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Join People and Planet First enterprises and partners from around the world for a global online gathering during People and Planet First Week. Hear the latest news from People and Planet First, connect with peers in an interactive networking activity and share ideas on how we can grow together.

Moderated by Bryan Maygers

Meaningful change begins with listening. Evidence shows that when we genuinely understand people’s needs and act on what we hear, we make better decisions that lead to better outcomes. So how can AI help nonprofits and foundations listen to more people, synthesize large volumes of data, and respond more effectively? Join SSIR and Feedback Labs for a 90-minute interactive session exploring AI for feedback and listening at scale.

Building on Feedback Labs’ research and experience, we’ll hear case studies from nonprofits and foundations that are using AI to accelerate and scale listening without losing the nuance, trust, and human connection that make listening meaningful. Participants will discuss what’s working, what’s not, and what responsible AI-enabled listening can look like in practice. Whether you’re already experimenting with AI for listening or just beginning to explore its potential, you’ll leave with practical ideas and questions to help you determine where AI can, and can’t, strengthen your organization’s feedback and listening practices.

Join this 90-minute program led by Alexis Banks, Director of Learning and Operations at Feedback Labs, and Annie Grier, Director of Community and Equity at Feedback Labs.

You can expect to:
Walk away with an understanding of how to think about effective and responsible AI use in the context of community listening.
Learn from peers who are using AI to accelerate, scale, and strengthen their feedback processes.
Identify strategies and tools to support your organization’s feedback collection, analysis, and course correction.

Time 10 – 11:30 a.m. PT / 1 – 2:30 p.m. ET

A Partners in Purpose Webinar with Builders Vision’s Lisa Forbes and Peter Bryant

Exploring why ocean health is foundational across the impact landscape — and how investors and philanthropists can help build a more resilient blue economy.

Many of the impact themes funders care about most intersect with ocean health.

Ocean health is deeply connected to climate resilience, biodiversity, food security, livelihoods and economic prosperity, making it a powerful and cross-cutting pathway for impact. Yet funding has not matched that importance. SDG 14: Life Below Water remains one of the least-funded UN Sustainable Development Goals, and significant gaps persist between the capital needed and the capital flowing to ocean health.

That is beginning to change. New funds, blue bonds, debt-for-nature swaps and blended finance structures are expanding the ways capital can move into the sector. The opportunity now is to build on that momentum, and to understand how philanthropy, catalytic capital and private investment each can play a role in advancing ocean solutions toward scale.

Oceans is one of three interconnected sectors where Builders Vision concentrates its investment and philanthropic capital to drive systemic change. ImpactAssets works across the broader impact investing and philanthropic landscape, with visibility into how capital is deployed across the full range of themes and financing structures.

Time: 1:00 PM EST

COP31 in Antalya was billed as the “Implementation COP.” Join STX Group and ESG Today for a post-conference briefing on what was agreed, what it means for environmental markets, and how companies can turn the outcomes into practical climate action.

In this 30-minute webinar, you’ll learn:

• The expected financial and regulatory impacts coming out of COP31
• The transition, supply-chain, and stranded-asset risks to watch
• Where new financing, incentives, and growth opportunities may emerge
• What COP31 could mean for corporate planning in 2027

Get the key COP31 outcomes, financial implications, and market signals your business needs to understand for the year ahead.

Time: 10:00 AM EDT

The AVPN Executive Fellowship in Philanthropy is designed for experienced philanthropy and impact leaders ready to deepen their ability to lead collaboration and drive systemic change. It brings together alumni of AVPN Fellowships and a select group of senior leaders invited by AVPN to explore one of the sector’s most persistent challenges: how to build partnerships that endure complexity, navigate competing interests, and move capital and action towards shared outcomes.

Delivered by experts from the Cambridge Judge Business School, the Fellowship combines leading research with the realities of practice. Fellows will examine why collaboration succeeds or stalls; how the catalytic capital approach shapes partnerships; and how systemic and circular models can open new possibilities for collective action. Through faculty-led learning, peer exchange and real-world cases of cross-sector collaboration, they will test these ideas against the challenges they face in their own work.

At the heart of the Fellowship is a small, senior cohort. Fellows will learn from Cambridge Judge faculty, but equally from peers bringing experience from across Asia’s philanthropy and social investment ecosystem. The experience is designed not simply to build knowledge but to sharpen how participants lead. By establishing this peer network, Fellows will gain stronger frameworks for collaboration and a clearer strategy for the partnerships.

About the Global Digital Health Forum
For over 15 years, the Global Digital Health Forum has been the place where the people building the future of digital health come together.

It is the leading global convening for the technology providers, funders, researchers, government leaders, and implementing organizations advancing health outcomes in emerging markets and low- and middle-income countries.

GDHF is where national ambitions become shared standards, where evidence replaces hype, and where the partnerships that scale proven systems are made in person. Each year the Forum brings governments, industry, and funders into the same room to confront the hardest questions in the field, from data governance and interoperability to financing and the responsible use of AI.

Session formats
Interactive workshops, panel presentations, lightning talks, solution demonstrations, individual presentations, and poster sessions.

The 2026 tracks
Governance and Digital Health at Scale · Interoperability and Digital Public Infrastructure · AI for Health · Cybersecurity, Resilience, and Continuity · Workforce Capacity and Leadership for the Digital Future · Financing for Sustainability · Climate and Health. Full track descriptions.