WHY ASIA PACIFIC?
WHY ASIA PACIFIC?
The Asia Pacific region stands as the world’s largest economic powerhouse, generating approximately $40 trillion and representing nearly 35.1% of global GDP. However, this remarkable economic strength contrasts sharply with the region’s pressing social challenges, including the climate crisis, digital inequality, youth unemployment, and rapid demographic transitions. While innovative solutions are emerging throughout the region to address these complex issues, they often operate in isolation—fragmented across borders, constrained by limited resources, and working within organizational silos that prevent the scale of impact needed to drive meaningful systemic change.
WHY NOW?
WHY NOW?
The Catalyst Now Asia Pacific Social Innovation Summit brings together social innovators and transformational organizations across borders and sectors to unlock collective action. This is where grassroots wisdom meets power, and where regional collaboration can drive global transformation.
Welcome to the Social Innovation House
where purpose, power, and progress converge.
The Social Innovation House is a Catalyst Now initiative that began as a spark in Davos in January 2025 with the partnership with Echoing Green, Ashoka and One Family Foundation — and is fast becoming a growing constellation of catalytic spaces around the globe. As we expand, we carry with us the same spirit: to spotlight social innovators, cross-sectoral collaborations, host solution-driven conversations, foster partnerships, and create visibility for social impact ecosystems that transform systems and solve the most pressing challenges.
ABOUT CATALYST NOW
ABOUT CATALYST NOW
Catalyst Now is a dynamic global movement of over 6,000 social innovators transforming systems and driving sustainable change to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals worldwide. Founded in 2019 at the World Economic Forum by 50 pioneering innovators who created Catalyst 2030, we unite social entrepreneurs, civic society, funders, private sector leaders, academia, and governments to create lasting systemic change through bold, cross-sector collaborations.
With more than 100 collaborations across 150 countries, Catalyst Now creates spaces where social innovators connect, collaborate, and drive transformational change. From education and climate action to mental health and gender equality, we empower and amplify local and regional initiatives—pioneering innovative solutions that address the world’s most pressing social challenges.
OUR PROGRAM
OUR PROGRAM
Accelerating Social Innovation with leading social entrepreneurs
and social innovators from the Asia-Pacific region.
A three-day convening, the Summit will bring together 100 of Asia Pacific’s most visionary social innovators and changemakers. In collaboration with businesses and organizations committed to addressing social and environmental challenges, we aim to drive a global movement that propels social innovation beyond borders. By fostering discussions among leaders from diverse fields and backgrounds, we seek to enhance regional cooperation and generate collective impact.
Overview
Date: 9-10 October 2025
Location: Fukuoka, JAPAN
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT?
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VOICES FROM OUR COMMUNITY
VOICES FROM OUR COMMUNITY
Fredrik Galtung
Resource Co-Chief Facilitator: Operations & Finance, Enabling Environment, Fundraising, Digital Infrastructure
Catalyst Now Marks a New Era of Global Collaboration Rooted in Asia’s Leadership
We are now definitively in the Asian century. With over half of the world’s population and more than half of global GDP, Asia is increasingly becoming the epicenter of innovation and progress. At Catalyst Now, we believe that the next frontier of advancement will be driven not only by technology or economics—but by social innovation: the development and deployment of collaborative solutions to complex social and environmental challenges.
Launched just five years ago with 200 organisations, Catalyst Now has grown into the world’s largest collaborative movement for systems change, now encompassing over 4,000 organisations across the globe. In a time when multilateralism is under strain, our human superpower—the ability to collaborate at large scale in complexity—is more critical than ever.
Asia-Pacific stands poised to lead a new wave of social innovation, harnessing deep, cross-sector collaboration to tackle the world’s most pressing sustainability challenges. This region, which has already transformed global development through unprecedented economic growth and poverty alleviation, is now shaping the future of inclusive and sustainable progress.
Gaby Arenas de Meneses
Community Co-Chief Facilitator: Ecosystem Development, Membership & Collaboration, Learning and Systems Change, Communications and Shifting Narrative, Impact Ecosystem Development
We are incredibly excited to support the Asia Pacific Social Innovation Summit in Japan. This region is full of potential and innovation, and we are sure that social innovators will unlock tremendous opportunities to address pressing challenges like climate change, digital inequality, and youth unemployment. What makes this Summit so compelling is its commitment to breaking down the silos that keep innovative solutions fragmented across borders. By bringing together 100 visionary social innovators and changemakers, we’re creating the essential space where grassroots wisdom meets institutional power, and where regional collaboration can truly drive global transformation. This is exactly the kind of collective action that Catalyst Now champions—moving beyond isolated efforts to create the systemic change our world needs
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Interested in sponsoring a session or securing space during your time in Asia Pacific Summit 2025?
We offer a variety of sponsorship opportunities, including speaker slots, private meeting rooms, workshop spaces, and CEO roundtables. Please share your specific requirements, and we will work with you to create a tailored experience that aligns with your goals.