Impact Days ’26 invites a different way of engaging with the future. Not by predicting it, simplifying it, or choosing sides, but by shaping it consciously, within the real limits that define our time.
Economic, ecological, technological, and social systems are increasingly intertwined. Decisions made in one domain ripple quickly into others, often with lasting consequences. Growth, innovation, and scale no longer operate in isolation from planetary boundaries, social cohesion, or political stability. Impact Days ’26 creates a space to work with this reality directly, without shortcuts, hype, or false certainty.
Built for Possibility
The space
between
Impact Days ’26 is a meeting place for those willing to work in the space between—bringing opposites into relationship, holding complexity without choosing sides, and shaping futures responsibly within real social and planetary limits.
Tensions Shaping the Impact Economy
Impact Days ‘26 is structured around three core tensions that increasingly shape how the impact economy evolves and how futures are formed. These are not treated as problems to be solved or binaries to be chosen between, but as relationships that must be held, navigated, and designed with care.
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Rather than treating nature, humans, and technology as separate domains, Impact Days ‘26 brings them into a single system.
Nature sets the boundaries within which economies must operate. Humans bring values, judgment, care, and responsibility. Artificialsystems extend our capacity to sense, analyse, and act at scale.
This tension is about integration rather than opposition. It asks how technologies, including artificial intelligence, can be designed to strengthen human agency and regenerate natural systems, rather than override, replace, or extract from them.
Core question: How do we design technologies and systems that operate in service of human dignity and planetary health?
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Most economic and institutional systems are built on assumptions of stability, predictability, and control. The reality we face is one of accelerating change, complex feedback loops, and unintended consequences.
Impact Days ‘26 explores how entrepreneurs, investors, and leaders can operate responsibly without the illusion of certainty. This includes rethinking metrics, governance models, and decision-making processes suited to complex adaptive systems; where not all outcomes can be forecast in advance.
Core question: How do we lead, invest, and innovate when the most important outcomes cannot be fully predicted?
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Economic systems constantly move along a spectrum between value extraction and value regeneration. Extraction enables speed, efficiency, and concentration of returns, while regeneration sustains the social and ecological foundations on which long-term value creation depends.
Anchored in the Donut Economy, this tension reframes success as operating within planetary boundaries while strengthening social foundations. Capital, enterprises, and innovation are examined not as ends in themselves, but as tools for long-term system health and resilience.
Core question: What would it mean to design businesses and investments that leave systems better than they found them?
What connects these tensions is not the search for resolution, but the practice of responsibility. Impact Days ’26 is a space for learning how to bring opposites into a relationship, making trade-offs visible, holding complexity without collapse, and shaping futures that can endure within social and planetary limits.
Entrepreneurs at Impact Days '26 are understood as system builders. Through products, platforms, and business models, they shape markets, behaviours, and infrastructures, often faster than regulation or public policy can respond.
Entrepreneurship and investment as system work
Investment is approached with the same lens. Capital allocation is recognised as a powerful form of authorship over the future, influencing which solutions scale, which risks persist, and which values are reinforced.
We bring entrepreneurs and investors into a shared conversation about responsibility, resilience, and long-term impact in a world of real limits.
A Practice, not a position
At its core, Impact Days '26 is built around a demanding but necessary practice: holding tension without collapsing it. This means resisting the reflex to reduce complexity into binaries, and instead learning how to design, invest, and lead when trade-offs are real and consequences are shared.
Shape the future with us
Impact Days ’26 partners with organisations that are willing to engage with complexity rather than simplify it. We collaborate with those who see partnership not as visibility alone, but as a shared responsibility to shape the impact economy with care, integrity, and long-term intent.
Whether you are building, investing, governing, or enabling change, partnering with Impact Days ’26 means contributing to a platform where opposites are held, trade-offs are made visible, and progress is shaped within real social and planetary limits.
