
Annual Conference
Over the past 12 years, we believe our conference on Social Entrepreneurship has had something for everyone – academics, practitioners, and students who are interested in social enterprise, innovation, sustainability, and impact. We have been fortunate to have the leading thought leaders, scholars, and social entrepreneurs present their latest work and initiatives.
Within our practitioner conference, Nobel Laureates M. Yunus, and Michael Spence as well as Bill Drayton, Jed Emerson, Jacqueline Novogratz, Andrew Kassoy, Susan Davis, Greg Dees, David Bornstein, Cheryl Dorsey, Linda Rottenberg, Mark Kramer, Jason Saul, Billy Shore, Scott Harrison, Tom Szaky, Darell Hammond, Scott Barrie, Laura Callanan, Brian Trelstad, Sara Olsen, Tris Lumley, Debra Natelshon, Richard Steele, Michael Weinstein, Georgette Wong, Margot Brandenburg, among others have been with us over the years!
Within our academic conference, some of our keynotes have included Alex Nicholls, Johanna Mair, Christian Seelos, Helen Haugh, Paul Tracey, Paul Light, Paul Bloom, Tom Lumpkin, Durreen Shahnaz, Filipe Santos, Julie Battilana, William Baumol, Paul Romer, Tina Dacin, Geoff Kistruck, Debbi Brock, Ana Maria Peredo, Philip Phan, Silvia Dorado, Norris Krueger, Jeff York, Gordon Bloom to name several.
We are the largest academic conference on social entrepreneurship in terms of submissions. We received abstracts from all over the world: US, Canada, China, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, etc.
Same as in the past, this year’s academic conference is dedicated to the ongoing development of theory and research on social entrepreneurship and its impact on global communities. The aim is to bring together scholars in social entrepreneurship to discuss emerging concepts and themes in social entrepreneurship research. Themes include:
Within our practitioner conference, Nobel Laureates M. Yunus, and Michael Spence as well as Bill Drayton, Jed Emerson, Jacqueline Novogratz, Andrew Kassoy, Susan Davis, Greg Dees, David Bornstein, Cheryl Dorsey, Linda Rottenberg, Mark Kramer, Jason Saul, Billy Shore, Scott Harrison, Tom Szaky, Darell Hammond, Scott Barrie, Laura Callanan, Brian Trelstad, Sara Olsen, Tris Lumley, Debra Natelshon, Richard Steele, Michael Weinstein, Georgette Wong, Margot Brandenburg, among others have been with us over the years!
Within our academic conference, some of our keynotes have included Alex Nicholls, Johanna Mair, Christian Seelos, Helen Haugh, Paul Tracey, Paul Light, Paul Bloom, Tom Lumpkin, Durreen Shahnaz, Filipe Santos, Julie Battilana, William Baumol, Paul Romer, Tina Dacin, Geoff Kistruck, Debbi Brock, Ana Maria Peredo, Philip Phan, Silvia Dorado, Norris Krueger, Jeff York, Gordon Bloom to name several.
We are the largest academic conference on social entrepreneurship in terms of submissions. We received abstracts from all over the world: US, Canada, China, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, etc.
Same as in the past, this year’s academic conference is dedicated to the ongoing development of theory and research on social entrepreneurship and its impact on global communities. The aim is to bring together scholars in social entrepreneurship to discuss emerging concepts and themes in social entrepreneurship research. Themes include:
Social entrepreneurship process involving opportunity recognition and evaluation
Organizational forms of social enterprises
Challenges of scaling and measuring social impact
Emerging themes in social entrepreneurship education
Cross-cultural comparative studies in social entrepreneurship
Research challenges in social entrepreneurship
Organizational forms of social enterprises
Challenges of scaling and measuring social impact
Emerging themes in social entrepreneurship education
Cross-cultural comparative studies in social entrepreneurship
Research challenges in social entrepreneurship