IDB Invest will host Sustainability Week 2026 in Barbados for the first time, from 26-28 May 2026.

The event is designed as a dynamic, hybrid platform, inviting audiences worldwide to join online and engage with the ideas, partnerships, and investments shaping sustainable economic outcomes across Latin America and the Caribbean.

In person participation is by invitation only, but everyone is encouraged to register and participate via Zoom. Register now, using our Business Barbados code: BUSSW26

What's Shaping Sustainability Week 2026?

  • Resilience and Adaptation: SW26 makes the business case for enterprise adaptation as a driver of stability, growth, and long term value.
  • Nature Based Solutions: Advancing opportunities that are ready to attract investment and deliver strong financial returns.
  • Financial Innovation: Where innovation moves into action, unlocking capital for bankable, scalable projects.

25th May 2026 - Knowledge Sharing Day

All registered participants can take part in the knowledge sharing day, via Zoom. Sessions will have live translation, available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Session topics include:

  • Making Family Governance Work: Structures, Interfaces, and Boundaries
  • Building Resilience for SMEs through Integrity
  • Local Currency – Why is this important to IDB Invest and the Region?
  • Data for Impact – Reporting on Sustainable Investments: How has data changed this?
  • Governing Innovation and AI: What Boards Cannot Afford to Get Wrong
  • Beyond the Election Cycle: How SOEs Sustain Good Governance Through Political Transitions
  • Sustainability Reporting and Technology. Offered by Flag Communication
  • From Data to Dollars: What role does transparency play in investment choices?
  • Strengthening Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism: Effectiveness in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Sustainable Supply Chains and MSMES: What Works and What Doesn’t. Offered by Columbia University, SIRI
  • CARIBEquity Toolkit, Training & Networking for Early-Stage Investment in the Caribbean
  • Applying Performance Standard 1 "Assessment and Management of Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts" in a Practical Way

Read more about any of these sessions on the 'Agenda' page of the Sustainability Week 2026 website.

Register now, using our Business Barbados code: BUSSW26

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