CRASH COURSE OR PITCHING​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ SESSIONS​​

4 November 2025

Join us for a high-energy day of hands-on learning and bold innovation. Dive into the crash course designed to sharpen your skills, from impact measurement to funding strategies. Or discover the next generation of changemakers as startups and scaleups pitch their solutions to drive social and environmental progress. Whether you're here to learn, invest, connect, or be inspired, there’s a session waiting for you.

You can not attend both programs, you need to choose either to join the Crash Course or the Pitching Session.

CRASH COURSE

Join us for an inspiring and hands-on journey into the new reality of Impact Finance. This course is co-organised by Impact Finance Belgium (IFB), the Solvay Impact Institute, and IMPACTips.

This event is designed to introduce key impact and sustainable investing strategies, showcase real-world impact cases, and offer space for personal reflection and peer exchange, all within the broader context of Impact Week. In this dynamic event, we’ll dive into the evolving world of Impact Finance, unpacking key concepts and showcasing diverse investment strategies through concrete cases.

What's in it for you?

• Discover the Power of Impact Finance

  Get a fresh, accessible introduction to how finance can be a force for good, and why it’s gaining momentum across the globe.

• Explore Two Powerful Sustainable Finance Strategies

  Learn how different approaches, like sustainable and impact finance, are shaping the future of purpose-driven investing.

• Dive into Real-World Impact

  Through compelling case studies, see how theory turns into action:

  • Sustainability-driven investments

  • Impact Funds

  • Catalytic Capital

• Reflect & Position Yourself

  Try out a practical self-assessment tool to understand where you stand on the impact spectrum—and how to sharpen your practice moving forward.

Whether you're a seasoned investor, a sustainability professional, or simply curious about how impact finance can do more good, this session is for you!

OR

PITCHING SESSIONS

Join us at our pitching session for an opportunity to connect with high-potential impact start-ups and scale-ups. Every entrepreneur on stage will have been carefully curated and professionally prepared to showcase their business to investors by our partner Be Impact. These ventures are tackling important challenges with scalable, sustainable solutions. It’s your chance to meet changemakers shaping tomorrow’s economy and to invest in the future you want to see.

Program Overview

13.00 - Networking Lunch & Registration

14.00 - Deep Dive into Impact & Sustainable Finance

16.00 - Coffee Break

16.30 - Interactive Exchanges

17.30 - Networking Drink

18.30 - End

Program Overview

13.00 - Networking Lunch & Registration

14.00 - Round of pitches (6-8 pitches)

15.45 - Time to match

17.15 - Wrap up

17.30 - Networking Drink

18.30 - End

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Impact Finance Belgium (IFB) is an independent and not-for-profit organization. IFB's goal is to mobilize more, and more effective impact-driven investment, capital and funding to seed and accelerate solutions addressing the needs of people and planet, also where it matters most. The aim is to increase the part of Impact Investing in Belgium to 10% of the Belgian AUM by 2030.

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