Sessions
Sessions
Sessions
Acumen’s Session on How I stopped worrying, and started working with the Government | India has emerged as a lab for social innovation with a myriad of mission-driven businesses developing transformative, financially sustainable innovations aimed at solving social problems. These innovations often seek to address similar issues as the government…
Intellecap’s Session on Common Action Platforms to Accelerate Impact Investing in India | The Impact investing industry in India is growing rapidly, the sector is witnessing sizeable capital flow, strong leadership and there is an increased focus on measuring the impact created by the capital. However, there is limited information…
ICTPH’s Session on Designing an Integrated Healthcare Systems in Rural India | India’s healthcare is crippled; 70% of its population resides in rural areas, while 70% of its medical infrastructure is available only in urban centers. India needs 1.2 million doctors, but has only 400,000 qualified physicians. As a result, 600,000…
Intellecap’s Session on Exploring Virtual Incubation Platforms | There is a critical need to innovate on existing startup incubation structures in India. Of the 125 odd incubators in India today, only 2 to 3% are private. By the year 2012 only 1600 of these enterprises had graduated. In India…
REWG session on Ecosystem Creation for Decentralized Renewable Energy | India is the 5th largest generator of power in the world, and yet, over 33% of the population does not have access to electricity; renewable energy solutions have the potential to alleviate the immense pressure on the country’s energy resources,…
NASE’s session on Finding the Right Investor | A large part of a social entrepreneurs’ life is spent in looking for the right investor, one who believes in their cause, one who has a good grasp of market opportunities, and one who does not push them to compromise their mission in…
The Value of Belief in Business | Hear from Devdutt Pattanaik, author and Chief Belief Officer at the Big Bazaar Future Group, in his Keynote Speech on the role played by the Indian belief system in shaping the way we do business. Devdutt Pattanaik is the author of Business Sutra:
Scaling for Impact by Addressing Barriers in the Eco-system | Investments in market based solutions to social problems has traditionally focused on the firm or discrete programs/intervention within the firm. This traditional approach was premised on the view that investment and other support at the firm/intervention level alone would drive scaling…
CII-CESD’s session on New Approaches and Tools for Impact Measurement | There are many tools for the impact investment industry that intend to create transparency for institutional investors, financial services intermediaries, and companies seeking mission-aligned growth capital. However, based on our interaction with social enterprises as well as some impact investors…
Start Up!’s Session on Social Enterprises in Conflict Zones | Ravaged by continuous war and violence, conflict areas such as Kashmir, and the North East are looked upon by the outside world as ‘no-go’ areas; areas where development isn’t possible until political stability is restored. As a result, these areas…
Dasra’s Session on Sanitation and Access to Toilets in Urban India | In India, 1,600 children die every day before reaching their 5th birthday, 24% of girls drop out of school and more than 30% of marginalized women are violently assaulted every year as the lack of basic sanitation forces…
Nasscom’s session on the roles and challenges of social innovation in india | For many years in India, innovation has been a part of the culture, in many ways. In recent times, many enterprises and entrepreneurs have attempted to provide a more organized structure to this thought process. Social innovation –…
Impact Law Ventures’ Session on Corporate social responsibility in India | What are some of the best practices in relation to evolving corporate social responsibility frameworks and building effective bridges between samaj and bazaar? What are the vidhi related essentials of Section 135 read together with Schedule VII of the…
SocialStory’s session on storytelling for impact | Man has been using the powerful tool of telling stories since he lived in a cave. It might have started orally, and now moved to leveraging all kinds of technologies, but strip any story down and the basic blocks that create the magic…
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