A Bridge to Impact

What is Transformative Impact Summit?

Impact is too often segregated into its various sectors. Whether it's climate week, or a regenerative agriculture event or a clean energy association.

The Transformative Impact Summit helps bridge this divide, bringing together change-makers, impact organizations and investors from together to collaborate and connect while providing funders with a curated showcase of world-class projects, efforts, and innovations they can engage with.

Transformative Impact Summit 2023 Represented Organizations

Making a Difference

About Global Unity

Global Unity is a movement of change-makers, social entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, indigenous elders, artists, activists, and everyday people who to create a more united humanity.

Our supporters include people from the UN, the World Economic Forum, former chairs of the Word Trade Organization and the father of the founder of Ethereum to leaders in regenerative agriculture, education, impact investing and more.

We launched the Transformative Impact Summit in 2022. as a platform to celebrate & showcase their impact while fostering a collaborative community.

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Confirmed 2023 Speakers

What to Expect

Impact Hackathons

Our Impact Hackathon taps into collective intelligence of the amazing change-makers attending to come up with new ideas and solutions to some challenging global problems.

Impact Speed Networking

Impact Speed Networking gives our attendees the chance to quickly connect, share ideas and explore opportunities for future collaborations.

Impact Ecosystem Mapping

Our ecosystem map empowers attendees to both survey the landscape of those doing good and connect to them using our Catalist and Open Future Coalition platforms.

Impact Tracks

Ecological Transformation

Energy, Infrastructure and The Built Environment

Explore inspired environmental innovations that help design a healthier planet for all. From clean energy and materials to intentional communities and regenerative villages and beyond.

Regenerative Agriculture, Bioregionalism, Food Systems, and Soil

We are all the guardians of our environment and thoughtful approaches to food systems, soil health, water stewardship are needed now more than ever. We’ll explore bioregionalism and other intelligent approaches to regenerative agriculture.

SDGs, Impact Mapping & Impact Measurement

The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a useful framework for focusing our collective efforts, but they are just one among an emerging set of impact categorizations. We’ll explore how we can move from frameworks to impact measurement & coordination.

Economic Transformation

Financial Innovation, Regenerative Finance, and New Philanthropy

Family offices, investors, VC’s and philanthropists want to see their funding drive meaningful impact. Regenerative & Transparent forms of funding have emerged that ensure funds are directed into the hands of those who need it.

Business As A Vehicle For Good

With 2% of global profits going to corporate social responsibility (CSR), business has the potential to be one of the greatest levers of change today. We’ll explore how companies everywhere are providing vital products and services for communities in need.

Institutional Change, Civic Innovation, and Social Justice

Local, national, and global institutions are key players in affecting positive change. Many are creating groundbreaking innovations, from new political parties and tools, to new ways to have the voice of the people heard.

Technological Transformation

Storytelling, Media, Games & Art

The stories we tell and the channels we communicate through help define the world we create. We can change that narrative for good by amplifying both unheard voices and those fostering a more kind, healthy and regenerative world.

Web3, AI & Tech For Good

Web3, Blockchain and AI have all advanced rapidly over the past few years, creating great new capabilities for change. We’ll explore how these technologies are impacting the way we work, exchange value, automate for impact and driven financial freedom.

Cities, Network States, & Civilization Design

Civilization design is the process of choosing the kind of world we want to build together. Traditional cities face new challenges. From Startup cities to Network state/coordi-nation (a hybrid virtual and place-based country united not by geography but purpose), we’ll explore how we can create more idealistic cities and civilizations.

Social Transformation

Indigenous and Local Solutions Around the World

Indigenous communities account for 80% of global land stewardship. These organizations have developed unique solutions to their unique and challenging circumstances. We’ll be highlighting their success stories as well as their as we feature leading solutions from Africa, South and Central America, Asia, Oceana, and more.

Inner Development, Mental Health, and Social Connection

Inner change is as much a part of our path forward as outer change. We’ll explore how we can nourish our mental health, foster social connections, and focus on our own grounding, growth, and development to build a world that works for all.

Impact-Focused Education

Given the rapid rate of change, our educational institutions are struggling to adapt to the needs of students and communities alike. Beyond skill development and employment prep, can we re-imagine how education can align impact, purpose and values into the very fabric of learning.

A Royal Venue

Where and When

The Transformational Impact Summit will take place in New York during UN Climate Week. The event begins on Friday September 22nd and concludes on Sunday September 24th, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. The venue is 241 W 14th St, NYC.

Global Unity Inc.