🌟BEACON 2026
Since 2023, Better.sg has brought changemakers across tech, government and civil society together at BEACON conference to ask one question: how can technology enhance social impact?
This year, for their 4th edition, they are connecting the dots across three tracks:
🎤 Main Stage- from AI safety to AI × mental health
🛠️ AI - Build with Intent, a hands-on workshop with 65 Labs
🤝 Charity Forum with The Digital Capital Collective- Where pioneers in the social sector share how they're using tech to deepen their impact.
📅 14 Nov 26, Saturday
🕑 10am-6pm
📍Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre
💵 $5-$15
👉🏼 Sign up: http://tiny.cc/BEACON2026
@openjio @experiencejio
Since 2023, Better.sg has brought changemakers across tech, government and civil society together at BEACON conference to ask one question: how can technology enhance social impact?
This year, for their 4th edition, they are connecting the dots across three tracks:
🎤 Main Stage- from AI safety to AI × mental health
🛠️ AI - Build with Intent, a hands-on workshop with 65 Labs
🤝 Charity Forum with The Digital Capital Collective- Where pioneers in the social sector share how they're using tech to deepen their impact.
📅 14 Nov 26, Saturday
🕑 10am-6pm
📍Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre
💵 $5-$15
👉🏼 Sign up: http://tiny.cc/BEACON2026
@openjio @experiencejio
Walking In Their Shoes 👣
Step into the stories of five individuals whose life journeys have been shaped by youth mental health challenges and suicidality.
Join then for an immersive physical exhibition, followed by small group conversations and a debrief to allow space for listening, reflecting and better understanding the experiences behind the stories.
This event is only for youths aged 18-35 y/o.
📅 31 Oct 26, Saturday
🕑 2pm-6pm
📍Marymount CC, MPH
💵 FOC
👉🏼 Sign up: http://tiny.cc/walkingintheirshoes
@openjio @experiencejio
Step into the stories of five individuals whose life journeys have been shaped by youth mental health challenges and suicidality.
Join then for an immersive physical exhibition, followed by small group conversations and a debrief to allow space for listening, reflecting and better understanding the experiences behind the stories.
This event is only for youths aged 18-35 y/o.
📅 31 Oct 26, Saturday
🕑 2pm-6pm
📍Marymount CC, MPH
💵 FOC
👉🏼 Sign up: http://tiny.cc/walkingintheirshoes
@openjio @experiencejio
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New Life Youth Forum - UnTrashing Nature: How Can It Be Done?
What if the things we throw away could tell us something about the world we’re building?
Inspired by New Life by Bordalo II, a new art landmark sustainability initiative centred around a large-scale sculpture at Gardens by the Bay, this inaugural New Life Youth Forum brings young people into the conversation on waste, biodiversity, conservation, climate change and sustainability.
♻️ Can we rethink our relationship with consumption?
🌏 What does Singapore’s waste problem have to do with nature and biodiversity?
🎨 Can art change the way we see environmental issues?
💼 What responsibility do businesses have in creating a more sustainable future?
🌱 And where do young people fit into all of this?
📅 24 Oct 26, Saturday
🕑 10am-12pm
📍Central Library, National Library Building B1, Programme Zones 1 & 2
💵 FOC
👉🏼 Sign up: http://tiny.cc/NewLifeYouthForum26
@openjio @experiencejio
What if the things we throw away could tell us something about the world we’re building?
Inspired by New Life by Bordalo II, a new art landmark sustainability initiative centred around a large-scale sculpture at Gardens by the Bay, this inaugural New Life Youth Forum brings young people into the conversation on waste, biodiversity, conservation, climate change and sustainability.
♻️ Can we rethink our relationship with consumption?
🌏 What does Singapore’s waste problem have to do with nature and biodiversity?
🎨 Can art change the way we see environmental issues?
💼 What responsibility do businesses have in creating a more sustainable future?
🌱 And where do young people fit into all of this?
📅 24 Oct 26, Saturday
🕑 10am-12pm
📍Central Library, National Library Building B1, Programme Zones 1 & 2
💵 FOC
👉🏼 Sign up: http://tiny.cc/NewLifeYouthForum26
@openjio @experiencejio
CHOPE by Tzu Chi Youth Humanistic Youth Centre
What if you had a space to try something outside of the usual routine?🤔
*CHOPE* is an open call for young adults (20 to 35) to take over a space at HYC and bring an idea to life💡
You will join an Enabling Workshop, meet others building their own ideas, and have an opportunity to bring your idea alive to the public showcase on 28 Nov 🤩 Selected ideas will get up to $3,000 funding.
Ideas can revolve around things you care about in our world such as sustainability, environment, urban farming, food resilience, biodiversity,social issues or community action🙌🏻
🗓 Submit by 21 Oct 26, Wednesday
👉🏼 Sign up: tiny.cc/Chope21oct
@openjio @experiencejio
What if you had a space to try something outside of the usual routine?🤔
*CHOPE* is an open call for young adults (20 to 35) to take over a space at HYC and bring an idea to life💡
You will join an Enabling Workshop, meet others building their own ideas, and have an opportunity to bring your idea alive to the public showcase on 28 Nov 🤩 Selected ideas will get up to $3,000 funding.
Ideas can revolve around things you care about in our world such as sustainability, environment, urban farming, food resilience, biodiversity,social issues or community action🙌🏻
🗓 Submit by 21 Oct 26, Wednesday
👉🏼 Sign up: tiny.cc/Chope21oct
@openjio @experiencejio
Singapore on Screen
Join Singapore on Screen for a free outdoor movie nights as part of the Dreaming, Living, Remembering programme 🎬
They be screening the short film Sunshine Singapore (Rajendra Gour, 1972) and the Malay-language comedy Che Mamat Parang Tumpol (L. Krishnan, 1960).
This will be followed by a place-inspired poetry reading by award-winning local poet Jennifer Leong🤩
📅 1 Nov 26, Sunday
⏰ 6pm onwards
📍Eunos Cultural Centre
💵 FOC
👉🏼 Sign up: tiny.cc/sgonscreen
@openjio @experiencejio
Join Singapore on Screen for a free outdoor movie nights as part of the Dreaming, Living, Remembering programme 🎬
They be screening the short film Sunshine Singapore (Rajendra Gour, 1972) and the Malay-language comedy Che Mamat Parang Tumpol (L. Krishnan, 1960).
This will be followed by a place-inspired poetry reading by award-winning local poet Jennifer Leong🤩
📅 1 Nov 26, Sunday
⏰ 6pm onwards
📍Eunos Cultural Centre
💵 FOC
👉🏼 Sign up: tiny.cc/sgonscreen
@openjio @experiencejio
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Queer Affirming Therapy Code of Practice (QATCOP)
Ever wonder how to create safer spaces for the Queer community?🏳️🌈
Join them for a fireside chat with the SG creators of the ground-up!
They will be discussing on:
• What is Queer Affirming Therapy and its current state in the Singapore context?
• Why is this code of practice important to our work?
• What does integration of these principles look like in our work?
Whether you’re a professional, volunteer, or ally, this session offers valuable insights into building empathy, solidarity, and safer spaces with LGBTQ+ communities!
🗓 6 Nov 26, Friday
⏰ 8pm-9.30pm
📍 Proud Spaces
💵 $15
👉🏼 Sign up: tiny.cc/QATCOP
@openjio @experiencejio
Ever wonder how to create safer spaces for the Queer community?🏳️🌈
Join them for a fireside chat with the SG creators of the ground-up!
They will be discussing on:
• What is Queer Affirming Therapy and its current state in the Singapore context?
• Why is this code of practice important to our work?
• What does integration of these principles look like in our work?
Whether you’re a professional, volunteer, or ally, this session offers valuable insights into building empathy, solidarity, and safer spaces with LGBTQ+ communities!
🗓 6 Nov 26, Friday
⏰ 8pm-9.30pm
📍 Proud Spaces
💵 $15
👉🏼 Sign up: tiny.cc/QATCOP
@openjio @experiencejio
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Dialogue: Do Existing Systems Enable Us to Live Sustainably?
What we can do with floods, forest fires, the rise of AI data centres as the issues are big, and can leave us feeling powerless?😢
Join them for an inspiring evening to unpack the challenges and hopes of working within the systems we live in ✨Together, they will explore alternatives, empowered action and connect with a community of like-minded people💖
🗓 29 Oct 26, Thursday
⏰ 6.30pm-9pm
📍 20 Lengkok Bahru, Mad Roaster's Slow Bar, Enabling Village Outpost
💵 $35,inclusive of 1 dinner dish and free flow Red Rice Tea
👉🏼 Sign up: tiny.cc/sustainableliving29oct
@openjio @experiencejio
What we can do with floods, forest fires, the rise of AI data centres as the issues are big, and can leave us feeling powerless?😢
Join them for an inspiring evening to unpack the challenges and hopes of working within the systems we live in ✨Together, they will explore alternatives, empowered action and connect with a community of like-minded people💖
🗓 29 Oct 26, Thursday
⏰ 6.30pm-9pm
📍 20 Lengkok Bahru, Mad Roaster's Slow Bar, Enabling Village Outpost
💵 $35,inclusive of 1 dinner dish and free flow Red Rice Tea
👉🏼 Sign up: tiny.cc/sustainableliving29oct
@openjio @experiencejio
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Reels & Reflections: A Both Sides, Now Screening, Panel & Zine Activity
How can we create safer spaces for life,loss and legacy?🧐
Connect over life, ageing, and community through:
✅Film screening from the Both Sides, Now archive
💬Panel sharing with Both Sides, Now artists and senior participants
🎨 Zine-making activity and conversations
🗓 24 Oct 26, Saturday
⏰ 2pm-6pm
📍Block B #05-02, Goodman Arts Centre
💵 FOC
👉🏼 Sign up: tiny.cc/BothSidesNow24oct
@openjio @experiencejio
How can we create safer spaces for life,loss and legacy?🧐
Connect over life, ageing, and community through:
✅Film screening from the Both Sides, Now archive
💬Panel sharing with Both Sides, Now artists and senior participants
🎨 Zine-making activity and conversations
🗓 24 Oct 26, Saturday
⏰ 2pm-6pm
📍Block B #05-02, Goodman Arts Centre
💵 FOC
👉🏼 Sign up: tiny.cc/BothSidesNow24oct
@openjio @experiencejio
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Post-Growth Circle: Reflections from SG Environmental Activists
Join Wei Lin Ong ☘️ as she shares insights from her thesis research — which explored how connection to nature motivates and sustains environmental activists.
📚In her thesis, Wei Lin unpacks what motivates people to engage in environmental activism, and the role that a close connection to nature might play in sustaining that engagement. Through qualitative interviews with 11 environmental activists, she studied how their relationships with nature interplay with other motivations, such as learning, identity and community.
💡Come ponder and share about what drives people to be so passionate about environmental and sustainability issues, and consider how you can sustain your interest in your work in sustainability!
🗓 11 Nov 2026, Wednesday
⏰ 7pm-9.30pm
📍 TACS, Near Bendemeer MRT
💵 FOC
👉🏼 Sign up: http://tiny.cc/pgs11nov
@openjio @experiencejio
Join Wei Lin Ong ☘️ as she shares insights from her thesis research — which explored how connection to nature motivates and sustains environmental activists.
📚In her thesis, Wei Lin unpacks what motivates people to engage in environmental activism, and the role that a close connection to nature might play in sustaining that engagement. Through qualitative interviews with 11 environmental activists, she studied how their relationships with nature interplay with other motivations, such as learning, identity and community.
💡Come ponder and share about what drives people to be so passionate about environmental and sustainability issues, and consider how you can sustain your interest in your work in sustainability!
🗓 11 Nov 2026, Wednesday
⏰ 7pm-9.30pm
📍 TACS, Near Bendemeer MRT
💵 FOC
👉🏼 Sign up: http://tiny.cc/pgs11nov
@openjio @experiencejio
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Why decent living standard benchmarks matter: principles, practice and possibilities
What does it take to live with dignity?
Reflecting on 20 years of MIS research in the UK and beyond, this lecture will first set out the value of decent living standards benchmarks in addressing inequalities, exploring some key principles underpinning how dignity is understood within MIS research🧐
It will then detail some of the ways in which MIS research has and can be used in moving towards a more equal, less divided world – to inform living wages, to identify positive changes in public services and provision, to identify additional and different needs. The lecture will end by looking to the future, asking how MIS projects can help address the complex, ‘wicked’ problems of the next 20 years🤝
🗓 5 Nov 2026, Thursday
⏰ 7pm-8.30pm
📍 Seminar Room 4-4, Block B, Level 4, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469 Bukit Timah Road S(259756)
💵 FOC
👉🏼 Sign up: http://tiny.cc/MIS5Nov26
@openjio @experiencejio
What does it take to live with dignity?
Reflecting on 20 years of MIS research in the UK and beyond, this lecture will first set out the value of decent living standards benchmarks in addressing inequalities, exploring some key principles underpinning how dignity is understood within MIS research🧐
It will then detail some of the ways in which MIS research has and can be used in moving towards a more equal, less divided world – to inform living wages, to identify positive changes in public services and provision, to identify additional and different needs. The lecture will end by looking to the future, asking how MIS projects can help address the complex, ‘wicked’ problems of the next 20 years🤝
🗓 5 Nov 2026, Thursday
⏰ 7pm-8.30pm
📍 Seminar Room 4-4, Block B, Level 4, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469 Bukit Timah Road S(259756)
💵 FOC
👉🏼 Sign up: http://tiny.cc/MIS5Nov26
@openjio @experiencejio
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TransCare: Surgery for Trans and Gender-diverse Singaporeans by Transbefrienders
What does gender-affirming care look like, and how can it support trans and gender-diverse people in their journeys?
Join them to learn about medical transitioning, gender marker changes and the medical surgeries and post-surgical care.✨ There will also be a dedicated Q&A session for trans community.
Whether you are exploring your options, supporting a loved one, or simply hoping to learn more, this space is for you💖
🗓 19 Nov 2026, Thursday
⏰ 7pm-9pm
📍 Proud Spaces
💵 FOC
👉🏼 Sign up: http://tiny.cc/transcare19nov
@openjio @experiencejio
What does gender-affirming care look like, and how can it support trans and gender-diverse people in their journeys?
Join them to learn about medical transitioning, gender marker changes and the medical surgeries and post-surgical care.✨ There will also be a dedicated Q&A session for trans community.
Whether you are exploring your options, supporting a loved one, or simply hoping to learn more, this space is for you💖
🗓 19 Nov 2026, Thursday
⏰ 7pm-9pm
📍 Proud Spaces
💵 FOC
👉🏼 Sign up: http://tiny.cc/transcare19nov
@openjio @experiencejio
Deaf Awareness Day
How much do you know about the deaf community?
Join them for fun games, exciting prizes and learn more about Deaf culture and some basic Singapore Sign Language 🤘
🗓 30 Oct 2026, Friday
⏰ 9.30am-4.30pm (Foreword Coffee location only until 3.30pm)
📍T11 Square and & Foreword Coffee
💵 FOC
@openjio @experiencejio
How much do you know about the deaf community?
Join them for fun games, exciting prizes and learn more about Deaf culture and some basic Singapore Sign Language 🤘
🗓 30 Oct 2026, Friday
⏰ 9.30am-4.30pm (Foreword Coffee location only until 3.30pm)
📍T11 Square and & Foreword Coffee
💵 FOC
@openjio @experiencejio
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Dear Death
What if talking about death could begin with curiosity, rather than fear?
This is an interactive experience that invites you to think, talk, and reflect on death, before you have to confront it., You will find a series of prompts, drawings, and open conversations that explore the space between living and dying🎨
Rather than presenting death as something distant or frightening, Dear Death creates a gentle space to approach it with curiosity, honesty, and even tenderness.
It’s an opportunity to have conversations we don’t often make time for and perhaps discover that talking about death can also tell us something about how we want to live❤️
🗓 21 Nov 2026, Saturday
⏰ 1pm-5pm
📍 11 Prinsep Link Singapore, 187949
💵 $15
🔈20% off for OJ Subscribers- Use the code OJ20 for 20% off (till 11th Nov 2026)
👉🏼 Sign up:http://tiny.cc/deardeath
@openjio @experiencejio
What if talking about death could begin with curiosity, rather than fear?
This is an interactive experience that invites you to think, talk, and reflect on death, before you have to confront it., You will find a series of prompts, drawings, and open conversations that explore the space between living and dying🎨
Rather than presenting death as something distant or frightening, Dear Death creates a gentle space to approach it with curiosity, honesty, and even tenderness.
It’s an opportunity to have conversations we don’t often make time for and perhaps discover that talking about death can also tell us something about how we want to live❤️
🗓 21 Nov 2026, Saturday
⏰ 1pm-5pm
📍 11 Prinsep Link Singapore, 187949
💵 $15
🔈20% off for OJ Subscribers- Use the code OJ20 for 20% off (till 11th Nov 2026)
👉🏼 Sign up:http://tiny.cc/deardeath
@openjio @experiencejio
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