We are excited to announce the SOCAP Open sessions that will be presented at SOCAP15. The quality and quantity of submissions was impressive, as well as the enthusiastic response during the voting and commenting period. We received over 200 submissions, and some sessions garnered over 200 votes! An advisory panel reviewed all of the sessions and added their perspective on which sessions would be most relevant and valuable during this year’s conference. Public votes and advisory panel input helped the SOCAP Programming team to make the difficult decisions of selecting approximately 30 sessions to include at SOCAP15.
These sessions are now being further refined and developed by those who submitted them. We are excited to see the final product on stage October 6-9 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, CA. Here is a list of the selected session titles:
Conservation Enterprise: Addressing biodiversity loss at the source
Forests & Water - Combating Drought & Forest Fires with Finance
Community Foundations as Leaders of Place-based Investing
Funding Fair Trade: Gaps & Opportunities in the Supply Chain
Climate Ventures 2.0: A Case Study in Public Private Partnerships
Opportunities for impact investors and social entrepreneurs in South Asia / East Africa
Faith perspectives on impact investing
Investing in Storytelling to Drive Social Impact
Bigger Isn’t Always Better: Accelerating Microbusinesses in Local Economies
Climate Change Investing: Three Important Considerations
What Worth is Wealth: Leaving a Legacy of Impact
Impact Measurement: Views from the Experts
Social Intrapreneurs: Driving Scalable Innovation Inside Global NGOs
Powering Economies: The Future of Energy Infrastructure
The Intentionally Designed Endowment
Innovation Station: Designing New Business Models for Sustainability
New Ways For Startups To Do Good From The Start
Neighborhood Economics #DetroitRising
Strong Ties, Big Impact: How to Construct Strategic Networks Around Founders
The New Superheroes: Global Tech Volunteers
Thank you to everyone who sent ideas and everyone who voted. We firmly believe that featuring content created and produced by our community is key to SOCAP’s impact, relevance and meaning. We hope you are as excited to see these panels as we are.
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