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Join us for a pre-conference film screening on Oct. 6 of Pray the Devil Back to Hell, which features Leymah Gbowee and the Liberian women's peace movement. Find out more about the event and registration information.

Breakout sessions will focus on four key tracks: supporting innovation, promoting sustainability, advancing technology, and building community.

7:45–8:15 Registration and Breakfast
8:15–8:30 Opening Remarks
Professor Ray Fisman, Co-Director, Social Enterprise Program, Columbia Business School
8:30–9:30 Opening Keynote
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Introducation by Professor Bruce Usher, Co-Director, Social Enterprise Program, Columbia Business School
Scaling Social Innovation: A Thought Leadership Discussion with Cheryl Dorsey, President, Echoing Green, and Matthew Klein, Executive Director, Blue Ridge Foundation
Moderated by Nancy Barry, President, Nancy Barry Associates - Enterprise Solutions to Poverty

Breakout Sessions
Supporting Innovation Promoting Sustainability Advancing Technology Building Communities
9:45–10:45 Innovation Workshop: Designing a Better Social Enterprise
See video of this session.		 Climate Change Investing
See video of this session.		 Impact Investors Spreading Social Innovation
See video of this session.		 Replicating Models of Success: Scaling Innovation in the Education Sector
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11:00–12:00 Bold New Ventures: Visionary Philanthropists and Impact Investing at the Cutting Edge
See video of this session.		 How to Feed the World, One Healthy, Sustainably Sourced Meal at a Time: Scaling Local, Natural Food
See video of this session.		 Urban Experiments: City-Scaled Innovation in Real Estate Development
See video of this session.		 Networks in Arts & Culture: Expanding Impact, Transforming Traditions
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12:15–1:15* Afternoon Keynote
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Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee, Founder and Executive Director, Women Peace and Security Network in Africa, in Conversation with Harold Evans, Editor at Large, Thomson Reuters
1:15–2:15 Networking & Lunch
2:15–3:15* Young-Cantarella Memorial Lecture
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Thank You Remarks by Marin Kaleya ’12, Christopher Reynolds ’12, Conference Organizers; Introduction by Marcia Cantarella, PhD, Educator/Author
Michael Chen, President, NBC News' Strategic Initiatives Group and Education Nation
3:15–3:45 Coffee Break
* Please note that the pre- and post-lunch keynote schedule is intended to accomodate attendees who need to leave early due to religious holidays.

Breakout Sessions
Supporting Innovation Promoting Sustainability Advancing Technology Building Communities
3:45–4:45 The Power of Networks: Creating Opportunity Through Co-Working
See video of this session.		 Values-Based Investing: Building Financial and Social Capital
See video of this session.		 Health 2.0: Re-engineering the Community Health System
See video of this session.		 Sustainable Communities: New Approaches to Integrated Solutions
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5:00–6:00 Social Venture Pitch: Five Companies Pitch for Potential $250K – $500K Investment by Jalia Ventures / Serious Change, LP
See video of this session.		 Corporate Social Innovation: Moving Beyond Responsibility
See video of this session.		 Reaching the Next Billion Consumers through Mobile Phones: The Case of Jana
See video of this session.		 Engaging Constituencies: Inspiring and Mobilizing Talent and Capital
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6:00–7:00 Cocktails and Networking Reception

* Session topics and speakers subject to change.

Innovation Workshop: Designing a Better Social Enterprise
For thousands of years, inventors have embedded several simple patterns into their inventions, usually without knowing it. These patterns are the "DNA" of products that can be extracted and applied to any product or service to create new-to-the-world innovations. Drew Boyd will share how to use this effective, repeatable, and trainable innovation process for designing social enterprises and bringing systematic inventive thinking to the social enterprise space.

Speakers:

  • Drew Boyd, Executive Director, MS-Marketing Program and Assistant Professor of Marketing and Innovation, Carl H. Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati

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Bold New Ventures: Visionary Philanthropists and Impact Investing at the Cutting Edge
Increasingly, foundations and investors recognize the importance of promoting technology solutions to advance environmental and social causes. These players are providing management support and financial capital to social enterprises to promote these new options and build capacity in the sector. What are some of the cutting-edge organizations both funding and being funded in this space? Where is technology being used most effectively? What are the next big technological innovations that are paving new paths for the social sector?

Moderator: Melissa Berman, President and CEO, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors; Adjunct Professor, Columbia Business School
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The Power of Networks: Creating Opportunity Through Co-Working
Innovation is often thought of as a solitary process, but there are communities and tools available to support social entrepreneurs and spur future innovation. These networks of social innovation know that today’s problems will not be solved with yesterday’s solutions, leading them to focus on scale, efficiency, and sustainability. What is the range of approaches that can support innovation at every level of social entrepreneur, from concept through to fully operational organizations? What can we learn about innovations on the frontier of social progress? What are the tools and methods that are catalyzing success?  

Moderator: Bruce Kogut, Director, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ethics, Columbia Business School

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Social Venture Pitch
The 2011 Social Venture Pitch session will feature emerging for-profit social entrepreneurs in a variety of fields who will be allotted eight minutes to pitch their enterprise to a panel of impact investors and advisors. These investors and advisors will give feedback to the entrepreneurs on the venture and quality of the pitch. Selected ventures will be considered for an investment of $250,000–500,000 by Jalia Ventures / Serious Change, LP. This session is intended to highlight and analyze the common interaction between investor and entrepreneur. What are impact investors thinking when they encounter an entrepreneur who wants to generate both financial and social returns? With only eight minutes, what should the entrepreneur convey? The end of the session will be reserved for reflections by participants as well as audience questions and comments. This session is sponsored by Jalia Ventures and Serious Change, LP.   

Impact investors and advisors:

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Climate Change Investing
The business community is catalyzing a range of entrepreneurial strategies to combat climate change. Solutions harness renewable technologies, energy efficiency, carbon markets, and forestry business models. How well-suited are each of these approaches to generating financial returns? How effective have they been at addressing the challenge of global climate change? Are innovative approaches being disseminated and compared across sectors?  

Moderator: Bruce Usher, Co-Director of the Social Enterprise Program, Adjunct Professor, and Executive-in-Residence, Columbia Business School

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How to Feed the World, One Healthy, Sustainably Sourced Meal at a Time: Scaling Local, Natural Food
The world’s population is forecast to approach 9 billion by 2050. With increasing pressures on natural resources, shifting weather patterns, and climate change impacts on agricultural production, how will this growing population be fed? What will be the likely impacts on production and distribution of food? How will global transport and distribution networks change? Will patents and technological know-how be used to help or hinder the spread of food production and distribution solutions?  

Moderator: Jacqui Holmes, CIO, Midori Management; President, Kopali Organics

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Values-Based Investing: Building Financial and Social Capital
Financial performance plays a key role as the field of impact investing endeavors to reach its immense potential. What strategies do successful fund managers use to achieve positive social, environmental and financial returns? How do LPs analyze potential investment options and factors that contribute to their decision to mandate capital to impact investments?

Moderator: Antony Bugg-Levine, Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation; Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia Business School

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Corporate Social Innovation: Moving Beyond Responsibility
Not so long ago it was enough for corporations to meet a baseline of environmental and social impact assessment through regulatory compliance and messaging. More recently, however, industry leaders have vaulted ahead of the pack by channeling their CSR and sustainability programs as a lynchpin of broader innovation and market leadership. What companies are adding value and redefining their mission by moving beyond compliance toward innovation? How does a robust sustainability program contribute to recruiting top talent and ensuring lasting competitiveness?  

Moderator: Geoffrey Heal, the Donald C. Waite III Professor of Social Enterprise, Columbia Business School

Speakers:

  • Namrita Kapur, Director of Strategy, Corporate Partnerships Program, Environmental Defense Fund
  • Curtis Ravenel ’01, Global Head, Sustainability Group, Bloomberg
  • Martin Reeves, Senior Partner and Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group Strategy Institute
  • Bruce Schlein, Director of Corporate Sustainability, Citi

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Reaching the Next Billion Consumers through Mobile Phones: The case of Jana
With $10M in early stage funding and a presence in 80 countries, Jana. is one of the most intriguing startups exploring the potential of mobile phones for economic development. Jana empowers global brands to directly engage with their next billion consumers via mobile phones, and creates new sources of income for those living at the base of the economic pyramid.

In this feature "fireside chat" session, founder and CEO Nathan Eagle will discuss the promise and potential of mobile for innovation and economic development in emerging markets, drawing from his extensive research and experience with Jana.  

Moderator: Gautam Ivatury, Managing Director, Signal Point Partners; Strategic Advisor, CGAP, World Bank

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Urban Experiments: City-Scaled Innovation in Real Estate Development
Technology can help build smarter, more sustainable cities and communities. In New York City and around the world, real estate developers, public officials, and technology organizations are partnering to rethink what the city of tomorrow will be. Will we live in communities embedded with smart chips that create energy-efficient, traffic-free urban utopias? What are the possibilities — and limits — of new technologies for transforming the city?

Moderator: Tommy Craig ’82, Senior Vice President, Hines; Adjunct Professor, Columbia Business School

Speaker(s):

  • Tom Murcott, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Gale International
  • Joe O'Connor, Senior Executive Director, Smart+Connected Communities, Cisco Systems, Inc.
  • Seth Schultz, Director, Climate Positive Development Program, Clinton Foundation

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Health 2.0: Re-engineering the Community Health System
Technology and economic pressures are democratizing how health is delivered, and the consumer health market is already adapting to new models of accessing and paying for care. How will disruptive innovations and technologies like Minute clinics, telemedicine and Community Health Workers transform the kind of health care we can deliver? How are economic pressures putting community health systems on the health sector’s agenda?  What kind of disruptive innovators will re-engineer community health and move the compass of care delivery beyond hospital walls to less costly, more dispersed settings?

Moderator: Thomas D'Aunno, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

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Engaging Constituencies: Inspiring and Mobilizing Talent and Capital
Brands and businesses, advocacy organizations, and other social enterprises are increasingly executing multi-platform engagement channels to increase revenue and cement long-lasting awareness and loyalty. Social networking, constituency development, and content management are key. What concrete and measureable models have been developed by leading organizations in this space? How is the internet transforming communication within these communities?

Moderator: Teresa Puente, Visiting Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University
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Replicating Models of Success: Scaling Innovation in the Education Sector
Education reform efforts are placing increasing emphasis on the primacy of teachers and principals as the most important levers for student achievement. As school districts around the country delegate decision making to the school level, how can education professionals leverage their localized knowledge to spread innovations across the field? How are schools and districts creating professional learning communities to build capacity and share best practices? Where can technology help in this process and what are its limitations?  

Moderator: Amy Rosen, President and CEO, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship; Adjunct Professor, Columbia Business School

Speakers:

  • Sharren Bates, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Kristen Kane, Chief Operating Officer, News Corporation's Education Division
  • Michele Cahill, Vice President of National Program and Program Director of Urban Education, Carnegie Corporation
  • Cami Anderson, Superintendent, Newark Public Schools

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Networks in Art & Culture: Expanding Impact, Transforming Traditions
Technology has broadened the reach of the arts, erasing former geographies and borders of the industry. Arts and cultural programs can now enrich the lives of communities across the world and spread the teaching of time honored artistic traditions to a new generation of artists. How are century-old traditions continuing to inform, educate, and thrive in this increasingly networked world?  

Moderator: Damian Bazadona, Founder, Situation Interactive

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Sustainable Communities: New Approaches to Integrated Solutions
Recent approaches to community development span affordable housing, job creation, energy efficiency, and small business services. What are the roles of private, public, and nonprofit sectors in supporting more sustainable communities? What policies are transforming the landscape of local economic development? What programs have proven successful? How is technology providing new insight to guide innovative investments and resilient returns?

Moderator: Keith Timko ’02, CEO, Build with Purpose

Speakers:

  • Andrea Davila ’11, Special Strategic Project Manager, New York City Housing Authority
  • Richard Froehlich, Executive Vice President for Capital Markets and General Counsel, NYC Housing Development Corporation
  • Daniel Nissenbaum ’88, Chief Operating Officer of the Urban Investment Group, Goldman Sachs
  • David Walsh, Senior Vice President, Community Development, JPMorgan Chase Bank

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Impact Investors Spreading Social Innovation
Impact investors aim to find and identify innovative organizations that achieve both social and financial returns, as well as the ability to scale their impact. Investor networks like GIIN and TONIIC support the dissemination and sharing of information on areas for promising investments, processes for conducting due diligence, and what is working and why. Recently, the impact investing industry has begun to adopt rating frameworks and metrics to evaluate potential investments in a systematic way. How has this information helped impact investors to find and scale their investments? In what ways are these measurement and evaluation frameworks being used to spread ideas and results? Have tools like GIIRS and IRIS affected the way they approach their investments or changed how social ventures operate and attract funding?
 
Moderator: Professor Doug Bauer, Executive Director, Clark Foundation; Adjunct Professor, Columbia Business School

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