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8 Programme found
MAIN STAGE | Day 4 | Good Business
Businesses play crucial roles creating jobs, driving innovation and shaping green markets and supply chains. But they also drive pollution and unsustainable production and consumption. Shareholder primacy and short-term profit maximization put business success at loggerheads with the common good. But alternative forms and pathways exist for businesses to thrive while advancing the common good. This session examines the role and opportunity for business in the green transition, and makes the case that responsible business is good business. It highlights businesses key roles in growing a better economy, and considers new forms of corporate organization that empower workers, create opportunities for SMEs and entrepreneurs. 18:00-18:10 Video message - Nadia Woodhouse 18:10–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Moderator: Earth Ramrada Mah Fah Luang Foundation's Sustainability Advisory unit Martin Rich Future-Fit Business 18:15–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Belinda Hlatshwayo "Business and Human Rights Project Manager Bangkok Regional Hub United Nations Development Programme" Ben McCarron Asia Research and Engagement Seema Joshi Director of Legal Strategy, Accountability Accelerator Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
07/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 4 | Good Business
Businesses play crucial roles creating jobs, driving innovation and shaping green markets and supply chains. But they also drive pollution and unsustainable production and consumption. Shareholder primacy and short-term profit maximization put business success at loggerheads with the common good. But alternative forms and pathways exist for businesses to thrive while advancing the common good. This session examines the role and opportunity for business in the green transition, and makes the case that responsible business is good business. It highlights businesses key roles in growing a better economy, and considers new forms of corporate organization that empower workers, create opportunities for SMEs and entrepreneurs. 18:00-18:10 Video message - Nadia Woodhouse 18:10–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Moderator: Earth Ramrada Mah Fah Luang Foundation's Sustainability Advisory unit Martin Rich Future-Fit Business 18:15–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Belinda Hlatshwayo "Business and Human Rights Project Manager Bangkok Regional Hub United Nations Development Programme" Ben McCarron Asia Research and Engagement Seema Joshi Director of Legal Strategy, Accountability Accelerator Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
07/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 1 | A Tantalizing Prospect
This session explores the promise and tantalizing possibility of new approaches to economics that put people and planet first. It considers how prevailing economic systems fail us and what ‘better’ looks like. It invites the public to ponder: - What if investing in people & nature is the biggest economic opportunity of our time? - What if our economies nurtured rather than exploited people and nature? - What if economics were about nurturing abundance and wellbeing rather than managing scarcity? - How would we rethink value, wealth, metrics of success? Agenda: Spotlight talk: Video message from Kate Raworth Fireside Chat Moderator: Leo Horn-Phathanothai: Convenor of BKKCAW Speakers: Sam Chua: Founding Curator, Seapunk Studios "Supatchaya Techachoochert, PhD. ดร.สุภัชญา เตชะชูเชิด" Nature-based Solutions Expert, Mae Fah Luang Foundation "Ricardo Fuentes" "former head of the secretariat of the High Level Expert Group on Beyond GDP; former Executive Director Oxfam México" Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
04/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 1 | A Tantalizing Prospect
This session explores the promise and tantalizing possibility of new approaches to economics that put people and planet first. It considers how prevailing economic systems fail us and what ‘better’ looks like. It invites the public to ponder: - What if investing in people & nature is the biggest economic opportunity of our time? - What if our economies nurtured rather than exploited people and nature? - What if economics were about nurturing abundance and wellbeing rather than managing scarcity? - How would we rethink value, wealth, metrics of success? Agenda: Spotlight talk: Video message from Kate Raworth Fireside Chat Moderator: Leo Horn-Phathanothai: Convenor of BKKCAW Speakers: Sam Chua: Founding Curator, Seapunk Studios "Supatchaya Techachoochert, PhD. ดร.สุภัชญา เตชะชูเชิด" Nature-based Solutions Expert, Mae Fah Luang Foundation "Ricardo Fuentes" "former head of the secretariat of the High Level Expert Group on Beyond GDP; former Executive Director Oxfam México" Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
04/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 2 | Signals from the Future: What’s Emerging?
Better, alternative economies are not fiction, but an ever-present reality across the region. NE pioneers will share lessons from their experience about the necessary conditions to grow a better economy, the obstacles that stands in the way, and how these may be overcome. New trends and technological possibilities are explored while highlighting the enduring relevance of cultural heritage, local wisdom, traditional practices, and indigenous knowledge. 17.45-18.00 PM SOAPBOX/ Interactive session - Riya Saxena "Contemporary Artist & Climate Finance Specialist" 18.00 - 18.15 PM Spotlight TALK - Gita Syahrani: "Head of Executive Board Koalisi Ekonomi Membumi, KEM" 18:15–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Moderator: Warisara Sornpet Carol Tan Former Deputy CEO, Asia Philanthropy Circle Sumitra Pasupathy Philanthropy Dialogues & KAI Advisory Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
05/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 2 | Signals from the Future: What’s Emerging?
Better, alternative economies are not fiction, but an ever-present reality across the region. NE pioneers will share lessons from their experience about the necessary conditions to grow a better economy, the obstacles that stands in the way, and how these may be overcome. New trends and technological possibilities are explored while highlighting the enduring relevance of cultural heritage, local wisdom, traditional practices, and indigenous knowledge. 17.45-18.00 PM SOAPBOX/ Interactive session - Riya Saxena "Contemporary Artist & Climate Finance Specialist" 18.00 - 18.15 PM Spotlight TALK - Gita Syahrani: "Head of Executive Board Koalisi Ekonomi Membumi, KEM" 18:15–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Moderator: Warisara Sornpet Carol Tan Former Deputy CEO, Asia Philanthropy Circle Sumitra Pasupathy Philanthropy Dialogues & KAI Advisory Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
05/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
RIVERBANKS: A Comic Climate Fiction Exhibition Imagining If Rivers Ran Planetary Finance
What if our planet's financial systems were run... by nature? What if banks were owned by... rivers? RIVERBANKS is a comic-style climate fiction exhibition imagining ecoarchic (nature-first) institutions: specifically, banks that are owned by (and thus work for) rivers, a.k.a. river banks.
05/10/2026 • 09:00
Lumphini Hall 2F (Behind Main Stage)
RIVERBANKS: A Comic Climate Fiction Exhibition Imagining If Rivers Ran Planetary Finance
What if our planet's financial systems were run... by nature? What if banks were owned by... rivers? RIVERBANKS is a comic-style climate fiction exhibition imagining ecoarchic (nature-first) institutions: specifically, banks that are owned by (and thus work for) rivers, a.k.a. river banks.
05/10/2026 • 09:00
Lumphini Hall 2F (Behind Main Stage)
MAIN STAGE | Day 3 | Our Economy, Our Choice
A better economy is people-centered: it is inclusive, accountable to people and responsive to their priorities, and leaves no one behind. This session considers: - The central role of civil society actors - How individuals have agency beyond being consumers - How power is shifted, participation enabled, and fairness guaranteed in a people-centered economy - The skills needed to flourish in a wellbeing economy - Decolonizing our economic narratives 18.00 - 18.15 PM Spotlight TALK Insa Ilgen: Turning climate ambition into economic transformation Thai-German cooperation 18:15-18:50 PM Fireside Chat Moderator: Rosalind Yunibandhu Cynthia Ong Forever Sabah Toshi Nakamura CEO and co-founder of Kopernik Ewa Wojkowska Founder, Kopernik Melati Wisjen Founder, YOUTHTOPIA & Bye Bye Plastic Bags Sara Al Mahdi Saahil Parekh Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story - 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
06/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 3 | Our Economy, Our Choice
A better economy is people-centered: it is inclusive, accountable to people and responsive to their priorities, and leaves no one behind. This session considers: - The central role of civil society actors - How individuals have agency beyond being consumers - How power is shifted, participation enabled, and fairness guaranteed in a people-centered economy - The skills needed to flourish in a wellbeing economy - Decolonizing our economic narratives 18.00 - 18.15 PM Spotlight TALK Insa Ilgen: Turning climate ambition into economic transformation Thai-German cooperation 18:15-18:50 PM Fireside Chat Moderator: Rosalind Yunibandhu Cynthia Ong Forever Sabah Toshi Nakamura CEO and co-founder of Kopernik Ewa Wojkowska Founder, Kopernik Melati Wisjen Founder, YOUTHTOPIA & Bye Bye Plastic Bags Sara Al Mahdi Saahil Parekh Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story - 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
06/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 5 | Transforming Finance
Finance is the key lever for accelerating the green transition and realizing the vision of a better economy. Our desired futures will remain beyond reach as long as finance works against sustainability, deepens fossil fuel dependency, and fuels inequality and environmental devastation. Shifting investment into green infrastructure and solutions is one part of it. Another is rewiring finance to align with development and climate protection goals. In sum: financing the shift is the outcome; shifting finance is the how. This session considers the respective roles of public, private and philanthropic finance; aligning financial regulation with wellbeing goals; SMEs, and the economic opportunity in harmonizing green finance rules & standards across the region. 17.45-18.00 PM SOAPBOX Peerakan Manakit CEO of ION ENERGY Co., Ltd. 18:15–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Moderator: Vivi Siriporn Pearline Yum Asia Regional Director, The ImPact Tiza Mafira Director, Climate Policy Initiative Indonesia Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
08/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 5 | Transforming Finance
Finance is the key lever for accelerating the green transition and realizing the vision of a better economy. Our desired futures will remain beyond reach as long as finance works against sustainability, deepens fossil fuel dependency, and fuels inequality and environmental devastation. Shifting investment into green infrastructure and solutions is one part of it. Another is rewiring finance to align with development and climate protection goals. In sum: financing the shift is the outcome; shifting finance is the how. This session considers the respective roles of public, private and philanthropic finance; aligning financial regulation with wellbeing goals; SMEs, and the economic opportunity in harmonizing green finance rules & standards across the region. 17.45-18.00 PM SOAPBOX Peerakan Manakit CEO of ION ENERGY Co., Ltd. 18:15–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Moderator: Vivi Siriporn Pearline Yum Asia Regional Director, The ImPact Tiza Mafira Director, Climate Policy Initiative Indonesia Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
08/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 6 | ‘Your Government is here to help’
Governments have a crucial and irreplaceable role in enabling other actors and marshaling resources towards growing a better economy. To fulfill that role requires visionary leadership; a capable public sector; well-designed policies, regulations and procurement; and ecological fiscal reform. A spotlight talk restates the rationale for public action, underscoring the need for political responsibility, public sector leadership and smart governmental intervention to address climate change and related crises. A panel will then consider: - Government’s role as ‘market-shaper’ - Green Industrial policy - Public procurement as a transformative lever - Subnational governments 18.00 - 18.15 PM Spotlight TALK - Sara Elizabeth Farley Vice President, Food, The Rockefeller Foundation 18:15–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Moderator: Yui Sumano Boonwara TDRI Xiaoting Hou-Jones Government and Policy Lead, Doughnut Economics Action Lab Danny Sriskandarajah New Economics Foundation H.E. Amb. Nicola Pollitt British Ambassador to Thailand Aisha Marzuki Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
09/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 6 | ‘Your Government is here to help’
Governments have a crucial and irreplaceable role in enabling other actors and marshaling resources towards growing a better economy. To fulfill that role requires visionary leadership; a capable public sector; well-designed policies, regulations and procurement; and ecological fiscal reform. A spotlight talk restates the rationale for public action, underscoring the need for political responsibility, public sector leadership and smart governmental intervention to address climate change and related crises. A panel will then consider: - Government’s role as ‘market-shaper’ - Green Industrial policy - Public procurement as a transformative lever - Subnational governments 18.00 - 18.15 PM Spotlight TALK - Sara Elizabeth Farley Vice President, Food, The Rockefeller Foundation 18:15–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Moderator: Yui Sumano Boonwara TDRI Xiaoting Hou-Jones Government and Policy Lead, Doughnut Economics Action Lab Danny Sriskandarajah New Economics Foundation H.E. Amb. Nicola Pollitt British Ambassador to Thailand Aisha Marzuki Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
09/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 7 | The Path Forward: Proposals for a Better Economy
After a week of ideas, conversations and collaboration across BKKCAW, the next step is to turn them into action. 15 proposals will be developed through the BKKCAW clusters and Asia’s Next Economies Forum, capturing key priorities and possibilities that emerged throughout the week. The proposals will then be brought into a fireside conversation with delegates from the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings, carrying the momentum of BKKCAW into the conversations shaping what comes next. Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
10/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 7 | The Path Forward: Proposals for a Better Economy
After a week of ideas, conversations and collaboration across BKKCAW, the next step is to turn them into action. 15 proposals will be developed through the BKKCAW clusters and Asia’s Next Economies Forum, capturing key priorities and possibilities that emerged throughout the week. The proposals will then be brought into a fireside conversation with delegates from the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings, carrying the momentum of BKKCAW into the conversations shaping what comes next. Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
10/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 4 | Good Business
Businesses play crucial roles creating jobs, driving innovation and shaping green markets and supply chains. But they also drive pollution and unsustainable production and consumption. Shareholder primacy and short-term profit maximization put business success at loggerheads with the common good. But alternative forms and pathways exist for businesses to thrive while advancing the common good. This session examines the role and opportunity for business in the green transition, and makes the case that responsible business is good business. It highlights businesses key roles in growing a better economy, and considers new forms of corporate organization that empower workers, create opportunities for SMEs and entrepreneurs. 18:00-18:10 Video message - Nadia Woodhouse 18:10–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Moderator: Earth Ramrada Mah Fah Luang Foundation's Sustainability Advisory unit Martin Rich Future-Fit Business 18:15–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Belinda Hlatshwayo "Business and Human Rights Project Manager Bangkok Regional Hub United Nations Development Programme" Ben McCarron Asia Research and Engagement Seema Joshi Director of Legal Strategy, Accountability Accelerator Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
07/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 4 | Good Business
Businesses play crucial roles creating jobs, driving innovation and shaping green markets and supply chains. But they also drive pollution and unsustainable production and consumption. Shareholder primacy and short-term profit maximization put business success at loggerheads with the common good. But alternative forms and pathways exist for businesses to thrive while advancing the common good. This session examines the role and opportunity for business in the green transition, and makes the case that responsible business is good business. It highlights businesses key roles in growing a better economy, and considers new forms of corporate organization that empower workers, create opportunities for SMEs and entrepreneurs. 18:00-18:10 Video message - Nadia Woodhouse 18:10–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Moderator: Earth Ramrada Mah Fah Luang Foundation's Sustainability Advisory unit Martin Rich Future-Fit Business 18:15–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Belinda Hlatshwayo "Business and Human Rights Project Manager Bangkok Regional Hub United Nations Development Programme" Ben McCarron Asia Research and Engagement Seema Joshi Director of Legal Strategy, Accountability Accelerator Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
07/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 1 | A Tantalizing Prospect
This session explores the promise and tantalizing possibility of new approaches to economics that put people and planet first. It considers how prevailing economic systems fail us and what ‘better’ looks like. It invites the public to ponder: - What if investing in people & nature is the biggest economic opportunity of our time? - What if our economies nurtured rather than exploited people and nature? - What if economics were about nurturing abundance and wellbeing rather than managing scarcity? - How would we rethink value, wealth, metrics of success? Agenda: Spotlight talk: Video message from Kate Raworth Fireside Chat Moderator: Leo Horn-Phathanothai: Convenor of BKKCAW Speakers: Sam Chua: Founding Curator, Seapunk Studios "Supatchaya Techachoochert, PhD. ดร.สุภัชญา เตชะชูเชิด" Nature-based Solutions Expert, Mae Fah Luang Foundation "Ricardo Fuentes" "former head of the secretariat of the High Level Expert Group on Beyond GDP; former Executive Director Oxfam México" Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
04/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 1 | A Tantalizing Prospect
This session explores the promise and tantalizing possibility of new approaches to economics that put people and planet first. It considers how prevailing economic systems fail us and what ‘better’ looks like. It invites the public to ponder: - What if investing in people & nature is the biggest economic opportunity of our time? - What if our economies nurtured rather than exploited people and nature? - What if economics were about nurturing abundance and wellbeing rather than managing scarcity? - How would we rethink value, wealth, metrics of success? Agenda: Spotlight talk: Video message from Kate Raworth Fireside Chat Moderator: Leo Horn-Phathanothai: Convenor of BKKCAW Speakers: Sam Chua: Founding Curator, Seapunk Studios "Supatchaya Techachoochert, PhD. ดร.สุภัชญา เตชะชูเชิด" Nature-based Solutions Expert, Mae Fah Luang Foundation "Ricardo Fuentes" "former head of the secretariat of the High Level Expert Group on Beyond GDP; former Executive Director Oxfam México" Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
04/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 2 | Signals from the Future: What’s Emerging?
Better, alternative economies are not fiction, but an ever-present reality across the region. NE pioneers will share lessons from their experience about the necessary conditions to grow a better economy, the obstacles that stands in the way, and how these may be overcome. New trends and technological possibilities are explored while highlighting the enduring relevance of cultural heritage, local wisdom, traditional practices, and indigenous knowledge. 17.45-18.00 PM SOAPBOX/ Interactive session - Riya Saxena "Contemporary Artist & Climate Finance Specialist" 18.00 - 18.15 PM Spotlight TALK - Gita Syahrani: "Head of Executive Board Koalisi Ekonomi Membumi, KEM" 18:15–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Moderator: Warisara Sornpet Carol Tan Former Deputy CEO, Asia Philanthropy Circle Sumitra Pasupathy Philanthropy Dialogues & KAI Advisory Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
05/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 2 | Signals from the Future: What’s Emerging?
Better, alternative economies are not fiction, but an ever-present reality across the region. NE pioneers will share lessons from their experience about the necessary conditions to grow a better economy, the obstacles that stands in the way, and how these may be overcome. New trends and technological possibilities are explored while highlighting the enduring relevance of cultural heritage, local wisdom, traditional practices, and indigenous knowledge. 17.45-18.00 PM SOAPBOX/ Interactive session - Riya Saxena "Contemporary Artist & Climate Finance Specialist" 18.00 - 18.15 PM Spotlight TALK - Gita Syahrani: "Head of Executive Board Koalisi Ekonomi Membumi, KEM" 18:15–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Moderator: Warisara Sornpet Carol Tan Former Deputy CEO, Asia Philanthropy Circle Sumitra Pasupathy Philanthropy Dialogues & KAI Advisory Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
05/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
RIVERBANKS: A Comic Climate Fiction Exhibition Imagining If Rivers Ran Planetary Finance
What if our planet's financial systems were run... by nature? What if banks were owned by... rivers? RIVERBANKS is a comic-style climate fiction exhibition imagining ecoarchic (nature-first) institutions: specifically, banks that are owned by (and thus work for) rivers, a.k.a. river banks.
05/10/2026 • 09:00
Lumphini Hall 2F (Behind Main Stage)
RIVERBANKS: A Comic Climate Fiction Exhibition Imagining If Rivers Ran Planetary Finance
What if our planet's financial systems were run... by nature? What if banks were owned by... rivers? RIVERBANKS is a comic-style climate fiction exhibition imagining ecoarchic (nature-first) institutions: specifically, banks that are owned by (and thus work for) rivers, a.k.a. river banks.
05/10/2026 • 09:00
Lumphini Hall 2F (Behind Main Stage)
MAIN STAGE | Day 3 | Our Economy, Our Choice
A better economy is people-centered: it is inclusive, accountable to people and responsive to their priorities, and leaves no one behind. This session considers: - The central role of civil society actors - How individuals have agency beyond being consumers - How power is shifted, participation enabled, and fairness guaranteed in a people-centered economy - The skills needed to flourish in a wellbeing economy - Decolonizing our economic narratives 18.00 - 18.15 PM Spotlight TALK Insa Ilgen: Turning climate ambition into economic transformation Thai-German cooperation 18:15-18:50 PM Fireside Chat Moderator: Rosalind Yunibandhu Cynthia Ong Forever Sabah Toshi Nakamura CEO and co-founder of Kopernik Ewa Wojkowska Founder, Kopernik Melati Wisjen Founder, YOUTHTOPIA & Bye Bye Plastic Bags Sara Al Mahdi Saahil Parekh Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story - 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
06/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 3 | Our Economy, Our Choice
A better economy is people-centered: it is inclusive, accountable to people and responsive to their priorities, and leaves no one behind. This session considers: - The central role of civil society actors - How individuals have agency beyond being consumers - How power is shifted, participation enabled, and fairness guaranteed in a people-centered economy - The skills needed to flourish in a wellbeing economy - Decolonizing our economic narratives 18.00 - 18.15 PM Spotlight TALK Insa Ilgen: Turning climate ambition into economic transformation Thai-German cooperation 18:15-18:50 PM Fireside Chat Moderator: Rosalind Yunibandhu Cynthia Ong Forever Sabah Toshi Nakamura CEO and co-founder of Kopernik Ewa Wojkowska Founder, Kopernik Melati Wisjen Founder, YOUTHTOPIA & Bye Bye Plastic Bags Sara Al Mahdi Saahil Parekh Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story - 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
06/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 5 | Transforming Finance
Finance is the key lever for accelerating the green transition and realizing the vision of a better economy. Our desired futures will remain beyond reach as long as finance works against sustainability, deepens fossil fuel dependency, and fuels inequality and environmental devastation. Shifting investment into green infrastructure and solutions is one part of it. Another is rewiring finance to align with development and climate protection goals. In sum: financing the shift is the outcome; shifting finance is the how. This session considers the respective roles of public, private and philanthropic finance; aligning financial regulation with wellbeing goals; SMEs, and the economic opportunity in harmonizing green finance rules & standards across the region. 17.45-18.00 PM SOAPBOX Peerakan Manakit CEO of ION ENERGY Co., Ltd. 18:15–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Moderator: Vivi Siriporn Pearline Yum Asia Regional Director, The ImPact Tiza Mafira Director, Climate Policy Initiative Indonesia Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
08/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 5 | Transforming Finance
Finance is the key lever for accelerating the green transition and realizing the vision of a better economy. Our desired futures will remain beyond reach as long as finance works against sustainability, deepens fossil fuel dependency, and fuels inequality and environmental devastation. Shifting investment into green infrastructure and solutions is one part of it. Another is rewiring finance to align with development and climate protection goals. In sum: financing the shift is the outcome; shifting finance is the how. This session considers the respective roles of public, private and philanthropic finance; aligning financial regulation with wellbeing goals; SMEs, and the economic opportunity in harmonizing green finance rules & standards across the region. 17.45-18.00 PM SOAPBOX Peerakan Manakit CEO of ION ENERGY Co., Ltd. 18:15–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Moderator: Vivi Siriporn Pearline Yum Asia Regional Director, The ImPact Tiza Mafira Director, Climate Policy Initiative Indonesia Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
08/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 6 | ‘Your Government is here to help’
Governments have a crucial and irreplaceable role in enabling other actors and marshaling resources towards growing a better economy. To fulfill that role requires visionary leadership; a capable public sector; well-designed policies, regulations and procurement; and ecological fiscal reform. A spotlight talk restates the rationale for public action, underscoring the need for political responsibility, public sector leadership and smart governmental intervention to address climate change and related crises. A panel will then consider: - Government’s role as ‘market-shaper’ - Green Industrial policy - Public procurement as a transformative lever - Subnational governments 18.00 - 18.15 PM Spotlight TALK - Sara Elizabeth Farley Vice President, Food, The Rockefeller Foundation 18:15–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Moderator: Yui Sumano Boonwara TDRI Xiaoting Hou-Jones Government and Policy Lead, Doughnut Economics Action Lab Danny Sriskandarajah New Economics Foundation H.E. Amb. Nicola Pollitt British Ambassador to Thailand Aisha Marzuki Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
09/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 6 | ‘Your Government is here to help’
Governments have a crucial and irreplaceable role in enabling other actors and marshaling resources towards growing a better economy. To fulfill that role requires visionary leadership; a capable public sector; well-designed policies, regulations and procurement; and ecological fiscal reform. A spotlight talk restates the rationale for public action, underscoring the need for political responsibility, public sector leadership and smart governmental intervention to address climate change and related crises. A panel will then consider: - Government’s role as ‘market-shaper’ - Green Industrial policy - Public procurement as a transformative lever - Subnational governments 18.00 - 18.15 PM Spotlight TALK - Sara Elizabeth Farley Vice President, Food, The Rockefeller Foundation 18:15–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Moderator: Yui Sumano Boonwara TDRI Xiaoting Hou-Jones Government and Policy Lead, Doughnut Economics Action Lab Danny Sriskandarajah New Economics Foundation H.E. Amb. Nicola Pollitt British Ambassador to Thailand Aisha Marzuki Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
09/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 7 | The Path Forward: Proposals for a Better Economy
After a week of ideas, conversations and collaboration across BKKCAW, the next step is to turn them into action. 15 proposals will be developed through the BKKCAW clusters and Asia’s Next Economies Forum, capturing key priorities and possibilities that emerged throughout the week. The proposals will then be brought into a fireside conversation with delegates from the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings, carrying the momentum of BKKCAW into the conversations shaping what comes next. Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
10/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park
MAIN STAGE | Day 7 | The Path Forward: Proposals for a Better Economy
After a week of ideas, conversations and collaboration across BKKCAW, the next step is to turn them into action. 15 proposals will be developed through the BKKCAW clusters and Asia’s Next Economies Forum, capturing key priorities and possibilities that emerged throughout the week. The proposals will then be brought into a fireside conversation with delegates from the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings, carrying the momentum of BKKCAW into the conversations shaping what comes next. Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.
10/10/2026 • 16:30
Lumphini Park