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 …
“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 …
Daryl Collins, author of Portfolios of the Poor and MD of Bankable Frontier Associates (BFA), will present new work funded by the Omidyar Network that characterizes the role women play in low income households in Mexico, India and Kenya. This new research leverages a set of Financial …
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 …
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 …
Practicing everyday inclusion immediately opens us up to valuable opportunities for social connection. Solutions to our biggest problems or the gateway to the most valuable connection could be the result of one meaningful conversation that was the result of establishing a goal like meeting 1 new person …
Gender, race and sexual orientation are seen as the key pillars of diversity, but why not disability? People with disabilities represent 15% of the population, but dehumanizing stereotypes and misconceptions influence their potential to be seen as innovators and changemakers. Engage the community to avoid overlooking creative …
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 …
Research shows that the gender pay gap remains significant, with the typical woman receiving 21% less pay than the typical man. When education, occupation, industry, and job title are held constant, the pay gap remains. In the US, this gap has not changed substantially over the last …
Lack of funding for entrepreneurs of color has been addressed as a matter of under-representation. An emerging approach highlights the demographic change in the United States toward a majority minority economy. This panel will address the different avenues to a more inclusive ecosystem, focusing on the economic …
How does your life experience shape your view of the world? How does it seep into your interactions, or into the products and services you’re designing and funding? “Designing for Worldview” is an interactive workshop that applies the problem-solving power of human-centered design to the challenge 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.
