Online EventSocialImpact Day
2021
A Turning Point for the Impact Economy－ Embarking on a new era of social impact －2022.01
21 Fri 丨24 Mon 丨25 Tue◆ Event schedule (JST)DAY1Friday, January 21, 2022 2:30 pm – 5:20 pm Pre-session, Special session

DAY2 Monday, January 24, 2022 9:30 am – 5:20 pm Opening, Keynote, other sessions
DAY3 Tuesday, January 25, 2022 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Special session, other sessions, Closing◆ Registration fee● General Admission with unlimited access and recording to all sessions
Early registration fee : ¥5,000 (until Jan 17)
Regular registration fee : ¥8,000（Jan 17-25)● Free Admission: Access to complimentary sessions only

◆ Registration form

https://socialimpactday2021.peatix.com/view*Advance registration required◆ Event format Online◆ Hosting Organization

Social Impact Management Initiative (SIMI)◆ Partner
Social Innovation and Investment Foundation, Mizuho Bank, Ltd., The Sasakawa
Peace Foundation, Japan Post Insurance◆ Supporter
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Representation Office in Tokyo,
NPO Support Center

Pre-session

21 Fri

14:30-15:50 JST 【JAPANESE only】

Free

Social Impact Management 101 - Introduction
Supported by The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership

If you have heard of social impact management (SIM) or social impact measurement but
don’t know much about them, or if you are interested but don’t know how to apply it inpractice, this session is for you. In this introductory session, we’ll go over the basics of SIMand introduce case studies to gain a good grasp on SIM, program evaluation, and themanagement cycle. By the end of this session, you will be able to get up to speed on allthings SIM and ready to get more out of the upcoming Social Impact Day.
Takanori Matsui

Miori Sagara

Investment Professional,
KIBOW Impact Investment Fund,KIBOW Foundation／Faculty, Graduate School ofManagement, GLOBIS University

President&CEO, Baobab,Inc

Yuriko Minamoto

Naoki Chiba

Professor, Graduate School ofGovernance Studies, Meiji University /Member, Governing Council, Social
Impact Management Initiative

Staff Member, The Social
Impact Management
Initiative(SIMI)
Co-CEO, Blue Marble Japan,Inc.

Special Session 121 Fri

16:00-17:20 JST 【JAPANESE / ENGLISH】

PaidPurpose-Driven Management and Social Impact
In the midst of a global call for purpose-driven organizations, companies all over the world including those inJapan are renewing efforts to put purpose at the center of corporate management. This session will re-assess
today’s social context for purpose-driven management and discuss its relationship with social impact andimpact management, with a particular focus on Japanese corporations.

Bruno Roche

Yumiko Kajiwara

Katsuji Imata

Founder & Executive
Director, Economics ofMutuality/ Former Chief
Economist, Mars

Corporate Executive Officer,
Chief Sustainability Officer,
Head of Sustainability Unit,
Fujitsu Limited

President, Social Impact
Management Initiative / CoCEO, Blue Marble Japan, Inc.

Opening Talk24 Mon 9:30-10:00 JST 【JAPANESE only】

FreeThe issues our society is facing now are increasingly complex, as shown in widening inequality both within
Japan and overseas and climate change. Building a sustainable society has never been more important andthe expectation for Japan’s private sector to lead is enormous. But where should we start? In this Opening
Talk, we’ll hear from the social entrepreneurs about their perspectives on the social impact trends andchallenges in bringing social impact to the front and center of management. With this level-setting discussion
on social impact management, we will open the Social Impact Day 2021.

Nanako Kudo
Member of Executive Committee,
Social Innovation and Investment

SayakaKankolongo
WatanabeFounder, WELgee<Video Message＞

Achim Steiner
Administrator, UNDP

Keynote Speech

24 Mon 10:00-11:30 JST 【JAPANESE / ENGLISH】

Free

Building the Impact Economy - Private sector leading socialtransformation with technology
There is a global movement towards the impact economy, where pursuing and trying to maximize social
impact becomes part of regular economic activities. In the social impact management field, experiments toapply information network technology like IOT have already begun. Policy recommendations and PDCA
cycles are using more participatory methods and shorter feedback loops, such as in government hackathons.
In this keynote session, we will hear from Audrey Tang, Digital Minister for the Government of Taiwan, andNaoki Ohta, a current expert member for Japan Digital Agency’s “Digital Society Planning Committee” as they
discuss the future of digital governance and how it is essential for building impact economy.

Audrey Tang

Naoki Ohta

Digital Minister ,Taiwan Government

Representative,
New Stories LtdBoard, Code for JapanKen ItoExecutive Director, Social Impact
Management Initiative / ExecutiveDirector, Social Value Japan

Sponsored Session 1

24 Mon 11:40-12:40 JST【JAPANESE only】

FreeDriving Innovation through Collaborations between Academia
and the Finance Sector to Increase Society’s Well-being
Japan Post Insurance aims to increase the society’s well-being and contribute to the pressing social issues
by collaborating with academia and developing innovative technology and businesses as a part of their
ESG investment strategy with a human touch. In this sponsored session, we will discuss the new trend ofimpact-minded investment into knowledge, data sharing, and new businesses in medical and healthcare
fields, with the leading academic figures who will share their future visions of the society.

Takayuki Haruna

Atsushi Katayama

Managing Executive
Officer＆Co-Chief
Investment Officer

Senior General
Manager, Head of
Alternative Investment
Department

Kotaro Yamagishi
Vice-President,
Keio University

Ken ItoExecutive Director,
Social Impact
Management Initiative /Executive Director,
Social Value Japan

MasayaNakamura MD
Professor & Chair, Departmentof Orthopedic Surgery andVice Dean, Keio University
School of Medicine

Mitsuru KishimotoDeputy Director, Policy
Planning Division,RIKEN

24 Mon 13:20-14:20 JST 【JAPANESE / ENGLISH】

Sponsored Session 2

Pursuing Social Impact as an Investor - from the gender
perspectiveFree

What does an investor value and how do they prefer to visualize their impact? As the world accelerates
towards building an impact economy, there is an increasing interest in investing in gender equality in addition
to environment and governance. In this session, we will have two Japanese investors with a particularinterest in gender equality discuss the impact management perspectives that asset owners want.

Session 1

Junko Yoda

Kaoru Kobu

Ayaka Matsuno

Advisory Board Member,Singapore – Japan, SWEEF
Capital / Advisory Council
Member, Women of theWorld Endowment (WoWE)

Head of ESG,
Japanese Equity
Investment, Invesco
Asset Management
Japan

Gender Investment
and Innovation
Program Director,
Asia Women Impact
Fund

24 Mon

14:30-15:50 JST 【JAPANESE only】

CASE STUDY: Social Impact Management at the Frontline

Paid

In this session, we will hear directly from those on the frontlines tackling social issues about their challenges
and successes in working on social impact management. How did they identify and articulate the challenges
and successes? How do they use those lessons learnt to improve the project in the long-run? How can anorganization internalize those learnings? This panel discussion will feature two social sector leaders whosefocuses are children and regional community respectively.

Yusuke Imai
President, Chance
for Children

Nami Moriyama

Asami Takagi

Representative Director,
Misogigawa Co., Ltd. /Coordinator, Ishikawa Community
Building Association

Board member, Social Impact
Management Initiative /Founder, Stem for Leaves

Session 2

24 Mon 16:00-17:20 JST 【JAPANESE only】

Overview and Prospects of the Impact Weighted Accounts
Initiative in JapanPaid

One of the key components of building the impact economy is transforming the world of accounting. In thissession, we will dive into the Impact Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) that the Harvard Business School
has been working on along with GSG and IMP. Why IWAI now (overview)? What is IWAI (definition &characteristics)? How do we put it in practice(methodology & case studies)? We will also touch on theprospects of utilizing IWAI in Japan.

Ken Shibusawa

Mihoko Kashiwakura

Founder, Shibusawa and Company, Inc. ,Chairman, Commons Asset Management /Member, Governing Council, Social Impact
Management Initiative

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Head ofEast Asia Relations

Tsuyoshi Igarashi
CPA / Finance Manager, Big Society Capital

Asami Takagi
Board member, Social Impact Management
Initiative / Founder, Stem for Leaves

Special Session 225 Tue 9:00-10:20 JST 【JAPANESE / ENGLISH】

Paid

SDG Impact – Moving from Standard Creation to Implementation
By popular demand, SDG Impact is back on this year’s Social Impact Day. The assurance program for SDGImpact is slated to start in 2022. Fabienne Michaux, Director of SDG Impact, and Ken Shibusawa, who
serves as a SDG Impact Steering Group member, will join us in this special session and discuss where things
are in the assurance program, and how those in Japan can plan to utilize it well.
Fabienne Michaux
Director, SDG Impact

Session 3Ken Shibusawa
Founder, Shibusawa andCompany, Inc. , Chairman,
Commons Asset Management /Member, Governing Council,
Social Impact Management
Initiative

Katsuji Imata
President, Social Impact
Management Initiative / CoCEO, Blue Marble Japan, Inc.

25 Tue 10:30-11:50 JST 【JAPANESE / ENGLISH】

Building an impact-oriented society fueled by Technology

Paid

What is the role of technology in this modern era where impact-oriented thinking transforms our society andthe private sector? Does it really benefit those in need? In this session, we will discuss the waves of digitaltransformation that are changing the landscape of social impact management, and how that may look in thefuture.
Sasha Dichter
Co-Founder, 60 Decibels

Haruyuki Seki

Chika Ochiai

Founder, Code for Japan

Director, K-three Inc.

25 Tue 13:00-14:20 JST 【JAPANESE only】

Session 4

The social impact of dormant bank deposits - reflecting on thefirst three years and looking ahead
The law that let the unprecedented amountof yen left dormant in bank accounts go tosolving social issues in Japan has led manyto adopt “social impact evaluation”
frameworks for the first time. What does thesocial impact of dormant deposits look likeas a whole? In this session, we will reflect
on the challenges and successes of thefirst three years with the key stakeholders
and discuss what’s ahead.

Hitoshi Suzuki

Tomoyuki Banno

Executive Director, JapanNetwork for Public Interest
Activities

Director, Social Innovation
Team, ETIC.

Tomoko Shirai

Yoshihiro Kamozaki

RepresentativeDirector, Japan
Association of New
PublicExecutive Director, Social Impact
Management Initiative /Executive Director, Japan
Fundraising Association

25 Tue 14:45-16:05 JST 【JAPANESE only】

Session 5

Paid

Mainstreaming information disclosure and impact in sustainablefinance

PaidThings are changing fast in the world of sustainable finance, especially around the practical “how-to” of thefinancial sector contributing to building sustainable society. In this session, we will dive into the latest trends
on information disclosure and reporting, and what it means to mainstream impact into the financial reportingwith the participants.
Joji Iguchi

Makoto Sonoda

Takeshi Mizuguchi

Executive Director &Chief Corporate
Governance Officer,Nissay AssetManagement

Director for International CapitalMarket Regulation and Directorfor International Accounting,Japan Financial Services Agency

President, Takasaki City
University of Economics /Member, Governing
Council, Social Impact
Management Initiative

Sponsored Session 325 Tue 16:15-17:15 JST 【JAPANESE only】

Supporting Mid-size Enterprises with Impact-minded ManagementPractices - what the finance sector can do to help facilitate thetransformationFree

Medium-size enterprises play an essential role in the supply chain and their participation in various impact
projects is the key to building an impact-minded economy. In this session, we will explore what thesustainability business management practices and impact-thinking within mid-size enterprises look like,learn from innovative case studies from overseas and leading companies, and introduce various support
programs that the finance sector provides.
Koaro Sueyoshi

Peter David Pedersen

Deputy General Manager
Sustainable Business Planning Team &SDGs Business DeskCorporate Business Coordination
Department
Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. Mizuho Bank,Ltd.

Co-founder of NELIS(Next Leaders'
Initiative forSustainability)

Tomokazu Ohtani

Yoshihiro Kamozaki

Deputy General Manager
Global Innovation Team
Global Innovation & Energy Division
Mizuho Research & Technologies, Ltd.

Executive Director, Social
Impact Management
Initiative / ExecutiveDirector, Japan Fundraising
Association

Closing

25 Tue 14:45-16:05 JST 【JAPANESE only】

To conclude this year’s Social Impact Day, the leadership of SIMI gathers and looks back on all
the sessions. We will suggest next steps toward building the impact-minded society and conclude
the event by discussing what we can do individually and collectively.

Ken Ito

Masaki Kochi

Executive Director, Social
Impact Management
Initiative / ExecutiveDirector, Social Value Japan

Board member, Social
Impact Management
Initiative / CEO, Kthree

Katsuji Imata

Asami Takagi

President, Social Impact
Management Initiative / CoCEO, Blue Marble Japan,Inc.

Board member, Social
Impact Management
Initiative / Founder, Stemfor Leaves

Yoshihiro Kamozaki
Executive Director, Social
Impact Management
Initiative / ExecutiveDirector, Japan Fundraising
AssociationPaid