Ambitions LIVE 2025 – Leadership and Commercial Conversations

27 Aug 2025

Social Investment Scotland’s flagship programme, Ambitions, is going LIVE again this year, hosted in Glasgow. 

This event is a great networking and learning opportunity for engaging social enterprises in conversations about leadership, sustainability and commercialisation. There will also be matchmaking opportunities with key buyers and purchasers.

The event will include:

- A talk from keynote speaker, Ynzo van Zanten
- Hearing from experts in purposeful and sustainable leadership, financial planning, procurement, storytelling and product development
- Meeting buyers from a range of businesses
- The opportunity to network with a room full of peers from across Scotland

Keynote speaker on the day is Ynzo van Zanten - an author, entrepreneur and former ‘Chief Evangelist’ and 'Head of People & Culture' at the Dutch impact company Tony’s Chocolonely. In the past, his entrepreneurial ambitions drove him to set up Innocent Drinks in the Benelux. Ynzo also taught ‘Sustainable Leadership & Entrepreneurship’ at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, and was a guest lecturer at the University of Amsterdam and TU Delft. In his spare time, Ynzo sits on the boards of the ’10.000 Hours’ and ‘Plastic Whale’ foundations.

Taking place Thursday, 2nd of October from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM at The Social Hub, Glasgow.

Find out more and register here.