Sept. 22-24, 2025
New York / Online
Devex IMPACT HOUSE @UNGA80
Sept. 22-24, 2025
New York / Online
THE AGENDA IS UNFINISHED.
DEVEX IMPACT HOUSE @ UNGA IS WHERE CONVERSATIONS WILL MOVE IT FORWARD.
Five years from 2030, the world needs new ideas, honest debate, and unlikely allies. Join Devex as we bring together global development leaders and beyond to confront the hard questions — and build what’s next.
From Sept. 22 to 24, as world leaders gather in New York City for the U.N. General Assembly and Climate Week, Devex will open its doors as a hub for bold, news-driven conversations on the future of global development. Across three days, you’ll find live interviews led by Devex journalists, curated roundtables, interactive workshops, and high-level partner events — plus plenty of time to connect with other leaders on our rooftop terrace over food, drinks, and unfiltered conversations.
We’ll kick off on Sept. 22 with the NCD Pavilion, a full day of programming focused on solutions to the global challenge of noncommunicable diseases.
Expect sharp journalism, bold ideas, and real talk with the people shaping what’s next in global development — all in a vibrant, welcoming space near the heart of the action in Bryant Park.
Space will be limited. Request your invite to join our events in person, or sign up to receive all of our on-demand content from the week!
Agenda
This agenda is still evolving, with new speakers, sessions, and events added regularly. Devex Impact House will feature multiple convenings across several spaces. Your access pass includes entry to our all-day rooftop lounge, where you can connect with fellow leaders, grab a refreshment, or catch live interviews from our content studio
Where do we go from here? Rethinking financing for NCDs and mental health
In partnership with Devex, Boehringer Ingelheim, Access Accelerated, and AstraZeneca
This workshop will explore how stakeholders can move from commitments to action by rethinking NCD and mental health financing strategies for resilience, equity, and impact. It will emphasize practical financing strategies to implement the HLM4 Political Declaration across diverse country contexts — notably, the importance of integrated care models and sustainable financing mechanisms.
This event requires separate registration at a different venue. To request an invite, select this event on the registration form.
Registration and breakfast
This Week in Global Development: Live from UNGA 80
Join us for a special live recording of This Week in Global Development, Devex’s weekly news podcast.
NCD Pavillion
10:00 a.m. ET
NCD Pavillion Kick off
11:30 a.m. ET
From the margins to the mainstream: Oral health as part of systemic health
Produced in partnership with Haleon.
This event will highlight why oral health is an essential part of systemic health, and explore how a broader understanding can drive concrete policy and programmatic action across sectors and settings, translating global commitments into national momentum.
This event requires separate registration. To request an invite, select this event on the registration form.
12:30 p.m. ET
Lunch and networking
Sponsored by Haleon
1:00 p.m. ET
Prevention vs. Treatment: Where should the next billion in NCD funding go?
In this provocative, high-energy debate, global health leaders will take opposing sides to tackle one of the most urgent — and underdiscussed — questions in the NCD agenda.
3:30 p.m. ET
Global Metabolic Health Roundtable: MASLD/MASH and other major NCDs
In collaboration with the Healthy Livers Healthy Lives coalition and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)
This event will explore how policy frameworks that support integrated care models can offer a critical solution to addressing the complex and interconnected nature of NCDs — ensuring no disease, and no patient, are left behind.
This event requires separate registration. To request an invite, select this event on the registration form.
4:00 p.m. ET
Rebuilding connection: A new frontier in global health and development
More details coming soon.
4:15 p.m. ET
Partner Spotlight
In partnership with the International Federation of Psoriatic Disease Associations (IFPA)
5:00 p.m. ET
Reclaiming the Agenda: LMIC leadership in the future of global health
Mark Dybul
Former executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
5:30 p.m. ET
Closing reception
9:30 a.m. ET
Kidney health can’t wait: Turning commitments into action
Produced in partnership with the International Society of Nephrology.
This event will explore how political will, strategic investment, and multisectoral collaboration can drive progress and ensure no one is left behind in global kidney care.
This event requires separate registration. To request an invite, select this event on the registration form.
11 a.m. ET
Catalysts for change: Cross-sector solutions for climate-resilient health systems
Produced in partnership with Takeda.
This event will examine the private sector’s role in advancing solutions at the intersection of health and climate. Through data-driven discussion and real-world examples, the session will explore how corporate and philanthropic partnerships can foster sustainable, equitable health systems capable of withstanding climate threats for generations to come.
This event requires separate registration. To request an invite, select this event on the registration form.
1:30 p.m. ET
Future Ready: Adapting digital development solutions for a +1.5ºC world
Produced in partnership with Vodafone Foundation.
This high-level workshop will explore how climate change is disrupting critical development sectors like health, education, and disaster response, how digital innovation can be part of the solution, and the challenges both practical and systemic that hinder the effective deployment of digital solutions.
This event requires separate registration. To request an invite, select this event on the registration form.
1:55 p.m. ET
A Conversation with David Beasley on the Future of the UN System
David Beasley
Former Governor of South Carolina, former executive director of the World Food Programme
2:10 p.m. ET
The UN at 80: Reforming for relevance in a fragmented world
Natalie Samarasinghe
Former gloal director of advocacy, Open Society Foundations
Eugene Chen
Senior fellow at the New York University Center on International Cooperation
2:25 p.m. ET
Partner Spotlight
In partnership with Food for the Hungry
2:55 p.m. ET
The SDGs Are Dead. Long Live the SDGs?
More details coming soon.
3:20 p.m. ET
Partner Spotlight
More details coming soon.
3:35 p.m. ET
Networking break
3:55 p.m. ET
The case for integrated mosquito control
In partnership with Valent Biosciences
4:25 p.m. ET
Panel conversations and high level interviews
More details coming soon.
4:45 p.m. ET
Action & Impact: A Cancer Care Initiative
In partnership with The Pfizer Foundation
5:30 p.m. ET
Panel conversations and high level interviews
More details coming soon.
10:05 a.m. ET
Panel conversations and high level interviews
More details coming soon
10:20 a.m. ET
Rethinking Humanitarian Response in a Shifting System
Dr. Comfort Ero
President & CEO, International Crisis Group
11:00 a.m. ET
Bridging the gap: How philanthropy is stepping Up as aid retreats
Sasha Gallant
Project Resource Optimization. Former managing director, Development Innovation Ventures, USAID.
11:20 a.m. ET
High level interview
More details coming soon
11:50 a.m. ET
Designing Institutions for the Digital Age
Vilas Dhar
President, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
HE Deemah Al Yahya
Secretary-General, Digital Cooperation Organization
12:20 p.m. ET
Rethinking Delivery: Localization, Scale, and the Future of Development
Atul Satija
Founder, The/Nudge Institute
12:45 p.m. ET
Partner Spotlight
More details coming soon
1:30 p.m. ET
Lunch and networking
2:30 p.m. ET
Pathways to progress: Strengthening maternal health through sustainable investment
In partnership with MSD for Mothers.
This high level session will spotlight the role of sustainable, collaborative financing in driving improvements in maternal health outcomes and examine how to turn commitments into action.
This event requires separate registration. To request an invite, select this event on the registration form.
2:55 p.m. ET
Financing what works: Redesigning development finance for a new era
Alaa Murabit
Managing Partner of Sustainable Growth, 500 Global
Alice Albright
Former CEO, Millennium Challenge Corporation
4:00 p.m. ET
Panel conversations and high level interviews
More details coming soon.
Speakers
Stay tuned for more speaker announcements coming soon!
HE Deemah Al Yahya
Secretary-general, Digital Cooperation Organization
Alice Albright
Former CEO, Millennium Challenge Corporation
David M. Beasley
Former executive director, World Food Programme
Eugene Chen
Senior fellow, NYU Center on International Cooperation
Tjada D'Oyen McKenna
Chief executive officer, Mercy Corps
Vilas Dhar
President, The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Mark Dybul
Former executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Comfort Ero
President & CEO, International Crisis Group
Abraham Zerihun Megentta
Country director, Ethiopia, Last Mile Health
Alaa Murabit
Managing partner of sustainable growth, 500 Global
Takako Ohyabu
Chief global corporate affairs and sustainability officer, Takeda
Natalie Samarasinghe
Executive director, Public Engagement Platform
Atul Satija
Founder and CEO, The/Nudge Institute
Devex Interviewers
Rumbi Chakamba
Senior Editor, Devex
Catherine Cheney
Senior Editor for Special Coverage, Devex
Jesse Chase-Lubitz
Global Development Reporter, Climate, Devex
Anna Gawel
Managing Editor, Devex
Michael Igoe
Senior Reporter, Devex
Raj Kumar
President & Editor-in-Chief, Devex
Colum Lynch
Senior Global Reporter, Devex
Elissa Miolene
Global Development Reporter, Devex
Kate Warren
Executive Vice President & Executive Editor, Devex
Past Speakers
Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Secretary-general, International Telecommunication Union
Winnie Byanyima
Executive director, UNAIDS; under-secretary-general of the United Nations
Helen Clark
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand, co-chair of The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, member of The Elders
Dr. Austin Demby
Minister of health, Sierra Leone
Mafalda Duarte
Executive director, Green Climate Fund
William Easterly
Professor of economics, New York University, and co-director, NYU Development Research Institute
Tony Elumelu
Chair, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Group; Heirs Holding; Transcorp Group & Founder, The Tony Elumelu Foundation
America Ferrera
IOM global goodwill ambassador
Cina Lawson
Minister of digital economy and transformation, Togo
Susana Malcorra
Co-founder and president of GWL Voices
Mark Malloch Brown
President, Open Society Foundations
James Mwangi
Group managing director and CEO, Equity Group Holdings, and executive chairman, Equity Group Foundation
Chikwe Ihekweazu
Executive director of health emergencies, World Health Organization
Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate
Chief executive officer at Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)
Amy Pope
Director-general, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Carsten Staur
Chair, OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
Rory Stewart
President, GiveDirectly
Hamdi Ulukayal
Founder and CEO, Chobani
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