14 - 15 April 2026 | CIRCA Amsterdam

AGENDA
Impact Summit Europe annually invites global leaders, pioneers, and experts of the impact investing universe to share their knowledge and inspiration. A 2-day programme has been designed with a mix of thought-provoking thought leadership: interviews, keynote speeches, panel discussions, in-depth workshops, InvestorConnect meetings & Chatham House rule sessions.
PRELIMINARY AGENDA 2026

We are entering a pivotal moment. A moment that calls for reflection, imagination, and bold redesign of how capital works. Today’s financial system stands at the threshold of a profound opportunity: to re-engineer the mechanisms that drive finance toward meaningful, measurable impact.
This theme explores how capital can be intentionally structured, allocated, and governed so that real-world solutions become the central driver of investment strategy. The debate is no longer about “impact first” versus “finance first.” Instead, it is about empowering institutional investors and asset owners to reshape capital flows so that solutions, not limitations, steer investment decisions. It is an invitation to rethink what is possible when finance is redesigned for purpose, resilience, and transformative impact.
Capital rooted in the real economy & systems transformation
As geopolitical shifts, and deglobalisation reshape the investment landscape, institutional investors are being pushed to reconnect capital with its real-economy function. This theme explores how finance can drive structural transformation across energy, healthcare, biodiversity, supply chains, and local communities. Sessions under this theme examine systems-change investing, how to influence entire value chains, and how to lower the rising costs of sustainability through technology, collaboration, and smarter incentives. The focus is on deploying capital where it materially shifts economic systems while keeping solutions practical, investable, and scalable.
Modernising the financial toolkit for innovation, liquidity & risk architecture
To meet global transition needs, institutional investors must go beyond traditional structures. This theme highlights the innovative financing models reshaping impact capital markets from securitisation and blended finance to outcomes-based contracts, fund-of-funds platforms, and public–private instruments. The theme also addresses one of the industry’s most urgent challenges: liquidity. With IPO windows stalled, valuations distorted by AI, and private markets overweight in investor portfolios, new solutions such as secondaries, structured exits, buy-backs, and even the return of SPACs are redefining how impact strategies scale. The sessions explore how investors can mobilise more capital, de-risk unfamiliar markets (including emerging markets), and maintain flexibility in an increasingly constrained environment.
Stewardship, influence, & accountability
Regulatory rollbacks, political polarisation, and diluted reporting frameworks are shifting responsibility back onto investors. Stewardship has become a strategic lever for long-term value creation and systemic risk mitigation. This theme focuses on how institutions can exercise meaningful influence in listed markets, navigate exclusion policies with nuance, engage corporates in transition pathways, and uphold accountability even as regulatory standards soften. It also explores how to streamline reporting, avoid greenhushing, and align stewardship with beneficiary expectations while ensuring that oversight remains effective, not burdensome.
Next wave of capital from families, faith, and foundations
The largest wealth transfer in modern history is reshaping who allocates capital and how. New LPs such as next-gen families, faith-based organisations, and capital from different regions are prioritising purpose, transparency, and real-world solutions. Yet many still face barriers: complexity, unclear pathways, inadequate products, and the misperception that impact requires sacrificing returns. This theme explores how institutions can guide new allocators into credible, scalable impact opportunities through education, accessible product design, simplified measurement, revenue-based impact metrics, and solutions-first narratives. It also covers how to design investment vehicles that are intuitive, liquid, and aligned with intergenerational expectations.
AGENDA 2026
This agenda is regularly updated.
07:30–08:00
Registration for Educational Breakfast
08:00–09:30
Investing in the Real Economy – A Practical Conversation on Additionality, Intent and Attribution
Breakfast Workshop (Asset Owners Only)
This informal morning session brings asset owners together for a grounded conversation about what it really means to invest in the real economy. Rather than presentations or frameworks, the session focuses on shared experiences including a couple of concrete cases, practical dilemmas, intellectual curiosity, and open discussion.
We will briefly introduce how we think about additionality, intent, and attribution in real economy investments, but the main emphasis is on group discussions where participants reflect on:
- Where additionality is easiest and hardest to demonstrate
- How intent can be effectively embedded in investment decisions and ownership practices
- What constitutes meaningful rather than performative attribution
- How to navigate the trade-offs that inevitably arise
- How to screen, select and work with managers, GPs, and partners to ensure real economy impact is pursued and documented throughout
9:00–10:00
Registration General Attendance
10:00-10:15
Opening Ceremony and Remarks
The Impact Stage
Opening Ceremony Hosted by Yana Kaloshina, the Managing Director at Phenix Capital Group – Impact Events.
Opening remarks delivered by Chairman of the Phenix Capital Group, Dirk Meuleman.
10:15-10:30
Investing with Insight: Navigating a New Global Reality
Keynote Speech
The Impact Stage
10:30–11:30
The Maturity Curve: Expanding Impact Portfolios from Pilots to Strategic Investment
Executive Investor Panel
The Impact Stage
11:30–11:45
Europe’s strategic opportunity
Thought leadership talk
The Impact Stage
11:45–12:00
Natural capital at institutional scale: beyond pilot projects
Keynote Speech
The Impact Stage
12:00–13:00
Lunch
13:00–14:00
InvestorConnect session #1
Pre-scheduled meetings required (Asset owners & Fund managers only)
The Impact Stage
Stewardship in a fragmented world
Round-table discussion
Impact Toolbox
14:00 - 14:30
Coffee Break
14:30–15:15
Blended structures that work for institutional investors
Success stories
The Impact Stage
Revenue-based impact metrics: understanding the delta
Interactive discussion
Impact Toolbox
Back to the Future: Assessing Impact Potential Through a Systems Lens
Panel discussion
Innovation Lab
15:15–15:35
Coffee break
15:35–16:20
The AI paradox
Panel discussion
The Impact Stage
Making biodiversity investible for institutional investors
Panel discussion
Impact Toolbox
Introduction to maritime infrastructure and sustainable investment
Presentation & roundtable
Innovation Lab
16:20–16:30
Logistic break
16:30–17:30
THE BIG IMPACT DEBATE
Interactive debate
The Impact Stage
- “Loosened restrictions in the EU are good for business”
- “Impact measurement needs airtight measurement standards”
17:30 onwards
Impact Dinner (all attendees)
08:30–09:30
General registration
09:30–09:40
Welcome Word
The Impact Stage
9:40–09:55
Impact at an inflection point
Keynote
The Impact Stage
The keynote addresses the shifting architecture of global impact investing. With regulation being diluted, political support wavering, and climate no longer winning elections, institutional investors are increasingly defining their own frameworks for “impact integrity.” This keynote examines how asset owners can maintain rigor, mission, and long-term value creation even as the regulatory north star becomes less reliable. It sets the stage for a conference focused on investor-led leadership in sustainability.
09:55–10:40
Rise of new LP segments
Exclusive interview
The Impact Stage
Impact allocations are rising among next-gen families, faith-based groups, and Middle Eastern investors. The panel explores what these new LPs demand, how their motivations differ from pension funds, and how their entry reshapes fund structures, reporting, and themes.
10:40–11:00
Coffee Break
11:00–12:00
InvestorConnect session #2
Pre-scheduled meetings required (Asset owners & Fund managers only)
The Impact Stage
11:00–12:00
Global forces, local impact: macro dynamics and close to home investing
Round-table discussion
Impact Toolbox
12:00–13:00
Lunch
13:00–13:45
Untapped impact, mispriced risk, and the next growth cycle
Panel discussion
The Impact Stage
With global populations rising, IPO markets reopening in EMs, and infrastructure needs exploding, investors explore how emerging markets can generate both financial returns and impact. We also cover the untapped impact of of energy transition investments in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) alongside opportunities of private debt & credit in Africa, climate tech in India, selective private equity in LatAm, and data-driven arguments debunking perceived EM risk. We also compare the next growth cycle in different geographical opportunities.
The great wealth transfer
Round table: Family office & Wealth Manager & HNWI
Impact Toolbox
13:45–14:10
Coffee Break
14:10–14:55
Faith-based investors taking lead
Panel discussion | Faith-based investing
The Impact Stage
Where private investors falter, faith-based institutions often step in, bringing a long-term, values-rooted perspective that can address gaps traditional capital overlooks. As impact markets grow more complex and fragmented, faith-driven allocators are increasingly seeking credible, solutions-first investments that align with mission, stewardship, and financial resilience. This panel explores how faith institutions can translate conviction into actionable investment strategies, from thematic funds to community-focused financing and active ownership. Speakers will discuss how purpose-led capital can fill market voids, advance justice and sustainability, and deliver strong outcomes for both society and beneficiaries.
Financing Natural Capital: Forestry, Biodiversity & Carbon
Panel discussion
Impact Toolbox
Scaling nature-based solutions requires capital structures aligned with the long-term biological cycles of forests and ecosystems. This session explores how investment funds and innovative financing vehicles approaches are mobilizing institutional capital into sustainable forestry, afforestation, biodiversity restoration, and regenerative land use. Panelists will discuss how investors and impact managers are structuring scalable strategies that deliver measurable climate and biodiversity outcomes while supporting resilient economies. Through practical examples - from forestry and land-use funds to landscape initiatives - the discussion will highlight how finance can accelerate the transition toward a nature-positive and climate-resilient economy.
14:55–15:10
Logistics Break
15:10–15:50
Deep tech for climate & resilience
Interactive discussion
The Impact Stage
Europe excels in early-stage innovation but struggles to scale. This session covers the deep-tech gap, the capital scarcity in growth equity, and why the next decade of climate, resilience, and industrial technologies requires longer time horizons than traditional venture. Investors map which technologies Europe should scale domestically vs import from Asia and the U.S., and the role of state-backed funds.
15:50–16:00
Closing adress
The Impact Stage
16:00–17:00
Closing Reception

MEET YOUR IMPACT
INVESTING PEERS!
A LIMITED NUMBER OF COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS IS
AVAILABLE FOR ASSET OWNERS & INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS!
ADVISING COMMITTEE 2026
Birgitte Frost Mathiesen
Managing DirectorInvest for Impact Denmark
Dimple Sahni
Managing Director Multi Asset Impact InvestingAnthos Fund & Asset Management
Floris Lyppens
Managing DirectorABN AMRO Group
Hans Stegeman
Chief EconomistTriodos Bank
Lars Dijkstra
Chief Investment OfficerPGGM
Liza Rubinstein
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy & Climate ImpactCarbon Equity
Noémie Metz-Vinez
ESG AnalystColumbia Threadneedle
Piet Klop
Head of Responsible InvestmentPGGM
Ratana Tra
Senior Investment DirectorCambridge Associates
Remco van Montfoort
Team Lead Public–Private PartnershipsInvest-NL
Robert Brown
Founder & Chief Research OfficerImpact Evaluation Lab
Temple Fennell
PrincipalKeller Family Office
Birgitte Frost Mathiesen
Managing Director
Invest for Impact Denmark
Dimple Sahni
Managing Director Multi Asset Impact Investing
Anthos Fund & Asset Management
Floris Lyppens
Managing Director
ABN AMRO Group
Hans Stegeman
Chief Economist
Triodos Bank
Liza Rubinstein
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy & Climate Impact
Carbon Equity
Ratana Tra
Senior Investment Director
Cambridge Associates
Remco van Montfoort
Team Lead Public–Private Partnerships
Invest-NL
Robert Brown
Founder & Chief Research Officer
Impact Evaluation Lab
SHAPE 2026 AGENDA WITH US!
We invite institutional asset owners to join us in shaping the 2026 agenda.
Please reach out to our Programming manager, Prachi Modi via prachimodi@phenixcapitalgroup.com

