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 use of visual storytelling is nearly ubiquitous across industries invested in advancing social change. Still, understanding how to construct a narrative and outreach strategy that effectively changes the way people think and act is more elusive. This keynote will focus on the intersection of media and …
Employers are struggling to attract, engage, and retain a productive workforce. This is partly due to traditional hierarchical organizational models that stifle creativity & innovation and fail to tap into the intrinsic motivators of today’s workforce. stok began to see attrition, disengagement, and distrust in their team …
Over the past few decades, the social enterprise spectrum has brought about innovative solutions that provide communities at the base of the income pyramid with low-cost access to virtually all the basic goods and services required to eliminate most poverty conditions. In an age where social innovation …
The world is like pre-moneyball baseball, full of bias and inefficiency. But, as the world becomes more open and connected, there is no reason why any organization or individual can’t be quickly and easily matched with recommendations of potential collaborators, and have their collaborations easily actionable within …
Value for Women, Oxfam America and the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs´ regional chapter of Central America have been working together over the past year to create an innovative toolkit for integrating men´s engagement and support for women economic empowerment programs. The toolkit was created in response …
In a world of big data, crowdfunding, and other innovations, these women executives will share their perspectives on how they each question the status quo, to map out a new social capital ecosystem.
Creative hubs, collaborative workspaces, and so-called innovation incubators have popped up in great numbers in the United States over the past several years. Many top companies have made their offices more collaborative and open, many universities have built specific innovation labs, and designated design spaces have emerged …
The number of social entrepreneurs tackling problems across Africa is increasing with many innovative solutions and strong entrepreneurs rising to the challenge. This panel will provide a practitioner’s perspective in an interactive Panel session with incubators, hubs, social entrepreneurs and global non-profits who will highlight some of …
An interactive session where participants explore what is proven to be already working to create urban resilience, and how this can help address new challenges, and new places. Rockefeller Foundation, Mercy Corps and Skoll Foundation among others are early adopters of the pioneering ‘Solutioning’ approach that participants …
We all exist in networks full of unseen resources. Leverage Your Network is designed to help you identify those resources and realize that no matter what goal you are trying to accomplish, you already have the necessary tools to accomplish it. In this workshop, you will imagine …
The session will present original and novel research into the strategic management of intellectual property by social entrepreneurs and the implications for impact, scaling, collaboration, networks, and investment/funding.
Come experiment in the emergent field of Group Harmonics where Buckminster Fuller’s insights about the geometry of natural design, (Synergetics), meet: Hans Jenny’s experiments with the creative power of sound (Cymatics); Rudolph Steiner’s insights Come experiment in the emergent field where Buckminster Fuller’s insights about the geometry …
Teams collaborate and innovate in a constantly changing world with entrenched interests and conflicting ideas, organizational politics and complex power dynamics. Some teams succeed at it while others fail. How do the successful teams do that? How do they become productive collaborators transcending the boundaries? How do …
As more and more entrepreneurs join and build the impact sector today, we often feel that we are tackling important global issues in isolation. Who is there for us to discuss the most important things in our lives? How do we best support social entrepreneurs in meaningful, …
As more and more entrepreneurs join and build the impact sector today, we often feel that we are tackling important global issues in isolation. Who is there for us to discuss the most important things in our lives? How do we best support social entrepreneurs in meaningful, …
At the heart of the intersection of money and meaning lies an enlightened negotiation. In this interactive session, you will learn to integrate in business and in life three universal laws of Enlightened Negotiation®: trust, flexibility and strength. Whether you’re an experienced negotiator, entrepreneur, or conscious capitalist, …
This will be a research-based, uncensored, BS-free, thought-provoking, and inspiring session to help participants integrate their own work with new ideas they’re learning at SOCAP to identify opportunities for more impact, satisfaction, and/or efficiency. We’ll each present a real tradeoff that we struggle with (e.g. breadth vs …
Housing is a basic human need that our society struggles to provide for our most vulnerable community members, and there are myriad opportunities to innovate in the space. Come learn how One Degree and Compass Family Services teamed up to dramatically improve affordable housing in the Bay …
Every leader builds a community of stakeholders (investors/donors, employees, members etc.) on which they depend. When leaders know how to create a robust and committed community, they can harness relationships that pull organizations through challenging times. This workshop introduces principles from the realm of spiritual tradition to …
The Womanity Foundation has been working for 11 years to elevate the voice and foster the empowerment of women in emerging economies and fragile states. It has holistically addressed girls’ enrollment and learning outcomes in Afghanistan, and is currently piloting unprecedented vocational training courses for Afghan high …
Despite the rise of impact investing, and billions of dollars poured into this space, Pioneer Gap Social Entrepreneurs innovating on finding solutions to challenging social issues in poverty alleviation for poor often find themselves caught in scenario where access to patient capital is extremely hard to find. …
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is expected to release new Federal regulations governing payday loans, car title loans and similar predatory consumer lending products. The payday loan industry estimates that 80% of its storefronts will close if the CFPB regulations are enacted. What alternatives exist for …
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.
