The GIIN, the Impact Principles Secretariat, and Impact Frontiers are considering co-organizing an in-person convening for advanced impact measurement and management (IMM) practitioners. The three organizations invite you to review the brief description below and provide feedback via the survey that follows. Your feedback will be invaluable in helping the three organizations to gauge whether demand exists for such an event, and if so, to inform its design.
Convening Objective: To bring together advanced impact management practitioners from across sub-sectors of impact investing who currently have limited opportunities to intersect directly as peer practitioners, so that they can, in a purposefully designed, interactive environment:
Convening Objective: To bring together advanced impact management practitioners from across sub-sectors of impact investing who currently have limited opportunities to intersect directly as peer practitioners, so that they can, in a purposefully designed, interactive environment:
1. Engage: Participate in peer and collective knowledge sharing and development including through content deep-dives
2. Connect: Be part of a vital and growing community, developing relationships with other advanced practitioners that will last beyond the convening
3. Learn: Stay abreast of emerging and advanced practices and topics in IMM and explore unknowns and challenges the field is facing
4. Build: Serve as a channel for peer discussions that surface perspectives around best practices, challenges, and tension points in advanced topics of IMM. Contribute to professionalizing and validating the importance of the growing field of IMM
Attendee Profile: Expected event size is 75-125 people. The core audience (>75% of attendees) are advanced IMM professionals working at investment firms (both asset managers and asset owners), with a minimum of 3 years of IMM experience. This may include people with investment roles that include significant IMM responsibility. Other attendees may include impact management service providers (e.g., consultants, data platforms, verifiers) and IMM leads from field-building organizations (such as standard-setters, networks, and associations). A limited number of academics and researchers are also welcome. All participants must commit to norms of “no solicitation” to ensure a candid and learning-focused environment. Priority will be given to ensuring diverse representation at the event in terms of geographic and other social identifiers.
2. Connect: Be part of a vital and growing community, developing relationships with other advanced practitioners that will last beyond the convening
3. Learn: Stay abreast of emerging and advanced practices and topics in IMM and explore unknowns and challenges the field is facing
4. Build: Serve as a channel for peer discussions that surface perspectives around best practices, challenges, and tension points in advanced topics of IMM. Contribute to professionalizing and validating the importance of the growing field of IMM
Attendee Profile: Expected event size is 75-125 people. The core audience (>75% of attendees) are advanced IMM professionals working at investment firms (both asset managers and asset owners), with a minimum of 3 years of IMM experience. This may include people with investment roles that include significant IMM responsibility. Other attendees may include impact management service providers (e.g., consultants, data platforms, verifiers) and IMM leads from field-building organizations (such as standard-setters, networks, and associations). A limited number of academics and researchers are also welcome. All participants must commit to norms of “no solicitation” to ensure a candid and learning-focused environment. Priority will be given to ensuring diverse representation at the event in terms of geographic and other social identifiers.
Format: Two-day in-person event in location tbd (New York and London are likely for this first pilot convening). This would be a roll-up-your-sleeves workshop rather than a traditional conference. The emphasis will be interactive sessions in which participants actively engage with one another around challenges and opportunities in IMM. There would be ample time for unstructured networking. There would not be formal keynotes or panels, though session ‘sparks’ and conversation-starters will be provided.
Agenda: ‘By and for’ IMM practitioners. An organising committee made up of representatives of GIIN, Impact Principles, and Impact Frontiers would set overall convening themes as well as broad guidelines for session tracks and topics. Attendees would submit and vote on preferred topics for discussion, with the organising committee to make the final decisions based on attendee input.
Cost: Suggested range of $500 - $1000 / person, with ‘scholarships’ available for representatives from organizations based in the Global South; Indigenous funds/practitioners; practitioners from historically marginalized communities/regions; and nonprofit, emerging or small (<$25M) managers. Participants would cover their own travel cost.