About 2026 - Connect for Change Summit 2025

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An annual gathering that unites thought-leaders and changemakers to explore how collaboration can drive meaningful and sustainable transformation.

As a platform powered by KUMPUL, the summit bridges the public and private sectors, startups, and entrepreneur communities to unlock opportunities and co-create solutions for shared progress.

Each summit highlights emerging ideas and impact-driven initiatives shaping Indonesia’s innovation landscape turning connections into action and action into lasting change.

Our Approach

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Cross Sector Connector

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Coversation to Collaboration to Commitment

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Grounded Impact to Sustainability

Why Connect for Change Exists

Why Connect for Change Exist

Over the past decade, KUMPUL has worked closely with entrepreneurs across Indonesia and
witnessed a persistent structural gap in the ecosystem.

USD 20+ Billion invested into startups
Yet millions of businesses remain excluded

65 Million MSMEs remain underserved
Despite a decade of ecosystem growth

This gap is known as the Missing Middle, small-growing businesses too big for microfinance, yet too small or too risky for traditional banks and institutional investors.

The gap persists due to fragmented infrastructure, limited data, and disconnected markets, resulting in an estimated USD 50.8 billion funding gap every year in Indonesia.

Content Foundation

The core content framework of the Summit, designed to strengthen how ecosystem stakeholders create impact together. It shapes every session and experience in the Summit.

Empowering founders and SMEs to scale with the right knowledge, partners, and market opportunities.

Focus: Practical growth enablement

Accelerating breakthrough ideas through collaboration, technology, & cross-industry problem-solving.

Focus: Driving new solutions

Uniting stakeholders to build an inclusive, sustainable, and resilient entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Focus: Collective impact

Circle of Connections

Main Cores of KUMPUL C4C Summit

Past SUMMIT
Building Bridges for Sustainable Changes

Insights from the 2025’s Summit underscored that financial capital alone cannot drive scale. True resilience comes from capability, the ability of entrepreneurs to transform knowledge, networks, and trust into impact.

To bridge the missing middle, Southeast Asia must build a connected ecosystem that integrates blended finance, capability building, and responsible innovation, supported by courageous leadership across public and private sectors.

Explore C4C 2025 Highlights