and carbon markets, the region will help chart the course toward sustainable growth.

Featuring world leaders, civil society voices, private-sector innovators, and young changemakers, the program will blend keynotes, debate, performance, and storytelling to showcasing bold partnerships and near-term commitments that prove climate action is not only essential for survival but also essential for shared prosperity.

Learning Journey for OCTAVE Institute’s Social Transformation Project @ Fengshan

Sat 20 Sep 2025, 10:00 am (GTM+8:00)
Fengshan CC

OCTAVE Institute, under Tsao Pao Chee (TPC) Group will be partnering Fengshan division under East Coast GRC to do a Social Transformation Project to help families living in public rental flats break out of the poverty cycle.

Those who sign up for this learning journey will get to visit and interview a family, have a tour of the community facility where programmes will be held and do reflections on their experience.

Meeting Point: Fengshan Community Club Main Atrium

What to expect/Attire: Clothes which can allow you to sit on the floor, do not wear too many layers as no air-con and for shoes slip-on is good as easier to enter homes.

Note: It is advised not to take photos/videos or to seek consent before you do so when visiting the families. When taking the photos, it would be good if the faces of those you are visiting is not shown and it is encouraged not to post on social media.

Schedule of Events:

10am Meet at Fengshan CC for briefing and administrative arrangements

10.10am Visiting a family

10.55am Gathering back for Tour

11.00am Tour of Fengshan CC

11.20am Reflections

12.00pm End and Optional Lunch @ Bedok 85 Market at Own Expense

Mapping what Matters: A Compass for the Well-being Economy (Session 4) [Stand-up Interactive Session]

Thu 18 Sep 2025, 12:30 pm (GMT+8:00)
Impact Grounds (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

A Strategic Intelligence Map by the World Economic Forum visualises how interconnected factors shape complex issues – like the Well-being Economy. It links research, expert insights, and real-time data, helping users identify patterns, map stakeholders, and explore opportunities for collaboration to advance human and environmental well-being beyond traditional economic growth measures.

A Well-being Economy focuses on aligning economies and actions with the well-being of people and the planet, prioritising social equity and environmental sustainability over merely boosting economic wealth and output. Whilst Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a conventional metric that measures economic output, it is unable to characterise the social progression or environmental planetary impacts. Therefore, an increase in GDP in certain nations does not automatically mean that health and sustainable ecosystems—where human and environmental well-being flourish—are also improving. The Well-being Economy redirects focus from GDP towards long-term investments in people’s well-being and the health of the planet.

Mapping what Matters: A Compass for the Well-being Economy (Session 3) [Stand-up Interactive Session]

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

A Strategic Intelligence Map by the World Economic Forum visualises how interconnected factors shape complex issues – like the Well-being Economy. It links research, expert insights, and real-time data, helping users identify patterns, map stakeholders, and explore opportunities for collaboration to advance human and environmental well-being beyond traditional economic growth measures.

A Well-being Economy focuses on aligning economies and actions with the well-being of people and the planet, prioritising social equity and environmental sustainability over merely boosting economic wealth and output. Whilst Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a conventional metric that measures economic output, it is unable to characterise the social progression or environmental planetary impacts. Therefore, an increase in GDP in certain nations does not automatically mean that health and sustainable ecosystems—where human and environmental well-being flourish—are also improving. The Well-being Economy redirects focus from GDP towards long-term investments in people’s well-being and the health of the planet.

Mapping what Matters: A Compass for the Well-being Economy (Session 2) [Stand-up Interactive Session]

Wed 17 Sep 2025, 12:30 pm (GMT+8:00)
Impact Grounds (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

A Strategic Intelligence Map by the World Economic Forum visualises how interconnected factors shape complex issues – like the Well-being Economy. It links research, expert insights, and real-time data, helping users identify patterns, map stakeholders, and explore opportunities for collaboration to advance human and environmental well-being beyond traditional economic growth measures.

A Well-being Economy focuses on aligning economies and actions with the well-being of people and the planet, prioritising social equity and environmental sustainability over merely boosting economic wealth and output. Whilst Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a conventional metric that measures economic output, it is unable to characterise the social progression or environmental planetary impacts. Therefore, an increase in GDP in certain nations does not automatically mean that health and sustainable ecosystems—where human and environmental well-being flourish—are also improving. The Well-being Economy redirects focus from GDP towards long-term investments in people’s well-being and the health of the planet.

Mapping what Matters: A Compass for the Well-being Economy (Session 1) [Stand-up Interactive Session]

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

A Strategic Intelligence Map by the World Economic Forum visualises how interconnected factors shape complex issues – like the Well-being Economy. It links research, expert insights, and real-time data, helping users identify patterns, map stakeholders, and explore opportunities for collaboration to advance human and environmental well-being beyond traditional economic growth measures.

A Well-being Economy focuses on aligning economies and actions with the well-being of people and the planet, prioritising social equity and environmental sustainability over merely boosting economic wealth and output. Whilst Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a conventional metric that measures economic output, it is unable to characterise the social progression or environmental planetary impacts. Therefore, an increase in GDP in certain nations does not automatically mean that health and sustainable ecosystems—where human and environmental well-being flourish—are also improving. The Well-being Economy redirects focus from GDP towards long-term investments in people’s well-being and the health of the planet.

From Wealth to Wisdom: Reimagining Family Capital for a Flourishing Future

Wed 17 Sep 2025, 9:00 am (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 2 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)

Family capital holds immense power—not just to shape markets, but to seed transformation.

As a new generation of family business leaders and wealth stewards step forward, they face both a challenge and a calling:to go beyond traditional asset management and activate capital in service of life, legacy, and systems regeneration.

This lab invites families—across generations, geographies, and governance models—to explore the evolution from single-capital thinking to poly-capital design: the integration of financial, spiritual, natural, social, and intellectual wealth. Participants will dive into real case studies, test new collaborative models, and begin the design of personal and collective action pathways.