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.

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

TBN Asia’s Inaugural Conference was held in Singapore with 300 delegates and 24 exhibitors.

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

100 social enterprises exhibitors participated at the 2018 Conference in Indonesia.

First conference in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia.

TBN Asia forms its first official team.

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

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

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

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

Interfaith was launched and ‘Interfaith’ was added to TBN Asia’s mission and vision.

Bali Conference 2022 - TBN Indonesia was launched.

TBN Indonesia inaugural conference.