Impact Investment and its benefits in Developing Nations

Welcome to ImpactX’s inaugural event on the benefits of Social Impact Investment & Social Enterprise!

For our first event we will look at how social impact investment can help to resolve some of society’s most pressing social and environmental challenges as well as yielding a financial return.

Our speakers will include Ursula Rakova from Tuela Pesa and David Davies from AgriLedger: Ursula Rakova will present the harsh background story of Bougainville and Cataret Islands in Papua New Guinea including some video documentary clips. She will talk about the work that her organisation: Tulele Peisa, has been doing to enable the people of Bougainville and the islands to build a fledgling economy from virtually nothing.

Together, Tuela Pesa and AgriLedger are creating a viable small-holding farmer-owned Cocoa industry in Bougainville, building a sustainable seafood export business from the Cataret Islands to Hong Kong as well as a coconut oil industry. This is an inspiring story where a tiny forgotten island could in some ways leapfrog ahead of developed nations like Australia and become a model for other nations to follow with the help of impact investment.

EVENT SCHEDULE:

6:00pm Short Film about the Cateret Islands featuring Tuela Pesa

6:05pm Interview with Ursula Rakova

6:45pm Pitch from David Davies of AgriLedger + discussion of the benefits of Impact Investment for the investor and the community.

7:00pm Q & A with audience

7:15pm Networking Session over drinks and canapes

SPEAKERS:

Ursula Rakova (Tulele Peisa)

Ursula Rakova is a courageous woman who never stops to work despite life’s challenging adversity. Born on the tiny islet of Han on the Carteret Atoll, off shore the autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, she is carrying the burden of her people who are struggling to adapt to climate change. In 2008, Ursula received the Pride of PNG award for her contribution to the environment. Ursula was an awarded speaker at the Paris COP21 climate negotiation and has featured in many documentaries involving climate change.

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David Davies (AgriLedger)

After growing up in the Australian outback, David Davies spent 25 Years in technology with over a decade of them at senior roles at global investment banks (Goldman Sachs, Lehman, Nomura). In between banking, David founded and was CEO of technology companies and spent a year running a UNESCO project in West Africa.

David is now co-founder of AgriLedger, a philanthropic venture conceived at a hackathon which helps small rural communities like Ursula’s to lift themselves out of poverty by cooperating better and reducing inefficiency.

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