Previous Summits
ASEAN Inclusive Business Summit
Seventh ASEAN
Inclusive Business Forum
Enhancing Connectivity and Resilience
23-24 September 2024
Lao Plaza Hotel, Vientiane, Lao PDR
The Seventh ASEAN Inclusive Business Forum initiates dialogues and explorative sessions to share knowledge and good practices for promoting Inclusive Business.
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Sixth ASEAN
Inclusive Business Summit
Incentivise Businesses for Inclusive Growth
23-25 August 2023
Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia
The Sixth ASEAN Inclusive Business Summit commissions dialogue to explore opportunities to prepare an enabling environment to incentivise businesses for a sustainable future, such as establishing the ASEAN IB Acceleration Programme to support and finance inclusive business models.
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Fifth ASEAN
Inclusive Business Summit
Together ASEAN IBee
26-27 October 2022
Hybrid Event, Siem Reap, Cambodia
The Fifth ASEAN Inclusive Business Summit focused on supporting the implementation of the Guidelines for the Promotion of Inclusive Business in ASEAN, particularly on IB investments incentives policy instrument and its support mechanisms.
Fourth ASEAN
Inclusive Business Summit
Building Inclusive Businesses to Build Back Better
22 September 2021
Video Conference, Brunei Darussalam
The Fourth ASEAN Inclusive Business Summit, presented the diverse IB modelsin Southeast Asia to showcase essential elements that make a business model both inclusive and commercially viable. It also explored how governments can and have put into practice the Guidelines for the Promotion of Inclusive Business in ASEAN, in particular two of the core measures suggested in the Guidelines, namely the establishment of an IB accreditation and registration system and the provision of business coaching services for firms to develop IB models.
Third ASEAN
Inclusive Business Summit
Building Inclusive Businesses to Build Back Better
29 September 2020
Virtually, Viet Nam
The Third ASEAN Inclusive Business Summit marked the continued commitment of the ASEAN Community, including government representatives, the private sector, investors and development organisations, to create an enabling ecosystem for inclusive business, amidst the current COVID-19 pandemic crisis that poses even greater challenges to the region in meeting its targeted sustainable development goals by 2030.
Second ASEAN
Inclusive Business Summit
Celebrating advances and envisioning the future
1 November 2019
Bangkok, Thailand
The Second ASEAN Inclusive Business Summit celebrated advances in building enabling policy environments and promoting IB in ASEAN Member States and for the ASEAN community. It provided an opportunity to discuss public and private partnerships on Inclusive Business and to envision the future of IB promotion in ASEAN.
First ASEAN
Inclusive Business Summit
Pioneering Change in the Way We Do Business
6 September, 2017
Manila, Philippines
The ASEAN Inclusive Business Summit with the theme, aimed to formally introduce and build the case for inclusive business (IB) in the ASEAN through exemplary models, instrumental government interventions, and regional support initiatives. The inputs from this summit served as reference in crafting recommendations to ASEAN on how to carry forward the IB agenda in the region.