Past Editions
From Essential Needs, New Solutions, to Humanity Re-Allied, and onward to the next gathering now in preparation.
This archive traces the Forum’s growth from year to year: how the defining questions change, how problem-solvers emerge, and how people reconnect at each gathering.
Edition Timeline
Themes, people, topics, projects and articles from every edition
Essential Needs, New Solutions
The first Idealists Forum brought more than 500 practitioners together for three days and 43 issue-based exchanges, starting from essential livelihood needs to explore the question of ‘Essential Needs, New Solutions.’
Humanity Re-Allied
Against the backdrop of AI rapidly changing the world, the second Idealists Forum revisited people, place, relationships, trust and social innovation.
In Preparation
In PreparationThe third Idealists Forum is now in preparation. We welcome more curators, social entrepreneurs, community changemakers, corporate philanthropy partners, funders and technology-for-good practitioners to co-create it with us.
Not three separate events, but one line of growth
The Idealists Forum does not disappear when an event ends. What each edition leaves behind becomes the soil from which the next can grow.
Return to Real Needs
Starting from essential needs, we reaffirmed that social entrepreneurship must respond to real livelihood needs.
Reaffirm the Place of People
In the AI era, we revisited people, place, relationships, empathy and action.
Keep Opening the Network
Moving from an annual gathering to lasting connections, bringing more problem-solvers into the network.
From Review to Archive
Past-edition reviews are more than photographs and news; together they form a growing knowledge base for social innovation.
At the next edition, do more than observe
If a past edition surfaced an issue you care about, perhaps you can become part of the next gathering.
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