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S+ Summit cum Expo 2025 calls for integration of social impact into business strategy

S+ Summit cum Expo 2025 calls for integration of social impact into business strategy

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ESG reporting should not be seen as just a compliance exercise. For businesses seeking resilience, relevance and long-term value, it's time to make social impact part of the core strategy.
That's the key message of the S+ Summit cum Expo 2025, where Hong Kong's business leaders, social innovators, and community builders will converge to reimagine how cross-sector collaboration can drive both profit and purpose.
Taking place on 20-21 May at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, the S+ Summit cum Expo is Hong Kong's largest cross-sector platform dedicated to sustainable development and social service innovation.
Grace Chan, chief executive of HKCSS, says the key to lasting impact lies in collective effort: 'Only through shared effort can we go further, like a relay. It's the collective energy that moves society forward.'
'The S+ Summit cum Expo is a key platform for the Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS) to promote cross-sector collaboration, using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) as a shared framework for exploring innovative social solutions,' said Grace Chan Man-yee, chief executive of HKCSS.With 32 seminars and workshops, 130+ speakers from France, Japan, Singapore, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), mainland China, and across Hong Kong, the event aims to foster collaboration on a wide range of issues from AI ethics and youth mental health, to corporate-social partnerships, diversity, the silver economy and caregiver support.
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This year's theme, centred on the "Three S's" – Synergy, Social Impact and Sustainability, seeks to shift the narrative from traditional corporate social responsibility (CSR) to genuine co-creation and systemic change.
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