May 9th and 10th, Said Business School - University of Oxford
On 9-10th May at the Said Business School OxSEF is a unique opportunity to hear from the top names who are shaping this new economy under one roof.
It is the UK's leading student-run conference on social entrepreneurship and sustainable business.
***DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAMME HERE***
The forum will consist of a series of keynote speeches and panel debates, combined with a variety of workshops and informal discussions, as well as a unique film screening of Age of Stupid. We will also give individuals a chance to turn their ideas for social enterprises into reality by holding a pitching session to win up to £1000 at the end of the conference!
Wal-Mart’s CEO Lee Scott claims that sustainability is ‘the single biggest business opportunity of the twenty-first century’.
Bill Gates has called for a "creative capitalism" that uses market forces to address poor-country needs.
Social enterprise harnesses the power of business to bring about great social change. Gordon Brown recently commented that “social enterprise is the new British business success story” with over 55,000 social enterprises in the UK, with a combined turnover of £27bn per year.
We are seeing new career opportunities in a different kind of business that is not solely focused on financial goals but is driven by values and uses imagination and innovation to solve the most urgent global problems that we currently face, from climate change to global poverty.
In this context, is the current financial chaos an economic disaster or a catalyst for change?
OxSEF is aimed at anyone who has an interest the potential to employ business for good, whether a budding social entrepreneur or a curious academic.
- A New Form of Capitalism - Does the recession present an opportunity for a new way of doing business?
- Social Climate - Should we leave it to the market to save the environment?
- Social Enterprise and Development – Improving Rural Livelihoods in Africa
- How to become a practical idealist
- What is the best business model to achieve social change?
- How do you measure social change?
- and many more…
- Sir David King, Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University, and the Government’s former Chief Scientific Advisor
- Jo Confino, Head of Sustainable Development and Executive Editor at the Guardian
- Pamela Hartigan, Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
- Reed Paget, Social Entrepreneur of the Year 07 (Belu Water) and Schwab Fellow of the World Economic Forum
- Dr John Hammock, Professor John Hammock, North American Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, former Executive Director of Oxfam America, author of “Practical Idealists”
- Gib Bulloch, Director of Accenture Development Partnerships
- Kresse Wesling, Founder of EaKo, UK Social Enterprise Ambassador, winner of the 2007 Shell Entrepreneurial Woman of the Future Award
***For a list of all current confirmed speakers, please download the programme here.***
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