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Sustainable Brands ’12 Conference – Details and Speakers Announced

April 19th, 2012

Record Attendance of Over 1,000 Sustainability, Brand and Innovation Leaders Expected at Sixth Annual Conference

Sustainable Brands ’12 has released its conference program and list of confirmed speakers for each of the three main conference days.

Attendees will dive into engaging conversation set in motion by some of the world’s leading thinkers and practitioners of sustainability and social innovation –- over 150 speakers in total. Each morning, plenary sessions will inspire interactive discussions, followed by facilitated break-out sessions, evening plenaries, Birds-of-a-Feather dinners and networking activities. Every activity and session is designed to help executives make the business case for sustainable brands and better understand the shift in consumer demand and behavior that is driving the need for radical innovation.

About Sustainable Brands

Sustainable Brands is the global learning, collaboration, and commerce community committed to replenishing the world through better brands. Sustainable Brands offers news and views from thought and practice leaders, online and live events, a robust resource library, peer-to-peer learning groups, E-learning, and a set of solutions providers for corporate brand and sustainability professionals, social entrepreneurs and the eco-system of supporting value partners. Sustainable Brands inspires, engages and equips today’s business and brand leaders to grow revenues and enhance brand value, reputation and loyalty, while helping create a healthy and sustainable future for all. Sustainable Brands is a production of Sustainable Life Media located in San Francisco CA.

The conference opens on Monday, June 4, 2012. For a list of confirmed speakers and further details, please follow this link to Sustainable Brand’s official website: http://bit.ly/JOwKRh

 

 

It’s Unreasonable! New Partnerships, New Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

April 18th, 2012

Social Capital Markets and Hub Bay Area are proud to have recently partnered up with a new tech accelerator program, www.UnreasonableatSea.com. As part of our partnership, we wanted to let you know that they just announced the program and have opened their applications!

Unreasonable at Sea is a mentor driven accelerator program for entrepreneurs who desire to take their ventures into new international markets. They are working exclusively with technology based companies who are working to solve the greatest social and environmental challenges of this century.

What makes this so Unreasonable? The 100 day accelerator program will take place on a ship as it travels more than 25,000 nautical miles and circumnavigates the Southern Hemisphere (see the route). If you fit the profile, or you can think of an entrepreneur you know who does, make certain to check out all the details at www.unreasonableatsea.com.

Impact2, April 11, Paris

March 23rd, 2012

SOCAP is proud to partner with le comptoir de l’innovation for Impact2, a free event in Paris on April 11th.

Impact2 will feature 9 speakers, and gather investors and social entrepreneurs in an event that will showcase Paris’ emergence in the field of impact investing. During the evening cocktail hour, fifteen entrepreneurs from around the world will showcase their projects in diverse areas as health, technology, housing, integration and fair trade.

>>>Learn more and register today!

STIMA Making Great Strides

October 12th, 2011

STIMA raised funds from two angel investors and is preparing for 3rd-generation programmable keys and chargers for our next deployment.  Upgrades also allow increasing control over the Agent’s key and address user feedback gained from the first units deployed.  As we advance our customer operations in Kenya and test new products, we are making progress towards closing an angel round to deploy the first 500-1000 units.

In September, Stima and several other companies formed a BoP Energy Alliance through GroAction .  Already members helped us connect with trusted suppliers in China who can share in the risks and rewards of STIMA’s growing roadmap.  Please check out GroAction for promising energy ventures who are helping each other tackle the needs of the poorest segments of the population.

This month, Stima’s country manager Kennedy Andika is speaking at Investment and Innovation in Microfinance in Nairobi on the 18th.

Finally, we are pleased to have John Vangel join the Stima team as the head of Corporate Development.  John brings more than 20 years legal, transactional and entrepreneurial experience to Stima and driving all aspects of legal for Stima.

>>> To learn more about the STIMA team click here

 

Podcast of SOCAP Commonwealth Club Event

September 28th, 2011


The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation’s oldest and largest public affairs forum.They host 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy to 15,000 members. As a lead up to the SOCAP conference on September 1st, they hosted the event Social Capital: The Intersection of Money and Meaning, Part Two. The panelists included Kevin Jones, Gary Bolles, Sarah Brooks and Fiona Havenden.

To listen to the Podcast of the event please click here.