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Keynote Speaker: Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa ’03

Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa ’03 is the Founder and CEO of Teshkeel Media Group, for whom he created THE 99, the first group of comic superheroes born of an Islamic archetype…

…THE 99 have received positive attention from the world’s media. Recently, Forbes named THE 99 as one of the top 20 trends sweeping the globe and most recently, President Barack Obama praised Dr. Naif and THE 99 as perhaps the most innovative of the thousands of new entrepreneurs viewed by his PresidentialSummit on Entrepreneurship. Dr. Al-Mutawa has a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Long Island University where he also earned a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology. He holds a Masters in Organizational Psychology from Teacher’s College, Columbia University and an MBA, also from Columbia University. He earned his undergraduate degree from Tufts University, where he triple majored in clinical psychology, English literature and history. Dr. Al-Mutawa has extensive clinical experience working with former prisoners of war in Kuwait and the Survivors of Political Torture unit of Bellevue Hospital in New York. His direct contact with the horrors of people tortured because of their religious and political beliefs, led to his writing a timeless children’s tale that won a UNESCO prize for literature in the service of tolerance. He received the Eliot-Pearson Award for Excellence in Children’s Media from Tufts University, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations “Marketplace of Ideas” Award, The Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneurship Award presented at the 2009 World Economic Forum and has been named as one of WEF’s Young Global Leaders for 2011.

Keynote Speaker: Isaac Solotaroff

Isaac Solotaroff has been producing, editing and directing documentaries since 1999.  His last film Ballplayer: Pelotero about two major-league baseball prospects from the Dominican Republic was released in theatrically…

…across the country last summer and acquired by HBO Latino.  His previous film WHAM! BAM! ISLAM! opened the 2011-2012 season of PBS’s documentary series Independent Lens.  His other films include Los Romeros for PBS’ American Masters and was nominated for an Emmy in 2002 and his first documentary Belief Amended, Faith Revealed was short-listed for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short in 1999.  He is currently producing a documentary series for GQ.com called Casualties of the Gridiron about a clinic in New Jersey that is providing free surgical, psychological and drug rehabilitation services for former NFL players.

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Keynote Speaker: Deborah Dugan

Deborah Dugan is the Chief Executive Officer of (RED).  (RED) was founded in 2006 by Bono and Bobby Shriver to engage businesses and consumers to help fight AIDS in Africa.

(RED) partners with the world’s most iconic brands, such as Apple, Starbucks, Converse and The Coca Cola Company who contribute up to 50% of profits from the sale of (RED)-branded products and services to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.  To date (RED) has raised close to $210 million with 100% of that money going to AIDS programs that have helped impact more than 14 million lives.

Ms. Degan joined (RED) in 2011, and under her leadership (RED) has welcomed global partners such as The Coca-Cola Company, SAP, and Latin America’s major mobile carriers Claro and Telcel.  With Ms. Degan at the helm, (RED) has continuously pushed the boundaries for how social media is used for social good.  In 2011 (RED) was recognized as the first cause to have reached over 1 million on both Facebook and Twitter, and (RED) recently set a new record with the largest non-profit check-in campaign on foursquare to date, in partnership with Starbucks, raising $250,000 in 8 days.  In June 2013, (RED) partnered with Mashable and set a new awareness-raising world record using the emerging video app, Vine.

Prior to (RED), Ms. Degan was President of Disney Publishing Worldwide, generating $1.8 billion in global retail sales.  During her eight years at Disney, she oversaw 275 magazines and published more than 4,000 new book titles.  In particular, she developed The Cheetah Girls, Artemis Fowl, acquired Baby Einstein, and launched Disney English language learning programs throughout Asia.  She also served as Senior Advisor to the Tribeca Enterprises Board.  Ms. Degan’s roots are in the music industry – she spent many years as Executive Vice President at EMI/Capitol Records.  Deborah began her career as an attorney on Wall Street.

Ms. Degan has written on the AIDS issue number times for the Huffington Post, and has recently given speeches at the IEG Sponsorship Conference in Chicago, and the University of Utah Law School Commencement address.  Ms. Degan is included in Forbes’ “100 Most Powerful Women” issue (June, 2013) for Social Entrepreneurism.

Keynote Speaker: Jeremy Heimans

Jeremy Heimans is co-founder and CEO of Purpose, a home for building 21^st century movements and ventures that use the power of participation to change the world. Since its launch in 2009, Purpose has launched several major new organizations including All Out, a 1.5 million-strong LGBT rights group, built the world’s first open-source global activism platform, and advised institutions like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the ACLU and Google.

Mr. Heimans has been building movements since the age of 8 when, as a child activist in his native Australia, he ran media campaigns and lobbied leaders on issues like children’s rights and nuclear non-proliferation. In 2004, Mr. Heimans dropped out of Oxford to co-found a campaign group in the U.S. presidential elections that used crowd-funding to help a group of women whose loved ones were in Iraq hire a private jet to follow Vice-President Dick Cheney on his campaign stops, in what became known as the “Chasing Cheney” tour. The following year he co-founded GetUp, an Australian political organization and internationally recognized social movement phenomenon that today has more members than all of Australia’s political parties combined. In 2007, Jeremy co-founded Avaaz, the world’s largest online citizens’ movement, now with more than 20 million members.

In 2011, Mr. Heimans received the Ford Foundation’s 75th Anniversary Visionary Award for his work as a movement pioneer and the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader. In 2012, Fast Company ranked him 11^th on their annual list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. The World e-Government Forum has named him as one of the top ten people who is changing the world of politics and the internet. His work has been profiled in publications like The Economist and The New York Times.

Mr. Heimans began his career with the strategy consultants McKinsey & Company and he has degrees from Harvard University and the University of Sydney. He lives in New York.

Mr. Heimans been a keynote speaker at venues such as the World Economic Forum at Davos, the RSA, Chatham House, the United Nations, Blair House, TEDx, The Economist Big Rethink, The Guardian Activate, Social Media Week and the Business Innovation Factory.

Keynote Speaker: Charles Best

Charles Best leads DonorsChoose.org, a nonprofit organization which provides a simple way to address educational inequity….

At DonorsChoose.org, public school teachers create classroom project requests and donors can pick the projects they want to support. Mr. Best launched the organization in 2000 out of a Bronx public high school where he taught history. DonorsChoose.org is one of Oprah Winfrey’s “ultimate favorite things” and was named by Fast Company as one of the “50 Most Innovative Companies in the World,” the first time a charity has received this recognition.

Engaging Customers and Clients in Social change

Please join us on Friday, October 4 for the 2013 Social Enterprise Conference, which will highlight the theme of Engaging Customers and Clients in Social Change.

Closing Keynote: Corporate Social Innovators

For the 2012 Social Enterprise Conference’s closing keynote, there was a discussion about social innovation featuring Joe Sibilia of CSRWire.com,  Jennifer Crozier of IBM,  Richard Hall of Intel,  and Caroline Roan of Pfizer…

It touched on many of the topics surrounding corporate social responsibility that face large organizations such as embedding social responsibility and sustainability into the entirety of a corporation’s core strategy, as well as the challenges surrounding the measuring and reporting the impact of these activities. To watch the video, please click here: http://youtu.be/S7wE7H7IsKc

Morning Keynote with Dr. Paul Farmer, Founding Director of Partners in Health

Dr. Paul Farmer gave the morning keynote at the 2012 Social Enterprise Conference…

In his keynote, Dr. Farmer discussed his time working in Haiti with Partners in Health as a way to illustrate the need for effective, collaborative partnerships among nonprofits, governments, social enterprises, and NGOs. With an introduction from Professor Ray Fisman, co-director of the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia Business School.

To watch the video, click here: http://youtu.be/K1ZpIM8pXhg

Opening Keynote, Fernando Fabre and Chris Hayes

The opening keynote of the 2012 Social Enterprise Conference featured Fernando Fabre, the president of Endeavor Global and Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes.

With an introduction from Professor Ray Fisman, and Professor Bruce Usher, co-directors of the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia Business School.