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Social Innovation Summit 2013 Agenda

Social Innovation Summit 2013 will be held on November 19th - 20th at Stanford University. We are looking forward to planning another amazing event bringing together the top leaders from around the world for an intense series of discussions, debates and networking.

Please find the working agenda below:

DAY ONE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH


12:30pm - 1:30pm
WELCOME & REGISTRATION
Session 1: Unlocking potential

                          Session Leader: Lois Backon, Executive Director, Global Philanthropy – JPMorgan Chase

1:30pm - 1:40pm CONFERENCE DAY 1: OPENING REMARKS
  • Kriss Deiglmeier, Executive Director, Center for Social Innovation – Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • Jane Marie Chen, Co-Founder – Embrace
1:40pm - 1:45pm

 INTRODUCTION BY SESSION LEADER
1:45pm - 2:05pm Unleashing Green Chemistry: A Societal Need and Business Opportunity
  • Adam Lowry, Co-Founder & Chief Greenskeeper – Method Products
  • Michael Wilson, Associate Director for Integrative Sciences – Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry
  • Moderator: Erica Plambeck, Professor – Stanford Graduate School of Business
2:05pm - 2:15pm LIGHTNING ROUND: TECHNOLOGY – THE TICKET OUT OF POVERTY
  • will.i.am, Founder – i.am.angel Foundation (live by video)
2:15pm - 2:35pm BEYOND THE CLASSROOM – TRANSFORMING TOMORROW
  • David Silver, Chief Executive Officer – College Track
  • Moderator: Enrique Legaspi, Chief of Staff – i.am.angel Foundation
2:35pm - 2:50pm COMPUTER SCIENCE IN EVERY HIGH SCHOOL
  • Lori Harnick, General Manager, Citizenship and Public Affairs – Microsoft
2:50pm - 3:00pm MOVING THE MOUNTAIN: GLOBAL COLLABORATION FOR EDUCATION REFORM
  • Sarah Elizabeth Ippel, Founder & Director – Academy for Global Citizenship
3:00pm - 3:10pm TRANSITION BREAK
3:10pm - 4:00pm
NETWORKING & COFFEE BREAK
Interactive Roundtables (choose your own adventure):
ROUNDTABLE #1
THE VALUE OF TRANSPARENCY IN SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING
  • Cecily Joseph, Vice President, Corporate Responsibility – Symantec Corporation


ROUNDTABLE #3
CSR IN THE DIGITAL AGE: A MODERN HANDBOOK
  • Mary Anne Petrillo, Sr. Marketing Manager – Cisco Corporate Social Responsibility

ROUNDTABLE #5
IMPACT INVESTING: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE HIGHEST PERFORMING ORGANIZATIONS?
  • Kenneth Singleton, Adams Distinguished Professor of Finance – Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • Ben Thornley, Insight Director – Pacific Community Ventures


ROUNDTABLE #7
GOING GLOBAL: HOW TO BUILD EFFECTIVE PUBLIC & PRIVATE LINKAGES
  • Karen Newman, Senior Communications Advisor, Business Call to Action – United Nations Development Programme

super ROUNDTABLE #9
 NEW MODELS FOR FINANCING NATURE
  • Charlotte Kaiser, Director, Innovative Finance – The Nature Conservancy
  • Susan Phinney Silver, PRI Program Manager – The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
  • Moderator: Camilla Seth, Executive Director, Office of Environmental Affairs – JPMorgan Chase

 ROUNDTABLE #2
Preparing Today's students to Co-Exist in Tomorrow's Global Community
  • Elizabeth Lipscomb, National Director of Education Partnerships & Social Responsibility – Discovery Education

ROUNDTABLE #4
HUMAN CAPITAL IS THE FUTURE OF PHILANTHROPY
  • Meg Garlinghouse, Head, LinkedIn for Good – LinkedIn


ROUNDTABLE #6
ENTREPRENEURIAL DESIGN FOR EXTREME AFFORDABILITY
  • Joan Dorsey, Assistant Director, OTG-Extreme – Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Countries (SEED)
  • Stuart Coulson, For-Profit & For-Benefit Business Angel & Mentor

Roundtable #8
 Creating Opportunity – Partnering to Tackle the Global Youth Unemployment Crisis
  • Yvonne Thomas, Sr. Manager, Global Programs – Microsoft   


SUPER ROUNDTABLE #10
WOMEN & GIRLS
  • Lana Al-Saleh, Executive Director – Makeen Charity
  • Wendy Hawkins, Executive Director – Intel Foundation
  • Moderator: Annette Richardson, Senior Advisor – United Nations Office for Partnerships
4:00pm - 4:10pm TRANSITION BREAK
Session 2: Dynamic Leadership

                          Session Leader: Katherine Pickus, Vice President, Abbot Fund; Head of Global Citizenship & Policy – Abbott

4:10pm - 4:15pm

 INTRODUCTION BY SESSION LEADER
4:15pm - 4:30pm LIGHTNING ROUND: SOCIAL INNOVATION SHARED VALUE
  • Shannon Schuyler, Principal, Corporate Responsibility Leader – PwC US
4:30pm - 4:40pm THE POWER OF LEADERS IN THE WAR AGAINST EXTREME POVERTY
  • Jake Harriman, Founder – Nuru International
4:40pm - 4:55pm MODERN SLAVERY: SOLUTIONS THROUGH EDUCATION & PARTNERSHIPS
  • Somaly Mam, Co-Founder & President – Somaly Mam Foundation
  • Moderator: Zeenat Rahman, Special Adviser to the Secretary, Office of Global Youth Issues – U.S. Department of State
4:55pm - 5:05pm SCALING UP EXCELLENCE
  • Robert Sutton, Professor of Organizational Behavior – Stanford Graduate School of Business
5:05pm - 5:30pm LEADERSHIP FROM THE BOARDROOM
  • Michael White, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer – DIRECTV
  • Moderator: Daryl Brewster, Chief Executive Officer – CECP

5:30pm - 7:30pm
NETWORKING & COCKTAIL RECEPTION



DAY TWO: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH


7:30am - 8:20am
WELCOME & REGISTRATION
Session 3: Profit & Purpose

                         Session Leader: JD Schramm, Lecturer – Stanford Graduate School of Business

8:20am - 8:30am CONFERENCE DAY 2: OPENING REMARKS
  • Benoit Monin, Professor of Organizational Behavior – Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • Neil Malhotra, Associate Professor – Stanford Graduate School of Business
8:30am - 8:35am

 INTRODUCTION BY SESSION LEADER
8:35am - 9:10am IMPACT INVESTING: IS IT REALLY INVESTING? DOES IT REALLY HAVE IMPACT?
  • Michael Smith, Director, Social Innovation Fund – Corporation for National and Community Service, White House
  • Amy Bell, Executive Director, Social Finance – JPMorgan
  • Mike Dorsey, Managing Partner – The Westly Group
  • Moderator: William F. Meehan III, Director Emeritus, McKinsey and Company; Lafayette Partners in Management – Stanford Graduate School of Business   
9:10am - 9:30am INTERSECTION BETWEEN BUSINESS & TRUST
  • Paul VanderMarck, Chief Products Officer – Risk Management Solutions
  • Moderator: Mark Hass, President & CEO – Edelman
9:30am - 9:50am THE DESIGN-LED REVOLUTION
  • Carl Bass, President & CEO – Autodesk
9:50am - 10:00am TRANSITION BREAK
10:00am - 11:00am
NETWORKING & COFFEE BREAK
Interactive Classroom Workshops (choose your own adventure):
CLASSROOM #1
FAILING FORWARD: STORIES OF SUCCESS THROUGH FAILURE
  • John Damonti, President – Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation
  • Gemma Bulos, Director – Global Women's Water Initiative
  • Ed Alter, Entrepreneur, Former ED – Bay Area Theater Sports
  • Moderator: Julie Trell, Executive Director – Workday Foundation
 CLASSROOM #2
SOCIAL IMPACT THROUGH BIG DATA AND CROWDSOURCING: LESSONS FROM THE TRENCHES
  • Peter Skomoroch, Former Principal Data Scientist – LinkedIn
  • Ari Gesher, Software & Systems Engineer – Palantir Technologies
  • Deepak Puri, Director, Business Development; Volunteer, CauseBrigade.org – VMware
  • Moderator: Paul Arnpriester, National BDM – CDW
CLASSROOM #3
HOW SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE INNOVATION IS REVOLUTIONIZING AMERICA
  • Bryan Sivak, Chief Technology Officer – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Alan Player, Leader, TeamUp4Health – Humana
  • Melinda Richter, Head of Janssen Labs – Janssen, Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
  • Moderator: Jo Mackness, Executive Director, Center for Responsible Business – University of California, Berkeley
 CLASSROOM #4
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AS A MEANS OF PROMOTING SOCIAL INNOVATION: THE WHY, HOW AND WHEN
  • Diane Solinger, Manager, Employee Social Responsibility – Google
  • Jennifer Freitas, Manager, Human Resources – Clif Bar
  • Moderator: Jeff Senne, Operations Lead, US Corporate Responsibility – PwC
CLASSROOM #5
LEVERAGING THE POWER OF MEDIA FOR GOOD
  • Jen Boynton, Editor in Chief – Triple Pundit
  • Brian Sirgutz, Sr. Vice President of Social Impact – Huffington Post
  • Aarti Shahani, Business & Technology Reporter; Contributor – KQED, NPR
  • Moderator: Henk Campher, SVP, Business + Social Purpose – Edelman
 CLASSROOM #6
THE CSR LAB: DATA-DRIVEN RESEARCH
  • Caitlin Bristol, Global Manager, Green – eBay
  • Neil Malhotra, Professor – Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • Benoit Monin, Professor – Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • Mike Daulton, VP, Government Relations & Director of National Programs – National Audubon Society
  • David Yarnold, President & CEO – National Audubon Society
  • Moderator: Kriss Deiglmeier, Executive Director for the Center for Social Innovation – Stanford Graduate School of Business
11:00am - 11:10am TRANSITION BREAK
Session 4: Catalyzing change

                          Session Leader: Talya Bosch, Vice President, Social Ventures – Western Union

11:10am - 11:15am

 Introduction by session leader
11:15am - 11:25am The Power Beyond the Prize: Using STEM to Improve the Local Community
  • David Steel , Executive Vice President, Samsung Electronics North America – Samsung
11:25am - 11:35am LIGHTNING ROUND: EVERYDAY TRANSFORMATION
  • Michael Kalish, Artist
11:35am - 11:50am IMPROVING LIVES THROUGH TALENT & TECHNOLOGY
  • Chris Librie, Senior Director, Strategy & Communications – HP Corporate Affairs
11:50am - 12:00pm Lightning Round: Join the Battle – Creating a National Movement
  • Katie Kotkins, Director, Cycle for Survival – Memorial Sloan-Kettering
  • David Linn, Co-Founder – Cycle for Survival
12:00pm - 12:15pm A HEALTHY AMERICA: HOW CAN WE GET THERE?
  • John Hoffman, Founder & CEO; Documentary Filmmaker – Public Good Projects
12:15pm - 12:30pm RETURNING FROM WAR: THE IMPORTANCE OF REINTEGRATION FOR OUR HEROES
  • Colonel David W. Sutherland, U.S. Army (Ret.); Co-Founder & Chairman – Center for Military & Veterans Community Services (Dixon Center)

12:30pm - 1:45pm
LUNCH & NETWORKING
Session 5: The Connected World

                          Session Leader: Jacquelline Fuller, Director of Giving – Google

1:45pm - 1:50pm

 INTRODUCTION BY SESSION LEADER
1:50pm - 2:05pm CODE FOR AMERICA: USING TECHNOLOGY TO PUT CITIZENS FIRST
  • Tim O'Reilly, Founder & CEO – O’Reilly Media Inc
2:05pm - 2:25pm DISRUPTING POVERTY – SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  • Julia Hartz, Co-Founder & President – Eventbrite
  • Leila Janah, Founder & CEO – Samasource
  • Moderator: Noah Wintroub, Global Head of Internet & Digital Media – JPMorgan
2:25pm - 2:35pm LIGHTNING ROUND: UNSEEN CONNECTIVITY
  • Marshall Davis Jones, Poet
2:35pm - 2:50pm THE INTERNET OF EVERYTHING FOR SOCIAL GOOD
  • Dave Evans, Cisco Chief Futurist – Cisco Consulting Services
2:50pm - 3:05pm LIGHTNING ROUND: AGE OF CONTEXT
  • Robert Scoble, Technology Guru; Journalist; Startup Liaison Officer – Rackspace
3:05pm - 3:15pm TRANSITION BREAK
3:15pm - 4:15pm
NETWORKING & COFFEE BREAK
Interactive Classroom Workshops (choose your own adventure):
CLASSROOM #1
LEVERAGING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE OPPORTUNITY IN THE US
  • Ben Geyerhahn, CEO & Founder – BeneStream
  • Jill Frankfort, Co-Founder – Persistence Plus
  • Beth Schmidt, Founder & Executive Director – Wishbone.org
  • Moderator: Eric Cantor, Entrepreneur-in-Residence – Blue Ridge Foundation
 CLASSROOM #2
THE SECRET OF EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIPS
  • Barbara Bush, CEO & Co-Founder – Global Health Corps
  • Kate Wetzel, Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility – JetBlue Airways
  • Olivier Delarue, Lead, Innovation – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
  • Moderator: Paul Ellingstad, Director Human Progress Initiatives – HP Corporate Affairs
CLASSROOM #5
Scaling Social Innovation: Encouraging Mass Behavior Change
  • Paul Dillinger, Sr. Director, Global Design – Levi Strauss & Co.
  • Sujean Lee, Vice President of Philanthropy – Chobani
  • Steve Goetz, Senior Director Business Development – Razoo
  • Moderator: Christine Arena, Practice Lead, Business + Social Purpose – Edelman
 CLASSROOM #6
EMPOWERING GLOBAL CHANGE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY – THE IMPORTANCE OF WOMEN & GIRLS
  • Dana Ledyard, Managing Director – Girls Who Code
  • Ayna Agarwal, Student – Stanford University
  • Gwendolyn Floyd, Founder – Soko
  • Moderator: Akhtar Badshah, Head of Corporate Philanthropy – Microsoft
CLASSROOM #7
FOOD WASTE: A BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
  • Alexandra Heeney, Student – Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • Krysia Zajonic, Co-Founder & CEO – Local Food Lab
  • Moderator: Erica Plambeck, Professor of Operations, Information & Technology – Stanford Graduate School of Business
4:15pm - 4:25pm TRANSITION BREAK
Session 6: A Brighter Future

                          Session Leader: Zeev Klein, General Partner – Landmark Ventures

4:25pm - 4:30pm

 INTRODUCTION BY SESSION LEADER
4:30pm - 4:40pm Lightning Round: Paddling Out   
  • Paul Polizzotto, President and Founder – CBS EcoMedia
4:40pm - 4:55pm WHEN 3.6 BILLION EYES ARE ON YOU
  • Aly Raisman, Olympic Gold Medalist; Captain, 2012 Women’s Gymnastics Team – London Olympics
  • Moderator: Marc Pollick, President & Founder – The Giving Back Fund
4:55pm - 5:05pm LIGHTNING ROUND: LEVERAGING THE CROWD FOR SOCIAL IMPACT
  • Paul Niehaus, Founder – Give Directly
5:05pm - 5:15pm Special Announcement: CHASE COMMUNITY GIVING AWARDS
  • Dalila Wilson-Scott, President – JPMorgan Chase Foundation
5:15pm - 5:30pm LIGHTNING ROUND: TO THE EDGE AND BACK
  • Robert Swan, OBE, Polar Explorer & Environmental Leader – 2041

5:30pm - 7:30pm
NETWORKING & COCKTAIL RECEPTION