SOCAP strives to offer diverse content across the spectrum of business and capital innovation advancing social and environmental impact. SOCAP Open is a public submission platform that helps us source suggestions directly from our community. As in past years, SOCAP16 will include interactive sessions, panel discussions, workshops, and storytelling opportunities. By proposing a session idea and/or voting, we invite you to add your unique voice to the conversation.
Design thinking is a proven and repeatable problem solving protocol that anyone can employ to achieve big results. It combines creative and critical thinking, focusing on solutions, not problems. We’ll use a 90-minute fast-paced mock project where we’ll run though a full design cycle including deep empathy, …
Easy access to information and simple communication possibilities offered by mobile internet via tablets and smartphones have fundamentally changed our everyday life. However, blind or visually impaired people can only use this technology to a certain extent. Voice recognition and voice response can only help so much. …
Two years, SOCAP along with PEERS, hosted a conference exclusively focused on the Sharing Economy. Now in 2016, sharing is still big business. But the Black Lives Matter movement has generated the first sustained, substantive critique of the “Sharing Economy” Silicon Valley gold-rush. How will AirBnb, Uber, …
In countries like India, Indonesia, Kenya and other emerging economies, digital new growth enterprises (startups) are growing rapidly, alongside traditional social businesses. Digital enterprises typically cannot be localized to any one region, location type, demographic or even language, which are some of the traditional ways of defining …
Jennifer Kenning, Managing Director Speaking Topics • What do investors look for when investing in a Social Enterprise o Mission, team, due diligence, and terms - truly creating a win/win model o We must be sitting on the same side of the table willing to collaborate to …
GIIRS and GIIN(IRIS) can help a single organization measure their impact, but neither solves the problem of measuring the impact across a diverse portfolio. The Pinchot Impact Index is a simple, usable solution to this problem, calculating a single number, no matter how many investments or how …
For early-stage investing, Angels, foundations and other are copying the venture capital investment model, despite the fact that model doesn’t even work for the majority of venture capital funds, despite that model only working for the tiny number of startups with potentials of billions of dollars in …
The recent problems of unemployment of the youth as being a big concern to our organization and the recent Oil drop in the world market as being a treat to the Nigeria Economy, couple with the various security challenges in which Nigeria is currently facing in which …
Impact evidence is often missing element in the impact investment as many brand traditional investments as socially responsible investing. Developing a collective impact measurement system is essential to funders such as foundations, impact funds, and high-impact nonprofit organizations. Funders collect data using MS-Excel, which creates a significant …
This 30 minute workshop will help your organization craft an effective and integrated video strategy that will give you a solid ROI. Using real case studies, we will cover video strategy best practices and common mistakes social enterprises and nonprofits make when planning out their video strategy. …
The American healthcare system is broken and those most at risk are people with a serious illness (think: cancer, heart disease) or those who are nearing the end of life (think: our aging parents). Unfortunately, people are often not empowered to speak up for the kind of …
Important 2016 Dates
- JUNE 3
Final day to submit an idea. - JUNE 4-15
Commenting and voting period. All sessions open for voting. - JUNE 16-28
Judging panel and final selection by SOCAP16 Content Team. - JUNE 29
Winning sessions announced to session organizers.
