Conference Program
9:00 Registration
9:40 Introductory Remarks
10:00 Keynote Address by Jerry Glenn, The Millennium Project:
“Global Challenges and Collective Intelligence”
10:45 Moderated Panel: Social Impact Metrics and Social Investing
This panel on social investing focuses on how metrics and the representation of work on the ground play a role in the perceived attractiveness of social ventures. Panelists also consider the need for and functions of an alternative asset class, how the metrics/representation of work on the ground should be dealt with in relation to an alternative asset class, and whether metrics practices transform with the rise of the patient investor.
Panelists
- John Kohler, Redleaf Venture Management & Executive Fellow, Global Social Benefit Incubator
- Anne-Marie Burgoyne, Draper Richards Foundation
The Tech Awards Laureates 2009
- Howard Weinstein: Solar Ear (Brazil)
- Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha: SuryaHurricane: Electrification for the Landless (Bangladesh)
- Salman Khan: Khan Academy (USA)
- mPedigree Network (Ghana)
12:00 Networking Lunch
1:30 Moderated Panel: Communicating Social Impact
This panel on metrics and evaluation for social innovation focuses on ways of representing the social impact of ventures. Panelists consider the differences and relations between standardized, top-down metrics and context-specific, bottom-up metrics, as well as the differences and relations between quantitative and qualitative forms of social impact evaluation.
Panelists
- Tatyana Mamut, IDEO
- Aaron Sklar, IDEO
The Tech Awards Laureates 2009
- kiwanja.net: FrontlineSMS (United Kingdom)
- GRUPEDSAC: Ecotechniques Toolkits for Self-Sufficiency (Mexico)
- World of Good Development Organization: Fair Wage Guide Open-Source Platform (USA)
- Dr. Joseph Adelegan: Cows to Kilowatts (Nigeria)
2:45 Moderated Panel: Creating, Communicating, and Funding Social Impact on the Ground
This panel on social Investing and metrics from the standpoint of the experienced Social Entrepreneur focuses on the social entrepreneur’s grounded perspective on relationships with social investors and how the process of creating social venture metrics mediates that relationship.
Panelists
- Matt Flannery, KIVA (USA)
- Marc Koska, Star Syringe (United Kingdom)
The Tech Awards Laureates 2009
- Dr. Sean M. White: LeafView: an Electronic Field Guide (USA)
- Akshaya Patra Foundation (USA)
- GeoGebra (Austria)
- Alternative Energy for Empowerment (South Africa)
- Driptech (USA)
4:00 Break
4:15 Keynote Address by Sally Osberg, The Skoll foundation:
“TBA”
4:45 Closing Remarks and Final Q&A
5:00 Reception
