The Fourth Effect Summit 2025: NYC

Name: The Fourth Effect Summit 2025: NYC
Start: 2025-10-21T16:30:00.000-04:00
End: 2025-10-21T21:00:00.000-04:00
Location: New York, New York

The Fourth Effect

New York, New York

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The State of the Effect

THE SHIFT: Infrastructure, Intelligence & the Future of Growth

Every year, we ask one question: What is the state of the effect?
It’s how we take stock of the forces reshaping our world and what they mean for how we build, lead, and grow.

In 2023, we explored systems change.

In 2024, we turned to implementation.

And now, in 2025, we’ve reached The Shift, the moment when exponential technology stops being a theory and starts remaking the landscape in real time. It’s an era of exponential solutions: breakthroughs once out of reach are becoming reality.

But possibility alone isn’t enough. While technology accelerates, the human frameworks around it still lag behind. If we don’t evolve how we organize, decide, and collaborate, we’ll leave enormous value untapped and risk being swept under by the very forces meant to carry us forward.

We are gathering over 150 entrepreneurs, investors, and cross-sector leaders to learn from each other, strengthen the networks that shape innovation, and reimagine the human systems that guide it.

Because facing this kind of shift, none of us can go it alone. Technology is moving faster than any one company, sector, or leader. The future will be built through collaboration, by connecting perspectives, sharing context, and seeing the bigger picture together.

Select participants will also be invited to join VIP Thought Leadership Discussions exploring five critical domains shaping the future; climate, health, finance, security, and AI. Each conversation will surface insights on how to thrive and stay grounded amid the coming wave of change.

Agenda:

3:00 - 4:30: VIP Networking Hour/ Breakout Rooms (Invite only)
4:30: General arrivals
4:30 - 5:15: Networking
5:15 - 6:35: Mainstage Programming & Panel
6:35 - 7:15: Startup Showcase
7:15 - 9:00 - Closing remarks & Networking

VIP Breakout Rooms:

#1 🌎 Climate Capitalism: Investing in the Planetary Shift

Examining how capital, innovation, and infrastructure are shaping climate resilience—and what it takes to design equitable, adaptive systems for a planet in accelerating transformation.

#2 🔐 Trust, Threats & Transformation: Building Resilient Systems

Exploring how cybersecurity, compliance, and infrastructure governance must evolve as AI and accelerating digital risks outpace legacy standards—and what resilient systems should look like in the years ahead.

#3 🤖 Intelligence at Scale: Building Adaptive AI Governance

As AI becomes the invisible operating system for economies and societies, organizations and systems are taking divergent paths. We'll examine different approaches to AI governance and resilience and surfaces lessons for building adaptive models that can flex across contexts and withstand disruption.

#4 🩺 Care as Capital: The New Economics of Women’s Health

Amid breakthroughs in AI and biotech, women’s health is a stress test for resilience. We’ll explore how closing systemic data gaps and inequities can turn care into true economic infrastructure for growth and impact.

#5 💰 Capital, Code & Control: The Future of Financial Power

As capital becomes code and AI rewires financial flows, old assumptions about access and governance no longer hold. We’ll examine what resilient, equitable financial systems could look like in a networked, AI-driven economy.

🥗 Food and beverages will be served throughout.

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