Reset San Francisco Founder Phil Ting is leading the conversation between social start-up entrepreneurs, city leadership, and venture philanthropists and capitalists to make it easier for small businesses to flourish in San Francisco.

October 18, 2011
Hub – San Francisco
925 Mission St, Suite 105

6:30pm - 7:00pm – Pre-Program Reception
7:00pm - 8:30pm – Program
8:30pm - 9:00pm – Post-Program Networking

Reset San Francisco Founder Phil Ting will host a panel discussion with local and national experts on how the city can help local entrepreneurs Start Up in San Francisco. The discussion will crowd-source ideas from the community on how City Hall can streamline the process for San Franciscans to start their own businesses, encourage more small business economic development, and reduce the friction in the bureaucratic process.

Reset San Francisco raises the question: shouldn’t city government be as innovative and creative as the people of San Francisco? That’s why the organization is bringing together some of the most innovative members of the community – those driven to jump-start the San Francisco economy by turning their creative ideas into more jobs and more revenue.

Whether you want to start your own web-based company, sell a creative product, launch your own food truck, or meet other San Franciscans striving to start their own businesses, this event is an opportunity for you to network, to learn about required process to Start Up in San Francisco and to make your voice heard in what resources you need to actualize your endeavor.

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Do you care about investing? Impact Investing? Small-businesses, crowd funding, tribe-funding, alternative currencies, relationship currencies - basically anything that has to do with using capital to change the world for the better?

Then please share your ideas, questions, hopes, fears, and dreams for what the world can look like in 2020, and how we can activate networks at a global level to accelerate our drive for resiliency and regenerative economies.

October 4th - 7th we are having a global innovation jam - we have innovators, investors, entrepreneurs, government, civil society and cultural creatives from Sweden, Hong Kong, The UK, Canada, and the US starting a conversation with the following 3 questions:

1. How can traditional investing incorporate the power of impact?
2. What will the impact investing community look like in 2020?
3. How can our global community best work to amplify the change we are creating in the world?

If you want the chance to participate, register before October 3rd at 10PM, the innovation jam is entirely online with our innovative platform partner DiscoveryCast- this is a secure conversation platform that anonymizes the users, and facilitates a living conversation online. Log into the platform before you log into Facebook for 4 days - catch up on the conversation, add your brilliance and your vulnerabilities and lets see what kind of future we can create.

Also — If you know anyone from traditional finance or corporate culture who is interested in Impact Investing - please tell them about this event. It will be a unique opportunity to tap a global pool of experts and share their insights. We must grow the conversation beyond the “like-minded” only framework - so please help anyway you can.

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This year’s Annual Conference is titled: “Venture Philanthropy as a Catalyst for Societal Change”. Join to take a look at how venture philanthropy is impacting society, and how it can generate even greater impact by:

- broadening its target sectors from purely social sectors to including sectors such as the environment, culture, medical research and healthcare

- working together with a wider set of collaborators, including governments, corporations and beyond

- improving the general effeciency of the philanthropic investment process

The conference brings together a variety of players, including social investors, donors, foundations, private equity organisations, advisory firms, private banks, academic institutions and some selected social entrepreneurs.Recognised experts and practitioners identified by an international conference committee will lead the various debates, panels and round tables.

Confirmed key note speakers include Dr Charly Kleissner, Co-founder of the KL Felicitas Foundation, Damon Buffini, Co-founder of Permira and the Social Business Trust, Andrea Limone, CEO of PerMicro, Luciano Balbo, founder and Chairman of Fondazione Oltre, and Hanne Finstad, founder and CEO of Forskerfabrikken.

Since the industry is still young the focus lies on interactive sessions and round tables, facilitated by one or two experts in order to share experiences, debate challenges and disseminate best practice.

The 7th Annual EVPA conference will be held on 16- 17 November 2011 in Turin, Italy.
If you have any questions about the conference please contact info@evpa.eu.com