For generations, the Arab world has been building its own responses to the hardest challenges of our time. Not potential waiting to be unlocked – but a force already in motion.
Over two days in Amman, you are invited to join social enterprises, investors, philanthropists, ecosystem builders and changemakers – to speak honestly across borders, and shape what a sovereign, self-determined region can look like.
This first-of-its-kind event is being convened by Alfanar Venture Philanthropy and Anara Impact Capital and will comprise two days of keynotes, workshops, and curated sessions — all structured to move ideas into action.
There are five thematic priorities:
- Employment: dignified work, livelihoods, and pathways to economic participation, particularly for young people, women, and communities that formal systems have left behind.
Climate: practical, land-connected solutions for resilience and resource stewardship, built from local knowledge of the region's soils, seasons, and vulnerabilities.
Education: learning that responds to disrupted realities, not just expanding access, but rethinking what education is for and what it produces.
Heritage: culture and identity not as relics to be preserved, but as living sources of economic power, sovereign expression, and community cohesion. The olive tree as economy, not only a symbol.
- Wellbeing: holistic care, mental health, financial stability, access to quality services, understood as foundational to everything else the impact movement is trying to build.
Speakers
For the full list of speakers, click here.
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Suha Abdul RahimCo-Director, Alfanar Venture Philanthropy
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Lama AmrExecutive Director, BuildPalestine
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Ewa KonczalMarket Building Lead (Neighbouring Regions), Impact Europe
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Rudayna AbdoFounder and CEO, Thaki
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Samar DudinRegional Director & Head of Programs, Ruwwad Al Tanmiya
Notes
Register to attend the event here.