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 introduce key impact and sustainable investing strategies, showcase real-world impact cases, and offer space for personal reflection and peer exchange. 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

Investing with Positive Impact — Unravelled.

Ask the questions about sustainable and impact investing that you never dared to ask — to national and international experts.

Discover How Finance Can Be a Force for Good.

Join us during Impact Week for a dynamic and interactive session that brings the world of Impact and Sustainable Finance to life. Learn how smart investing can create real-world change — for people, planet, and profit.

What’s In It for You: Explore.

Get inspired by how sustainable and impact finance strategies are reshaping the future of purpose-driven investing. Experience. See theory in action through concrete, high-impact cases — from sustainability-driven investments to impact funds and catalytic capital. Engage. Connect with leading experts who are shaping the field across industries and sectors.

Meet the Experts.

Hear first-hand insights from top professionals with backgrounds in insurance, banking, and venture capital — all bringing unique impact perspectives:

Johan Thiers (KBC)
Yann Fantoli (Ethias)
Idriss Nor (DOEN)

They’ll share their strategies, lessons, and bold ideas on how to make finance truly work for positive impact.

Reflect & Take Action Reflect and discuss to understand where you stand on the impact spectrum — and discover how to amplify your own impact journey.

Who Should Join.

Investors, sustainability professionals, and anyone curious about how finance can drive positive change — this is your opportunity to learn, connect, and be inspired.

This course is co-organised by Impact Finance Belgium (IFB), the Solvay Impact Institute, and IMPACTips.

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PITCHING SESSIONS

Next Wave of Impact

A Stage for Belgium’s Scaling Impact Entrepreneurs

As part of Belgian Impact Week, we’re shining a spotlight on the Next Wave of Impact — a curated showcase of ambitious, impact-driven scale-ups that are ready to accelerate their growth. Selected entrepreneurs will pitch live on stage to an audience of investors, partners, and changemakers who are actively looking to back ventures with both financial and societal returns.

Join us for an exclusive afternoon at the Belgian Impact Week, where we bring the next generation of top-tier, impact-driven entrepreneurs to the stage. These entrepreneurs are not just dreamers — they’re doers. With proven traction, clear scaling strategies, and bold impact ambitions for the future, they are ready to connect with investors who want both financial and societal returns.

Expect high-quality pitches, direct engagement with founders, and a room full of peers who believe that capital can be catalytic. This is your chance to discover, connect, and invest in the ventures that will shape the future of impact.

Facilitated by:

What’s in it for you as an Investor?

We've curated 8 Impact Entrepreneurs looking for a total amount of 10-11M€ in different impact sectors.

Join us for an exclusive pitching session where you’ll:

🔓Gain early access to top-tier, impact-driven scale-ups

🌱Meet founders who are prepared, credible, and ready to accelerate

💡Connect with a like-minded community of impact investors

This is where capital fuels catalytic impact. Don’t miss the chance to back tomorrow’s leaders today!

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

Detailed Crash Course Agenda

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

Detailed Pitching Sessions Agenda

Previous Edition

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.