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.
Are you an entrepreneur trying to build a company with values, integrity, and mission? Why does it matter how you capitalize your company (boot-strap, venture, debt, self-funded)? And why does it matter where that money comes from? Hear from successful social entrepreneur leaders on their financing experiences …
A collaborative discussion with practiced social enterprise leaders on the A to Z of scaling globally. Why are there so few truly global social enterprises? What are the hurdles that social enterprises face in scaling globally? How does one navigate the legal and cultural complexities beyond the …
Non-profit social enterprises don’t have the wide array of funding options that for-profit firms have. What are the growth capital options for social enterprises? What are the impacts of these options? What are the social enterprise financing trends today? This panel will discuss the different options and …
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 …
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.
Financial Inclusion works, when available, but there are still 2 billion people excluded from the financial system. Costs are too high; access too hard; and innovation too slow. We need a new way forward and this is Financial Inclusion 2.0 - the fast, low cost, mobile delivery …
It seem to me, the more we look at risk as a fear inducing, one-sided and problematic element the more we restrict the potential of socially beneficial returns. Could we improve our chances of creating positive social change if we were to look at risk as something …
The session looks at how tax reliefs can be used to rectify failings in the traditional investment model and to encourage more individuals to engage in impact investment. There will be examples of how social investment tax relief has operated in the UK and the learnings that …
How do for-profit businesses with social mission organize themselves to compete in the future economy? What is the optimal legal structure (traditional corporation, LLC, benefit corporation)? What do larger impact investors such as foundations, family officers look for in investment opportunities? What metrics should for-profit social mission …
As financial inclusion transforms into inclusive fintech, stupendous barriers remain ahead of the industry. The startups that will lead the charge from emerging markets have difficulty raising capital to accelerate their traction and the lessons they learn are usually not shared widely. To address those twin challenges, …
Behind every new water tap or modern toilet that finds a home in a poor community, lies a web of experts, development partners, manufacturers and investors, who are working together in increasingly sophisticated ways to address extreme poverty. Their new tool of choice? The capital markets. In …
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.
