Setting the scene: the responsibility of banking and how it connects to the social challenges of our time.

Summit Welcome: Anita Braha, Chair, Vancity Board of Directors; Territorial Welcome: Khelsilem TL’AKWASIKAN, Squamish Nation Councillor; Welcoming Remarks: The Honourable Janet Austin, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia; Interview: Peter Blom, CEO & Chairman, Executive Board of Triodos Bank Group; Tamara Vrooman, President and CEO, Vancity; David Beers, Editor, The Tyee; Summit Overview: Marcos Eguiguren, Executive Director, GABV

Explore the transformative role of banking as it relates to migrants and social inclusion…

Money has no borders, but countries do. As long as there are borders, we are faced with questions of social inclusion, and money plays an important part in that. In the best of times banks and other financial institutions find it challenging to get money into the hands of people working in the informal economy or people without addresses. GABV banks across the world have been unique in their ability to respond to these challenges. Whether people working in the market in Arequipa or newly arrived immigrants in Minneapolis, the GABV banks have found creative ways to make banking accessible to migrants and refugees. But more needs to be done to influence governments, encourage civil society, and shift the values of the financial sector to meet the needs of this growing number of people in the short and long term.

Our keynote speaker and distinguished panelists of world-leading experts will kick-off this session followed by a rich Design exChange Session where all participants will have an opportunity to use their design thinking and prototyping abilities to imagine and create new ways forward.

Keynote: Tima Kurdi, Co-Founder, Kurdi Foundation; Moderator: David Reiling, Chairman & CEO, Sunrise Banks; Panelists: Nathan Benson, Legal and Research Director, The Refugee Hub, University of Ottawa; Gillian Barth, President and CEO for CARE Canada; Linda Lopez, Chief, Office of Immigrant Affairs Office of the Mayor, Los Angeles

Explore the transformative role of banking as it relates to #MeToo and the voices of diverse communities…

New York civil rights activist Tarana Burke first coined the phrase Me Too in 2006 to begin a movement that gained global traction in 2017 when the hashtag #MeToo united victims of sexual abuse, harassment and assault in a discussion of dignity, accountability, power and, ultimately, healing. The movement continued over the past year with public revelations of misconduct in the highest ranks of power in the entertainment, corporate, and political worlds. It has since opened wider explorations on how diversity can transform the social and power dynamics within communities, workplaces and institutions.

Taking gender diversity and social inclusion seriously in the financial system will mean rethinking basic assumptions about social class, income distribution, wealth dispersion and the focus of economic decision-making. GABV member banks have a strong track record of using impact investing and microcredit lending to bring marginalised actors into the financial system and small business financing and mobile banking is working to reinforce social and gender inclusion. How can the financial system take new initiatives to overcome biases and social injustices that still persist?

This set of speakers, panelists and Design exChange Sessions will show that there are many more opportunities to leverage ways to bank in the world. This is particularly true for those who have suffered inequalities that have driven them outside the economic system.

Keynote: Musimbi Kanyoro, President & CEO, Global Fund for Women; Moderator: Laurie Spengler, President & CEO, Enclude; Panelists: Ebony Harper, Program Associate for The California Endowment; Paul Lacerte, CEO & Co-Founder, Moosehide Campaign; Lisa Mensah, President and CEO of Opportunity Finance Network Kat Taylor, CEO & Co-Founder, Beneficial State Bank

An evening with John Fullerton, founder and President of Capital Institute and the architect of the Regenerative Economy framework. Award-winning CBC news journalist Laura Lynch will moderate a conversation with John, guest panellists and the audience.

The Vancity Community Marketplace will still be open, allowing more time to learn about and explore local values-aligned businesses.

Public Event Welcome: Anita Braha, Chair, Vancity Board of Directors; Tamara Vrooman, President and CEO, Vancity; Territorial Welcome: Cecilia Point, Speaker, Musqueam Nation; Keynote: John Fullerton, President of Capital Institute Moderator: Laura Lynch, Journalist, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; Panelists: Bertrand Rossert, Adviser to the Chief Ethics Officer at the World Bank Group; Anna Laycock, CEO of The Finance Innovation Lab