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.
Submit Your SOCAP Open Proposal Here
As you plan your submission, consider the most effective, engaging format for your content idea. The SOCAP16 themes are available to help you gain an understanding of some primary areas of programming, but we always welcome a variety of topics connected to the social impact movement. Don’t forget to check out the SOCAP Open FAQs and our Tips for Crafting a Winning SOCAP Open Idea as you develop your proposal.
AgTech startups and innovators in emerging markets have taken off in recent years and are scaling up to reach a billion smallholder farmers globally. Securing Water for Food: A Grand Challenge for Development has identified game-changing solutions that will increase water availability and/or promote efficient use of …
Education is a central factor in both individual and community economic stability. In order to address and break down the structural barriers inhibiting citizens and neighborhoods from achieving financial self-sufficiency, a drive for creative, innovative solutions for workforce preparation, skill building, credentialing and access to professional networks, …
Our present economic system prioritizes growth and short-term outcomes, putting humans and ecosystems on a collision course with the finite, physical limitations of the biosphere. There is, however, a new economic movement afoot – one that works to value and regenerate capital assets. The regenerative paradigm draws …
While early-stage investment for entrepreneurs in emerging markets is growing, social enterprises still struggle to access the appropriate capital needed to help move them from “proof of concept” to scale. When banks are unwilling and invests are unable to finance the risk, blended finance - the mixing …
Despite persistent political engagement and humanitarian assistance, traditional peace building efforts world-wide often breakdown due to their failure to secure long-term, equitable and inclusive economic development. Impact Investing presents a new opportunity to directly link capital and expertise with traditionally sidelined entrepreneurs, empowering them to generate the …
In this panel discussion, Rags2Riches, a Philippines-based social enterprise empowering local artisans, and Alter Eco, a San Francisco-based social enterprise working directly with cooperatives of small-scale farmers, share how their work to create and support farmer cooperatives and artisan communities in Asia and Central and South America …
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. …
How can we develop an economy based on abundance rather than scarcity? Regenerative economics is a way of recasting entrepreneurship with an understanding of stewardship, so that investments and innovations are valued by how they cultivate healthy relationships, cooperation, and a thriving planet. In this session we’ll …
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 …
Important 2016 Dates
- JUNE 3
Final day to submit an idea. - JUNE 1-15
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.
