From Impact to Prosperity: A New Paradigm
November 12, 2025 | Eventfabrik, Bern
Amid growing global challenges, it was time to rethink how we define success. Drawing on the Swiss Impact and Prosperity Initiative (SIPI), the 2025 Forum’s theme introduced a new paradigm for long-term success that guided our Deep Dives, keynotes, and panels, and engaged leaders from business, policy, academia, and civil society. SIPI highlighted the need for a shared narrative around enduring prosperity and ways to work together to bring it to life. Through SIPI, the Forum aimed to redefine this narrative and build the collaborative architecture that moved participants from fragmented efforts to coherent action across Switzerland.
This Forum brought together business executives, sustainability experts, policymakers, academics, and entrepreneurs, leveraging collective intelligence to further explore the shift from an impact-driven focus to long-term prosperity. The programme was designed to foster collaboration, deepen resilience, and empower leaders to champion a new kind of prosperity, one that creates lasting value not just for business, but for society and the planet as a whole.
Together, participants redefined prosperity by breaking silos, sparking bold ideas, and beginning to build lasting impact.
Participants learned from and engaged with experts, thought leaders, and changemakers across diverse industries to help shape a resilient future.
Participants dove into topics ranging from sustainable procurement and impact-driven finance to workplace well-being and the latest B Corp standards.
Kim-Andrée Potvin, Timothée Parrique, and others came together to challenge traditional ideas of growth and to shape a shared vision of prosperity for Switzerland.
Celebrate with us the winners of the Environment, Innovation and Public Choice Awards.
The Swiss Impact Forum really creates a space where you can not only network and exchange ideas, but I find, especially in the breakout sessions, there’s really time to go properly into details and also take something away and bring it home.
– Philippe Aeschlimann, Head of Corporate Affairs, Danone
It’s nice to see everyone get together once a year. We learn new things and meet new people, and it’s great to see that the old ones are still around and that we’re still working together to do good.
– Vanessa Rueber, Community Marketing & Impact Manager, Patagonia
I was pleasantly surprised by how much interest there was, and how diverse and inclusive everything was. It was really nice to see a diverse mix in the room, and the conversations and exchanges were very uplifting.
– Narmada Ramakrishna, CEO & Co-Founder, Pink Maharani & mettā muse
“You can talk with all sorts of people from different industries and learn from them. Otherwise, you’re always in your own bubble, and here you can get a bit of a different perspective and find out what other industries are doing to have a positive impact.”
– Malte Hiekel, Senior Impact Specialist & Academy, ViCAFE & VIVI
