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Ship2B Impact Forum 2026

13 OCT – World Trade Center Barcelona

Unlocking Systemic Impact:

Capital, Leadership & Technology

Over recent editions, the Ship2B Impact Forum has driven a shared journey to understand how the impact economy can better respond to major social and environmental challenges. After a decade of mobilising capital, talent and impact-driven solutions, in 2025 we took a further step: moving from individual impact to collective impact, focusing on the need to connect stakeholders, learnings and resources in order to generate deeper, longer-lasting transformations.

In 2026, we want to move forward into the next stage of this journey: Unlocking Systemic Impact: Capital, Leadership & Technology. This new edition will focus on how to unlock the necessary capital, activate new models of leadership and harness technology as an accelerator to drive projects and partnerships capable of generating systemic impact. Because today’s challenges require not only good solutions, but also the right conditions for them to scale, connect and transform the systems in which they operate.

Agenda 2026

Side
Events

From 9:00 am to 2:00 pm

Work and networking spaces developed together with leading organisations from the impact ecosystem. Throughout the morning, different communities will come together to explore key challenges in depth, share learnings and activate new opportunities for collaboration aimed at systemic change.

Programme Side Events

Ecosystem Lunch & Ship2B Impact Awards

From 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

A carefully designed space for connection, bringing together leaders, investors, partners, speakers and leading organisations from the impact ecosystem. Its aim is to facilitate strategic conversations, generate new opportunities for collaboration, and connect capital, knowledge and leadership. In addition, we will hold the awards ceremony for the 2026 Ship2B Impact Awards.

S2B Impact Awards 2026

Innovation
Showtime

From 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm

The central moment of the Forum: an inspiring session featuring talks, dialogues and leading case studies to explore how capital, leadership and technology can accelerate systemic impact. During the session, we will also celebrate a new edition of the Ship2B Impact Awards 2026.

Programme & Speakers

Side Events

Investors & Founders Day

A series of interactive sessions bringing together investors from Ship2B Ventures and founders from its portfolio companies, kicking off with a roundtable featuring two special guests, moderated by Xavi Pont, Co-founder and General Partner at Ship2B Ventures.

Organizer: Ship2B Ventures

10°Aniversario B-Value

We celebrate a decade of driving purpose-driven projects, meaningful connections and new ways of creating social impact. An opportunity to discover what B-Value has achieved over the past ten years, hear inspiring success stories, and explore how innovation, capital and collaboration can continue to accelerate transformative solutions.

Organizers: Fundación Banco Sabadell & Ship2B Foundation

Venture Philanthropy Forum

A pioneering space in Spain to open a practical conversation around new ways of financing and supporting high-impact projects. An opportunity to connect with foundations, investors, family offices, social organisations and support organisations, and explore how patient capital, strategic support, impact measurement and mission alignment can be combined to strengthen projects with transformative potential.

Organizers: Fundación Daniel y Nina Carasso, SpainNAB & Ship2B Foundation

Systemic Summit

The 2nd edition of the Systemic Summit, a transformative social innovation lab where leaders from the impact economy and key stakeholders across business, government, academia and civil society come together around systemic challenges to build collective responses.

Organizers: Change4Legacy & Ship2B Foundation

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Del piloto al escalado: soluciones sistémicas para la longevidad y la soledad no deseada

A session exploring how to design and drive systemic pilots to address unwanted loneliness and generate long-term impact. We will share approaches and learnings to develop more equitable, sustainable, and replicable initiatives, incorporating cross-sector collaboration, impact evaluation, and strategies to facilitate their scaling to other contexts and territories.

Organizers: Ajuntament de Barcelona, Generalitat de Catalunya, Ship2B Ventures & Ship2B Foundation

The Social Economy: An Opportunity for Impact Investment

A space to bring impact investment closer to the social economy through real-life cases, financing instruments, and practical experience. The session will bring together impact investment funds, fund managers, investors, social economy organizations, and ecosystem stakeholders to explore how capital can contribute to the growth and strengthening of projects with social impact.

Organizers: Ajuntament de Barcelona, Generalitat de Catalunya, Ship2B Ventures & Ship2B Foundation

Place-Based Projects for Transformative Innovation and Collective Impact

A working session bringing together public and private stakeholders and investors to explore how to activate place-based projects capable of generating collective impact and systemic transformation. The session will focus on new opportunities to unlock the value of local resources, promote sustainable business models, and scale solutions related to the bioeconomy, forest management, and regenerative agriculture.

Organizers: Diputació de Lleida & Ship2B Foundation

Innovation Showtime Program

3:30pm

Impact Show

4:00pm

Welcome

This session aims to present a recap of what was talked in the previous Impact Forum. We put focus on systemic impact and the challenges we faced.

Xavier Pont – Co-founder, Ship2B
Maite Fibla – Co-founder, Ship2B

4:10pm

The Systemic Mindset

A talk that challenges us to rethink how we approach change: the mindset and key elements that make the difference between an attempt at transformation and real, lasting systemic change.

Leslie Johnston – CEO, Laudes Foundation

4:30pm

El Arte de Coordinar lo que Nadie Coordina: Liderar el Cambio Sistémico

Driving systemic change takes more than investment: it takes leadership capable of aligning actors with different incentives and logics. This panel explores how to lead lasting change that tackles the root causes of social challenges, drawing on real experiences from those who have taken on that role.

Miquel de Paladella – CEO, Upsocial
Ivo Degn – Founder, Re:Source
Toby Eccles – Executive Director, Social Finance UK

5:15pm

El Capital Catalítico como Palanca para la Inversión Sistémica

A presentation to address the importance of catalytic capital in unlocking systemic investment and the different types.

Raúl Sánchez – Director of Impact Investments, COFIDES

5:30pm

Seeing Beyond Today’s Financial Architecture in Impact Investing

Today’s financial architecture isn’t built to meet the systemic challenges we face. This panel brings together complementary perspectives — aligned investment, patient capital and innovative structures — to explore what financial models we need to imagine and build if capital is to drive real, lasting impact.

Macarena Machimbarrena – Director, SAGANA
André Stürmer – Founder and Steward, Atreyu Investments
Mikel García-Prieto – Aligned Investment, Somos Stewards
Roberta Benedetti – Managing Partner, Radia Capital

6:15h

Technology as an Accelerator for Systemic Change

A keynote that explores how technology can become the great multiplier of systemic change: which tools, which vision and which decisions bring us closer to a society able to transform at the pace today’s challenges demand.

18:30pm