Thursday 15 April
Registration 08.00 – 17.30 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
Beyond the Single Bottom Line: Pioneers in Blended Value
Track: Innovative Finance
Rhodes Trust Lecture Theatre
Mainstream companies are moving beyond gifts to charities and are incorporating social entrepreneurship into their business models. Recognising that social and environmental, as well as financial returns can have direct and positive impacts on a company’s branding, mainstream markets, and employee moral, blended value is replacing the single bottom line approach. This session engages pioneers in blended value practice and examines what it takes from leadership and organisational culture to managing shareholder expectations to truly move beyond the single bottom line.
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How can social entrepreneurs build effective strategies in the midst of social, technical, economic, political and environmental externalities? Scenario planning is a powerful tool used by governments and Fortune 500 corporations alike in building focused yet responsive strategies to guide their organisations. Join scenarios expert Dr. Rafael Ramirez for this master class on a process that combines known facts about the future with alternative plausible pathways. Leave the session armed with methodologies and practical next steps to improve your organisation’s longer-range vision.
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Peace Building and Conflict: The Role for Social Entrepreneurs
Track: Critical Issues
Edmond Safra Lecture Theatre
Ending conflict and building peace requires both political leadership at the top and energy and commitment from the bottom. Social entrepreneurs working in conflict zones and post-conflict societies often seek support for peace at the grass roots. What does it take to be effective in this setting? How do projects survive and can they be scaled up? How do you find partners and allies? This session focuses on locally-led solutions to conflict and the role that social entrepreneurs are playing in some of the most divided societies on earth.
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Structuring Collaboration: Mergers, Partnerships and New Business Models
Track: Collaboration in Action
Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
To achieve impact at scale, social entrepreneurs are inventing new ways to collaborate with a diversified range of partners. This session will share three successful approaches that have led to sustainable scale: merging two social ventures as a means for collaboration and growth; partnering with government, private sector, banks and end-users, and shaping sustainable development practices through new business models such as spin-offs structured for growth and leverage.
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The Neuroscience of Change – Understanding the Brain, Influencing Behaviour
Track: Enterprise Accelerator
Lecture Theatre 4
Getting people to care is one of the greatest challenges facing social entrepreneurs. Whether inspiring consumers toward fair trade, persuading corporate leaders to care about labour practices, or empowering women in a rural village – the challenge to influence behaviour is daunting. This session will explore the neuroscience behind this complex process. From the circuitry of our brains to the emotional responses that direct behaviour, esteemed neuroscientists and behaviourists will share theoretical and practical knowledge that can help social entrepreneurs more effectively navigate this challenge.
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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.
11.00 – 12.30
How to Build a ‘Fierce, Wild Unstoppable Movement and Community’
Track: Collaboration in Action
Rhodes Trust Lecture Theatre
With an audacious mission, slim staff and $70 million raised to date, V-Day has built a powerful, global movement to end violence against women using an innovative empowerment philanthropy model. Working in 130 countries, V-Day is now launching an unprecedented collaborative initiative in the Democratic Republic of Congo: the City of Joy. Draw critical lessons from the challenges and successes of this real-world case study in true collaborative impact.
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Partnering with Academia: Balancing Tradition and Transformational Change
Track: Collaboration in Action
Lecture Theatre 4
While educational institutions have been historically slow to respond to societal change, a new generation of educational innovators recognises the critical intersection between academia and practitioners working for social change on the ground. How are universities responding to global challenges and catalyzing efforts to advance knowledge, thought-leadership, and talent in an uncertain world? This session will explore the synergies, disconnects, and future opportunities for collaboration between academic actors and social entrepreneurs.
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Social Good with Market Returns? Investors and Entrepreneurs Are Having it Both Ways
Track: Innovative Finance
Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
The idea of using profit-seeking investment to generate social and environmental good is moving from a periphery of activist investors to the core of mainstream financial institutions. This emerging class of investors reaches far beyond the ‘do no harm’ world of socially responsible investing to actively place capital toward solutions that philanthropy alone cannot reach. This panel includes investors on the leading edge of the wave that is simultaneously creating large-scale social, environmental, and financial returns.
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The Power of Many – Collaborative Impact and Measurement
Track: Collaboration in Action
Reception
With growing ambition yet shrinking resources, funders are increasingly interested in the collaborative impact of multiple grantees working together around a common goal. This cluster approach brings challenges for funders who want to structure and measure these initiatives, and opportunities for social entrepreneurs seeking to engage with this emerging phenomenon. This interactive session explores both sides of the equation, bringing perspectives of funders, consultants and social entrepreneurs at the forefront of this trend towards collaborative impact.
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Water Scarcity and the Human Right to Water
Track: Critical Issues
Edmond Safra Lecture Theatre
In recent years the right to water has grown in importance as a moral, religious, legal and practical question and as a tool for tackling water scarcity. Join thought leaders, academics, activists and social entrepreneurs for a revealing discussion about the barriers and opportunities presented by the human rights agenda. We expect vigorous discussion around issues such as charging the poor for water, privatisation, local control of water management, and the rights and duties of government, farmers, and the urban poor in water management.
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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.
14.00 – 15.30
Aid Agencies and Social Entrepreneurs: Natural Allies, New Bridges
Track: Collaboration in Action
Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
This session brings together senior staff working in development agencies that have engaged, or attempted to engage, directly with social entrepreneurs working in emerging markets. To what degree have these respective agencies facilitated the work of innovative social change agents working directly with the poor? What can be done to enhance the impact of these potentially powerful partnerships? The session will draw upon entrepreneurs in the audience who have engaged with international aid agencies.
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Compelling Action: Social Change Media in the Age of Information Overload
Track: Enterprise Accelerator
Rhodes Trust Lecture Theatre
Media can move mountains but few know how to deliver a story that is heard above the din and can jolt an audience into action. This interactive session starts with examples from those whose stories have successfully galvanized broad audiences in support of their efforts and moves quickly into a fast-paced sharing of experience and recommendations from the audience. This session will synthesize themes and draw on the extensive expertise in the room so that everyone walks away with tangible strategies for compelling action!
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Local Talent on a Global Scale: HR Strategies for Sustainability
Track: Enterprise Accelerator
Reception
This interactive session looks at cultivating talent throughout an organisation for scale and impact, whether you are working to convert local beneficiaries into operational staff, building a team to scale your organisation at a global level, or strategising around succession planning. Draw on the experience of top-level social entrepreneurs, consumers-turned-managers, and sector consultants to help you problem solve your toughest HR challenge.
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- Mai Siriphongphanh, Chief People Officer & COO, Digital Divide Data
- Viwe Mgudlwa, Site Coordinator, mothers2mothers
- Sam Goldman, CEO, D.light Design
- Sébastien Marot, International Coordinator, Friends-International
- Pari Jhaveri, Executive Director, Third Sector Partners
- Yvette Alberdingk Thijm, Executive Director, Witness
Oceans in Peril: Catalyzing International Collaboration
Track: Critical Issues
Edmond Safra Lecture Theatre
The oceans produce over 70% of our oxygen, dominate the world’s weather system, and support the livelihoods of 500 million people worldwide. Yet today they are in great peril—over fished, polluted, and damaged by the absorption of ever-increasing amounts of carbon dioxide. What must be done if we are to reverse the destruction of this vital resource? Join in this interactive, solution-oriented discussion with some of the world’s leading activists, academics and social entrepreneurs working at the intersection of this critical issue.
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When Disaster Strikes: Social Entrepreneurs Managing through Crisis
Track: Collaboration in Action
Lecture Theatre 4
Social entrepreneurs tackle difficult problems in challenging environments, often working in places with weak infrastructure, fragile government and limited resources. When disaster hits, such as the earthquake in Haiti, social entrepreneurs often have the networks and processes in place to be effective early responders. This requires meeting the dual challenge of managing their own operations in a time of stress and coordinating relief efforts. In this session, social entrepreneurs who have managed through crisis will talk about what it takes to be effective.
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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.
17.30 – 19.00
Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship – Ceremony
Sheldonian Theatre
Doors open at 16.45 Seating is general admission
The Skoll Foundation invites you to attend the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship to honour the 2010 Awardees and to celebrate all those who are working to create a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world. Please join Jeff Skoll, Founder and Chairman, and Sally Osberg, President and CEO, for a special evening of inspiration and storytelling.
Featuring
- Remarks by: Paul Hawken, CEO, OneSun Solar
- Musical Performance by: Jimmy and Donnie Demers
- Premiere of: Uncommon Heroes short films about: TransFair, Afghan Institute of Learning, GramVikas.
2010 Awardees
19.00 – 21.30
Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship – Awards Reception
University of Oxford Examination Schools
Join fellow delegates and Skoll Awardees at the University of Oxford Examination Schools.
22.00 – 23.30
Film Screening: Oceans
Odeon Cinema, George Street
Thursday, 15 April 22.00 – 23.30 Free Admission, Limited Seating Doors open at 21.30
