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SOLAR AFRICA – Tanzania is a premier international trade exhibition targeting the East African solar market. The event is the only business networking trade fair that is dedicated to promoting products and services in the solar sector. The exhibition offers tremendous opportunities to suppliers worldwide, generating the strongest leads within the solar market in the East African Region.

The GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference (GPIC) is the GCF’s private sector flagship event, bringing together global leaders from both the public and private sectors.

The conference highlights successful projects while introducing innovative ideas, partnerships, and investment opportunities. It acts as a bridge between investors and fund recipients, plays a key role in identifying national priorities and investment prospects, and addresses barriers or market shortcomings.

Additionally, the GPIC offers GCF partners a platform to exchange experiences and lessons learned on collaborating more effectively with the Fund to facilitate faster and more efficient capital deployment.

The 2025 GPIC is an in-person only, select audience event that will take place 9-10 October in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It will feature a range of keynote speeches, panels, presentations and networking opportunities. Participants will include Government representatives (GCF’s National Designated Authorities) and various partners, (including GCF’s national and international accredited entities), GCF funding applicants (including via the Project Specific Assessment Approach), commercial banks, asset managers, impact investors, GCF board members, and Development Finance Institutions.

WHY ASIA PACIFIC?

The Asia Pacific region stands as the world’s largest economic powerhouse, generating approximately $40 trillion and representing nearly 35.1% of global GDP. However, this remarkable economic strength contrasts sharply with the region’s pressing social challenges, including the climate crisis, digital inequality, youth unemployment, and rapid demographic transitions. While innovative solutions are emerging throughout the region to address these complex issues, they often operate in isolation—fragmented across borders, constrained by limited resources, and working within organizational silos that prevent the scale of impact needed to drive meaningful systemic change.

WHY NOW?

The Catalyst Now Asia Pacific Social Innovation Summit brings together social innovators and transformational organizations across borders and sectors to unlock collective action. This is where grassroots wisdom meets power, and where regional collaboration can drive global transformation.

Welcome to the Social Innovation House
where purpose, power, and progress converge.

The Social Innovation House is a Catalyst Now initiative that began as a spark in Davos in January 2025 with the partnership with Echoing Green, Ashoka and One Family Foundation — and is fast becoming a growing constellation of catalytic spaces around the globe. As we expand, we carry with us the same spirit: to spotlight social innovators, cross-sectoral collaborations, host solution-driven conversations, foster partnerships, and create visibility for social impact ecosystems that transform systems and solve the most pressing challenges.

ABOUT CATALYST NOW

Catalyst Now is a dynamic global movement of over 6,000 social innovators transforming systems and driving sustainable change to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals worldwide. Founded in 2019 at the World Economic Forum by 50 pioneering innovators who created Catalyst 2030, we unite social entrepreneurs, civic society, funders, private sector leaders, academia, and governments to create lasting systemic change through bold, cross-sector collaborations.

With more than 100 collaborations across 150 countries, Catalyst Now creates spaces where social innovators connect, collaborate, and drive transformational change. From education and climate action to mental health and gender equality, we empower and amplify local and regional initiatives—pioneering innovative solutions that address the world’s most pressing social challenges.

OUR PROGRAM

Accelerating Social Innovation with leading social entrepreneurs and social innovators from the Asia-Pacific region.

A three-day convening, the Summit will bring together 100 of Asia Pacific’s most visionary social innovators and changemakers. In collaboration with businesses and organizations committed to addressing social and environmental challenges, we aim to drive a global movement that propels social innovation beyond borders. By fostering discussions among leaders from diverse fields and backgrounds, we seek to enhance regional cooperation and generate collective impact.

Join us in Mexico City for the GAIL Summit 2025, where legal professionals from across the globe will come together to explore the evolving field of impact law.

As societies face increasing complexity—from climate-related challenges to global economic shifts—the legal profession has a vital role to play in developing practical frameworks that support more inclusive, sustainable, and accountable systems. The GAIL Summit will provide a structured forum for legal practitioners, academics and law students to examine these developments and collaborate on shaping effective legal responses.

The programme will focus on translating systems thinking into practical legal tools that can support resilient communities, economies, and ecosystems. With particular attention to perspectives and leadership from the Global South, including a spotlight on Latin America, the Summit will provide a platform for shared learning and peer exchange among legal experts from diverse jurisdictions.

Participants will engage in thematic sessions covering cutting-edge issues in impact investing, blended finance, climate law, ESG, corporate governance, philanthropy, purposeful business, and emerging legal models. These sessions are designed to facilitate knowledge exchange, identify best practices, and support the development and refinement of legal approaches that underpin positive social and environmental outcomes.

The GAIL Summit is intended as a working space for reflection, collaboration, and practical progress—bringing together legal professionals who are committed to advancing the field of impact law for the public good.