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.
From Uber to Solar City, companies have adopted the data science and organizing principles used by one of the biggest, most successful start-ups of our time: the Obama campaign. Increasingly, randomized controlled experiments are used to increase ROI, fuel innovation and accelerate change in a variety of …
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 …
The world increasingly sees the importance of user-centric solutions that are demand-driven, relevant, and affordable. Today’s innovation ecosystem is diffuse, with smart ideas coming from every corner of the world. Empowered by digital platforms and new forms of financing, the opportunities for accelerating innovation—wherever it starts—have never …
The impact of climate change is stressing arable land and water resources, which will increasingly impact food systems, particularly for the most vulnerable populations. We know it’s possible to respond effectively to these challenges by recognizing and drawing on the interconnected components of climate, agriculture, nutrition, health, …
Large amounts of time, talent and money are being poured into a range of (often innovative) entrepreneur support programs. While we should be taking stock of successes and failures, these many ‘program experiments’ are not cumulating into systematic insights that might spur further program innovations and a …
Opportunities to use behavior research and design to create a new era of products and services for low-income communities in the United States
Contraception is recognized as one of the highest-leverage interventions to increase self-determination, improve maternal and child health, and lift families out of poverty. So why have most of the new contraceptives of the past two decades, even those developed with public money, been priced out of reach …
The American healthcare system is broken and those most at risk are people with a serious illness (think: cancer, heart disease) or those who are nearing the end of life (think: our aging parents). Unfortunately, people are often not empowered to speak up for the kind 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.
