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August 20 and August 21, 2025
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10:00 AM to 05:00 PM
The Next
Frontier
2025
For more than 75 years, CARE Bangladesh has worked alongside communities, governments, and businesses. Today, as Bangladesh prepares to graduate from Least Developed Country status and traditional aid streams tighten, a new chapter is opening—one where business leadership and social impact must move forward together. CARE Bangladesh’s Private Sector Conclave ‘The Next Frontier’ is our deliberate response to this new landscape. Over two days of high-level panels, sector specific roundtables and curated innovation showcases, we aim to
- Reframe the conversation - moving beyond one-off CSR projects toward shared value partnerships that align commercial success with social impact.
- Facilitate direct dialogues - giving corporate leaders, investors, and development practitioners a seat at the same table to co-create market ready solutions for male-female equity, resilient futures, and business growth for good.
- Demonstrate proven expertise - spotlighting CARE’s success in supporting supply chains, women-focused climate adaptations, and locally inspired ideas as ready solutions for businesses to adopt.
Whether you are joining as a plenary panelist, a roundtable catalyst, or an invited participant - expect to be part of candid discussions, practical collaborations, and a shared ambition to build “business for good” models that work for Bangladesh’s people and its economy alike. We invite you to be a part of a platform where we are shaping the future of businesses. We invite you to The Next Frontier.
Speakers
Dr. Ahsan H. Mansur
Governor Bangladesh Bank
Arif Reza
Director - Operation Rose Sweater Ltd
Maruf Azam
Senior Leadership, Women and Youth Program KNS
Mehrul Islam
Senior Director- Program Planning, Impact & Quality CARE Bangladesh
Mrityunjoy Das
Deputy Chief of Party NABAPALLAB Deputy Director Humanitarian & Resilient Futures Program CARE Bangladesh
A.K.M Fahim Mashroor
Co-founder & CEO BDjobs.com
Bitopi Das Chowdhury
Country Head, Corporate Affairs, Brand and Marketing Standard Chartered Bank
Hasibul Mannan
MD & CEO ACI
Ahmed Zubaer Mahbub
Joint Director Bangladesh Bank
Shams Mahmud
Managing Director Shasha Denims PLC
Shamima Akhter
Director - Corporate Affairs, Partnerships and Communications Unilever Bangladesh
Ziaur Rahman
Regional Country Manager H&M
Ashiqul Alam
SVP & Head of External Relations HSBC
Daniel Valenghi
Deputy Head of Mission / Head of Cooperation Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh
Ian Vale
Chief Impact Officer CARE
Ramesh Singh
Regional Director Asia CARE
Mohammed Zahidullah
Chief Sustainability Officer DBL Group
Nofel Wahid
Private Sector Development Advisor FCDO
Nazmul Haque
Chief Investment Officer IDCOL
Mashook Mujib Chowdhury
Senior Manager Sustainability DBL Group
Mizanur Rahman
Chief Executive Officer The Metal (Pvt) Ltd.
Ashim Rahman
Policy Advisor - Business Development Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands
Firoz Alam
Chief Finance Officer Gemcon Group
Dr. F.H. Ansarey
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer ACI
Syed Abdul Momen
Additional Managing Director and Head of SME Banking Brac Bank
Syed Javed Noor
Additional Managing Director & Head of Business IDLC Finance PLC
Minhaz Anwar
Chief Storyteller BetterStories
Sharawwat Islam, CFA
Managing Director Truvalu Bangladesh
Abir Podder
Director Panam Group
Mohammed Shahidul Islam
Director, Corporate Affairs and Sustainability Syngenta Bangladesh
Debashis Roy
Director Advisory and Partnerships Impact Investment Exchange (IIX)
Syeda Afzalun Nessa
Head of Sustainability HSBC
Bijon Islam
Chief Executive Officer LightCastle Partners
Nayeem Kashem
Managing Director DevLearn
Ram Das
Country Director CARE Bangladesh
Zahedul Amin
Managing Director LightCastle Partners
Ataus Sopan Malik
Managing Director AR Malik Seeds Pvt. Ltd
Dr. Jiaoqun Shi
Representative FAO
Afrid Nur E Shaheed
Director Natural Group
Mohammad Enamul Huque
Managing Director & Country Chief Risk Officer Standard Chartered Bank
Uzma Chowdhury
Director, Finance PRAN-RFL Group
Saif Mohammad Moinul Islam
Senior Programme Officer ILO
RSVP Contact: Tahmina Sultana +8801329-570887
Tahmina.Sultana@care.org
- 09:30 - 10:00
- Registration & Welcome Tea
- 10:00 - 10:05
- Welcome Address
- 10:05 - 10:10
- Opening Remarks
- 10:10- 10:15
- Inaugural Reflections
- 10:15 - 10:25
- Keynote:
Future of Development - The Role of the Private Sector
Presenter:
Ram Das, CARE Bangladesh - 10:25 - 11:30
- Leadership Panel:
Future of Development - The Role of the Private Sector
Moderator:
Nayeem Kashem, Devlearn
Panelists:
1. Dr. Ahsan H. Mansur, Bangladesh Bank
2. Mohammed Zahidullah
3. Daniel Valenghi
4. Bijon Islam
5. Ian Vale
6. Mohammad Enamul Huque
7. Uzma Chowdhury - 11:30 - 11:45
- Q&A Session:
Future of Development - The Role of the Private Sector - 11:45 - 12:00
- Refreshment Break
- 12:00 - 12:10
- Keynote:
Green Financing – Financing Circularity & Climate Transitions
Presenter:
Mrityunjoy Das, CARE Bangladesh - 12:10 - 01:30
- Panel 1:
Green Financing – Financing Circularity & Climate Transitions
Moderator:
Zahedul Amin, LightCastle Partners
Panelists:
1. Mashook Mujib Chowdhury
2. Syeda Afzalun Nessa
3. Nazmul Haque
4. Nofel Wahid - 01:30 - 01:45
- Q&A Session:
Green Financing – Financing Circularity & Climate Transitions - 01:45 - 03:00
- Lunch & Networking
- 03:00 - 03:15
- Innovation Showcase 1:
Green Financing - SOLshare - 03:15 - 03:30
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Innovation Showcase 2:
Cultivating Change - Hanay FoodsInnovation Showcase 3:
Future of Work - Shomvob - 03:30 - 03:40
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Keynote:
Cultivating Change - Smart Agriculture & Agri-Value Chains
Presenter:
Mehrul Islam, CARE BangladeshKeynote:
Future of Work - Building Human Capital for an Adaptive Economy
Presenter:
Maruf Azam, CARE Bangladesh - 03:40 - 05:00
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Panel 2:
Cultivating Change - Smart Agriculture & Agri-Value Chains
Moderator:
Bijon Islam, LightCastle Partners
Panelists:
1. Dr. F.H. Ansarey
2. Ataus Sopan Malik
3. Mohammed Shahidul Islam
4. Mizanur Rahman
5. Dr. Jiaoqun ShiPanel 3:
Future of Work - Building Human Capital for an Adaptive Economy
Moderator:
Nayeem Kashem, Devlearn
Panelists:
1. Abir Podder
2. Afrid Nur E Shaheed
3. Ramesh Singh
4. Arif Reza
5. Saif Mohammad Moinul Islam - 05:00 - 05:15
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Q&A Session:
Cultivating Change – Smart Agriculture & Agri-Value ChainsQ&A Session:
Future of Work – Building Human Capital for an Adaptive Economy - 05:15 - 05:30
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Closing Remarks:
Speaker:
Ram Das, CARE BangladeshClosing Remarks:
Speaker:
Ramesh Singh, CARE - 05:30 - 06:30
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Afternoon TeaAfternoon Tea
- 10:00 – 10:30
- Registration & Welcome Tea
- 10:30 – 12:30
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Roundtable:
Ecosystem Blueprint: Collaboration for Circular Future
Facilitator:
Ram Das, CARE Bangladesh
Co-Facilitator:
Bijon Islam, Co-facilitator
Participants:
1. Ziaur Rahman
2. Shamima Akhter
3. Md. Enamul Karim Pavel
4. Ahmed Zubaer Mahbub
5. Ashim Rahman
6. Debashis Roy
7. Firoz Alam
8. Shams Mahmud
9. Sharawwat Islam, CFA
10. Dr. F.H. Ansarey
11. Syed Abdul Momen
12. Syed Javed Noor
13. Minhaz Anwar
14. Abdullah Hil Nakib
- 12:30 – 12:40
- Closing Remarks
- 12:40 – 03:00
- Lunch & Networking
Panel Discussions
Day 1
10:10-11:45
Room 1
Roundtable
Day 2
Gallery
