Events
Elevating Impact Summit 2016
- 8:00am–5:30pm Friday, February 5, 2016
The Summit
From garages to corporate offices, you will find pragmatic, creative people designing new solutions to pressing social and environmental issues and creating value for their companies, communities, and society at large. These social entrepreneurs are finding new ways to make a difference while changing how business is done. The Summit celebrates and shares new approaches to generating social and environmental impact across business, social, public, and academic sectors.
The program
The full day program includes a social innovation pitch fest; candid keynotes with renowned social entrepreneurs; diverse perspectives on funding for social impact; how an intrapreneurial company is partnering with employers to lower national recidivism; a look at the power of zip codes vs. genetic codes in lifelong health, and an exploration of the often untold risks, failures, and first steps to creating social change. Meet the speakers.
Why attend
- Learn about powerful entrepreneurial approaches to creating change locally and globally
- Celebrate social entrepreneurship and social innovation with a diverse set of stakeholders
- Meet hundreds of entrepreneurs and founders, business and nonprofit professionals, students, academics, government officials and investors