INSEAD joined as a strategic partner with
three dynamic Brazilian groups, the Institute of Corporate Citizenship (ICE), ARTEMISIA,
and Vox Capital to organise our annual conference, this year taking place in
São Paulo, Brazil. The three days of events were aimed at strengthening the
ecosystem for the Social Finance and Impact Business in Brazil and across the
region. With more than 550 participants attending, it was our largest
conference to date and focused on advancing the understanding of the field,
engaging private and public sector participants, and establishing the
structures that would enable it to thrive. More than 90 speakers presented in 7
plenary sessions, 16 simultaneous workshops, and an exciting series of
“innovation spots” and “pop-up” sessions.
At its conclusion, the launch of a Brazilian
Social Finance Task Force was announced to be led by some of the nation’s leading
business and government figures with the aim of creating mechanisms to promote
the structures and flow of resources to meet the needs of this burgeoning
field.
More than two dozen ISEP Network members attended
the conference and the reunion (in spectacular Paraty) that
followed on 8-9 May. The reunion
featured sessions on Scaling Social Enterprises and Risk Management presented
by INSEAD Professor Filipe Santos and Timothy Ma Kam Wah (Hong Kong, ISEP 2009-S) in addition to
numerous meals and informal discussion opportunities to become familiar with
each other’s work, challenges and opportunities. Additional sessions were led by René Saloman
Vargas (Bolivia, ISEP 2011-F) and Hans Wahl, and the reunion culminated with a boat
excursion through some of Paraty’s beautiful islands.
Next year’s conference and reunion will be
hosted by ISEP Network colleagues in Amsterdam in the spring of 2015 so
make your plans now. We will make more information available as planning
proceeds.
Contact hans.wahl@insead.edu with questions about the INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship annual conference and reunion.
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