Feel the impact spirit, get together with fellow investors, listen to what's happening in impact investing, the intersection of money and meaning, and share your learnings.
Join us at the 2nd PYM Impact Day in Belgium as we collectively explore how impact investing can pave the way towards a more sustainable and prosperous future for all. Together, let's make a lasting impact!
Dive into the thriving topic of Listed Securities, and how you can approach it as an investor.
Together with like-minded investors and guided by experts, you will learn to take the next steps on your journey to impact.
The magic happens when people come together. Especially when there is a community spirit. At our events, you meet fellow investors and the next generations to share your experience, gather new ideas and make new connections.
Our main events
"The Impact Days are the best gathering in impact investing, bar none."
"It is nice to have that community feeling, knowing that you are not alone on this journey."
"The conversations were profound and important. It was privilege to be part of that conversation and a special experience."
Our conference is an annual fixture for leading and budding impact investors in the Benelux and beyond.
Started in 2011, Impact Days has gained a position as the most-focused impact-first conference. It is unique for its balanced audience of impact investors and social entrepreneurs.
Families are a core part of our membership. We organize this members-only event the day preceding our Impact Days. This is a safe space for learning and sharing. We discuss case studies, hear personal journeys from fellow participants, and get up to date about developments in impact investing.
Did you know that women invest differently than men? Women are more likely to invest in social enterprises. Quite a few women play a leading role in impact investing.
In Women’s Wealth Matters (WWM) we facilitate the conversation among women about a wide range of topics. What is your relationship with money? How do you find your purpose, how would you like to make a difference with your capital? What do you expect from your investments?
WWM is an ongoing series of events for female wealth holders only.
At our Investor Tables we bring together entrepreneurs, investors and fund managers.
We zoom in on a theme and specific investment opportunities. You get the opportunity to discuss these in small groups. There is also ample room to network during the drinks afterwards.
A guest speaker starts off the meeting with a keynote followed by several short company and fund pitches. You can participate in question-and-answer sessions with the companies and funds who presented. We exchange our findings and gather the feedback to share it anonymously with the presenters.
Discover the tools to start deploying your wealth in alignment with your values.
During this 1,5 hour interactive session, you will be introduced to the basics of impact investing and sustainable investments, and how they can be applied to your own impact journey.
We discuss how to define impact and the various impact themes, how you can have impact through all asset classes, and how the ecosystem works.
Experienced impact investors will be giving you an insight into their personal portfolios. Providing you with examples of how to get started.
New and experienced impact investors meet monthly to take the next step in their impact journey. Under the guidance of your peers and various experts, you will learn more about impact investing and what it has to offer you. The content of the meetings is fully tailored to the experience of the participants.
Impact investing is gaining momentum fast. Conferences and workshops are plentiful.
We help you stay abreast by curating the most relevant events in the Benelux and some of the leading conferences globally.
We would love to hear from you if you’re organizing a conference, webinar or workshop in the field of impact investing, (venture) philanthropy, social entrepreneurship or ESG.
The World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in London will gather global agri-food corporates, investors and technology start-ups from around the world to uncover the most exciting innovations in the agri-food sector and to forge the right partnerships to take those solutions to market.
The Belgium Startup Conference 2023 brings together hundreds of Brussels Founders and International Investors.
Join us at the 2nd PYM Belgium Impact Day as we collectively explore how impact investing can pave the way towards a more sustainable and prosperous future for all. Together, let's make a lasting impact!
Norselab Impact Day brings together the forward-thinking minds that are shaping our sustainable future. We have one mission: to advance impact with integrity.
In partnership with Investinor and Katapult, we will spawn thought-provoking discussions with the goal to inspire and push the impact investing agenda.
A new educational programme for wealth holders who wish to adopt a more progressive stance towards wealth stewardship and redistribution. Participants embark on a collective learning experience that creates space for them to consider their relationship to wealth and society alongside like-minded peers, and to activate their agency as actors in the global economy.
Save the date for GSG Global Impact Summit 2023.
Dive into the thriving topic of Listed Securities and how you can approach it as an impact investor.
Over the years, the Future of Finance conference has been able to build up a dedicated following amongst leading finance professionals and has gained a reputation for its thought-provoking themes, outstanding networking opportunities, and energizing (at times, unexpected!) activities.
Initiated by the Initiative for Responsible Investment (IRI) at the Harvard Kennedy School and run by the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) at the University of Zurich this training program equips next-generation members of ultra-high-net-worth families with the technical and soft skills needed to align their investments with their values, creating positive change with their capital.
The GIIN Impact Forum is one of the largest in-person global gathering of impact investors. The Forum has a strong reputation for presenting delegates with the opportunity to build relationships, discover opportunities, share insights about new strategies, learn the latest industry developments, and explore ways to drive continued momentum and growth in the market.
Surrounded by European policymakers and foundation representatives, Rien van Gendt will highlight how philanthropy has developed from projects to convening, advocacy and systemic change and the resulting need to take a fresh look at the way foundations function and position themselves. He will touch on the importance of European philanthropy in terms of legal status, sources of funding and Europe as a spending purpose. A panel consisting of policymakers and foundation representatives will discuss what is needed to unleash the full potential of philanthropy and enable partnerships across the public and philanthropic sectors.
Discover the potential of fungi in improving biodiversity, regenerative agriculture, the circular economy, addressing climate change and replacing fossil or other harmful products with more sustainable and bio-based alternatives.
9.30 - 13.00 Explaining the world of fungi by experts from the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute in Utrecht, the Netherlands
13.30 - 15.30 Presentation of solutions by different speakers
(It is also possible to participate only in the afternoon. Limited number of places available)
This event is the first in a series of standalone sessions on emerging issues and challenges for the philanthropic sector.
Is the role of philanthropy to ameliorate the crises created by our economic system, or should foundations be looking upstream at root causes, and trying to change the system itself? And if so, where could they start?
This global event co-hosted by the City of Amsterdam (Amsterdam Impact), Social Enterprise NL and Social Enterprise World Forum is your chance to connect with thousands of impact entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and policymakers, including speakers such as Impact Hub alumni and partners Thami Schweicler (United Repair Centre) and Danique Gunning (MUD Jeans).
The Morningstar Sustainable Investing Summit is your in-person deep-dive into the strategies, mindset shifts, methods, and tools you need to build long-term sustainable financial success in 2023 and beyond.
The 2023 event will be an exciting opportunity for you to network with like-minded people from across the globe towards one common goal: to collaborate, ideate and create impact for sustainable social change.
How to invest for impact in the Energy Transition? Come share your experiences and learn from pioneering impact investors.
BETTER FINANCE and IVA Investor’s Association will hold the International Investors’ Conference in Vienna.
With contributions from a number of distinguished speakers, the conference will focus on Upholding Sustainable & Accessible Capital Markets for European Investors
This Sustainable Investing Masterclass is a 1-day training course for financial professionals, affluent and retail investors (including bank clients), corporate sustainability professionals, and consulting and advisory professionals, even with no previous foundational knowledge of finance or sustainability. This course synthesizes the latest thinking and ideas in sustainable investing into easy-to-understand frameworks that can be directly applied by all professionals.
PYM'ers get a 10% discount
The SDG Forum brings the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from, for and by everyone. As the first multi-stakeholder forum on the SDGs in the Benelux, the SDG Forum engages as many sectors as possible and offers a wide range of workshops, plenary sessions and panel debates.
The transition towards a sustainable and inclusive economy depends on collaboration. That is why we are uniting startups, scale-ups, investors, policymakers, and other impact makers worldwide to inspire, connect and collaborate in The Hague for the 8th edition of ImpactFest.
Following the enthusiasm and energy of the 1st Belgian Impact Day in November 2022, IFB will organise the 2nd Belgian Impact Day!
Get fresh perspectives on transformative tech and sustainable business models, match and mingle in an informal setting and engage with other catalysts for positive sustainable change.
Join FASE’s IMPACT FIRE TALKS 2023 where pioneers, movers and shapers discover or rekindle their fire for impact, challenge the status quo and talk practice.
The UK has shown that waking up sleeping bank accounts can pay off for the impact world. Now, Germany is on the (h)edge to follow suit. But how to unleash the full potential of this yet-untapped source of capital? What needs to be done differently in other ecosystems such as Germany? And which mistakes and obstacles should be avoided?
How to invest for impact in the Circular Economy? Come share your experiences and learn from pioneering impact investors.
Dive into the topic of emerging markets and how you can approach it as an impact investor
EVPA Impact Week 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.
This crash course will introduce you to the concept of impact finance as one of the most effective strategies for solving key social and environmental challenges.
Fueled by the latest data on the impact market, the course teaches the nuances of the three impact investment pillars: intentionality, measurability and additionality.
The National Sustainability Congress has been the largest annual sustainability congress in the Netherlands since 2000. An annual benchmark on the way to a sustainable Netherlands and meeting point for managers, policy makers, professionals and investors who want to make a difference.
The Impact Seminar Series – BENELUX is tailored to institutional investors and asset owners based in Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg. It consists of a one-day programme with keynote speeches, InvestorConnect sessions, investor panel discussions, fireside chats and a workshop to close the day touching upon the challenges and opportunities within the impact investing universe.
Save the date for Impact Investor Conference 2023.
RFSI Europe will explore the critical role capital plays in enabling food systems transformation across Europe and beyond. Presentations, panel discussions, Q&A, round table discussions, pitches and lots of networking will work to connect the dots between the people, organizations, concepts, and concepts that will drive lasting change for soil health, food quality, human nutrition, and planetary well-being.
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 Impact Fair is the largest event for purpose-driven organizations. A fair and festival in one. The place where we bridge and foster partnerships between business, NGOs, government and Gen Z.
Save the date for the PYM Impact Days 2024!