Year 2 Summit

To meaningfully transform our current crises into opportunity, we need to acknowledge new and different ways of creating meaningful, lasting change. This asks us to lead and develop leaders to think, strategize and act in more systemic, inclusive and generative ways.

Join us to consider new ideas and question old ones, brave through the discomfort that comes with any meaningful change, and support us in building a movement to create futures that are more compassionate, equal and inclusive for women leaders and their communities.

ReThink: Catalyzing Systems Change Through Women’s Leadership on November 24, 2021, 2-5PM ID/TH; 3-6PM PH/SG was a summit organized by Ashoka South East Asia, in partnership with S&P Global Foundation and Deutsche Bank, as part of the Advancing Women Social Entrepreneurs (AWSE) in ASEAN program.

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Welcome & Opening Message

Why ReThink? And how might we create better approaches and conditions for systems change through women's leadership?

Host: VARISTHA NAKORNTHAP, Strategic Partnership Manager, Ashoka Thailand

Opening Message by: NANI ZULMINARNI, Regional Leader, Ashoka Southeast Asia

Keynote Speech

Najwa Shihab, journalist and Founder of Narasi TV, believes that it's time for women to have a more active role in global development.

SCALING DEEP: Rethinking Narratives of Invisible Power and the Female Gender

Opening Panel:

In what ways are we seeing women leaders redefining “success” and "progress"? And how are WSEs and their communities contributing to this? How might we get more support from others currently outside the movement more involved in this conversation? This panel surfaces the unaccountable work of women in the family, community, society and the environment, and how we might rewrite the narratives about the contribution of women in these spaces.

Featuring
DR. IMAN BIBARS, Vice President, Ashoka; Regional Director, Ashoka Arab World
DWI YULIAWATI FAIZ, Head of Programmes, UN Women Indonesia
KUNTHEA CHAN, Regional co-director, JASS (Just Associates) South East Asia
Moderator: CHERYL CHEN, Director of Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability, Asia Pacific, S&P Global

Parallel Sessions

Through several simultaneous sessions, we brought together over 20 leading changemakers (women and men alike!) to join us in catalyzing systems change through women’s leadership by rethinking narratives on partnerships & collaborations, capacity-building, communication & storytelling, and well-being.

DEEPEN: Rethinking partnerships & collaborations

STRENGTHEN: Rethinking capacity-building approaches

AMPLIFY: Rethinking communications and storytelling

CARE: Rethinking well-being for women changemakers

DEEPEN: Rethinking partnerships & collaborations

STRENGTHEN: Rethinking capacity-building approaches

AMPLIFY: Rethinking communications and storytelling

CARE: Rethinking well-being for women changemakers

SCALING OUT: How women are building the next generation of changemakers

Closing Panel:

How might we continue building “an everyone a changemaker” world through the next generation? This final session aims to bring together highlights, reflections and further questions that are coming up from the parallel sessions, and give a platform for young changemakers to share how women have shaped them and their own changemaking.

Featuring
ALVIAN WARDANA, Ashoka Young Changemaker; Founder, Literasi Anak Banua
REESE WONG, Founder, ISSIA HK
NUKE GUNARTO, Ashoka Young Changemaker; Outreach Staff, In-Docs
NATASHA TANJUTCO, Co-founder, Kids for Kids Philippines & TAYO
Host: VARISTHA NAKORNTHAP, Strategic Partnership Manager, Ashoka Thailand