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Be Part of the World’s Largest Social Enterprise Gathering!

The Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF) is coming to Taipei, Taiwan in October 2025 in partnership with Co-host Impact Hub Taipei!

SEWF provides space for entrepreneurs, innovators and changemakers from around the world to learn, connect and be inspired. Explore ground-breaking ideas and connect with purpose-driven leaders. Together we are working to transform the economy to put people and the planet first.

SEWF25 Week (October 27-31) will feature Social Enterprise Tours, Fringe Day, evening activities and a two-day hybrid conference with options to participate in person, online and at Community Hubs around the world.

Registration for SEWF25 is now open with the option to participate online and in person in Taipei, Taiwan. Connect with leading social entrepreneurs, access world-class content and be part of the world’s largest social enterprise gathering.

Register before February 28, 2025 to access the Early Bird tickets.

GAI Asia is the region’s preeminent gathering of agriculture investment stakeholders. Take advantage of unrivaled networking opportunities to build on existing relationships and meet potential new partners.

Learn & Be Inspired
Global AgInvesting is known for curating speaking faculties composed of industry experts, respected private and institutional investors, leading agribusiness executives, and cutting-edge agtech innovators and entrepreneurs. Our agendas explore the latest trends, challenges, and best practices affecting the agriculture investment community.

Amazing Location
We always look forward to our annual reunion of the agriculture investment community in Tokyo. The American Club is a vibrant, modern hub of international exchange in the heart of the Japanese capital. The building was described by private club consultants the McMahon Group as “light years ahead of its U.S. counterparts” and “[as] quite possibly the finest private club facility in the world.”

Build Your Network
Reconnect with friends and colleagues, and make new connections with potential clients, partners, and investors. GAI events offer unrivaled networking opportunities allowing you to build your network during scheduled coffee breaks, lunches, and receptions and continue the conversation after event hours using the event mobile app.

Trellis Impact 25 is the premier event empowering professionals to accelerate innovative solutions to our planet’s biggest challenges. Bringing together three leading conferences in one location, Trellis Impact 25 is the center of gravity for doers and leaders focused on action and results:

• VERGE mobilizes professionals decarbonizing and future-proofing their organizations and supply chains through climate technologies.
• Bloom convenes leaders and innovators driving cutting-edge tools, business strategies, and partnerships to protect and regenerate nature.
• GreenFin equips professionals with strategies to harness the power of capital for the clean economy transition.

Read more about how Trellis Impact 25 is set to usher in the next phase of sustainability.

Now in it’s 12th edition, Nigeria Energy is West Africa’s leading energy platform connecting the entire value chain – from policymakers to project owners.

The event brings together key stakeholders driving Nigeria and West Africa’s power sector transformation, offering a hub for innovation and partnerships.

We unite the West African energy community through SIX dedicated product sectors.

Sustainability
Nigeria Energy is shaping a greener future with a 14.5 sustainability score and a focus on impact that goes beyond the event.

From reducing single-use materials on-site to encouraging exhibitors to design better, more sustainable stands, every aspect of Nigeria Energy is geared toward long-term positive change.

In the fall of 2025, the World Forum on the Social and Solidarity Economy will be held for the first time in France, following the editions in Seoul, Montreal, Bilbao, Mexico City and Dakar.

A major international biennial event, it brings together all stakeholders in the Social and Solidarity Economy ecosystem.

Presentation of the Forum
The objective
Pooling visions and practices that can make the SSE the “standard that will regulate the economy of tomorrow,” imposing the primacy of humans and collective projects over capital and structuring an economy of proximity and the long term.

Like every edition of the World SSE Forum, Bordeaux GSEF 2025 aims to:

to reunite Elected officials and leaders from around the world, international experts, representatives of development agencies, networks, and field actors who are committed to promoting human-centered economic models that respect the environment. A final declaration will formalize the political commitments, translating into a roadmap for the next two years; promote the exchange of experiences and expertise implemented on all continents. The dense program, co-constructed with the Scientific Committee and the contributions received, will echo initiatives led by actors involved in the SSE, according to formats conducive to perspectives and cross-examinations.

A highlight on the international agenda
The 2025 World SSE Forum constitutes a highlight on the path to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Five years before the 2030 Agenda,It will bring together civil society and regions to create action, challenge decision-makers and accelerate the just transition. This meeting is also part of a dense and decisive global sequence, a few days before the World Social Forum in Doha (4–6 November 2025), which will bring together heads of state and government to accelerate the establishment of a new global social contract around poverty reduction.

In this context, Bordeaux GSEF 2025 will forcefully recall the key role of local governments and civil society in building sustainable, inclusive, and locally anchored development. This will be a strategic opportunity to share concrete solutions, strengthen cooperation, and make the voices of grassroots actors heard on a global scale. This is all the more crucial given that the world is currently facing numerous threats: wars, authoritarian regimes, economic unrest, the hardening of social relations, ecological disasters, disinformation, and more. The SSE is a testament to a new narrative that it is up to everyone to write.

In the colors of the ESS
Beyond the central site of the event, the Forum will radiate in time and space, with the day before the opening a proposed tour route to meet the ESS in the territory, but also a promotion of the ESS aimed at the general public and the mobilization of hundreds of young people who came to make their voices heard and give echo to their initiatives.

Open to the city, Bordeaux GSEF 2025 will be an opportunity to highlight the SSE for what it is and could be even more, present in the daily lives of all, serving the common good. Fruitful bridges will also be offered to conventional economic actors to promote responsible, locally rooted cooperation.

What happens at ImpactFest?

This is the place to be for:

Original innovators: Reignite the fire that started it all.
Emerging changemakers: Create space for real, uncompromising transformation.
The full ecosystem: Protect the core values of impact in the face of pressure, growth, and temptation.

We are not a top-down event, but a radically inclusive space built by and for impact makers — from entrepreneurs to NGOs, investors to policymakers.

Expect purpose without PR spin, matchmaking with a mission, and innovation grounded in a moral compass.

We’re excited to shape this edition of ImpactFest with you.
What matters most to you right now?
How do you want to help brace for impact?

Let us know. Let’s do this — together.

Join the Rural Social Enterprise Gathering
The Rural Social Enterprise Gathering is an immersive experience bringing together the rural social enterprise community from around the world to connect, collaborate and exchange best practices.

Participants will have the opportunity to engage directly with rural social enterprises through a Learning Visit set in Sabah’s tropical rainforest. The gathering will also feature a Rural Forum in Kota Kinabalu, where participants can take part in dynamic discussions and knowledge sharing sessions, shaping the future of rural social enterprise.

Who is the Rural Gathering for?
For anyone active or interested in the work of rural communities around the world including:

Social entrepreneurs and social enterprise practitioners
Innovators and changemakers
Ecosystem supporters e.g. government, funders, investors, corporate partners
Students and young people
Members of the local community with an interest in social enterprise