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Keynote Speakers

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Friday May 28 @ 10:00
Main Auditorium

Marc Koska
Founder
Safepoint

In 1984 Marc read a newspaper article predicting the transmission of HIV through the reuse of medical needles and syringes. It proved to be a seminal moment. Sadly, this prediction has come horrifyingly true: medical treatment does spread disease. In 1984 Marc was 23 years old and after unfocused schooling, working in various jobs, travelling and sailing yachts, he found his calling.  Marc had the simple but brilliant idea to invent a non-reusable syringe, which cannot pass on an infection to further users.  Marc learnt how drug addicts used syringes in the UK, went to Geneva to learn about Public Health Policy, visited several syringe factories, studied plastic injection moulding and after a year of intense study he designed the revolutionary K1-syringe and founded Star Syringe. www.starsyringe.com

Today hundreds of millions are sold annually and the invention has now saved ten million lives. All injections given with a K1 syringe, Marc’s invention, are sterile and safe. They protect the patient, and the next patient, and their families, because the K1 syringe cannot be reused – it locks and breaks after one use.  But the product is only one component of the solution. Generally, people do not know injections can cause them harm, and this presents another issue – to inform the public of the problem and the solution.

In 2005 Marc started SafePoint, www.safepointtrust.org a not-for-profit trust, set up to promote awareness of the dangers of unsafe injections. It informs the public from co-operation with the media to lecturing in schools. It makes a difference and the aim is to inform a whole generation of this vital data. If a generation can learn this data, they will then be able to inform their own children and this will dramatically improve the situation.

Find out more about Marc on www.marckoska.com

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Friday May 28, 2010 @16:00
Main Auditorium

Arnaud Mourot
Executive Director
Ashoka Europe

Mr. Mourot developed the activities of the association in France, Belgium and Switzer- land. He launched the core program of Ashoka within these countries, that of annual selection and support of innovative Social Entrepreneurs, which presented its 3rd “promotion” on October 9th, 2008. Since the onset of the program, 21 Social En- trepreneurs are supported financially and professionally to develop their activity and enhance their social impact. They are in- tegrated into the global Ashoka network, which includes more than 2000 Social Entrepreneurs worldwide. Other launched programs include: the Concours IMPACT of business plan for organizations with social vocation and Jeun-E-S, which supports the projects run by youths between the ages of 12-25. Arnaud graduated from ESCP, an EQUIS and AACSB accredited Business School in Paris, where he majored in “Entrepreneurship and Innovation”. At the same time, he led a high-level sportsman career, spending 10 years fighting for the French National Wrestling team, and coming 5th during the 1998 World championship. As a result of his sports career, Arnaud created Sport Sans Frontières (Sport Without Borders) in 1999, of which he is President today. This NGO uses sport as a means for education and psychological reconstruction in post-conflict countries and troubled neighbourhoods.

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Saturday May 29, 2010 @10:00
Main Auditorium

Graham is a procurement professional with over 20 years experience in industry, consultancy and development. At Ford Motor Company Graham worked on supplier development in India, China and Brazil.

His PhD, written from within the School of Systems Science of London’s City University analyzed issues of supply chain management efficiency within the automotive industry. At Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Graham worked on Strategic Sourcing engagements in the oil & gas, telecommunication and pharmaceutical industries. Leaving the world of industry and commerce Graham worked in the not-for-profit sector as project manager for Raleigh International in Chile and BTCV in London.

He started at The Body Shop in 2003 as Sourcing Manager for Community Trade and Natural Ingredients. Now, as Director of Ethical and Community Trade Graham is still very much engaged in procurement, Graham drives forward a long history of responsible sourcing at The Body Shop managing “procurement for good” – for the good of suppliers, customers and ultimately The Body Shop brand.

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Saturday May 29 @ 17:20
Main Auditorium

Arthur Wood
Co-Founder, Total Impact Advisers,
& Chairman, World Sanitation Financing Facility

Arthur Wood, an Englishman and former banker married to a Norwegian, was educated at the London School of Economics, SDA Bocconi and HEC in France. As Leadership Group Member and the former Global Head of Social Financial Services of Ashoka based in Washington DC and then London, his core mission was and remains to see how to can change the way Philanthropy is funded. In this context he has been at the forefront of creating and implementing new Social Financial models with cutting edge global social entrepreneurs. As well as engaging a number of major international financial institutions to enter this space in Canada, Switzerland, US, Singapore and the UK, internationally one of the co-creators of the new Low Profit Limited Liability (L3C) in the US and the proposed SELLP in the UK, he is also on the forefront of the global debate on new legal and tax structures required in philanthropy. He is the current Chairman of the World Sanitation Financing Facility (WSFF), a Founder Partner of Total Impact Advisers, A member of the World Economic Forum Advisory Group on Social and Philanthropic investing, Board Member of the Big Issue Invest and sits on the advisory board of a number of social sector entities in a number of global locations. He publishes widely in the business press on social financing issues and is a regular invited speaker at global academic institutions -including Geneva University, St Gallen, Oxford, Indian School of Business and Dartmouth University.

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Panelists

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ICT & New Media

Crystal Watley Kigoni, Executive Director, Voices of Africa

Youlia Lozanova, Telecommunication/ ICT Regulatory Analyst, International Telecommunication Union

Michael Lew, New Media Producer

Ian Harrington, Filmmaker and Representative, Stop Genocide

Moderated by: Ana Serrano, Director, CFC Media Lab

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Sustainable Business Models:  BeyondCSR

Randall Krantz, Associate Director, Head of Sustainability Initiative, World Economic Forum

Daria Cibrario, Co-Founder, HUB Geneva

Gregory Hess, Adjunct Professor, IOMBA – University of Geneva

Moderated by: Dr. Jeya Wilson, PhD, Former Director of UNDP

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Entrepreneurs of the Future

Ms. Joni Simpson, Specialist & Coordinator Women’s & Youth Entrepreneurship Development, International Labour Organization

Mr. Paul Moclair, Head of Programs, Aflatoun Amsterdam

Mr. Chris Mburu, Founder, Hilde Back Education Fund (Kenya)

Moderated by: Prof. Michel Carton, Vice-Director of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies  NORRAG Coordinator

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Scaling Up:  Growing Grassroot Business

Cedric Lombard, Founder and General Manager, Impact Finance;

Vivian Gee, Head of Asia, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

Sally Atalla, Senior Manager, Accenture Development Partnerships

Gayle Ferraro, Director and Producer, “To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America”

Moderated by: Katia Kerswell, Former CEO of World Microfinance Forum Geneva

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Social Financing:  The Roots of Social Change

Bernd Balkenhol, Director of Social Finance, International Labor Organization (ILO)

Martha Deacon, Founder and CEO, The Townships Project

Moderated by: Dr. Maximilian Martin, Senior Partner and Chief Strategist IJ Partners

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Q&A:  Meet the Director of Garbage Dreams

Mai Iskander, Director, Producer, Cinematographer

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Workshop Facilitators

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Developing Grassroots Entrepreneurs Workshop:
The ABCD Approach

Corné Theunissen

Program & Resource Development Manager
Greater Rustenburg Community Foundation

Corné Theunissen is currently the Program and Resource Development Manager for the Greater Rustenburg Community Foundation, responsible for overseeing the concurrent development and implementation of programs, including grassroots grantmaking, and the unlocking of resources. During the course of the last ten years she had extensive international exposure to development trends and training including a Certificate in Fundraising from the Centre of Philanthropy at Indiana University. She was a founder member of the GRCF and has been actively involved with the organizations development since inception at which time she was a lecturer in Economics at the Pretoria Technikon.

A passion for people and social justice and development motivated her to study in politics, development and international relations. She also completed a Masters degree in Development Management at the Potchefstroom University. She has completed three years towards a legal degree with special interest in constitutional and non profit law. In her current position at the GRCF she is heading the implementation of Asset Based Community Driven Development (ABCD) as a major cutting edge program in the South African context as an instrument for more innovative approaches to grassroots grantmaking and the effective utilization of community assets.

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Social Media Workshop:
Knowing Your Community

Ian Harrington

Director, Producer Screenwriter
Stop Genocide

Ian is originally from Titusville, PA USA (the birthplace of the oil industry) and now lives in Los Angeles, CA. He has worked in the film industry for over fifteen years, and much of his training came in Hollywood under the tutelage of many great mentors; the most significant was as Danny DeVito’s Personal Assistant and Associate Producer at Jersey Films. After his long tenure with Jersey, he decided to move on his own to write and direct. He directed short films (was a finalist for the Skyy Vodka Director’s contest at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004) and produced the award winning play, “Belfast Blues” starring Geraldine Hughes, in London, Belfast, Chicago and New York. He was an Associate Producer and documentarian on a large-scale theatrical project called “Truth In Translation” about the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which won a number of awards at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2007. He is currently directing a documentary about the political events in Honduras combined with the football team’s miraculous World Cup qualification.

As he traveled and worked in different parts of the world, he developed a sense of community in the world and began to volunteer his media skills for different organiztions such as Soweto Rhythm in South Africa,People Improvement Organization (PIO) in Cambodia, Project Children in Northern Ireland, and most recently was a trip to Eastern Chad to work in the Darfur Refugee camps with a group called i-Act, one of the hardest and most satisfying experiences of his life.

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Designing Your Social Business

Patrick Keenan

Social Architect
The Movement

Patrick Keenan is a writer, designer, programmer, who orients his pursuits around achievable betterment in the present, while maintaining a long term vision of what is possible. Society is a big thing to think about, so Patrick works in small teams to make big things happen.

The Movement is a design practice which uses an open process to work with larger groups of people to create artifacts and services of immediate value: social, ecological, and economic. The web is a big enabler of this kind of process, and so are facilitated in-person workshops.  Patrick has a passion for creating lasting value with others.

Elisabeth Crudgington
Co-founder
Hub Geneva

Elisabeth (Lizzie) Crudgington is a co-founder of the Hub Geneva (www.the-hub.net), imparting creative group process design and management skills, as well as those of a certified professional facilitator and learning practitioner.  Prior to the Hub, she worked with IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature for six years. In this role, Lizzie focused on building leadership capacities, heightening organizational learning and facilitating powerful multi-sector conversations on innovative sustainability solutions. Previous experience also includes designing network-based communication and learning projects for Sunseed Desert Technology and administering an African Film Festival in London, Africa @ the Pictures 2000.
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Garbage Dreams: Community Empowerment

& What’s Your Calling?

Duong-Chi Do
Associate Director of Communications
ITVS

Duong-Chi Do is Associate Director of Communications for ITVS (Independent Television Service). She brings more than twelve years of experience in community organizing around health and social justice issues to ITVS. Prior to joining ITVS, Chi worked for Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment and Leadership (APPEAL), where she launched a national youth leadership program that provided mentorship and training to high school students, resulting in more than 50 youth-led health and tobacco control initiatives across the U.S. and Pacific Islands. Chi also worked as a program coordinator for a collaboratively operated free clinic that provided culturally and linguistically appropriate services for immigrants and refugees in central Ohio. Her favorite aspect of community engagement work at ITVS is witnessing the transformation that can happen among individuals, groups and entire communities after watching just one film.

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Inclusive Business for Poverty Alleviation

Hubert Johannes Mørch
Access To Innovation

Hubert is passionate about development and Latin America. He has traveled to the continent many times since the age of 16. This gave him the opportunity to extensively travel, study and work in Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Colombia always driven by one fundamental question: Why is poverty and inequality so rampant here and what can be done about it?

Having lived nearly 3 years in Ecuador, he is continuously puzzled and fascinated by this small Andean country.  After high school graduation, he went there once again with no particular plan and ended up opening a restaurant and teaching English. It was during the hassles that come with endless red tape and obvious corruption from officials that his interest was sparked in the restrictions and difficulties businesses in developing countries face. During his last years in university he dedicated all his studies to the concept of Inclusive Business, investigating the dynamics of the partnerships needed to make an impact on both a local and national level in Ecuador. A recent Masters graduate of Development & International Relations from the University of Aalborg, he has worked with the UN-Habitat in Brazil, as a Folk High School teacher lecturing on Latin American history and as a climate attaché during the COP15.

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Debate Camp:  The Next Generation

Jeya Wilson
PhD, IOMBA Ambassador

Jeya Wilson currently works as a researcher for international organizations and a debating teacher at the international school in Geneva. Previously she worked in several sectors and countries including CEO of the World Heart Federation, Director of Business Partnerships, UNDP, Vice President Global Alliances, CBM, CEO, Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry and New Zealand Honorary Consul in South Africa. She has a doctorate in international relations from Oxford where she was President of the Oxford Union. Jeya is an Obama acolyte having joined his presidential campaign at its inception. She is also interested in learning about spiritual traditions, deep space and particle physics.

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Sally Atalla
Senior Manager
Accenture

Following studies in Mechanical Engineering, Sally Atalla has been working with the Accenture since 1998. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. With over 180,000 people in 52 countries, deep industry and business experience, global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills and technologies to help clients in over 120 countries improve their performance.

In addition to working in Accenture’s commercial entity, Sally has also worked in a not-for-profit consulting group sponsored by Accenture called Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP). Accenture Development Partnerships’ aim is to provide high quality consulting skills on a not-for-profit basis to the development community, to help Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), foundations and donor organizations achieve their social and economic development goals.

Sally has recently been given the privilege of supporting an expansion strategy for a non-profit organization called Enablis. This is a young, Canadian-based organization that assists entrepreneurs in developing countries through networking, capacity building, and access to funding.