Explore the Sessions
Explore the conversations taking place across AsiaXchange 2026 and learn more about the organizations bringing each session together.
Wednesday
October 14
SESSION
Global Think Tank Cooperation for Inclusive Development
This session will bring together think tanks from across the T7 and T20 communities to strengthen collaboration and continuity across G7 and G20 presidencies. The discussion will explore lessons from past presidencies, greater alignment between the G7 and G20, and opportunities for new partnerships between Global North and Global South institutions.
SESSION
Reliable Energy for Economic Growth – From Innovation to System-Wide Impact
HOST
The Rockefeller Foundation and the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet
India’s experience offers valuable insights into how integrated, partnership-led approaches can accelerate the transition to reliable, clean energy at scale. The session will explore grid modernization, battery energy storage, distributed renewable energy and productive-use solutions, and how these investments can strengthen energy systems and support greater economic opportunity.
SESSION
Beyond the SDGs: Reimagining Food Systems Finance for Global Food Security
HOST
Ban Ki-moon Foundation
With food insecurity rising and food systems facing growing geopolitical, fiscal and climate pressures, this roundtable will look beyond the current development agenda. Participants will explore innovative financing, regional cooperation and partnerships to sustain and scale investment in resilient food systems through 2030 and beyond.
SESSION
Mobilizing Finance for Resilient and Regenerative Food Systems
HOST
The Rockefeller Foundation, IFAD and the Sustainable Financing Initiative
This session will bring together leaders from across the public, private, development and philanthropic sectors to explore how capital can be mobilized at scale for resilient and regenerative food systems. The discussion will examine how predictable institutional demand can create reliable markets for smallholder farmers and unlock investment across agricultural value chains.
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Exploring the Role of MDBs in Methane Abatement Finance
HOST
Global Methane Gas Hub
Methane abatement offers an immediate opportunity to slow near-term warming while delivering development benefits across energy, waste and agriculture. The session will explore how development banks are integrating methane management into lending and project screening, emerging taxonomy standards and opportunities for greater institutional alignment.
SESSION
Meeting the Moment: An International Financial System Fit for the Future
The Rockefeller Foundation is pleased to invite you to Meeting the Moment: An International Financial System Fit for the Future.
The program will feature a keynote address from Ed Miliband, Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, followed by a discussion with Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Co-Chair of IDA22 and former Finance Minister of Indonesia.
SESSION
Global South Coalition toward a Green Grid
HOST
Swaniti Initiative
Leaders from India, Indonesia, Malaysia and South Africa will discuss the transition toward green, sustainable power grids. Participants will share strategies for shifting toward renewable energy and explore how public-private partnerships can drive investment, innovation and clean energy goals across developing economies.
Thursday
October 15
SESSION
Building the Shared Future: What Will Countries Need From International Cooperation?
HOST
Future of Development Cooperation Coalition
Development cooperation is changing rapidly as countries seek greater agency, technology transforms what is possible and new actors emerge across Asia and beyond. Leaders will examine what countries will expect from, and contribute to, international cooperation and how Asia can help shape a more effective, country-led system.
SESSION
Unlocking the Role of Philanthropy in Country Platforms
HOST
Global Capacity Building Coalition and GFANZ
Country platforms are increasingly used to mobilize public and private finance around national development and climate priorities, yet philanthropy’s role remains underexplored. Participants will examine where philanthropic capital, expertise and convening power can have the greatest catalytic impact and identify pathways for stronger collaboration.
SESSION
Seizing the Moment: A New Agenda for Faith-Based Philanthropy and the SDGs in Asia
HOST
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
Asia’s faith-based giving traditions offer significant potential to help bridge climate and SDG financing gaps. The session will bring together multilateral development banks, faith leaders and philanthropic pioneers to explore catalytic, non-debt capital for green infrastructure and local resilience.
SESSION
Sun to Sea Indonesia: A New Kind of Alliance for Coastal Communities
HOST
The Rockefeller Foundation and the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet
Across Asia’s coastal communities, nature loss, unreliable energy and livelihood insecurity are closely connected. Sun to Sea combines renewable energy, productive-use infrastructure, resilient public services, diversified livelihoods and coastal ecosystem restoration to support stronger communities and create pathways for public, philanthropic and commercial capital.
SESSION
From Transactions to Market Creation: building practical approaches to collaboration
HOST
FMO and the Growth Firms Alliance (GFA)
This session will explore how market creation approaches differ from traditional investments and how philanthropies, donors, DFIs and investors can collaborate to support local markets. Participants will share practical lessons and identify opportunities for collective action across areas including local capital, SME finance and climate.
SESSION
Data as a Pillar of the New Development Finance System
HOST
ONE Data
As development finance flows and institutions evolve, better intelligence is needed to track and maximize the impact of every dollar. The session will discuss the development finance data landscape and introduce the Development Finance Observatory, which brings previously siloed datasets together into a single platform.
SESSION
Financing a Heat-Resilient Future: From Asia's Frontlines to G20 Agenda
HOST
Global Solutions Initiative Foundation
Extreme heat is an immediate public-health and economic challenge affecting labour productivity, health systems, energy demand, infrastructure and public finances. This session will examine how governments, development finance, philanthropy and private capital can close the investment gap and move heat resilience higher on the G20 and global economic agenda.
Friday
October 16
SESSION
What Will It Take to Lead Southeast Asia's Next Chapter?
HOST
Pijar Foundation
Southeast Asia is entering a defining decade shaped by geopolitical shifts, technological disruption, climate change, demographic transitions and rapid economic transformation. This conversation will bring together senior and emerging leaders across sectors and generations to explore the forces shaping the region’s next chapter.
SESSION
Financing Asia’s Future: Mobilizing Asia’s Savings for Resilient Growth
HOST
Dalberg Catalyst
Asia holds trillions in savings, yet too little reaches the region’s own resilient growth agenda. This closed-door roundtable will explore what it will take to mobilize more of Asia’s savings toward sustainable, resilient growth and strengthen communities most vulnerable to growing climate risks.
SESSION
Preparing Asia for Advanced AI: A Scenario Exercise on Jobs, Growth and Resilience
HOST
AI Safety Asia and Windfall Trust
Across Asia, much of the AI conversation focuses on adoption, with less attention on how increasingly capable AI could reshape labour markets, growth and public finances. In this working session, participants will explore a plausible five-year scenario and consider which policy choices hold up across different futures and where preparedness is thinnest.