Panels
The 2011 Social Enterprise Conference will feature 30 panels across seven different subject areas, along with 8 skill-building workshops and 2 debate sessions.
Click below to sort panels by time, track or title, or search for specific sessions. And check back often for updates as more panelists are confirmed!
| Track | Panel Title | Time | Location | Moderator | Panelists | Short Description |
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| Saturday Workshops | Fundraising for Social Enterprises I: Writing Effective Grants | Sat 3:15 PM | Bell 72 | N/A |
In the first of two workshops on fundraising for social enterprises, workshop participants will learn how to tap into the millions of... |
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| Saturday Workshops | Academic Showcase (3:15 Session) | Sat 3:15 PM | Land 70 | N/A |
Presentation 1: The Limits of Measuring Social Impact Should social enterprises measure their long-term impacts on society? Or... |
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| Saturday Workshops | Harnessing Emerging Technology for Social Impact (3:15 Session) | Sat 3:15 PM | Malkin 90 | N/A |
Disruptive technology shapes the world. Whether originating in academic research, privately held or public companies, or non-profits,... |
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| Saturday Workshops | Social and Policy Innovation in the Obama Administration (3:15 Session) | Sat 3:15 PM | Starr 164 | Greg Nelson |
This panel will look at different approaches for incorporating innovation across the Obama Administration, including encouraging... |
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| Saturday Workshops | Real Cases in Social Enterprise (3:15 Session) | Sat 3:15 PM | Weil Town Hall | N/A |
Social entrepreneurs face many challenges in running their organizations, including fundraising, talent/human resource management,... |
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| Saturday Workshops | Fundraising for Social Enterprises II: Business Plans and Other Essentials | Sat 4:45 PM | Bell 72 | N/A | Jeff Church |
In the second of two fundraising workshops for social enterprises, workshop participants will learn how to develop and present a... |
| Saturday Workshops | Academic Showcase (4:45 Session) | Sat 4:45 PM | Land 70 | N/A |
Presentation 1: The Limits of Measuring Social Impact Should social enterprises measure their long-term impacts on society? Or... |
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| Saturday Workshops | Harnessing Emerging Technology for Social Impact (4:45 Session) | Sat 4:45 PM | Malkin 90 | N/A |
Disruptive technology shapes the world. Whether originating in academic research, privately held or public companies, or non-profits,... |
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| Saturday Workshops | Social and Policy Innovation in the Obama Administration (4:45 Session) | Sat 4:45 PM | Starr 165 | Greg Nelson |
This panel will look at different approaches for incorporating innovation across the Obama Administration, including encouraging... |
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| Saturday Workshops | Real Cases in Social Enterprise (4:45 Session) | Sat 4:45 PM | Weil Town Hall | N/A |
Social entrepreneurs face many challenges in running their organizations, including fundraising, talent/human resource management,... |
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| CSR | Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Trafficking: What Every Business Leader Needs to Know | Sun 9:45 AM | Aldrich 007 | Sandra J. Sucher |
While human trafficking has received considerable media attention in the past few years, it is often portrayed from the perspective of... |
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| Education | From Idea to Implementation: Driving Innovation in Education | Sun 9:45 AM | Aldrich 008 | David Dockterman |
Through the case study of one entrepreneur's emerging idea for an innovative education technology, this panel will explore some of the common... |
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| International Development | Good Consumerism: Can Western Consumption Fuel International Development? | Sun 9:45 AM | Aldrich 009 | Michael Norton |
Discover what chocolate, yak wool, and many other products can have in common. Join us for a lively panel discussion with leaders of... |
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| Social Entrepreneurship | Survival of the Fittest: Leadership and Scaling Up | Sun 9:45 AM | Aldrich 010 | David Ager |
The importance of leadership is widely accepted, and yet insufficient attention is paid to investing in an organization's current and... |
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| Technology & Design | The Social Network | Sun 9:45 AM | Aldrich 012 | John Deighton |
The fast pace of technological innovation in social media is contributing to major changes in the world economy. In 2010 Twitter experienced... |
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| Food & Water | Tackling Domestic Food Deserts: Cross-Sector Solutions | Sun 9:45 AM | Aldrich 107 | Jose B. Alvarez |
A food desert is an any area where healthy, affordable food is difficult to obtain. In the United States, many low-income communities... |
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| Urban Development | New Orleans: Sustaining Social Change | Sun 9:45 AM | Aldrich 108 | Herman "Dutch" Leonard |
Why do some social enterprises succeed when others fail? In New Orleans, the Post-Katrina era has seen an influx of innovative social... |
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| Financial Services | Beyond Microcredit: The Next Frontier of Financial Services for the Poor | Sun 9:45 AM | Aldrich 109 | Jay Rosengard |
Microcredit has received much attention and funding, but it is no longer recognized as a panacea. There is a growing body of research and... |
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| Healthcare | Rural Health Care Access and Delivery: Models for Overcoming Barriers | Sun 9:45 AM | Aldrich 110 | YuanLi Liu |
While delivering medical care to the poor in the developing world is already a challenge, providing healthcare in rural areas is even more... |
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| Impact Investing | The Missing Middle: Finding Funding Solutions for Emerging Market SMEs | Sun 9:45 AM | Aldrich 112 | Kash Rangan |
Join us for a discussion of the "Missing Middle", the financing gap that exists for emerging market SMEs that are too large for... |
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| CSR | Strategy and Innovation in Cross-Sector Partnerships: Perspectives from the Field | Sun 11:00 AM | Aldrich 007 | Christopher Marquis |
The pressing global problems facing society are too complex to be solved by one sector alone. Businesses, nonprofits, governments, and... |
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| Education | Financing Innovation in Education | Sun 11:00 AM | Aldrich 008 | Fernando Reimers |
The K-12 education crisis across many underserved U.S. communities has recently emerged at the forefront of public debate, catalyzed by... |
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| International Development | Supporting Entrepreneurship in Frontier Markets | Sun 11:00 AM | Aldrich 009 | Herman "Dutch" Leonard |
Insecurity, corruption, lack of access to capital, weak infrastructure, low levels of human capital, and unsupportive commercial policies... |
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| Social Entrepreneurship | Reverse Innovation: A New Mindset for Social Entrepreneurs | Sun 11:00 AM | Aldrich 010 | Jane Nelson |
General Electric's Jeff Immelt launched a discussion 16 months ago about how one of the world's largest companies is reinventing... |
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| Technology & Design | Social Change by Design: Design Thinking as an Essential Tool for Social Innovators | Sun 11:00 AM | Aldrich 012 | Suzi Sosa |
What is “design thinking” and why is it crucial to bringing products and services to developing markets? By "failing fast... |
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| Food & Water | Global Food Markets and the Smallholder Farmer | Sun 11:00 AM | Aldrich 107 | Kash Rangan |
Two-thirds of the world’s poor belong to rural communities where livelihoods depend on agriculture. For them, the value of accessing... |
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| Urban Development | Smart, Sustainable Energy for Cities | Sun 11:00 AM | Aldrich 108 | Henry Lee |
The vast energy needs of today's major urban areas present both opportunities and challenges and opportunities from an energy... |
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| Financing Social Enterprise | Accessing Transformative Social Enterprise Capital in a Challenging Philanthropic Environment | Sun 11:00 AM | Aldrich 109 | Phillip Clay |
Members of leading innovative foundations and organizations will provide a candid assessment of the state of funding for new and existing... |
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| Healthcare | Human Resources and Health: Bridging the Quality-Quantity Gap | Sun 11:00 AM | Aldrich 110 | Nava Ashraf |
Human resources represents one of the biggest challenges governments, non-profits, and social enterprises currently face in scaling up... |
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| Impact Investing | Maximizing Impact: Strategic Resource Allocation in Social Impact Investing | Sun 11:00 AM | Aldrich 112 | David Wood |
This panel will focus on strategic resource allocation across different issues, industries, and regions, given limited... |
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| Sunday Workshops | Design Thinking - 0-60 in 60 Minutes | Sun 12:10 PM | Aldrich 207 | N/A |
This workshop is a crash course in the power of design thinking to gain innovative traction on any problem. Through a high-energy... |
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| Sunday Workshops | 10 Key Ingredients for a Social Enterprise Start-Up | Sun 12:10 PM | Aldrich 208 | N/A | Jeff Church |
Starting a social enterprise is not easy. In general, start-ups fail more than 90% of the time. Start-ups that donate services, profits... |
| Sunday Workshops | Case Workshop - Teacher Effectiveness at Memphis City Schools: Honing in on a District's Most Important Human Capital Resource | Sun 2:45 PM | Aldrich 207 | N/A |
What does teacher effectiveness really mean? Despite the tacit awareness that across the US districts employ some teachers who... |
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| Sunday Workshops | Case Workshop - Providing Opportunities to Small and Growing Businesses: Value Chain Finance in Burkina Faso | Sun 2:45 PM | Aldrich 208 | N/A |
In 2010, a private mango business in Burkina Faso applied for a $300K loan from Root Capital. After three years of operating losses,... |
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| Sunday Workshops | Speed Networking | Sun 2:45 PM | Spangler Second Floor | N/A |
This one-hour speed networking session provides conference attendees with another opportunity to engage with panelists and workshops,... |
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| CSR | Conscious Capitalism: Beyond CSR | Sun 4:00 PM | Aldrich 007 | Nava Ashraf |
While the popularity of Corporate Social Responsibility encouraged some firms to give back in a creative manner, too often CSR efforts are... |
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| Education | Arts Education - A Universal Tool for Empowerment? | Sun 4:00 PM | Aldrich 008 | Edward P. Clapp |
Does arts education have a unique ability to equip students with tools beyond those offered in the traditional K-12 classroom experience?... |
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| International Development | Educating Future Entrepreneurs at the Bottom of the Pyramid | Sun 4:00 PM | Aldrich 009 | Alan M. Trager |
This panel will compare and contrast the approaches of multinational technology companies, government agencies and start-up social... |
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| Social Entrepreneurship | Emerging and Traditional Legal Structures for Social Enterprises | Sun 4:00 PM | Aldrich 010 | Gordon Bloom |
Social entrepreneurs often struggle to figure out which legal organization structures would allow them to most effectively and efficiently... |
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| Technology & Design | Data-Driven Development: Mining Data for the Social Good | Sun 4:00 PM | Aldrich 012 | Alex 'Sandy' Pentland |
From Twitter and Google trends to mobile phone tracking of needed services in Haiti, data mining and crowdsourcing are tapping into... |
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| Impact Investing | Challenges in Managing a Social Impact Portfolio | Sun 4:00 PM | Aldrich 107 | Christopher Marquis |
The relationship between a portfolio manager at an investment fund and the social entrepreneur can be critical. The panel aims to bring... |
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| Urban Development | Affordable Housing: What's Different and What's Next? | Sun 4:00 PM | Aldrich 108 | Nicolas Retsinas |
This panel will review changes and trends in the area of affordable housing development. Panelists bring a range of experience, from... |
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| Financial Services | Lessons from mPesa: Scaling Mobile Banking | Sun 4:00 PM | Aldrich 109 | Peter Tufano |
With 1.2 billion cell phone users lacking bank accounts, telecoms and banks are enchanted with the idea of mobile banking. Aside from M... |
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| Financing Social Enterprise | Getting Seed Funding for Your Social Enterprise – Social Angel Investing | Sun 4:00 PM | Aldrich 110 | Jason Fairbourne |
The panel provides an insight into what angel investors are looking for when investing in social enterprises and shed light on how an... |
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| Impact Measurement | Innovations and Challenges of Social Impact Measurement | Sun 4:00 PM | Aldrich 112 | Alnoor Ebrahim |
How is social impact being measured today? What are the latest innovations used to assess whether organizations and investments achieve real... |