Day 1: Saturday, March 4th
Harvard Kennedy School - All times are EST
Breakfast / Coffee
Room: Wexner Commons
SECON 2023 Kickoff
Welcome remarks from Conference Co-Chairs
Room: Forum
Opening Keynote
Empowering Narratives
Room: Forum
Abi Dare – New York Times Bestselling Author
Simultaneous Sessions – Set I
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS IN WAR-TORN AREAS AND CONFLICT ZONES
Room: R-304
- Oleksii Prokopenko – Head of Help Ukraine Center USA Fund
- Yasmin Kayali – Co-founder of Basmeh & Zeitooneh
- Demetri Fadel – Chief Strategy Officer of Karam Foundation
- Katya Malakhova – Founder of the Sunflower of Peace Foundation
- Moderator: Julia Lemesh – Harvard Kennedy School
FINANCING AND INVESTING FOR SCALABLE CLIMATE IMPACT
Room: WEX-330
- Dr. Stephen Hammer- Advisor for International Climate Policy and Strategy, Climate Change Group, World Bank Group
- Joanna Messing – Executive Director, Growald Climate Fund
- Prof. John Tobin – Professor of Practice of Corporate Sustainability, Cornell University
- Moderator: Kevin Li – Harvard Kennedy School
LEVERAGING ED-TECH TO MOVE THE NEEDLE
Room: WEX-332
- Anurupa Ganguly – Founder & CEO of Prisms
- Eli Luberoff – CEO of Desmos Studio PBC
- Rahul Kalita – Co-Founder at Tutored by Teachers
- Adam Zalisk – Senior Vice President at Amplify
- Moderator: Nikita Ramanujam – Harvard Business School
DRIVING INNOVATION IN WOMEN’S HEALTH
Room: WEX-436
- Ambreen Molitor – National Director of Innovation, Planned Parenthood
- Sara Kemppainen – Special Projects, Fifty Years
- Maia Gokhale – Program Manager for Payer Partnerships, Mae
- Moderator: Christine Jarjour – Harvard Kennedy School / Harvard Business School
Lunch / Networking
Wexner Commons, Forum, Courtyard, Glass Room next to Cafe, Glass Room next to Airport Lounge
Simultaneous Sessions – Set II
FIRESIDE CHAT: BUILDING ENTREPRENEURSHIP ECOSYSTEMS THAT FOSTER SOCIAL IMPACT
Room: WEX-436
- Daniel Isenberg – Founding Executive Director of the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project
- Dina H. Sherif – Executive Director at Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT
REIMAGINING SKILLS & ACCESS IN THE WORKFORCE
Room: WEX-330
- Taylor Stockton – FutureFit AI Chief Operating Officer
- Tammy Thieman – Director of Amazon Career Choice
- Dave Wilkin – Founder of 10KC.com
- Moderator: Dr. Angela Jackson – Adjunct Lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education
DISCUSSION ON EFFECTIVE TRI-SECTOR COLLABORATION
Room: WEX-332
- Matthew Klein – Chief Program & Impact Officer at the Robin Hood Foundation
- Tiffany Chu – Chief of Staff to Mayor Michelle Wu.
- Mariana Matus – CEO and Cofounder of Biobot Analytics
- Rashmi Khare – Vice President of Impact Advisory at Social Finance
- Moderator: Kamya Jagadish – Harvard Kennedy School / Harvard Business School
YOUTH’S ROLE IN ADDRESSING SOCIETY’S MOST URGENT PROBLEMS
Room: R-304
- Yashveer Singh – Co-founder & Global Director, Ashoka Young Changemakers
- LaShyra Nolen – Founder of We Got Us
- Sashko Horokh – Director at Mriya Inc.
- Moderator: Jennifer Pfister – Harvard Kennedy School
Snacks Break
Room: Wexner Commons, Forum, Courtyard
Simultaneous Sessions – Set III
MEDIA’S ROLE IN SHAPING CLIMATE CHANGE NARRATIVES
Room: WEX-436
- Genevieve Guenther – Founding Director of End Climate Silence
- Ryan Hagen – Founder, Crowdsourcing Sustainability & LinkedIn’s Top Voices on the Green Economy
- Aashish Beergi – Co-Founder and CEO of MASH Project Foundation
- Rachel Taylor – Community Weaver, Crowdsourcing Sustainability
- Philip McKenna – Reporter, Inside Climate News
- Moderator: Priyanka Saha – Harvard Business School / Harvard Kennedy School
OUTCOME-BASED FINANCING IN THE SKILLING & EMPLOYMENT SPACE: OPPORTUNITIES & CHALLENGES
Room: WEX-332
- Mike Silvestri – Director, Impact Investing, Social Finance
- Amy E. Nishman – Senior Vice President of Strategy, JVS
- Nat Ware – Social Impact Economist, Founder & CEO of Forte Global
- Moderator: Brian Trelstad – Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, Partner and Board Member at Bridges Fund Management
RECOVER, REFOCUS, REKINDLE: UNDERSTANDING THE BURNOUT EPIDEMIC
Room: WEX-330
- Maria Perez – Co-Founder of Embers
- Moderator: Hiba Khaled – Co-Founder of Embers
Simultaneous Sessions – Set IV
DESIGNING HEALTH EQUITY: FIRESIDE CHAT WITH DAN MILLER
Room: FORUM
- Dan Miller – Founder and CEO of Spora Health
- Moderator: Zeina Mohammed – Reporter at The Boston Globe
ALTERNATIVE MODELS TO EQUITABLE HOUSING
Room: WEX-436
- Kara Murray Badal – Director, Housing Lab at Terner Labs
- Jesse Kanson-Benanav – Executive Director at Abundant Housing MA
- Nadine Ngouabe Dlodlo – CEO Women’s Home Preservation LLC
- Chris Baker – Executive Director, The Other Ones Foundation
- Moderator: Professor David Wood – Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
Closing Day 1
By Simultaneous event hosts. See you tomorrow!
Day 2: Sunday, March 5th
Harvard Business School - All times are EST
Breakfast / Coffee
Room: Klarman Auditorium
SECON 2023 Day 2 Kickoff
Welcome from Conference Co-Chairs
Room: Klarman Auditorium
Keynote Conversation
Fostering Collaboration for Sustainable Social Impact
Room: Klarman Auditorium
Efosa Ojomo – Director, Global Prosperity at the Clayton Christensen Institute
Sean Davis – Founder and Managing Partner at Merton Capital Partners
Simultaneous Sessions – Set V
HOW SOCIETY SHOULD RESPOND TO CLIMATE MIGRATION
Room: Aldrich 011
- Sonali Madia Patel – Partner, Bridgespan
- Monique Tú Nguyen – Executive Director of the Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement, City of Boston
- Annick Hiensch – Partnerships Team Leader/Climate Security Focal Point Division for Policy, Evaluation and Training Department of Peace Operations United Nations Secretariat
- Satchit Balsari – Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Co-Director, CrisisReady
- Moderator: Valeria Tiberi – Harvard Business School
THE FUTURE OF THE HUMANITARIAN FUNDING ECOSYSTEM
Room: Aldrich 010
- Martin Bratt – Senior Vice President, Awards Management Unit, International Rescue Committee
- Phyllis Kurlander Costanza – Co-Founder and President of OutcomesX
- Alice Armanni Sequi – Chief of the Pooled Fund Management Branch, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
- Moderator: Andrew Wolff – Harvard Business School
WORKSHOP: THE ART OF STORYTELLING BY ABI DARE
Room: Spangler Auditorium
- Abi Dare – New York Times Bestselling Author
Simultaneous Sessions – Set VI
BUILDING BACK HEALTH: A MULTI-SECTORAL APPROACH TO CREATING EFFECTIVE HEALTH SYSTEMS
Room: Spangler Auditorium
- Emmanuel Akpakwu – Chief Commercial Officer, Sub-Saharan Africa of Novartis
- Megha Kumar – Head of Global Partnerships & Business Development of Medtronic LABS
- Katie Bollbach – Executive Director, Partners In Health United States
- Andrew Trister – Deputy Director, Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Moderator: Grant Heskamp – Chief of Staff of Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)
BUILDING WEALTH IN COMMUNITIES: TACTICS AND FINANCIAL CHALLENGES
Room: Aldrich 010
- Jesse Van Tol – President & CEO at National Community Reinvestment Coalition
- Anmol Mehra – Social impact housing developer, co-founder of Plugin House
- Granvel Tate – Founder of 1025 Advisors, Inc.
- Moderator: Lourdes Germán – Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
DEMYSTIFYING IMPACT INVESTING
Room: Aldrich 011
- Ryan Alam – SVP, Impact Investing, Citi Impact Fund
Pitch Competition
Room: Klarman Auditorium
PITCH KEYNOTE
- Gerald Chertavian – Founder and CEO of Year Up
PITCH FINALISTS
- Jane
- DetoXyFi
- Reentry Care
- Raaji Pads
- DynaCare
PITCH JUDGES
- Ramesh Raskar – Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab
- Macauley Kenney – Entrepreneur in Residence and a lecturer at MIT Sloan and MIT D-Lab
- Rebecca Xiong – Managing Director, Programs and Engagement Harvard Innovation Lab
- Rym Baouendi – Senior Advisor at Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT
Closing Keynote
Kate Robertson, Co-Founder of One Young World
Room: Klarman Auditorium
Closing of SECON 2023
Closing remarks from Conference Co-Chairs
Room: Klarman Auditorium