Innovate for Impact (IFI) NYC 2026 - The Power of Human Connection

Register for the Morning Main Program — Monday, September 21, 2026 · 9:00 AM–1:00 PM ET Six interconnected conversations. One central question: can innovation make us more connected — to each other, to ourselves, to the places we experience and to the planet? Innovate for Impact NYC 2026 brings together business leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, institutions and changemakers during New York Climate Week for an open morning program exploring The Power of Human Connection. Leaders from across industries, disciplines and perspectives come together for six interconnected conversations, moving from the places we experience to the communities we build, our capacity to thrive, what humans should learn, the technologies reshaping our lives and the future those choices create. PLACE → EACH OTHER → SELF → LEARNING → TECHNOLOGY → FUTURE Across travel and hospitality, sport and entertainment, health and wellbeing, learning, artificial intelligence, infrastructure, energy and investment, the morning asks not only what innovation makes possible — but what it enables us to become. Now in its 3rd Edition. —————————— WHAT YOUR REGISTRATION INCLUDES This registration covers the open morning main program only: 9:00 AM–1:00 PM ET at The Loft at Virgin Hotels New York City. Registration for the morning program does not include admission to the afternoon workshops or the evening experience. Each requires separate registration — details at the bottom of this page. —————————— MORNING AGENDA 9:00–9:10 AM — Opening | The Power of Human Connection: Innovation in a World Being Rewritten 9:10–9:45 AM — Place | The Places That Connect Us: Reimagining Travel Through People, Place & Nature 9:45–10:20 AM — Each Other | The Experiences That Unite Us: How Sport, Culture & Entertainment Can Mobilize Communities for Impact 10:20–10:35 AM — Connection | Human Connection Break: fifteen minutes designed for participants to meet someone outside their own industry 10:35–11:10 AM — Self | The Co