Policy and regulatory reforms play a decisive role in improving resource mobilization — attracting and efficiently deploying public finance, private investment, and concessional capital — across the electricity sector. Well-designed reforms reduce risk, improve cash flow, and strengthen institutional credibility, all of which are prerequisites for mobilizing large-scale capital in capital‑intensive power systems.

Following the highlights of IDBG Strategy+, this session will present how the public and private arms of the Bank worked together on the upstream reforms to open up sector for competitive private investment and which then are couple by the financing power of IDB invest. This includes the work of IDB on enabling sectoral reform via dialogue and policy financing instruments, and IDB-Invest ample suit of financing products for the private sector.  

This panel will explore how Caribbean private-sector companies are using/could use nature-based solutions (NbS) as practical tools to manage climate and biodiversity risks, strengthen project resilience, and improve access to finance.

Under the Ready and Resilient Americas impact program, this panel brings together key actors and partners of the Ready and Resilient Enterprises initiative to highlight why strengthening private‑sector disaster risk management is critical for Latin America and the Caribbean. As climate and disaster shocks increasingly disrupt operations, supply chains, and financial performance, the private sector plays a central role in preparedness, response, and recovery.

Panelists will showcase practical DRM solutions and tools—ranging from risk management capabilities and data‑driven decision‑making to innovative financial instruments and response mechanisms—and discuss how public‑private collaboration can accelerate their adoption and scale. The discussion will focus on concrete needs, gaps, and opportunities faced by companies across sectors, as well as the role of partnerships in mobilizing capital, aligning incentives, and enabling faster recovery after shocks.

How innovative blended finance models can mobilize private investment at scale for climate adaptation and resilience by de‑risking projects, influencing behaviors, and translating proven resilience solutions into bankable, replicable investments.

All the countries in LAC require FDI. Also, Sustainable value chains require more than demand—they require the right infrastructure to grow and scale. Industrial parks are emerging as a critical link in enabling this transition, providing the physical, logistical, and regulatory ecosystem needed to connect producers, manufacturers, and markets.

This session will explore how the development and modernization of green industrial parks can accelerate the creation of sustainable supply chains across Latin America and the Caribbean. By bringing together infrastructure developers, private sector leaders, and investors, the conversation will focus on how industrial parks can strengthen regional integration, support nearshoring dynamics with the United States, and provide the backbone for businesses to scale sustainably.

Showcase best practices and climate technologies on physical climate and catastrophic risk management. How risk dimension is linked to new business opportunities to scale resilient portfolios, improve competitiveness and building more competitive performance.

The panel will explore challenges in the sanitation sector (with specific examples from the Caribbean), as well as emerging solutions being implemented by private companies and communities to reuse and repurpose waste to improve efficiency and reduce landfill use. 

This study is a practical guide for private developers and investors navigating climate-resilient infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean. It translates physical climate risks — both acute and chronic — into quantifiable financial impacts at the project level, drawing on frameworks such as PCRAM and TCFD. 

The study spans five chapters covering: climate hazard identification and materiality by sector (transportation, energy, telecommunications, water, and social infrastructure); financial analysis linking risks to metrics such as IRR, NPV, DSCR, and cash flows; insurance and risk transfer; and a final chapter on financial instruments for resilient infrastructure. 

It incorporates regional case studies and a cost-benefit methodology adapted to the LAC context, positioning it as an operational tool that IDB Invest can deploy directly with clients to embed climate adaptation thinking from the earliest stages of the investment cycle.

Ecuador awarded 12 renewable energy projects totaling 800MW to private developers — and then watched the entire pipeline stall. 

The culprit: payment risk from public electricity distributors made it impossible for any of the projects to reach financial close, leaving over $1 billion in clean energy investment stranded. 

This session presents how a targeted liquidity guarantee mechanism broke the deadlock — the result of a deliberate collaboration between IDB, IDB Invest, and the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), whose funding made the technical assistance possible. 

Together, they designed and structured a solution that converted a stalled market into a bankable pipeline, drawing lessons for other markets across Latin America and the Caribbean where offtaker risk continues to block renewable energy investment.

Latin America's energy transition is being held back not by a lack of generation, but by the limitations of the grids that carry it. 

Grid Enhancing Technologies — from advanced power flow control to dynamic line rating and topology optimization — offer a cost-effective, rapidly deployable path to dramatically increase transmission capacity without waiting years for new infrastructure. 

This session will explore how GETs are being applied across the region, what regulatory and financing barriers still stand in the way, and how private investors and development finance institutions can work together to accelerate their adoption at scale.

Since its introduction in 2024, Originate to Share has evolved from a concept into an operating model—delivering measurable results in mobilizing private capital for sustainable development across Latin America and the Caribbean. 

This session takes stock of that progress and explores how the approach is now being deployed at scale to connect regional development priorities with global capital markets. The discussion will focus on how assets are being originated, structured, and shared to crowd in private investment through mobilization, blended finance, and innovative risk-sharing mechanisms. 

Panelists will highlight concrete examples where Originate to Share has enabled bankable solutions, accelerated capital deployment, and aligned financial returns with sustainability outcomes. 

The session will also look ahead to the next phase of the model, examining how it can be further scaled to meet the region’s growing investment needs.

For the 10 most severe hurricanes, Caribbean countries experience an average 10% increase in public debt compared to pre-storm trends. 

Debt swaps for resilience are a way in which countries with limited fiscal space can release new funds for resilience and adaptation without generating additional debt burdens. 

To increase the size and quantity of debt swaps we need to bring in new guarantors, including non-traditional debt swap guarantors, like private insurers and have swaps with multiple guarantors. 

This panel will discuss practical credit enhancement mechanisms to help reduce fiscal burden and deliver resilience related impact at scale and the key benefits of the Caribbean Multi-Guarantor Debt for Resilience Initiative, recently launched by IDB, CAF and CDB.

Explore how capital markets are advancing sustainability through thematic bonds. Learn about issuance, investor demand, and the role of capital markets in blue, social, biodiversity bonds. 

Green, social, and sustainability-linked bonds have gained traction across the region, yet issuance volumes remain a fraction of global totals. 

This session examines what it takes to build a deeper, more liquid thematic bond market — from strengthening verification frameworks and standardizing labeling to attracting institutional investors and measuring real-world outcomes.

Securitization offers a powerful but underutilized tool for channeling private capital into development priorities, from affordable housing to SME lending and infrastructure. 

This session explores how issuers in the region can design structured transactions that meet investor expectations while delivering measurable social and environmental impact, and what regulatory and market conditions are needed to scale these instruments.

Technology is reshaping how capital markets operate, lowering barriers for smaller issuers and retail investors alike. 

This session explores how digital platforms, tokenization, and automated compliance tools are expanding market participation across Latin America and the Caribbean, and what policymakers, regulators, and market intermediaries must do to ensure these innovations translate into genuinely inclusive growth.

This panel brings together senior leaders from three recently approved Fund investments to explore how investment funds are delivering measurable non-financial value alongside competitive returns. 

Through concrete case studies, speakers will discuss how biodiversity conservation, climate action, and gender outcomes are embedded into fund strategy, governance, and portfolio management. 

The conversation will highlight the link between strong environmental and social performance, risk management, resilience, and long-term financial value—offering practical insights for investors seeking impact-driven capital deployment.

Fintech ecosystems are improving financial health through innovative Digital Transformation solutions across the entire financial value chain, from understanding customers to designing products, onboarding users, enabling transactions, and providing customer support. 

We will explore how alternative data, analytics, instant payments, and open‑API ecosystems can expand credit and savings for underserved groups while strengthening user experience and efficiency. 

We will also address the difficult issues of digital literacy, trust, cybersecurity, and regulatory readiness so Digital Transformation can advance inclusion and resilience in LAC.

When we talk about sustainability in development finance, the conversation often starts with assets — green projects, social infrastructure, climate finance. 

But from a CFO perspective, that’s only half the story. For an institution like IDB Invest, sustainability cannot live only on our deals. It has to live across the entire balance sheet. That means our liabilities, our capital, our risk framework, and our development strategy must all be aligned. 

Sustainable local currency bonds and local currency availability in the Caribbean, the role of commercial banks in scaling markets.

Examine how micro-insurance and parametric insurance mechanisms are drivers for resilience. Discuss product innovation, distribution channels, and the role of insurance in building resilience and financial inclusion.

This panel will discuss innovative approaches to financing nature and biodiversity, highlighting best practices and lessons learned from structuring Brazil's first biodiversity bond, the first Amazon Bond, and Central America's initial two blue bonds. It will also address essential factors for scaling nature finance within the private banking sector.

Digital Transformation is redefining how financial institutions scale sustainable finance in Latin America and the Caribbean. 

Fintech solutions, alternative data, and artificial intelligence are helping banks integrate environmental and social considerations into credit origination, risk assessment, and portfolio management while expanding access to finance. 

This session will explore how digital tools are strengthening impact measurement and traceability, improving earmarking, tracking the use of funds, and enabling more robust reporting for investors and regulators. 

The discussion will also examine what it takes to scale these models, including the role of financing, regulation, guarantees, and technical assistance.

Session focused on the role of major global climate funds in mobilizing finance for mitigation, resilience, and nature-based solutions, highlighting concrete IDB Group engagement across, climate resilience and adaptation, energy transition and regenerative agriculture and land use.

Tourism-dependent economies, particularly in the Caribbean, face increasing climate risks—from hurricanes and coastal erosion to water scarcity and ecosystem degradation. Yet resort-based tourism infrastructure remains one of the largest private sector investments in many island economies.

This event will explore how financial institutions, governments, and tourism developers can collaborate to strengthen climate resilience across resort-based tourism investments.

Through an interactive dialogue, participants will examine:

• How climate risk is reshaping tourism investment decisions
• Financing solutions for climate-resilient tourism infrastructure
• The role of disaster risk management frameworks in protecting tourism assets
• Opportunities for blended finance, insurance solutions, and resilience-linked investments

Ensuring sustainability in critical mineral supply chains requires a combination of advanced technology, governance and collaborative partnerships. How can the region compete globally while ensuring lasting environmental and social benefits.

Practical and scalable solutions that producers, investors and industry players are implementing. A conversation focused on concrete tools, business models, and partnerships that are driving food security in the Region

As one of the Caribbean’s most powerful engines of economic growth, tourism holds enormous potential for community prosperity. This session examines how communities, investors, and local authorities can collaborate in practical, tangible ways to design, finance, and manage tourism models that deliver long-term value and truly inclusive development.

Investigate the role of local, regional, and national governments in advancing sustainable transport and empowering the private sector as a driver of change. 

The discussion will focus on innovative financing mechanisms, public-private partnerships, and blended finance models. 

Panelists will consider how collaboration between international financial institutions and the private sector can scale up investments in resilient infrastructure projects, with particular attention to groups of countries facing unique challenges, such as Small Island Developing States (SIDS). 

Decarbonizing maritime transport requires coordinated action across the entire value chain. Maritime activity is central to the Caribbean's economy, but also a major source of emissions. 

A conversation among sector leaders to discuss practical solutions, alternative fuels, hybrid vessels, electrified ports, and digital route optimization. 

Latin America's energy transition is being held back not by a lack of generation, but by the limitations of the grids that carry it. 

Grid Enhancing Technologies — from advanced power flow control to dynamic line rating and topology optimization — offer a cost-effective, rapidly deployable path to dramatically increase transmission capacity without waiting years for new infrastructure. 

This session will explore how GETs are being applied across the region, what regulatory and financing barriers still stand in the way, and how private investors and development finance institutions can work together to accelerate their adoption at scale.

The session will focus on practical approaches to integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) good practices into project design—translating sustainability commitments into bankable, risk-adjusted solutions. 

Panelists will examine cross-sector benefit-sharing models that allocate a portion of project value to host communities, including displaced populations and those foregoing access to land or natural resources. 

The session will highlight how these approaches can de-risk investments, strengthen social license to operate, and enhance development outcomes, while remaining aligned with sector-specific and national frameworks.

A conversation to discuss the most urgent barriers slowing progress and pathways to solve them. Concrete actions the private sector can take to strengthen MSME competitiveness, resilience, and access to capital. Digital, embedded and non-financial services.

Digitization of the last mile  can lower delivery costs and make essential services easier to access by moving transactions, identity, and service delivery to mobile channels. 

This fireside chat will look at the key elements that make affordability scalable, including interoperable digital payments, data‑driven targeting, and partnerships that reach underserved communities. 

We will discuss practical ways to deploy inclusive solutions while strengthening trust, consumer protection, and accelerate adoption.

This panel explores how companies can move beyond commitments and quotas to scale what works—unlocking talent, expanding access to capital, and strengthening leadership pipelines. Drawing on real business practices, it will highlight how inclusive leadership and ecosystem approaches enable full participation and drive productivity, resilience, and long-term growth.

As sustainability becomes central to business strategy, organizations are under growing pressure to demonstrate not just intentions, but real results. 

This panel will explore how measuring impact—through impact evaluations and other data-driven tools—helps companies and banks inform decision-making, strengthen risk management, support innovation, and align sustainability goals with long-term business value.

This Fireside Chat will explore how innovative financial mechanisms can support social programs aimed at reducing violence and strengthening community resilience. 

The conversation will focus on Jamaica’s experience with the Jamaica Social Stock Exchange (JSSE) and its support for initiatives like Project STAR, which seeks to address the social drivers of crime through targeted community interventions. 

The discussion will examine how capital markets, private investors, and governments can work together to finance social impact programs and what lessons this experience offers for scaling innovative financing models across the Caribbean. 

By highlighting Jamaica’s approach, the session will demonstrate how aligning financial returns with social outcomes can create sustainable pathways for funding programs that strengthen citizen security and social resilience.

Building deep public trust, enhancing reputation, and fostering loyalty through transparent communication of performance metrics, values, and accountability can strengthen customer relationships, attract ethical talent, reduce risks, and humanize brands. This session will discuss solutions to improve transparency and stakeholder engagement, and provide a comparative advantage in doing business.

Examine the foundational role of governments in providing macroeconomic stability for sustainable development, with a particular emphasis on countries that are presented with unique opportunities, such as those benefiting from resource wealth. 

The discussion will highlight institutional solutions to macroeconomic challenges, and solutions offered by IDB Invest to contribute to broader gains of resource wealth and sustained growth.

Disruption today takes many forms: market volatility, regulatory shifts, climate exposure, technological change, and evolving stakeholder expectations. In high-impact sectors, these pressures converge at the board level.

This session brings together directors to examine how boards are redefining their role in environments marked by uncertainty and consequence. The discussion will center on the decisions that shape outcomes: overseeing strategy under shifting assumptions, balancing speed with sound controls, addressing material ESG and operational risks, and aligning incentives with long-term value creation. 

Through concrete boardroom experience, panelists will share how governance structures and behaviors evolve when the stakes are high."

This session will explore how corporate governance codes are applied in practice. It is intended as a peer exchange on lessons learned, early signals, and how governance frameworks can support competitiveness and investor confidence in small and mid-sized markets.

This session explores how Agri-Tech and Precision Farming are no longer just "nice-to-have" innovations but are the fundamental drivers of business resilience. 

By integrating AI-driven irrigation, biological inputs, and blockchain traceability, producers are reducing operational costs and de-risking their yields. The discussion will pivot on a central obligation: Sustainability is the business model. 

We will examine how tech-enabled solutions is becoming a "license to operate" in global markets and how IDB Invest is bridging the gap between innovative proof-of-concepts and bankable, corporate-scale technology programs.

As demand for cloud computing, AI, and digital services accelerates across Latin America and the Caribbean, data centers are becoming critical infrastructure—bringing both opportunity and resource challenges. 

How can the region leverage its renewable energy potential and evolving regulatory landscape to develop low-carbon, resilient digital infrastructure at scale? 

This fireside chat will explore how next-generation data centers can integrate energy efficiency, sustainable cooling, and climate-smart design, while highlighting the role of early-stage project development, technical assistance, and innovative financing in unlocking bankable, ESG-aligned investment opportunities across the region.