Traditional business models are no longer sufficient to tackle fierce global competition. In order to survive in global competition and thrive, businesses need to take a more active role in addressing social and environmental issues where they operate.
Businesses that balance social missions with profit have lasting impacts on the communities in which they operate and provide competitive advantages in this new economy. Moving from a traditional to an impact business model requires untraditional ways of thinking and doing things.
The Impact Business Summit 2022 is created to provide aspiration and direction to business leaders to navigate this new movement. The event will gather business and social organization leaders who are driven by the purpose to create positive impacts on society while thriving in an ever-changing environment.
Knowledge
What trends and opportunities do businesses interested in business models with social and environmental impacts in Vietnam should know about?
Approach
How can businesses balance between revenue and positive impacts to society and environment?
Networking Opportunies
Meet and connect with over 300+ business people, leaders, CSR and NGO experts from different sectors.
Real-life stories
Real stories will be shared by representatives of leading businesses in implementing and transforming to social impact business model.
Meet and connect with business people, leaders, CSR and NGO experts from different sectors.
Nguyễn Thị Bích Vân
Chairperson, Unilever Vietnam
Đỗ Lê Thu Ngọc
Head of Inclusive Growth, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Phạm Kiều Oanh
Founder & Executive Director, The Centre for Social Initiatives Promotion (CSIP)
Hồ Thị Thu Uyên
Public Affairs Director, Intel Vietnam
Lưu Hoàng Hà
Founder & Chairman, Nami Energy
Darryl J. Dong
Principal Financial Specialist, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Shuyin Tang
PARTNER, Patamar Capital
Christina Ameln
Vietnam Advisor, Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN)
Nguyễn Trường Hải
CEO, Saint-Gobain Vietnam
Nguyễn Thanh Ngữ
CEO, Thành Thành Công – Biên Hòa Joint Stock Company (TTC Sugar)
The Impact Business Summit 2022 is created to provide aspiration and direction to business leaders to navigate this new movement. The event will gather business and social organization leaders who are driven by the purpose to create positive impacts on society while thriving in an ever-changing environment.
Vietnam is one of the few countries with legal recognition for the social enterprise model. Nevertheless, the number of businesses with products or solutions, which are focused on solving social and environmental problems in parallel with making profits is still limited at only 5% of the total number of registered businesses in Vietnam. What trends and opportunities do businesses interested in business models with social and environmental impact in Vietnam should know about? To what extent are the policies and ecosystems supporting the growth of social impact businesses today?
The keynote will provide the overall landscape of social impact business in Vietnam, an ecosystem is forming to support impact business model and the shift of investment funds towards social impact.
Speaker: Ms Đỗ Lê Thu Ngọc, Head of Inclusive Growth, UNDP
Businesses with models directly create social and environmental impacts have more competitive advantages over profit-only business models, becoming the driving force for positive changes and solutions for mutual challenges nationally and in the world. In the process of this critical transformations, businesses need access to technical support, expertise, and capital.
In this panel discussion, representatives of investment funds and consulting organizations will share their investment views on impact business models and what they care to help businesses, organizations and leaders understand more about the requirements in order to shorten the process of cooperating among the parties.
Doing business along with the social and environmental impact is becoming a guideline for companies wishing to get sustainable competitive advantages. For long-term operating and development in a market with lots of potential and challenges like Vietnam, businesses need long-term vision and pioneer efforts in order to make changes for a more sustainable future market. The speaker will tell the real story of how they have made necessary changes towards sustainable development for people and the environment in Vietnam.
Switching from a traditional to an impact business model contains many difficulties and challenges, but there are also many new inspirations and visions. In this panel discussion, leaders of organizations and companies with social impacts in different industries will share their lessons and experiences in the process of integrating positive impacts on the environment and people into the business strategy and products of their companies.
Speakers (tbc):
Nguyễn Trường Hải, CEO, Saint-Gobain Vietnam
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22.9.2022
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