SOCAP OPEN is now closed. Thank you to everyone for participating and helping build a great SOCAP13. See the 2013 winners below! The top 23 entries are all coming through to SOCAP.
Distributed networks are transforming the supply chain for the creation, distribution and promotion of media. While traditional sources of media that matter struggle to find large audiences, certain stories and content are being shared and promoted through new innovative platforms to reach millions of people across diverse …
How we can use the financial leverage of private equity, the management leverage of worker ownership, and the business leverage of “lean and green” enterprise to grow prosperous, resilient, sustainable businesses and regional economies?
A two hour workshop that introduces the strategy that helped Obama mobilize millions to win not once but twice. This session will be led by top organizing strategist Betsy Hoover who ran the 2012 Obama campaign’s online organizing department. Coming out of this session, participants will have …
Conflict is a powerful tool and leaning into the thorny space of interpersonal conflict in teams is critical for new ideas to emerge. Proactively managing conflict in teams is also a skill that takes a life-time to master. This interactive session will explore the balance between extreme …
As different sectors come together to create and scale promising social impact projects, success can often turn on the tools we use to provide clarity about what we are trying to change, how we are going to change it, whether our project is working, what can we …
Environmental problems are getting worse in the developing countries along with human rights and poverty. Natural resources are developed indiscriminately destroying the ecosystem. However, many people in the developed countries neglect to look into the matter. In order to increase the awareness and to involve them in …
Cleantech is dead. Investors have turned away and are instead funding vacuous social apps of all kinds. But the Internet was dead, too, back in the year 2000. The most interesting time to look at a particular sector of technology is the exact time when everyone else …
It’s difficult to get any business off the ground, whether you’re a social enterprise or not. Impact startups can improve their chances of success by implementing tools and processes borrowed from design thinking. What are these tools? Join Greenstart Partner Rachel Barge to learn how collaboration, focus …
The power of media communications to accelerate social change is astounding - yet it has gone untapped. We’ve focused on the empowering the entrepreneur for the work of social change but have yet to empower the artist – those who will master the message to create cultural …
The future of retail is e-commerce, the future of fashion is sustainability. Join key leaders in the sustainable fashion revolution as they discuss the latest advances in sustainable fashion and the critical importance of the movement.
Does social innovation happen organically? Or, can you create it by design? As the field grows, there are many moving parts that social entrepreneurs have to consider when designing their enterprises: legal structure, business models, measuring impact, finding funding, distribution and scale. This panel focuses on how …
Innovation is actually an improbability — the neuroscience of how we think stacks the decks against it. And yet, innovation is the cornerstone of this country’s identity, and the darling of contemporary business. The film, Listening Between the Lines, explores how creative teams can employ the four …
Important 2015 Dates
- June 7th: Final day to submit an idea.
- June 8th – June 19th: Commenting and voting period. All sessions open for voting.
- June 20th – June 29th: Judging panel and final selection by SOCAP15 Content Team.
- June 30th: Winning sessions announced to session organizers.
