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Social Innovation Summit 2013 Agenda

Social Innovation Summit 2013 will be held on May 29th - 30th in New York City. We are looking forward to another amazing event bringing together the top leaders from around the world for an intense series of discussions, debates and networking.

DAY ONE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 29TH (HOSTED AT JP Morgan)


1:00pm - 1:30pm

WELCOME & REGISTRATION

1:30pm - 1:40pm
OPENING REMARKS
  • Claire Huang, Chief Marketing Officer – JPMorgan Chase
  • M/C: Lois Backon, Executive Director, Head of Strategic Community Partnerships, Global Philanthropy – JPMorgan Chase
1:40pm - 2:10pm


FEARLESS PHILANTHROPY: MAXIMIZING INVESTMENT DOLLARS THROUGH TECHNOLOGY
  • Jeffrey Falkenstein, Vice President for Data Architecture – Foundation Center
  • Derek Brooks, Director, System Development – ChildFund International
  • Bill Brindley, CEO & Executive Director – NetHope
  • Moderator: Richard Hall, Director, Corporate Strategic Alliances – Intel
2:10pm - 2:20pm LIGHTNING ROUND: CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
  • Johann Olav Koss, Founder, President & CEO – Right to Play
2:20pm - 2:45pm


A HIDDEN GEM WITHIN STEM:  COMPUTER SCIENCE & THE OPPORTUNITIES IT OPENS FOR STUDENTS
  • Vanessa Hurst, Founder – Developers for Good; Co-Founder – Girls Develop It
  • Leigh Ann Sudol-DeLyser, PhD Student, Computer Science Education – Carnegie Mellon University
  • Pat Yongpradit, Teacher – Springbrook High School
  • Moderator: Allyson Knox, Director Education Policy, US Government Affairs – Microsoft    
2:45pm - 2:55pm
LIGHTNING ROUND: SHIFTING A GENERATION FROM ME TO WE
  • Craig Kielburger, Co-Founder & Executive Director – Free The Children
2:55pm - 3:05pmTRANSITION BREAK

3:05pm - 4:05pm

NETWORKING & COFFEE BREAK
Interactive Boardroom Workshops (choose your own adventure):
ROOM #1: Revolutionizing Learning Using Mobile Technology
  • Brian Lewis, CEO – International Society for Technology & Education
  • Alexia Forhan, Science Teacher – Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School
  • Meg Jimenez, Principal – Niemes Elementary
  • Moderator: Rose Kirk, President – Verizon Foundation
ROOM #3: Personalized Learning Technologies - A Conversation Between Innovative Product Developers & Implementers
  • Jessica Lindl, General Manager, GlassLab – Institute of Play
  • Christopher Rush, Co-Founder & Chief Program Officer – New Classrooms   
  • Ben Rayer, Founder & CEO – Touchstone Education   
  • Andrea Coleman, CEO, Office of Innovation – NYC Department of Education
  • Moderator: Henry Hipps, Senior Program Officer – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
ROOM #5: Insights into Millennials and Social Change
  • Libby Leffler, Strategic Partner Manager – Facebook
  • Scott Stimpfel, Assistant Dean of Student Engagement & Innovation – NYU Stern
  • Jesse Schultz, Social Innovation Coordinator  – Warby Parker
  • Moderator: Jeff Senne, Director of Corporate Responsibility & Operations Lead – PwC
ROOM #7: Applying Best Practices in Digital Marketing to Drive Social Change
  • Session Chair: Adam Hirsch, SVP Emerging Media and Technology – Edelman Digital


ROOM #2: Creating a Digital DNA
  • Noah Kerner, CEO & Chief Creative Officer – Noise
  • Rob Tarkoff, President & CEO – Lithium
  • Moderator: Robert Tas, Managing Director, Head of Digital Marketing – JPMorgan Chase



ROOM #4: Crowdscience: Utilizing the Crowd to Develop Big, Bold & Disruptive Solutions to our World’s Most Pressing Challenges
  • Ahmad Ashkar, CEO & Founder – Hult Prize
  • Moderator: Ali Marano, Head of Technology For Good – JPMorgan Chase






ROOM #6: Women & Girls
  • Zeenat Rahman, Special Adviser to Secretary Kerry on Global Youth Issues – U.S. Department of State
  • Moderator: Annette Richardson, Senior Advisor – United Nations Office for Partnerships







4:05pm - 4:15pm  TRANSITION BREAK
 
4:15pm - 4:40pm

Returning from War: The Challenges of ReintegratioN FOR OUR HEROES
 
  • Colonel David W. Sutherland, U.S. Army (Ret.), Co-Founder & Chairman – Center for Military & Veterans Community Services (Dixon Center)
  • Moderator: Maureen Casey, Managing Director, Office of Military & Veterans Affairs – JPMorgan Chase
4:40pm - 4:50pm LIGHTNING ROUND: GREEN TRANSPORTATION IN MOTION
  • Nimrod Elmish, CEO – I.G. Cardboard Technologies
4:50pm - 5:15pm

REDUCE, REUSE, REPLENISH

  • Tom Szaky, CEO – Terracycle
  • Jonathan Hsu, CEO – Recyclebank
  • Moderator: Will Kennedy, Senior Programme Officer – United Nations Office for Partnerships
5:15pm - 5:35pm KEYNOTE: "A DIFFERENT KIND OF HEALING"
  • Bridget Moynahan, Actress; Celebrity Ambassador – The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
  • Zak Stengel, Camper – The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
  • Moderator: Jimmy Canton, CEO – The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
5:35pm - 5:45pm NO WHITE FLAGS
  • Steve Gleason, Retired NFL Football Player; Founder – Team Gleason Foundation
  • Introduction by: Nastia Liukin, Olympic Gold Medalist, Olympic All Around Champion

5:45pm - 7:45pm


NETWORKING & COCKTAIL RECEPTION


DAY TWO: THURSDAY, MAY 30TH (HOSTED AT UN HEADQUARTERS)


8:00am - 8:55am

WELCOME & REGISTRATION

8:55am - 9:15am
OPENING REMARKS
  • Robert C. Orr, Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Planning – United Nations
  • M/C: Shannon Schuyler, US Corporate Responsibility Leader – PwC
9:15am - 9:45am
WOMEN & GIRLS: INNOVATION IS A MINDSET
  • Jennifer L. Silberman, VP, Corporate Responsibility – Hilton Worldwide
  • Magatte Wade, Founder and CEO – Tiossano
  • Yana Watson Kakar, Partner – Dalberg Global Development Advisors
  • Moderator: Denise Restauri, Executive Producer – ForbesWomen
9:45am - 9:55am LIGHTNING ROUND: THE ANDREW CARNEGIE OF THE 21ST CENTURY
  • John Wood, Founder and Board Co-Chair – Room to Read
9:55am - 10:20am


THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION IS PERSONALIZED
  • Michael Levine, Executive Director – Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Street Workshop
  • Michael Horn, Co-Founder and Executive Director – Clayton Christensen Institute   
  • Moderator: Robert Torres, Senior Program Officer – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
10:20am - 10:35am A BILLION ACTS OF PEACE
  • Chade-Meng Tan, Jolly Good Fellow – Google
  • Jessica Stam, Model, Celebrity, Activist; Ambassador – The PeaceJam Foundation
  • Moderator: Dawn Engle & Ivan Suvanjieff, Co-Founders – The PeaceJam Foundation

10:35am - 11:10am

MORNING COFFEE BREAK

11:10am - 11:35am PROFIT & PURPOSE: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE BOARDROOM
  • Alan Hassenfeld, Chairman of the Executive Committee – Hasbro
  • Ken Mehlman, Member & Global Head of Public Affairs – KKR
  • Rajesh Anandan, Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships & UNICEF Ventures U.S. – Fund for UNICEF
  • Moderator: Alan VanderMolen, Vice Chairman, President & CEO, Global Practices – Edelman
11:35am - 12:00pm CATALYTIC CAPITAL: CAN IMPACT INVESTING DRIVE CHANGE?
  • Randall Kempner, Executive Director – Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE)
  • Willy Foote, Founder and CEO – Root Capital
  • Moderator: Amy Bell, Vice President, Social Finance – JPMorgan Chase
12:00pm - 12:10pm
LIGHTNING ROUND: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING UNREASONABLE
  • Daniel Epstein, Founder & CEO – Unreasonable Group
12:10pm - 12:40pm
GIVE VS. GET : REDEFINING PHILANTHROPY, RETHINKING CHARITY, AND REINVIGORATING GIVING BACK
  • Adam Grant, Author, Award-Winning Teacher, Researcher & Tenured Management Professor – Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
  • Dan Pallotta, Entrepreneur, Author, & Humanitarian Activist – Advertising for Humanity
  • Moderator: Shannon Schuyler, US Corporate Responsibility Leader – PwC

12:40pm - 2:00pm


LUNCH & NETWORKING
2:00pm - 2:25pm
MOBILE TECHNOLOGY & GLOBAL POVERTY: IMPACTING THE BASE OF THE PYRAMID
  • Steve Wright, Vice President, Poverty Tools & Insights – Grameen Foundation
  • Heather Franzese, Executive Director – Good World Solutions
  • Moderator: Charu Adesnik, Manager, Corporate Affairs – Cisco Systems & Cisco Foundation
2:25pm - 2:50pm ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION AS ENGINES FOR GROWTH
  • Maura O'Neill, Chief Innovation Officer – USAID
  • Rebecca Stoeckle, VP, Director, Health and Technology – Education Development Center (EDC)
  • Premal Shah, Co-Founder & President – Kiva.org          
  • Moderator: Caroline Barlerin, Director of Global Community Involvement – HP
2:50pm - 3:00pm LIGHTNING ROUND: GROWING OUR WAY INTO A NEW ECONOMY
  • Stephen Ritz, South Bronx Teacher & Administrator; Founder – Green Bronx Machine
3:00pm - 3:20pm CONNECTING TO NATURE – LOCAL TO GLOBAL
  • Jason Clay, SVP, Market Transformation – World Wildlife Fund
  • Moderator: Matthew Arnold, Managing Director, Head of Environmental Affairs – JPMorgan Chase
3:20pm - 3:30pm
LIGHTNING ROUND: TALKING SH*T WITH MR. TOILET
  • Jack Sim, Founder & Director – World Toilet Organization

3:30pm - 4:05pm


ICE CREAM SOCIAL
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4:05pm - 4:30pm THE CONNECTION REVOLUTION: DRIVING ACTION IN TODAY’S SOCIAL WORLD
  • Charles Best, Founder & CEO DonorsChoose.org
  • Juan C. Montes, Chief Technology Officer – Museum of Modern Art
  • Sebastian Majewski, Impact and Analysis Coordinator – UNICEF
  • Moderator: Jane Hynes, SVP, Communications – Salesforce.com
4:30pm - 4:40pm LIGHTNING ROUND: THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY
  • Andrew Solomon, Award-Winning Writer and Lecturer – Far From the Tree
4:40pm - 5:00pm
ERADICATING THE STIGMA AND PREJUDICE AROUND MENTAL ILLNESS
  • Glenn Close, Actress/Producer – Trillium Productions; Co-Founder – Bring Change 2 Mind
  • Moderator: Marc Pollick, Founder and President – The Giving Back Fund
5:00pm - 5:20pm
THE CONNECTED HEALTHCARE ECOSYSTEM
  • Dr. Karen Rheuban, Professor of Pediatrics, Director UVA Center for Telehealth
  • Moderator: Kathy Brown, Executive Leader – Verizon Foundation; SVP, Corporate Responsibility – Verizon
5:20pm - 5:40pm
CELEBRITY & CAUSE: A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY
  • Rooney Mara, Actress; Ambassador – Oxfam America; President – Uweza Foundation
  • Kate Fletcher, Founder & Executive Director – Hekima Place
  • Moderator: Kathleen Rooney Mara, Philanthropist
5:40pm - 5:45pm
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: CHASE COMMUNITY GIVING AWARDS
Presented by Dalila Wilson-Scott, Acting President, Global Philanthropy – JPMorgan Chase

5:45pm - 7:45pm


NETWORKING & COCKTAIL RECEPTION

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