Laurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur, PBC, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs, investors, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability, social enterprise, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization, Orion Society, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank, the Triad Institute, and Hotfrog, a Founding B Corporation, GIIRS Pioneer Company, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026, with global distribution by Penguin Random House.
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2X Criteria
Join us for a session on how to apply the 2X Criteria across companies, funds, and financial institutions operating in diverse sectors, contexts, and geographies. Using the 2X Criteria Reference Guide, we’ll walk through approaches tailored specifically to investment transactions. You’ll gain clear guidance, insights, and actionable tools to strengthen gender smart investing in your portfolio.
2X Criteria is the global industry standard for assessing and structuring investments that provide women with leadership opportunities, quality employment, finance, enterprise support, and products and services that enhance economic participation and access. They have been widely adopted by investors, financial intermediaries and companies as well as other stakeholders worldwide to assess and monitor gender-lens investments, unifying investors under one framework and language.
The 2X Challenge, underpinned by the 2X Criteria, has played an important role in building the field of gender lens investing (GLI). Today, hundreds of companies and investors around the world use the 2X Criteria as a global standard for gender finance.
The 2X Criteria is a public good and can be used by anyone in the market to set their own targets for new business and portfolio, and self-report on their alignment with the 2X Criteria. This means, the 2X Criteria are applicable to any kind of investor or financial institution, whether you are an impact investor, development finance institution, international finance institution, multi-lateral development bank, pension fund, endowment, asset manager, private equity firm, individual investor or other capital providers to screen and mark/tag deals as 2X-aligned for their internal reporting and tracking purposes.
The 2X Criteria can also be used by private sector companies to assess their practices against the criteria.
Time: 3:00 AM ET & 9:00 AM ET
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The Digital Product Passport: What It Requires and How to Prepare
Have you ever heard of a Digital Product Passport?
If your company manufactures, exports, or sources from supply chains that touch the EU market, it is worth understanding before enforcement begins.The central mechanism for delivering EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation is the Digital Product Passport: a standardised, machine-readable record covering material composition, carbon footprint by lifecycle stage, substances of concern, and end-of-life information, required for every product placed on the EU market regardless of where it is produced.On July 21, Boundless is hosting a free webinar covering what ESPR requires and which sectors are affected first, what product-level life cycle data manufacturers need to produce, and how to prepare before enforcement begins.Time: 11:00 AM ET
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Webinar on Digital Procurement Opportunities
You are warmly invited to join a webinar on digital procurement opportunities. This is a dedicated session to help industry suppliers tap into new Multilateral Development Bank (MDB)-financed opportunities in the energy sector.
Hear from the World Bank Group (WBG) and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) about procurement opportunities available in select, high impact digital projects.
You can view the recording and presentations from a previous webinar focused on transport opportunities here. You can also view the recording and presentations from a previous webinar focused on energy opportunities here.
In this session, you will:·
- Discover upcoming digital procurement opportunities
- Hear directly from experts from the WBG and EBRD on the status of these projects and updates to procurement regulations to put more emphasis on quality and innovation
- Get your questions answered in a dedicated Q&A
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South-South Learning Webinar Series · Gender & Electric Mobility
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is opening a new four-part South-South Learning Webinar Series on Gender and Electric Mobility on 21st July 2026.
The series forms part of E-Mobility as a Driver for Change: Towards a Gender-Transformative and Just Transition to Electric Mobility, funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by UNEP.
Running pilots in six countries (Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Vietnam, Indonesia), the project recognizes that the transition to electric mobility is more than a technology shift—it is an opportunity to reshape the sector, ensuring that women are included from the outset rather than inheriting the inequalities of the past.
Time: 11:00 UTC / 7:00 AM EDT
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The Augmented Practitioner: Putting AI to Work for the Impact Economy
The Augmented Practitioner: Putting AI to Work for the Impact Economy
For most of the impact economy, the conversation about artificial intelligence has been dominated by anxiety — about bias, opacity, displacement, and the concentration of power in a handful of technology companies. Those concerns are real and worth taking seriously. But they are only half the story. The other half is about agency: what happens when entrepreneurs, investors, and changemakers stop treating AI as a threat to be managed and start treating it as a capability to be mastered. Sateesh Nori has spent his career on the side of agency. After two decades on the front lines of New York City Housing Court, standing between families and eviction, he became one of the most credible voices arguing that AI is not a luxury for the well-resourced but a force multiplier for those working at the margins — the difference, as he puts it, between matching the scale of our tools to the scale of the need.
In this Luminarias conversation, we move from diagnosis to practice. Sateesh will share how he actually uses these tools — not in the abstract, but concretely: how to prompt large language models to think alongside you rather than merely answer you; how to encode your own judgment, voice, and analytical frameworks into AI systems so they extend your expertise rather than dilute it; and how a single practitioner, properly augmented, can now do work that once required a team. For impact entrepreneurs designing new ventures, for investors weighing finance and diligence decisions, and for organizations stretched thin against rising demand and constrained resources, the practical question is no longer whether to engage AI, but how to engage it well.
This is a session about reclaiming initiative. Drawing on his book The Augmented Lawyer and his work building direct-to-people justice tools, Sateesh brings a rare combination — frontline service experience, hard-won ethical clarity, and genuine technical fluency — to the question that matters most for our community: how do we wield increasingly powerful tools in service of systemic change, equity, and human dignity, rather than waiting to see what these tools do to us? Join us for a pragmatic, optimistic, and unusually hands-on exploration of AI as an instrument of empowerment in the Impact Economy.
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Sateesh Nori is a legal innovator, author, and access-to-justice advocate who has spent more than twenty years on the front lines of civil legal services. For two decades he represented tenants across New York City as a housing-rights attorney and managing attorney at The Legal Aid Society and Legal Services NYC, work that earned him recognition including the Technology category of the 2022 American Legal Technology Awards. He served as a commissioner on New York City’s 2019 Charter Revision Commission and is a member of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Homelessness and Poverty.
Today, Sateesh serves as the first-ever Chief Legal Futurist at LawDroid, a justice-tech company building AI solutions for legal aid, courts, and government, and as a Senior Research Fellow in AI and Access to Justice at NYU School of Law’s Center on Civil Justice, where he also teaches. He is the author of The Augmented Lawyer: AI and the Future of Legal Practice (American Bar Association) and the memoir Sheltered: Twenty Years in Housing Court, writes the Substack newsletter The Augmented Lawyer, and delivered the TEDx talk How a Chatbot Can Save Someone From Homelessness. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University and NYU School of Law, he is widely regarded as one of the field’s most pragmatic and hopeful voices on AI’s potential to expand justice and opportunity at scale.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and virtually - 6 DaysSunday
July 26
2026AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference
AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference, taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and virtually on 26-31 July 2026, comes at a crucial time for the HIV response.
In the face of an unprecedented funding crisis and major cutbacks to HIV programmes, the world’s largest conference on HIV and AIDS will unite people living with HIV, researchers, policy makers, healthcare professionals, funders, media and communities.
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The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough with Laurie Lane-Zucker
The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy — A Deep Dive with Laurie Lane-Zucker
Something has shifted beneath the headlines. As of 2025, the regenerative economy manages $1.6 trillion in impact assets—growing roughly four times faster than the broader asset-management market—and the movement of Certified B Corporations has passed one million employees worldwide, with Danone becoming the largest company ever to achieve full B Corp certification. The question is no longer whether a civilizational alternative to extraction is possible. It is how fast it can scale, and whether the people building it have the architecture they need to do so with integrity. In this Deep Dive, Laurie Lane-Zucker—who coined the term “impact entrepreneur” in 2011 and now leads a global network of more than 70,000 practitioners across 200+ countries—introduces the IE community to his forthcoming book, publishing September 1st from Berrett-Koehler: the first comprehensive field manual for the regenerative economy.
This will not be a conventional book talk. Laurie will walk us through the operational architecture at the heart of the Breakthrough—organized across its five parts of Foundations, Possibility, Protection, Integration, and Reclamation—and the new frameworks it introduces: Defense as a Service™, the Prevention Dividend™, and the Five Pillars of Real Security. The conversation will examine why this is, by deliberate design, not an introduction: it is written for a movement that no longer needs to be told it exists, and for a generation of founders, capital allocators, faculty, and policy leaders who need something more than awareness—an integrated blueprint for how enterprise design, ownership, capital, markets, security, narrative, and culture fit together.
Join us a month before release for an exclusive, first look inside the book, an unguarded discussion of what the movement has become—and what it has yet to become—and an invitation to step into a present that is no longer a future we are waiting for.
About Our Deep Dives
Deep Dives are hour-long Zoom Meetings: Live presentations and Q&A Sessions (as opposed to our Zoom Webinars, where the audience is in View-Only Mode) between the author(s) or subjects of a book or Magazine article and our members.Time: 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM ET
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ABEM Conference
Academy of Business and Emerging Markets (ABEM), Canada and Caucasus International University, Georgia are pleased to invite papers, abstracts, cases studies, and proposals for special sessions and doctoral students on the theme Unlocking emerging markets’ potential through innovation, technology and sustainability for the following three tracks:
Business: Marketing, Education, Operations, Human Resources, Finance/Accounting, Marketing Analytics, Cross-cultural Issues, Social Media Marketing, Organizational Behavior, Strategy/Entrepreneurship;
Government: Fundraising, Public Policy, E-Government, International Business, International Relations, Genetically Modified Food, Foreign Direct Investment, Environment Management, Public Sector Management, NGOs, Law, Patents and Invention; and,
Community: Agriculture, Eco-tourism, Sustainability, Micro-finance, Rural Marketing, Non Profit/Co-op, Healthcare/Medical, Bottom of the Pyramid, Informal Sector Economy, Youth, Nutrition and Community.
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