Our Agenda

The traditional approach to supporting entrepreneurs often focuses on helping them adapt to existing systems. But what if those systems are part of the problem? In Indonesia, formal bank lending to MSMEs remains below 20% of total loans, with an estimated financing gap exceeding US$130 billion. This raises a bigger question: are we doing enough to prepare businesses for growth, or do we also need to rethink the systems they depend on?

Why do creative businesses stay locally rooted when global markets are already within reach? This keynote reframes global partnership as a strategic priority for the creative economy, exploring how coordinated action among governments, multilateral institutions, investors, and creative communities can open cross-border markets, financing, and IP protection, and turn individual collaborations into a lasting global movement

Why does the financing gap persist when capital already exists? This keynote reframes the Missing Middle as a structural challenge, exploring how risk-sharing, digital finance, and cross-sector collaboration can unlock capital for growing businesses.

Where is Indonesia’s economy headed, and who benefits from its next growth engine? This session examines the tension between macroeconomic discipline and state-led investment, and whether strategic capital can widen opportunities for the Missing Middle.

What if impact didn’t have to feel like homework? Drawing from IDN’s journey building for young Indonesians, this conversation explores how purpose, entertainment, and growth can reinforce each other, and what it takes to turn attention into lasting impact.

What makes an innovation truly worth funding in today’s disciplined capital landscape? This session explores how investors are redefining “investable innovation” through profitability, resilience, sustainability, and real-world value.

Why do corporate innovations so often stall at the pilot stage? This session unpacks the barriers holding innovation back, and what it takes to align leadership, governance, and partnerships to scale into lasting business impact.

Recognition of social enterprises is growing in Indonesia. Now, the ecosystem needs to catch up. This session introduces JWSI (Jaringan Wirausaha Sosial Indonesia), a new shared platform connecting social enterprises with capital, markets, and partners to build lasting infrastructure for growth.

Who truly benefits when supply chains create value? This session examines how digital connectivity, inclusive procurement, gender equity, and stewardship can reshape value chains, strengthening communities and building more resilient businesses.

What if the challenge in financing Nature-based Solutions isn’t nature itself, but the financial instruments built to fund it? This session explores redesigning capital and risk-sharing models around nature’s longer timelines.

Innovation can attract attention, but trust determines what lasts. This session examines what makes an ecosystem credible from governance and institutional accountability to digital infrastructure and leadership and what Indonesia must build today to become an innovation ecosystem the world can rely on in 2045.

SMEs power Indonesia’s economy, yet many remain outside the value chains that could help them scale. This session asks what it takes to redesign licensing, financing, and infrastructure so SMEs are built into the system, not added on as an afterthought.

AI’s impact depends on more than technology, it also requires skills, funding, infrastructure, and trust. This session explores how Indonesia can scale AI access for communities and MSMEs, and turn efforts into one coordinated national movement.

Indonesia’s creative economy has global potential, but what will it take to turn that into global reach? Drawing on Australia, Korea, and Taiwan, this session explores the infrastructure, partnerships, and pathways to compete beyond domestic borders.