The international impact events canceled due to the pandemic were reconfirmed in Turin in 2021 and a calendar is being recomposed that confirms the centrality of the Turin ecosystem in the impact economy.

First of all, the GSG For Impact Investing Leadership Meeting, whose 2020 edition was scheduled to take place in Turin in virtual mode, was confirmed from 5 to 8 May 2021 in our city. The GSG is undoubtedly the leading international network dedicated to impact investing, it is an independent global organization that brings together leaders from the world of finance, business and philanthropy. Dedicated to boosting impact investments, which today represent just 1% of the capital allocated globally, GSG analyzes, promotes, and discusses the tools that can return social and environmental results together with financial returns, business models that can profitably pursue a double result. The debate also focuses on the definition of global policies that promote the diffusion of investments that bring together private and public capital with social entrepreneurship and non-profit organizations in order to bring about significant social change.

On the other hand, the Ashoka Europe Changemaker Summit will take place in November 2021, at the end of a path dedicated to social innovators that will start already in the 2020 edition that will take place online in the autumn with the collaboration of Torino Social Impact. Ashoka is the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs for social innovation. Ashoka is based on the belief that everyone has the capacity to be an agent of change in the world (Everyone a changemaker) and the aim of Ashoka is not only to maximize social impact but also to create transversal alliances capable of changing entire systems. This is why for over 35 years she has been selecting, networking, and training more than 3500 social entrepreneurs active in different sectors and in different parts of the world. In Italy Ashoka has been active since 2014.

Finally, the annual Iris Network event. Also, this event was canceled in 2020 and is reconfirmed in 2021 in Turin in spring. Iris is the network of social enterprise research institutes and its annual scientific colloquium is a key event in the national and international debate on third sector companies and their evolution.