We are pleased to present this year’s selected SOCAP Open sessions! For the 2016 conference, we received a record 250 proposals through the SOCAP Open platform. Thank you to everyone who took the time to share your ideas with us and to vote on which sessions you wanted to see at Fort Mason this September. Your votes were tallied up and considered along with opinions submitted by our advisory panel. They were difficult decisions, but 48 of the proposed sessions have been selected to be shared at SOCAP16, along with nearly 100 additional sessions curated by our content team. Selected sessions are being refined by the organizers in collaboration with the SOCAP team and may have a slightly different title and description when they make it to the stage, but take a peek below for a preview of the great diversity of content this community is bringing to life September 13-16 in San Francisco!
- The Impact of Tech in Africa: Hype vs. Reality in The Final Frontier
- The Importance of Home: How can we do Anything Without an Affordable Place to Live?
- Taking a Holistic Approach to Women’s Economic Empowerment
- Pathways to Scaling Global Health Innovations: Learn Commonly Found Models for Scaling Up Global Health Innovations and How They Have Been Successfully Applied
- Elevator Pitch! North America Venture Showcase
- Fair Trade: Funding Gaps and Opportunities in the Supply Chain, Part II
- Creating Faith-based Investing Experiences
- How ‘social’ is an IPO: Hear from the Insiders
- Baltimore On the Rise: Social Entrepreneurs Collaborating to Build an Inclusive Ecosystem of Change
- Extinction or Extension? The Role of the Corporations & INGOs in Social Enterprise
- The Real Estate Revolution: Development for Impact
- Accelerator Effectiveness in Developing Countries
- The Frontlines of Blended Finance: Combining Philanthropic and Investment Capital for Impact Enterprise
- The Glass Ceiling, Racism, and Investors Working for Equal Pay
- The Best Kept Secret in Impact Investing: CDFIs and Quality Job Creation
- Why and How are Family Offices Moving from Traditional Investments to Social Impact Investment
- Finance As An Instrument Of Hope: Investing In Refugees
- Values Determination: The First Step of Impact Investing
- Securing Water for Food Innovations: Pitch & Picture
- Impact Investment that Doesn’t Look Like “Impact Investment”: How Major Institutions are Deploying Capital for Good
- Investing in Women: Why It Matters and How To Do It Well
- Structuring Investment Vehicles: Lessons from Leaders in the Field
- Ethical Fashion: The Impact of Socially Responsible Retail
- First Time Impact Fund Managers and Investment Structures: from Concept to Capital Formation
- Mainstreaming Social Change
- Financing the Future of Water: The Rewards of Patient Investing
- Investing in Sustainable Agriculture
- Next in Financial Inclusion: A New Type of Fund to Catalyze Inclusive Fintech
- What Impact Investors Can Learn From Dirty Development
- Getting it Done: Finding and Executing the Impact Investing Deal that’s Right for You
- Designing for Worldview
- Valuing Mother Nature - Measuring and Monetizing Ecosystem Services
- Donor’s Tinder: How to Get Donors to Swipe Right, and Why They Swipe Left
- Impact Investing in Media: Increasing Impact, Informing Debate, Catalyzing Change
- Strategically Sustainable: Exploring the Integration of ESG factors by Institutional Investors
- Maximizing Outcomes for Social Enterprises, Impact Investors, and Philanthropists
- Entrepreneur War Stories
- Impact Startups 2020: How Mobile is Eating Frontier Markets
- You’re Serious about Impact? Tie Your Compensation to It!
- Seeding and Cultivating the Regenerative Economy
- Blended Finance: Mixing Pitchers not Glasses of Cocktails to Achieve Impact at Scale
- The Women Tell All
- Unleashing Millennial Investors
- Stop Wasting Time! How to Create Sustainable Solutions for the Circular Economy
- Unlocking Diversity: Founders, Funding, and New Investment Models
- Putting the Impact in Impact Investing: How to Maximize for Social Impact
- The Whole Social Enterprise Journey- from Imagination to IPO- A Conversation Including the CEO of the World’s Leading Social Stock Exchange
- Investing in the Youngest, Most Entrepreneurial, Fastest Growing Founder/Business Owner Demographic in the United States - Latinos!
Get Your Tickets Now to See These Session Live
Don’t miss your chance to hear these ideas come to life at SOCAP16 and participate in the great conversations that are sure to follow. Get your SOCAP tickets now to be there for the event September 13th through 16th at historic Fort Mason in San Francisco, CA.
