Impacta Mais: Catalysing Brazil’s transition to an impact economy
With over 2,500 participants, 195 speakers, and 100+ impact businesses, Impacta Mais 2025, hosted by Impact Hub São Paulo (in collaboration with Impact Hub Floripa, Porto Alegre and Cuiabá), became Brazil’s largest forum for advancing the impact economy and set the stage for systemic change.
- Impact Hub Network
- Global team
In 2025, the Impact Hub Network marked its 20th anniversary with four major events around the world. These gatherings were moments to reflect on two decades of building ecosystems where business serves both people and planet, and to look forward to a future where impact is no longer niche but the default. From São Paulo to Vienna, from Yerevan to Taipei, each event demonstrated the power of Impact Hubs to connect a global vision with regional action.
The first of these was Impacta Mais 2025 in São Paulo, the largest edition in the event’s history and a landmark for Brazil’s impact economy. Organised by Impact Hub São Paulo, Floripa Porto Alegre and Cuiabá, in collaboration with Companhia de Impacto, the forum brought together investors, entrepreneurs, policymakers, corporate sustainability leaders, academics, cultural leaders, and community representatives for two days of connection and collaboration.
With more than 2,500 attendees, 195 speakers, 20 hours of content, and a showcase of 30 impact businesses, Impacta Mais underscored the strength of a growing movement that seeks not only to mitigate harm but to regenerate systems and place impact at the very centre of economic strategy.
The event was designed around seven thematic tracks, spanning climate and health to access to capital, diversity, and governance. Across these conversations, a clear message emerged: deep impact requires more than incremental change. As keynote speaker Charly Kleissner reminded participants, “There is no systemic transformation without unlikely alliances.”
That spirit was evident throughout Impacta Mais itself, which brought together investors and entrepreneurs alongside community leaders, artists, and policymakers; voices that rarely share the same stage, but that must come together if systemic change is to take root. Impact Hub São Paulo truly showed the Network’s strength in the value of collaboration, convening unlikely allies and diverse perspectives to spark partnerships that would not happen anywhere else.
Discussions pushed beyond sustainability toward regeneration, focusing on how businesses can repair damage and restore balance between people and planet. This was not only present in the debates but embedded in the design of the event. The Amazon stage, co-created with Fundo Vale, gave visibility to leaders from the region and highlighted the urgent need to build economies that protect biodiversity while sustaining local communities.
The fair of 30 enterprises showcased startups led by women, Afro-Brazilian, and Indigenous entrepreneurs, underlining that diversity is not a side theme but a driver of innovation. Cultural performances, from Maracatu Ouro do Congo to the Lords of Krump, reminded everyone that regeneration is not just ecological but also social and cultural. In these moments, Impacta Mais echoed the broader focus of the Impact Hub Network on Climate Action and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and the nexus between them.
Impact Hub São Paulo and its partners also ensured that Impacta Mais 2025 was not only about discussing impact but also about embodying it. The event was certified carbon neutral, offsetting more than ten tonnes of CO₂ through credits tied to reforestation in the Atlantic Forest. Every element, from travel to waste, was accounted for under the GHG Protocol, demonstrating that large-scale gatherings can align with climate commitments rather than contradict them.
Impacta Mais became a living example of systemic transformation, weaving together business innovation, cultural expression, and territorial inclusion. It was both a celebration of progress and a call to action: to embed impact into the heart of economic strategy, to embrace diversity as a source of resilience, and to choose regeneration over extraction.
As the first of the Impact Hub Network’s 20th anniversary gatherings, it set the tone for a year of celebration and reflection. It reminded us that while our journey began 20 years ago, the work of building the next economy is only accelerating, and São Paulo showed how powerful that future can be.
Looking ahead to 2026, now is the time to get involved. To stay informed or explore opportunities to join as a sponsor, please contact Pablo Handl, Co-founder, Impacta Mais.
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