Conferences
Each year, Social Value International works in partnership with our networks to host Social Value Matters
- the largest global social value and impact management conference.
Past Conferences
Explore the summaries of previous Social Value Matters conferences, and see how our movement for change has grown and expanded over the years.
Social Value Matters 2022 Europe
The 2022 conference, delivered in partnership between Social Value International, Social Value Italia and Torino Social Impact, was the first in person gathering of the global social value community since SVM2019 and provided an opportunity to reconnect as a network and community of practice, to share innovations and best practice, and to come together to agree on shared actions as we collectively work to achieve our mission - to change the way the world accounts for value.
Social Value Matters Europe took place in Turin, Italy on the 24th and 25th October 2022. Delivered in partnership between Social Value International, Social Value Italia and Torino Social Impact, the conference brought over 100 social value practitioners together from across the world for two days of interaction, inspiring discussion, and action.
The conference was held in Turin, Italy - the Social Impact Capital of Italy - at the UniCredit Building in the city centre; a space that was chosen for its open and engaging set up, to ensure collaboration and connection between all conference attendees.
Read our event recap blog here for more details.
Social Value Matters 2021: Leading our Transition to a Sustainable World
Social Value International partnered with Social Value Thailand to bring the biggest social value and impact measurement and management event of the year.
Building on the success of conferences held in London, Milan, Istanbul, Taipei and Toronto (virtually in 2020), the SVM 2021 conference was held from Bangkok, Thailand on the 20th and 21st October 2021.
The conference will took place virtually for a global audience, and will brought together leading voices from impact investing, academia, policy making, corporate sustainability, and practice to create a truly global event that celebrates and advances the developments of social value and impact management.
Over the course of two days more than 900 participants engaged in a wide range of conversations, workshops and roundtables as we discussed how social value is leading our transition to a sustainable world.
Social Value Matters 2020: People, Planet and Power
Social Value Matters 2020: People, Planet & Power was co-hosted by Social Value Canada and Social Value International and took place online from the 28th September to the 2nd October 2020.
Over the course of 5 days more than 140 speakers including local, national and international thought-leaders, and practitioners from across the social value agenda spoke in 50+ sessions. Our global community of more than 700 attendees participated in this sessions as we collectively agreed that the need to change the way society accounts for value has never been more urgent.
SVM 2020 Core Themes: Inequality and climate change are intertwined and indivisible, Creating Social Value: policies, tools & levers, Community-Driven outcomes create more value for everyone, Wellbeing as a lens for impact, Sustainability is financial, environmental and social, Reconciliation and the Social Value agenda and Our post-COVID future.
Social Value Matters 2019: Going Mainstream
Social Value Matters 2019: Going Mainstream was co-hosted by Social Value Taiwan and Social Value International and took place in Taipei in December 2019.
Hosted by national network Social Value Taiwan this two-day event discussed how social value and social impact is more important now than ever before and ready to be integrated into mainstream thinking across the world.
The conference was be a chance to listen and participate in global conversations about how we make social impact and social value a bigger part of our decision making. The conference welcomed people from all disciplines (accountants, evaluators, market researchers, economists, service designers, investors) and over the course of 2 days more than 600 participants engaged in a wide range of conversations, workshops and roundtables as we discussed how our movement is going mainstream.
Social Value Matters 2017: More than ever!
On 10th and 11th April 2017 Social Value International and Koç University Social Impact Forum (KUSIF) co-hosted Social Value Matters 2017 at KUSIF’s beautiful campus in the hills of Sarıyer, Istanbul.
Against a backdrop of increasing inequality and global uncertainty Social Value Matters 2017 focused on what needs to happen to amplify stakeholder voices to inspire change and maximise value.
Over the course of the conference, 250 delegates and speakers from 25 countries gathered to discuss how best to amplify voices, inspire change and maximise value. The conference had mix of roundtables and workshops. The roundtables were small group discussions led by members that focused on debate and experience sharing, whilst workshops involved participants in exercises and activities to encourage debate and learning.
The conference report provides some of the highlights from those activities, discussions and exercises.
Impact Convergance 2016:
Social Value International was delighted to partner with the American Evaluation Association to deliver its annual conference in Atlanta from 24 to 26 October 2016.
Impact Convergence 2016 was a collaborative international effort to advance the state of the art of impact measurement in the fields of Impact Investing, Social Entrepreneurship, Corporate Social Responsibility & Social Finance.
Critical Mass 2015
For two days in October 2015, Social Value International and partners Matter & Co took over the famous lecture theatre and laboratories at the Royal Institution – the home of science and innovation in the UK.
A host of inspirational keynotes, practical workshops and masterclasses brought together hundreds of people from across civil society, enterprise, responsible business, and investing to learn from, network with and inspire each other.
Talking Data 2014
In November 2014, the Social Impact Analysts Association (SIAA) hosted its fourth international annual conference in Toronto, Canada, in partnership with Social Asset Measurements and Charity Intelligence Canada.
Following three knowledge building conferences – SIAA Launch in 2011, Emerging Profession in 2012 and Beyond Measurement in 2013 – SIAA’s fourth conference was an opportunity to build on the rich body of knowledge and resources that has developed as the conversation around social impact measurement and analysis has grown since SIAA’s inception in 2011.
Talking Data: Measurement with a Message was SIAA’s biggest conference yet, with 2 days of workshops, dialogue and networking at an international level. The conference brought together over 200 delegates coming from across the globe including from Canada, US, UK, Germany, Turkey, Italy, Estonia and Australia.
Social Value Matters 2014
Social Value Matters was a fascinating two days, set in the Catholic University of Milan. The theme was how we can make the case that Social Value Matters if we want to create a better future – and delegates came from across the world to discuss challenges and solutions for this increasingly urgent issue.
For summaries of the event watch our conference video from Pioneers Post.