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This annual event hosted by the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth is where influential voices come together to reframe challenges and unlock new approaches. It’s about bringing together the smartest thinkers and leaders who are shaping our future. Conversations you won’t find on a stage anywhere else. And the kind of connections that move ideas into action.
Featured Topics
Our inclusive growth agenda
This year’s program is designed to go deep and bring you the topics you need to know as leaders in this space. From new thinking on financial health and the role of innovation, effective philanthropy, digital transformation and trust in the morning, to protecting individuals and small business from cyber threats, growth opportunities of the circular economy, and how AI is transforming organizations in the afternoon.
Tech, trust, and the next competitive edge
The AI impact opportunity
Featured Speakers
Hear from purpose-driven leaders on inclusive growth
Experience robust and thoughtful discussions on the most important inclusive growth topics from the experts themselves.
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2024 Summit highlights
In case you missed it, watch the highlights of the summit showcasing some of the best discussions from visionary leaders on inclusive growth. See thought leaders share groundbreaking ideas and initiatives aimed at fostering economic development that leaves no one behind.
Summit Rewind
The summit's most memorable moments
In a turbulent economic, environmental, and human context, the Summit enables private sector, social impact, and government leaders to partner in new ways on meaningful solutions and approaches.
Snapshots
Celebrating champions of inclusive growth
Experience the summit through our official photographs of the most memorable and important moments, and celebrate the minds that champion inclusive growth all over the world.
Featured Event
Challenging convention: Leading beyond borders
Top Quotes
Insights from inclusive growth leaders, in their own words
“The only way things are really going to change [for minority groups] is when people who don’t stand to benefit directly are prepared to advocate and stand up for us.”
“Everybody has a responsibility to do what they can with what they have to make the world a better place in some way.”
“If we capitalize women and we open up their entrepreneurial nature and their possibility, we’re going to have an amazing compounding effect around the world.”
“Indigenous peoples are already leading by example. We do not wait for anyone; we’re already protecting 80% of the world’s biodiversity and we do that just as duty.”
“Technology is an amplifier of human intent and capacity, not a substitute.”
“Philanthropy… [has] the opportunity to de-risk ideas and demonstrate viability where it ultimately has been hard for capital to get comfortable.”
“It’s on us, those of us in the public sector and in the private sector, to make it so that everyone has equal access to the best technology.”
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About the Global Inclusive Growth Summit
The Center for Inclusive Growth and Devex present
Anchored on the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings in Washington, DC, the Global Inclusive Growth Summit aims to inspire and innovate. Hosted by the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, the Summit advances real solutions to today’s most pressing challenges through collaboration and candid conversation among entrepreneurs, innovators, policymakers and emerging changemakers.
The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth advances equitable and sustainable economic growth and financial inclusion around the world. The Center leverages the company’s core assets and competencies, including data insights, expertise and technology, while administering the philanthropic Mastercard Impact Fund, to produce independent research, scale global programs and empower a community of thinkers, leaders and doers on the front lines of inclusive growth.
Devex is the world’s leading independent news organization covering global development. Devex journalists deliver insider reporting from front lines of the fight to achieve the SDGs – driving the most important debates, providing the most critical analysis, and backing it all up with the events, career information, and funding opportunities professionals require. To keep up to date with the must-read global development coverage, join their global community.
