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.
The growth of the impact investment field relies on foundations being willing to fund innovations and dedicate capital to new approaches. This panel will talk through ways in which leading foundations have linked their organizational missions with their investment decisions; how they implement their programs, identify partners, …
“In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought …
Can we help reverse climate change by changing the fundamentals of the world’s largest industry? The data says we can, simply by changing the way we grow the food that feeds the world. The Carbon Underground is piloting a new initiative called The Food-Climate Development Exchange (FCDE) …
Climate Change related investing has been the ignored step-child of the Venture Capital world, and funding for longer term technology based companies still falls short of what is needed to make the needed societal impact in the next decades. This will be an interactive session where top …
The land and seascape owned and managed by Native American tribes and their tribal members encompasses abundant riches, ‘wealth of the land,’ and precious archives of cultural knowledge held in living memory and in current life-ways, within and maintained by the Tribes, their institutions and governmental/political sections, …
How can investors gain a better understanding of how their investment portfolio is really performing relative to the urgent global issue of climate change? ESG data can reveal relative performance between securities and portfolios, but how does that performance measure against actual, science-based targets that will help …
Kids effectively took the lead by nagging parents to action on recycling, seatbelt use, littering, anti-smoking/drug campaigns. The missing one-third of the population, not yet involved in climate change discussion, are elementary school aged children, parents and teachers. The best way to reach parents is through children …
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.
