Social Entrepreneurship Symposium

19 March 2010

Pacific Room, 21st Fl.
the Pan Pacific Bangkok Hotel, Silom

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Agenda

8: 30 AM Registration
9:00 AM Opening Keynote Speaker:
Fr. Xavier Alpasa

2009 TED Fellow, and Chairman of the Board of Rags2Riches, which creates high-end designer clothing from recycled scrap materials from garment factories and made by empowered women from poor communities in the Philippines.
9:30 AM Session One Panel:
Social Entrepreneurship as a Competitive Strategy,
What is social entrepreneurship and how for-profit companies, social ventures and non-profit organization turn it into their achievement?
Chris Cusano

Director of Ashoka's Entrepreneur to Enrepreneur Program in Asia, helping business leaders to engage with Ashoka fellows through investment, support, or partnering activities.
Roberto Piccioni

Faculty Advisor, Green MBA, the new generation of MBA program that seeks to promote financial viability, ecological sustainability, and social justice in business and organizations of all types at Dominican University of California
Sarinee Achavanuntakul

Editor of Open Online, a web magazine in Thai, Co-founder of Thai Netizen Network with the campaign about Internet freedom in Thailand; and Finance Sub-Committee of Thailand's National Social Enterprise Committee
DTAC representative

The mobile phone service provider who delivers up-to-the-minute agricultural and market information by sms to more than 160,000 farmer subscribers across Thailand
11:00 AM ----- Morning Break -----
11:30 AM Session Two Panel: Measuring Social Impact and Using the Results,
How to capture the non-financial impact of business activities from CSR to social product/service and integrate the value within operations.
Sara Olsen

Founding Partner of Social Venture Technology Group, which excels at helping companies measure, manage and communicate Social and Environmental Impact. Sara is also one of the GSVC's co-founders.
R. Paul Herman

Founder of HIP Investor (Human Impact + Profit), and creator of the HIP Index, which measures publicly traded companies in the areas of Human Impact and Profitability. He is also the author of The HIP Investor: Make Bigger Profits by Building a Better World, to be released by Wiley in April 2010.
SCG representative

The Thai company who received Gold Class-Outstanding Sustainability Results from Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) and launched "Eco Value" the first eco-label guaranteed by Thai company.
1:00 PM ----- Lunch Break -----
2:30 PM
Keynote Speaker: Durreen Shanaz

2010 TED Fellow, and Founder and Chairman of the Impact Investment Exchange, Asia's first regulated securities market, trading in sustainable for-profit and not-for-profit social enterprises.
3:00 PM Presentation from Winners of Global Social Venture Competition – Southeast Asia
3:15 PM Session Three Panel: Getting your Social Enterprise Ideas off the Ground,
Lessons learned sharing from successful social entrepreneurs for all aspects.
Alexander Reyes

Founder of RuralLight, a social enterprise that empowers off-grid communities in pursuing sustainable solutions in renewable energy
Eric Wong Poh Sang
General Manager in Laos of Digital Divide Data (DDD)

A social enterprise which provides world-class IT services, while creating opportunities for disadvantaged individuals in developing countries to participate in the global economy.
Saumil Shah

Managing Director of EnerGaia, a environmental company specializing in using algae to consume waste CO2 generated by industrial sources such as fossil fuel power plants, biomass facilities, and cement factories.
4:30 PM Closing Key Note Speaker:
Kevin Teo

Founder and Director of Volans, a worldwide think-tank, consultancy, broker, and incubator for developing scalable innovations for society and the environment. Volans recently published The Phoenix Economy: 50 Pioneers in the Business of Social Innovation, exploring the leaders, business models, and technologies which will drive the future.
5:00 PM Afternoon Break & Networking

Remark: Admission to GSVC competition and symposium is free, but seating is limited. You may request a reserve seat with a donation to the GSVC of at least Baht 1,000.