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.
“n the relationship between humans and animals - the ones we raise and eat - using photography as language through which induce people to stop and reflect before eating. This session shows photographs from the Bestiario by the artist Ilaria Ferretti accompanied by the art-book “Bestiario - …
A postlude to the SOCAP15 panel, ‘Fair Trade: Funding Gaps and Opportunities in the Supply Chain.’ This panel follows up on the conversation RSF Social Finance hosted last year to explore the challenges and opportunities for building sustainable supply chains and how to capitalize them. The panel …
“In Africa, when an old man dies, it’s a library burning.” In the last three years moved by theses words of Malian writer and ethnologist, Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Italian Specialist in Cultural Heritage, Pierpaolo Ceciliani, has developed a complex safeguard project which applies an innovative method using …
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 …
Today, more than one billion people do not have access to clean, pathogen-free, safe drinking water. According the World Health Organization (WHO), “by 2025, half of the world’s population will be living in water-stressed areas.” Water purity is an ever-growing global problem, and today’s solutions for water …
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 …
Today, 1 in 6 people in the US is Latino. Many Latinos work under “no-matter-what” circumstances- they strive, endure, and have an uncanny ability to fearlessly navigate bilingual, multicultural settings—an advantage in a global economy. As the number of Americans with Latino roots grows, so does the …
Entrepreneurs looking to grow their businesses frequently turn to accelerator programs for support. But are these programs effective? As accelerators continue to proliferate in developing countries, we must ask critical questions about what is and is not working. This panel showcases three studies of accelerator effectiveness across …
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 …
Utility-scale renewable energy generation in the Global South needs to take structural, social and cultural factors carefully into consideration, since the most competitive renewable energy sources are often on land that belongs to indigenous and other vulnerable communities. Institutional ESG safeguards are failing to mitigate social risk …
How do you turn an idea into a big impact? Socially minded entrepreneurs and investors have great aspirations, but they face the overwhelming problem of figuring out how to start. What’s the common theme among those who create social change? They think big, but start small. Every …
This panel will discuss the trends of impact investing in healthcare and approaches different impact investors are taking to build healthcare investment portfolios in emerging markets. The session will start with the moderator providing a general overview of key trends in healthcare impact investing. This will be …
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.
