Join us for a warm welcome as we gather for two days of learning, collaboration, and action towards a stronger social value movement. Grab a coffee courtesy of our sponsors and connect with familiar and new faces. 

A traditional Māori welcome to open our time together, anchoring this conference with connection to the guardians of this land, and affirming the spiritual and cultural significance of collective action. This is more than a formality - it's a commitment to relationships, to whenua(land), and to the Kaupapa(true essence) of social value in Aotearoa.

Introductory Remarks MC: Brad Norman & Kevin Robbie

Session: The evolving social value movement in NZ. Why impact measurement matters now more than ever.

Jo Nicholson sets the tone for the next two days with a powerful opening on the state of social value in Aotearoa and the world. Jo connects global context with Aotearoa’s unique challenges, exploring how social value practice is shifting in response to environmental, social, and political drivers.

Keynote Speaker: Jo Nicholson Director, Social Value Aotearoa and Board Director, Social Value International

Session: Jeremy Nicholls looks back over SVIs history and talks about risks and opportunities for the future of social value, in the context of rising inequality, climate change and nature loss. He remains optimistic that we can move on from a world that generates financial returns for the lucky few.

Keynote Speaker: Jeremy Nicholls Co-Founder, Social Value International

Aotearoa Impact Hub

Session: Policy shifts influencing baseline thinking and social impact measurement in New Zealand.
This panel dives deep into how government departments, philanthropic funders and iwi-led organisations are responding to growing calls for transparency and social return. Expect real talk on what’s changing in how agencies define ‘value’, how they use data, and what new expectations are emerging for reporting on social outcomes. The session will identify risks, challenges, and opportunities in shaping measurement frameworks that are both rigorous and relational.

Chair: Nicola Nation Former CEO, Akina Foundation 

Panel: Geoff Short Deputy Chief Executive, Ministry of Health, Maria Ngawati, Tapuwae Roa, Clementine Baker Funding Manager, Hoku Foundation, Professor Te Kani Kingi Te Wānanga o Awanuiārangi

Session: How private and public sectors invest in social value.
Public and private investment are undergoing a transformation — one where capital is increasingly expected to deliver social outcomes, not just financial returns. This keynote and panel aim to unpack the evolving impact investment landscape across Aotearoa and internationally. What motivates investment in social value? How are investors measuring impact? What does it take to build investable propositions in the social sector?

Keynote Speaker: Kevin Robbie CEO, Think Impact

Chair: Lance Norman

Panel: John Morrow JBWere, Dr Jamie Newth CEO, Soul Capital, Te Pūoho Katene CEO, Tapuwae Roa, Sydney Straver CEO & Founder &Bloom, James Stewart CEO, Home Capital Partners

Aotearoa Impact Hub

Delegates have the choice of four different workshops running simultaneously. Limited capacity in some workshops.

IMPACT INVESTMENT 101: Knowledge Exchange Forum What funders look for in creating positive social or environmental impact while also generating financial returns. 

SOCIAL VALUE 101: Knowledge Exchange Forum Social Value Best Practice. 

IMPACT MEASUREMENT IN ACTION: Interactive Workshop Frameworks & Tools to Understand Your Organisation’s Impact

SOCIAL VALUE CAFE: Interactive Workshop: Un-conferencing, sharing insights & commitments in small groups. 

Session: Frameworks & Tools to Understand Your Organisation’s Impact (Learn practical, actionable tools to assess how your organisation creates positive impact - or reduces negative outcomes - across social and environmental dimensions. This workshop introduces leading impact measurement frameworks and walks through how to embed them in strategy, reporting, and improvement cycles.

Facilitators: Sydney Straver Managing Director, &BLOOM, Jarrah Swift Consultant, Shaurya N Khera Consultant

Session: What funders look for in creating positive social or environmental impact while also generating financial returns. Get inside the funder’s head. This session offers insight into how impact investors assess opportunities and why social/environmental outcomes are now integral to due diligence. Learn how to make your innovation “investment ready”.

Facilitator: Dr Jamie Newth CEO, Soul Capital

Session: Social Value Best Practice.
A practical, principle-based dive into how to define, plan and evidence social value. Expect frameworks, case studies, and group learning ideal for those starting out or seeking to align existing work to the SROI methodology.

Facilitator: Brad Norman Chair, Social Value Aotearoa, Vanessa Sidney-Richmond Pou Whirinaki Te Tihi

Session: Un-conferencing, sharing insights & commitments in small groups.
An un-conference experience where you set the agenda. Small groups will discuss, dream, challenge and share commitments. Bring your lived experience and leave with collective insights

Facilitator: Dr Sneha Lakhotia Director, Social Prism, Rebecca Cain Director, Think Impact 

Delegates have the choice of three different workshops running simultaneously. Limited capacity in some workshops.

FOR PURPOSE SECTOR PANEL: Knowledge Exchange Forum Focussed discussion unlocking Social Value, Innovations in the For Purpose, Not For Profit Sector Panel

CENTRAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT PANEL: Strategic Roundtable From compliance to co-creation for social value outcomes. 

PRIVATE SECTOR PANEL: Knowledge Exchange Forum Profit, Purpose and People what does Social Value look like when you add it to the balance sheet.  

ENVIRONMENTAL PANEL: Panel Discussion Valuing what nature brings elevating environmental impact beyond compliance.

Session: From compliance to co-creation for social value outcomes.
From compliance to co-creation this session looks at how government agencies are using social value to enable more strategic, people-centred delivery. Discussion will cover co-design, procurement reform, and the cultural shift required within public systems.

Chair: Rebecca Cain Director, Think Impact

Panel: Rachael Randal Manager Social & Economic Equity, Auckland Transport, Geoff Short Deputy Chief Executive, Ministry of Health

Session: Profit, Purpose and People what does Social Value look like when you add it to the balance sheet.
Corporate leaders unpack how social value is influencing business models, procurement, and investor reporting. What happens when social value is added to the balance sheet? Hear how business is responding to changing consumer and shareholder expectations.

Panel: John Morrow JBWere, Kaapua Smith Partner, KPMG, James Stewart CEO, Home Capital, Melanie Dooney Auckland Airport

Chair: Te Puoho Katene CEO, Tapuwae Roa 

Session: Focussed discussion unlocking Social Value, Innovations in the For Purpose, Not For Profit Sector Panel
Explore how kaupapa Māori, grassroots innovation, and agile governance are redefining what social value looks like in the not-for-profit space. The panel will share their experience navigating tension between community accountability and funder-driven measurement.

Panel: Materoa Mar CEO, Te Tihi, Nicola Nation CEO, Former CEO Ākina Foundation, Helen Lockett, Strategic Lead, Wise Group, Claudia Wace Founder & Impact Strategy Lead Hands for Impact, Helen Leahy CEO, Ngā Wahua o Paerangi

Chair: Jacqui Harema CEO, Hapai te Hauora

Session: Valuing what nature brings elevating environmental impact beyond compliance.
Not all value is monetary. This session focuses on embedding social and environmental equity into sustainability efforts. Learn how mātauranga Māori and circular economy thinking are shaping new approaches to ecological value and stewardship. 

Chair: Marje Russ Director of Environment and Sustainable Business, Tonkin+Taylor

Panel: David Hall, Melanie Mark-Shadbolt, Josh Markham, Suzie Greenhalgh

Aotearoa Impact Hub

Session: Navigating the path of Social Value: Embedding measurement in our cultural fabric
Simon Faivel takes us through the long game of cultural change how to move from reactive reporting to embedded, learning-based systems that grow impact over time. Rethink short-termism and explore pathways to build deeper capability for social value.

Keynote Speaker: Simon Faivel, Director Consulting, Social Ventures Australia 

Session: Moving with purpose. A wrap-up with the founders of Social Value.
A heavy-hitting panel with movement founders and innovators. This session looks to the horizon: What’s the future of social value? From global trends to hyper-local initiatives, this conversation blends theory, strategy, and values. Expect candour, courage, and clarity.

Panel: John Tamihere CEO, Whānau o Waipareira, Jeremy Nicholls Co-Founder, Social Value International, Simon Faivel Director of Consulting, Social Ventures Australia

Chair: Jo Nicholson Director, Social Value Aotearoa

Session: Many Threads - This blanket is not the end point. It is an entry into a living kaupapa. One that asks us to stop counting what is easy and start valuing what matters. Worth is woven from many threads. No Blanket Value - Join us for an inspiring networking session.

Speakers: Merepeka Raukawa-Tait Chair Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency, Whakawa & Josh Te Kani Founders Noa Blanket Co., Katene Durie-Doherty & Jordan Stent Motion Sickness

MC: Stacey Morrison

Hosted by Sponsor Whanau Ora Commissioning Agency

Session: Welcome back, day-one recap our day two MC’s Jo Nicholson & Simon Faivel.

We return with fresh eyes and sharpened insight. The morning kick-off will reflect on the provocations, patterns, and potential unearthed during Day One. This brief but vital reconnection grounds us before plunging into the practical terrain of social value in action data, governance, procurement, and the policy levers that turn ideals into infrastructure.

Session: Investing in what works: The Economics of Social Value.
Social sector organisations, funders, and evaluators all share frustrations with the current reporting and evaluation system: it is burdensome, retrospective, and often unhelpful for decision-making. The Social Investment Fund, led by the Social Investment Agency, is introducing an alternative approach one that embeds learning into the way services are commissioned and delivered.

Keynote Speaker: Andrew Webber, Chief Economist, Social Investment Agency

Chair: Kevin Robbie CEO Think Impact

Panel: Materoa Mar Te Tihi, Larah Van Der Meer, Autism NZ, Gemma Bateman Emerge Aotearoa, Joe Fowler SIA  

Session: Building a wellbeing economy through social value

Awerangi Tamihere, throws the net wide across the interconnected systems that shape wellbeing health, housing, income, culture, and whānau. Awerangi and the panel unpack how Whānau Ora and iwi-led models are forging a path that doesn’t just measure value but lives it. We explore how Indigenous frameworks are influencing governance, how silo-busting is enabling innovation, and what a true wellbeing economy rooted in whakapapa and equity might look like

Keynote Speaker: Awerangi Tamihere Chief Operations Officer, Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency
 
Chair: Simon Faivel Director of Consulting, Social Ventures Australia

Panel: Dr Jay Whitehead CEO, Matatihi, Maria Owen CEO, Impact Lab, Brad Norman Chief Data Officer, Whānau Ora, Kevin Robbie CEO Think Impact
 

Session: Jeremy picks up from yesterday to imagine a world that was designed to create wellbeing for current and future generations. He explores some of the current developments and the challenges in making that world a reality and argues that well-being accounting and trusteeship will be fundamental. The public sector, and public sector accountability provide hope, but we all have a role to play.        

Keynote Speaker: Jeremy Nicholls Co-Founder, Social Value International

Aotearoa Impact Hub

Delegates have the choice of four different workshops running simultaneously. Limited capacity in some sessions.

NON-FINANCIAL REPORTING FRAMEWORKS: Focused Discussion
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SOCIAL VALUE OF DESIGN: Interactive Panel Discussion supported by Toi Manahau Designers Institute

GETTING TO BASE ONE: Starting the Community Impact Journey What it takes to get started.

MEASURING WHAT MATTERS: Discussion Forum

Session: Crafting compelling impact narratives through design and media

Design isn’t just aesthetic it’s political. This hands-on session will show you how to visualise, communicate, and embody your thinking through intentional design and media storytelling. From TikTok to placemaking, participants will explore how narrative power can reshape public perception, policy uptake, and partner investment.

Panel: Anzac Tasker The Guardians, Aakifa Chida Designers Institute NZ, Jordan Stent Motion Sickness, Tyrone Ohia Extended Whānau

Chair: Reuben Bijl Designers Institute NZ

Session: Social Impact Reporting: Understanding the NZ Context.

With Jay Whitehead at the helm, this session tackles the evolution of non-financial reporting in Aotearoa what’s working, what’s missing, and where to next. Whether you're in compliance, strategy, or community reporting, this kōrero offers up clarity on how to use data to tell deeper stories of change, risk, and value.

Session Speaker: Dr Jay Whitehead CEO, Matatihi

Session: Starting the Community Impact Journey What it takes to get started.
Every big shift begins with a first brave step. This forum welcomes grassroots changemakers and those navigating the messy, real-world beginnings of impact measurement. The panel shares what helped them move from values to frameworks and how they resisted the pressure to 'prove' before they’d even begun. Practical, grounded and encouraging.

Panel: Ahnya Martin Board Chair, Women’s Centre Rodney, Dawn Hutchesson, Co-Founder Hands for Impact, Tui Ah Loo CEO, Te Pā

Chair: Hiria Te Paki Social Investment Lead, Social Value Aotearoa

Session: Strengthening Social Value Research and Evaluation

Hosted by leading researchers and evaluators, this session asks: How do we know we’re making a difference? It offers a critical look at evaluation systems through a social value lens embedding context, equity, and meaning into our frameworks. It's a deep dive into the new frontier of kaupapa Māori-informed methodologies, ethics of representation, and data sovereignty.

Panel: Professor Te Kani Kingi, Te Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, Hector Kaiwai Director, Wai-Rangahau, Catherine Leonard Ihi Research

Aotearoa Impact Hub

Session: Using data to drive better social outcomes.

Data, when wielded wisely, can amplify mana and transform systems. Kevin Robbie explores how impact data can shape decisions that uplift, not undermine, our most vulnerable communities. This session looks at building capability in using data not just for compliance but for transformation.

Keynote Speaker: Kevin Robbie CEO Think Impact

Session: Integrating data driven approaches into decision making processes to foster social innovation
This cross-sector panel offers a masterclass in how to turn insight into action. From predictive analytics to whānau dashboards, panel members will explore how data is being used to inform bold innovation without losing connection to people. It’s about bridging the technical with the human, the systemic with the lived.

Panel: Dr Sneha Lakhotia Director, Social Prism, Tureia Moxon Poutama Te Kōhao Health, Daymon Nin Head of Strategy Whānau Tahi, Alana Harris Director, Te Whānau o Waipareira Trust 

Chair: Rebecca Cain Consultant Think Impact 

Aotearoa Impact Hub

Session: Global and National Trends for Social Value
This is the global town square. Leaders from Aotearoa, Asia, Europe and beyond gather to map the future of the social value movement. Expect reflections on progress, divergence, and convergence across continents. What’s needed now? Who’s doing it best? How do we stay connected while rooted in place? This session is your horizon scan.

Global Panel: Ben Carpenter CEO Social Value International (Online), Stephanie Robertson Social Value Canada (Online), Valentina Langella Social Value Italy (Online), Dr Ainurul Rosli Social Value Malaysia, Simon Faivel Director of Consulting, Social Ventures Australia, Jo Nicholson Social Value Aotearoa

Chair: Kevin Robbie CEO Think Impact

We wrap with intention and a call to action. Jo Nicholson and Simon Faivel will close the wānanga with reflections that weave together the two days — the challenges raised, the ideas sparked, and the collective responsibility to carry the wairua of social value into our everyday work.

MC: Jo Nicholson & Simon Faivel