Our Story

Vision & Mission

TBN Asia is part of the TBN Alliance that consists of: TBN Africa, TBN Indonesia and TBN Americas.

Our Vision is to uplift poverty through enterprise solutions.

Our Mission is to help social enterprises in Southeast Asia that are working to uplift poverty.

2014

TBN Asia was born. Founders join Dato Kim Tan's vision of fighting poverty through enterprise in Southeast Asia region.
June 2016

TBN Asia's Inaugural Conference was held in Singapore with 300 delegates and 24 Exhibitors.
August 2017

Partners and social enterprises in Indonesia joined in for the first conference in Jakarta, Indonesia.
September 2018

100 social enterprise exhibitors participated at the 2018 Conference in Indonesia.
March 2019

First Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
August 2019

TBN Asia forms its first official team.
November 2019

Launched the Social Enterprise Training Hub (SETH) programme in Indonesia. Grant for the programme was secured in early 2019.
May 2020

- First Virtual Conference 2020, where the first SETH cohort graduates were featured
- 74 social enterprises participated in a full day pitching session during the conference
- Resilience Program was created to support SEs with funding from conference funds
January 2021

Established our Ecosystem pillars - SETH, Expertise Network and Investors Network.
September 2021

ELC 2021 in collaboration with TBN Asia for Virtual Conference. Partnership was formed earlier in the year.
April 2022

Interfaith was launched and 'Interfaith' was added to TBN Asia mission and vision.
September 2022

Bali Conference 2022 - TBN Indonesia was launched.
September 2023

TBN Indonesia Inaugural conference.