Accelerate Prosperity has announced its participation as an Ecosystem Partner of the ANDE Pan-Asia Convening 2026, a regional gathering organised under the theme Asia’s Moment: Building the Next Decade of Enterprise, Impact, and Capital. The convening will take place online from July 14 to 16, 2026, bringing together changemakers from across the region to learn, connect, and collaborate on the shared challenge of building more inclusive and resilient entrepreneurial ecosystems throughout Asia. Interested participants from Accelerate Prosperity’s broader community can register at lnkd.in/gDxhghka.
The convening is organised by ANDE, the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, an organisation whose mission centres on supporting small and growing businesses, often referred to within the development finance sector as SGBs, as a pathway to inclusive economic growth in emerging and developing markets. Accelerate Prosperity’s participation as an Ecosystem Partner reflects its alignment with ANDE’s mission and its established track record of supporting small and growing businesses across Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Syria through its accelerator and direct investment programming, giving the organisation substantial credibility and relevant experience to contribute to the broader regional conversation that the convening is designed to facilitate.
The thematic framing of the convening, positioning the current period as Asia’s moment for building the next decade of enterprise, impact, and capital, reflects a broader and increasingly widely held view within the global development finance and impact investing community that Asia represents one of the most significant frontiers for entrepreneurial growth and impact-oriented capital deployment over the coming decade. The region’s combination of large, young populations, rapidly digitising economies, and persistent development challenges that entrepreneurial solutions are well-positioned to address creates a compelling case for the kind of sustained, coordinated attention that a convening of this scale and ambition is designed to generate among the practitioners, investors, and ecosystem builders working across the region.
The three-day online format, running from July 14 to 16, 2026, allows participants from across Asia and beyond to engage with experts, practitioners, investors, and ecosystem builders without the logistical and financial barriers that an in-person regional gathering would impose on many participants, particularly those based in markets with less developed travel infrastructure or limited institutional travel budgets. For Accelerate Prosperity’s community across the markets where it operates, the convening offers an opportunity to connect with a broader network of organisations and individuals working on parallel challenges across different Asian markets, potentially surfacing collaboration opportunities, shared learning, and best practices that can strengthen Accelerate Prosperity’s own programming and approach to supporting entrepreneurs within its existing geographies. The involvement of both ANDE East and Southeast Asia and ANDE South Asia in convening this event further reflects the genuinely pan-regional ambition of the gathering, bringing together perspectives and experiences from across the full breadth of Asia’s diverse entrepreneurial ecosystems rather than concentrating on any single sub-region.
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