Friday 16 April
Registration 08.00 – 15.00 Entrance Lobby
Upon arriving at the Saïd Business School, please check in and pick up your delegate badge at the Skoll World Forum Registration Desk. You must have your badge with you to attend all Skoll World Forum events.
09.00 – 10.30
Climate Change Post-Copenhagen: Collaborating From the Ground Up
Track: Critical Issues
Edmond Safra Lecture Theatre
The Copenhagen Climate Summit left the climate community wrestling with the best way to proceed in the absence of a global agreement on carbon emissions. Barring multi-national cooperation, progress must continue at the national and sub-national levels, calling on industries, non-governmental organisations, and social entrepreneurs to self-organise and collaborate to drive emission reductions. This cross cutting conversation engages participants from multiple sectors around opportunities for collaboration and how to bring about change from the bottom up.
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Donor Collaboration for Issue Level Impact
Track: Collaboration in Action
Rhodes Trust Lecture Theatre
What happens when multiple donors, social entrepreneurs, government and civil society actors collaborate for impact? A groundbreaking initiative funded by AVINA and the Skoll Foundation is a live case study in the power of cross-sector, cross border collaboration. Our panellists – leading funders, experts in policy reform and indigenous land ownership, and innovators in satellite monitoring and data analysis – will discuss the ups and downs of crafting this integrated, multi-network approach and its effect on deforestation reduction and poverty alleviation in the Amazon region.
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Governments and Social Entrepreneurs: Partnership vs. Subcontracting
Track: Collaboration in Action
Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
With social challenges facing all governments, how many are turning to innovative social entrepreneurs for new approaches and operating models? What opportunities does this present for social entrepreneurs working globally? From the White House’s newly established Social Innovation Fund to the emergence of Singapore as a regional hub for social entrepreneurship, this session will explore the perspective of senior government leaders on the public sector’s aspirations in relation to entrepreneurial social ventures.
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Next Generation Social Media for Greater Programmatic Impact
Track: Enterprise Accelerator
Lecture Theatre 4
Tech literate social entrepreneurs are using mobile technology and the latest in social media tools to loop staff, beneficiaries and supporters together in new and innovative ways. Going beyond the often siloed departments of communications and fundraising, this session will focus on cutting edge strategies and uses of social media for greater impact on mission objectives. Move beyond Facebook and Twitter and redesign your social media strategy to dissolve distances, expand roles of beneficiaries, donors and staff, and increase your programmatic impact.
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Tapping into Social Finance for Growth: A Clinic for Practitioners
Track: Innovative Finance
Reception
Social entrepreneurs know all too well the limits of grant-driven growth, and are increasingly designing business models to tap into debt, equity, and other forms of finance to drive impact and scale. But these strategies can create organisational challenges for entrepreneurs and can send confusing signals to existing funders and partners. Led by proven investors and advisors, this clinic offers strategic and practical approaches to attracting investment dollars, effectively managing them once they arrive, and strategically employing them for heightened impact and scale.
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Connect and Collaborate
Seminar Rooms A & B
New to the Forum this year, delegates are encouraged to self-organise around topics of their choice and have intimate table top conversations. Post your discussion ideas, problem solve your greatest challenges, share best practices, and network with delegates with like interests, concerns, or experience. Conversations will take place at maximum tables of ten to allow for rigorous discussion. Forty-five conversation slots are available and the topics will be announced via Twitter (#skollwf) and on the monitors in the Reception and Common Rooms. Sign up is available in Seminar A on a first come, first served basis.
11.00 – 12.30
Canary in the Coal Mine: H1N1 and Global Threat Preparedness in the 21st Century
Track: Critical Issues
Edmond Safra Lecture Theatre
Pandemics pose an inarguably daunting global threat: they are hard to predict, spread globally at rapid speed, impact people directly, and have the potential to stop commerce. The H1N1 virus presented us with the first pandemic of the 21st century, but how well did the world respond? This cross-sector conversation engages academics, policy-makers, social entrepreneurs, and audience members around what worked, what didn’t, and what can be learnt about the roles of government, industry, the social sector, and media when it comes to tackling a global threat.
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Climate Change, Societal Demand, and Food Security: Social Entrepreneurs at the Intersection
Track: Critical Issues
Lecture Theatre 4
By 2050, there will be an estimated 2.3 billion more people to feed, one third more than today. Additionally, new sources of food demand have emerged with increased use of food crops for bio fuels. Longstanding under-investment in agriculture, along with sharp increases in fuel and food prices followed by the economic crisis, has driven an estimated 100 million more people into poverty. This session brings together recognised experts and innovators in the field to outline solutions to this looming global threat.
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Collaborative Leadership: A Practical Toolkit
Track: Collaboration in Action
Reception
How do you build an organisation in which everyone is a leader and has the resources and tools to drive change from within? In what ways can you increase organisational effectiveness and improve professional culture while maintaining an entrepreneurial environment? Participants in this hands-on workshop will work together to develop a framework for understanding what it takes to build an institution that values and supports changemakers, and then use what they have learned to collaboratively shape and refine their own organisational strategies.
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Reimagining Networks for Innovation and Impact
Track: Enterprise Accelerator
Rhodes Trust Lecture Theatre
In a world where everyone is a co-creator, witness, reporter or educator, social networks have become more powerful than ever. With advancements in open sourced technology platforms, these exploding on-line networks can be used to fuel innovation, foster serendipity, give voice to beneficiaries, and collaborate with kindred thinkers. Join experts as they discuss the roles, barriers and future opportunities for networking to facilitate collaboration, heighten programmatic impact, and foster accountability and transparency.
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The Colours of Money: Social Financiers Collaborating for Impact
Track: Innovative Finance
Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
Investors are looking beyond the single bottom line, but still seek commercial returns on their investment. Philanthropists want to maximise impact with constrained resources. Governments recognise the limitations of development programmes to solve the world’s most pressing problems. This session explores ways that investment, philanthropic and government resources are working together to create positive impact in innovative ways – through investment approaches that combine different ’colours of money’, working to help innovations escape the world of the small but beautiful.
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Connect and Collaborate
Seminar Rooms A & B
New to the Forum this year, delegates are encouraged to self-organise around topics of their choice and have intimate table top conversations. Post your discussion ideas, problem solve your greatest challenges, share best practices, and network with delegates with like interests, concerns, or experience. Conversations will take place at maximum tables of ten to allow for rigorous discussion. Forty-five conversation slots are available and the topics will be announced via Twitter (#swf10) and on the monitors in the Reception and Common Rooms. Sign up is available in Seminar A on a first come, first served basis.
14.30 – 16.00
Closing Plenary
Sheldonian Theatre
Doors open at 13.45 Seating is General Admission
Opening Remarks, Master of Ceremonies
- Pamela Hartigan, Director, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
The Power of Persuasion: Pulling in the Reluctant Collaborators
- Caroline Casey, Founder & CEO, Kanchi
Anatomy of a Movement
- Aruna Roy, Activist, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan with Nikhil Dey
Realising A Vision
- Tim Smit, Chief Executive & Co-Founder, Eden Project
Closing Remarks
- Stephan Chambers, Chairman of the Skoll Centre Standing Committee, Saïd Business School
Please note that the Sheldonian is a 15 minute walk from Saïd Business School
