DATES
2-3 March 2027
VENUE
Amare, The Hague
FORMAT
Two days - 1,200+ delegates
Anticipating change. Accelerating progress. Defining action.
The global economy is undergoing a profound transition.
Geopolitical fragmentation, climate change and biodiversity loss, technological disruption, demographic shifts, and widening inequality are reshaping markets and societies. They are creating new risks for investors and businesses, alongside new demands for solutions, new markets, and new opportunities.
GSG Impact Summit 2027 will explore how we can influence these changes, and how institutional investors, businesses, entrepreneurs, governments, and other market actors can anticipate them and unlock benefits, while helping to build more inclusive and resilient economies for the future.
We will examine the transition towards impact economies, systems where all participants put long-term economic, social, and environmental value at the heart of decision making.
GSG Impact Summit 2027 will focus on
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Impact economies as the destination
How they are emerging and the implications for markets, investors, and business.
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Accelerating the transition
The innovations, policies, and capital allocation practices that are accelerating progress.
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Translating into action
How each stakeholder group can shape and capture emerging opportunities while creating better outcomes for people and planet.
We will move participants from merely understanding the transition to seeing their place within
it and identifying the decisions and practical actions they should take.
The GSG Impact Summit 2027 programme is curated by the Programme Committee, a joint group of Board members across GSG Impact and the Netherlands Advisory Board on impact investing, with contributions and input from other GSG Impact Board members, Ambassadors and National Partners.
Members of the Programme Committee
I. Where are we heading?
The effects that decisions have on people and planet can no longer be treated as external to financial value. Social instability, environmental degradation, and weak institutions increasingly create material risks for companies, investors, and governments. Businesses and investors that address these challenges can benefit from new opportunities, reduced risk, and enhanced profitability – while improving their resilience and ability to deliver long-term value.
The destination is impact economies, in which:
Private and institutional investors make decisions based on risk, return, and impact;
Governments use policy and public spending to incentivise positive outcomes;
Markets have the information and accountability needed to direct resources effectively;
Businesses manage their impacts on people and planet;
Entrepreneurs develop solutions to social and environmental challenges;
Progress is measured in terms of environmental improvement, long-term economic growth, and improved living standards.
Opening plenary
A forward-looking opening examining the changes reshaping economies worldwide, and the implications for capital, business, and public policy.
Perspectives:
Launch
The Impact Economy Index
As part of illustrating the way forward, the launch of the Impact Economy Index will provide a practical framework – for GSG Impact Summit 2027, and beyond.
The Impact Economy Index will show what enables countries to develop impact economies, and to assess their progress in establishing the conditions required for capital, enterprise, and policy to deliver positive outcomes.
We will establish:
II. What is the path?
The second part of GSG Impact Summit 2027 will explore what needs to change and what is already working to accelerate the development of impact economies. The programme will focus on the mechanisms capable of changing behaviour and directing resources toward better outcomes.
1. Changing how capital is allocated
How public and private institutional capital suppliers can allocate toward long-term resilience, inclusive growth, and measurable impact.
Capital must move at greater scale toward businesses, assets, and solutions that improve the resilience of our societies and deliver positive social and environmental outcomes.
Institutional capital and the evolution of fiduciary duty;
The future of development finance;
The Netherlands Advisory Board on impact investing’s 10% Target, and other institutional commitments;
Investment structures that share risk effectively;
Domestic capital mobilisation;
Resilient infrastructure and real-economy investment;
Investment in emerging markets;
Moving impact from specialist portfolios into mainstream allocation.
Plenary
In a multipolar world, how should institutional investors respond to systemic risk, changing markets, and emerging impact opportunities? How can they contribute to the resilience of economies, in Europe and globally, with their investment policy and strategic asset allocation? This session will connect impact directly to portfolio resilience, long-term value, and the creation of investable opportunities.
2. Changing the rules and incentives how capital is allocated
How governments, regulators, and policymakers can shape markets that reward positive social, environmental, and economic outcomes
Markets will not make this transition through voluntary investor action alone. Governments and regulators shape the conditions under which capital is allocated, businesses operate, and innovation can scale.
Public policy frameworks for resilient, sustainable long-term economic performance and impact economies;
Outcome funds and results-based approaches
Pension regulation and institutional allocation;
Corporate accountability; Impact reporting and disclosure;
Public procurement;
Regulatory support for innovation;
Fiscal incentives and public spending;
National platforms that align government, investors and market actors.
Plenary
How can governments use policy, regulation, and public resources to create markets that reward positive impact and crowd private capital into public needs?
3. Extending the infrastructure for change
How we build the cross-country, cross-sector platforms and connections that enable collective systems change
Impact economies require more than capital and policy. They need national institutions, capable intermediaries, reliable information, entrepreneurial pipelines, and collaboration across sectors.Key topics:
National Partners and other country-level coalitions;
Market builders and intermediaries;
Impact measurement and management;
Pipelines of investable solutions;
Support for entrepreneurs;
Regional and international coordination;
The institutions needed to connect local innovation with global capital.
Standards and interoperable market infrastructure;
Plenary
What infrastructure, institutions, and coalitions are needed to move from individual initiatives to functioning impact economies? What systemic incentives (e.g. adoption of true price and true value) and shifts (e.g. in mindsets and behaviours) are necessary?
II. Defining Action
What do impact economies mean in action?
The final stage of GSG Impact Summit 2027 will translate the overall vision into a clear proposition for each participant. In an impact economy, how can:
Institutional investors:
Businesses:
Entrepreneurs and fund managers:
Governments and policymakers:
Foundations, development finance institutions and catalytic capital providers:
National Partners and other ecosystem builders:
Closing Plenary
Representatives of the major stakeholder groups will respond to GSG Impact Summit 2027’s central question
In a changing world, what will we do differently?
Throughout the Summit
Throughout GSG Impact Summit 2027, the programme will showcase innovations that can change systems, including examples from:
Sessions about innovation will answer three questions:
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The unique role of GSG Impact Summit 2027
Global |
We gather the global community. 1,200+ impact leaders from 70+ countries create unparalleled scale and worldwide diversity.
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Cross-sector |
We convene all actors of the economy: public and private sector, capital supply and demand, market participants, and market builders. By bringing the whole field of policymakers, regulators, institutional investors, businesses, DFIs, ecosystem builders, and civil society together, we address collective change.
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Action-oriented |
We go beyond intention. GSG Impact Summit 2027 is a launchpad for practical commitments, partnership agreements, policy ideas, market-building tools, and new investment approaches.
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Agenda-setting and forward looking |
We spotlight emerging issues and innovative solutions. Thought leaders and technical experts bring cutting edge thinking, which our programme embeds into practical takeaways that inform policy, investor, and company plans today.
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Inclusive |
We prioritise participation over profit. We are a not-for-profit. Ticket prices and sponsorship packages are aimed at supporting participation from under-represented regions and voices, not maximising revenue.
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