Date: Sunday, March 29, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM (JST)
Location: Tokyo Innovation Base 1F, Square 2
Language: English
Co-hosted by We Are The Impact × Ichigo Bloom
About This Event
Building an impact-driven startup isn’t just about ideals. It’s about hard choices — around capital, growth, organizational design, and how impact gets defined, measured, and sustained over time.
Impact Future Weekend (Mar 29, 2026) is a community event co-hosted by We Are The Impact and Ichigo Bloom, designed to explore those choices openly and practically.
We’re bringing together institutional investors, early-stage VCs, startup founders, and community builders to look honestly at how impact-driven startups are actually built, and where the real opportunities and tensions lie.
Alongside venture and investment discussions, the program also creates space to explore organizational culture and inclusion through an optional Gender Equity Collage workshop facilitated by Ichigo Bloom.
What We’ll Explore
The program is structured in four parts, each approaching impact-driven entrepreneurship from a distinct angle.
1. Impact in Practice: Perspectives from Capital & the Ecosystem
An opening panel bringing together voices from large investment institutions, early-stage venture capital, founding teams, and entrepreneurial communities to discuss:
- How impact investing works on the ground
- Where capital and founders align and where they don’t
- What it really takes to build an impact-driven venture today
2. Making Impact Ventures Tangible
An interactive knowledge-sharing session that breaks down how impact-driven ventures are actually designed in practice — concrete, hands-on, and built for participation.
3. Founders’ Voices: Real Journeys, Real Trade-offs
Three practitioners share their entrepreneurial journeys — including pivots, and the decisions they’d make differently. No polished case studies. Just honest reflections, followed by an open Q&A with the audience.
4. Gender Equity Collage Workshop (Optional | Hosted by Ichigo Bloom)
Following the main program, participants are invited to join the Gender Equity Collage, a hands-on, collaborative workshop hosted by Ichigo Bloom that explores the causes and consequences of gender inequality through group discussion and collective intelligence.
Gender equity is one of the defining challenges of impact-driven organizations. This workshop offers a structured yet open space to build shared understanding, surface assumptions, and move from awareness to dialogue – grounded in leading research on gender equity and inclusion.
Agenda
- 12:00 – 12:30 | Reception & Opening Networking
- 12:30 – 12:35 | Opening Remarks
- 12:35 – 13:20 | Session 1: How Impact Capital Really Works
How capital, founders, and ecosystems make trade-offs in practice - 13:20 – 13:40 | Session 2: Designing an Impact Venture
- 13:40 – 14:30 | Session 3: Founders’ Journeys
What worked, what failed, and what we’d do differently - 14:30 – 17:00 | Gender Equity Collage Workshop (Optional) Hosted by Ichigo Bloom
- 14:30 – 17:00 | Networking
- 17:00 | Closing
Who Should Join?
- Founders and startup teams (early to growth stage)
- Aspiring entrepreneurs exploring impact-driven ventures
- Students entering the startup or innovation space
- Investors and ecosystem builders interested in impact
If you are thinking seriously about how to build something that matters, this event is for you.
Why Join?
- Hear candid, practitioner-level perspectives on impact investing and venture building
- Understand how real-world trade-offs shape the startups we admire
- Connect with a globally minded startup community in Tokyo
About the Organizer
- Ichigo Bloom is a collective of workshops facilitators, working with companies, universities and communities to raise awareness on sustainability and diversity.
- We Are The Impact is a social enterprise dedicated to empowering positive social and environmental impact creation.
