This year's conference will bring together leaders
from the nonprofit, public, and for-profit sectors to engage in dialogue
around the crucial issues facing society today. Through the conference,
each participant will:
- Gain exposure to the primary problems facing
society
- Explore how business and non-business communities
are involved in addressing those problems;
- Understand the strengths and weaknesses of
current approaches;
- Walk away with ideas on how to get involved;
and
- Meet others with similar passions
The proposed panel topics for the conference are:
Corporate Social Responsibility
- Defining Corporate Social Responsibility
- Clarifying if and how business can look beyond
the profit motive
Education
- Breaking through barriers to provide equitable
education via private-public partnerships
- Exploring the role of social entrepreneurship in
education reform
- Examining new and innovative business models for
education systems
Entrepreneurship
- Defining socially-focused investing
- Identifying the right opportunities
- Attracting funding
- Developing successful financial and operational
partnerships
- Measuring the results
Environment
- Examining environmental leadership roles that government
and business currently fill and can potentially play in the future
- Improving alignment between the private sector
and environment by lowering business and policy barriers
- Discovering opportunities for sustainable
growth and development
Governance
- Understanding the impact of eliminating subsidies
on developing economies
- Reducing trade barriers
- Managing the costs of financial instability and
liberalization
- Tackling poor governance and the causes of corruption
Healthcare
- Combating global healthcare challenges through
nonprofit-private sector partnerships
- Determining the biggest challenges in sustaining
these partnerships
- Identifying the human capital needed to make these
partnerships successful
