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Previous Social Conversations

16 Nov 2012
Design For A Black & White World
Speakers: Arunachalam Muruganantham, Jayaashree Industries
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13 Aug 2012
Cooking at the Base of the Pyramid
Speakers: Radha Muthiah, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves & HEP Sokhannaro, GERES Cambodia
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29 Jun 2012
Education for Indigenous Communities
Speakers: Butet Manurung, SOKOLA
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14 May 2012
Education by Design
Speakers: Kiran Bir Sethi, Riverside School.
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11 Apr 2012
Carbon Finance for Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development
Speakers: Raphaele Deau & Suzanne Chew, Nexus-Carbon for Development
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15 Feb 2012
Cross-sector Partnerships for Development
Speakers: Sean Rooney, Foundation for Development Cooperation.
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31 Jan 2012
Scaling the Bottom of the Pyramid
Speakers: Al Hammond, Ashoka.
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19 Oct 2011
ThinkFest 2011: Enlightened Marketplace, Savvy Advocacy & New Social Models
Speakers: Vincent Wijeysingha, TWC2; Tay Kheng Soon, Akitek Tenggara; Stefan Jacob, BOP Hub; Jacqueline Loh, Lien Centre.
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12 Oct 2011
Asian Venture Philanthropy Network Roadshow
Speakers: Aneel G. Karnani, University of Michigan.
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22 Aug 2011
Fighting Poverty with Cross-Sector Approaches
Speakers: Aneel G. Karnani, University of Michigan.
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27 Jul 2011
Information Session for a New Social Innovation Centre
Speakers: Tong Yee, School of Thought.
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6 Jun 2011
Social Conversation-Impact Chat on Impact Assessment
Speakers: Jeremy Nicholls, CEO, SROI Network & Durreen Shahnaz, Founder & CEO, Impact Investment Exchange Asia.
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20 Jan 2011
The Evolving Social Innovation Agenda: What's In It For Asia?
Speaker: John Elkington, Volans.
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10 Nov 2010
Rethinking Education & Sanitation
Speakers: Jack Sim, World Toilet Organization; Tay Kheng Soon, Kampung Temasek.
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11 Oct 2010
Cause Raising: a Uniform Approach
Speakers: Sheena Matheiken, The Uniform Project.
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16 Sep 2010
ThinkFest 2010: Role of Government, Corporations and Citizens in Enabling Social Innovation
Speakers: Geoff Mulgan, Young Foundation; Claire Chiang, Banyan Tree Global Foundation; Yong Teck Meng, Habitat For Humanity Singapore; Runa Kha, Friendship; Laurence Lien, National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre.
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17 Aug 2010
Donor Raising: the Changing Face of Fundraising
Speakers: Anne Boyd, Scottish Communtiy Foundation; Robert Edgar, New York Community Trust; Clare Brooks, Community Foundation Network; Terrence Chee, Community Foundation Network.
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15 Jul 2010
LOHAS: The Next Consumer Swarm?
Speaker: Adam Horler, President, Asia-Pacific LOHAS and Tay Lai Hock, Founder, Ground-Up Initiative.
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6 May 2010
Engaging Women at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Speaker: Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, Senior Ashoka Fellow & Founder CEO of Bandhan.
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6 Apr 2010
Pattern Changing in the Social World
Speakers: Ashoka Fellows Preeyanan Lorsermvattana, Thai Medical Error Network; Joyce Djaelani Gordon, Yayasan Harapan Permata Hati Kita ; Padmanabha Rao, RIVER
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25 Mar 2010
Lean Thinking in the Non-Profit Sector
Speaker: John Hamalian, Audit Committee Chairman, Transient Workers Count Too
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3 Dec 2009
Eco-tourism and Rural Development: My Green Journey
Speaker: Ishita Khanna, Founder of Ecosphere and Ashoka Fellow
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3 Dec 2009
Good Ideas - Generating and sustaining creative ideas to take non-profits to the next level
Speakers: Fredrik Härén, Founder, The Interesting Organization
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7 Oct 2009
Emerging Trends, Drivers and Models in the Social Space
Speakers: Ngiam Tong Dow, former senior civil servant & Kevin Teo, Director and Co-Founder, Volans Ventures & Eugene Tan, Assistant Professor, SMU School of Law & Ivy Singh-Lim, Founder, Bollywood Veggies & Tan Chi Chiu, Chief Editor, Social Space 2009
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25 Aug 2009
The Role of Law in the Non-Profit Scene
Speakers: Nan Aron, President, Alliance for Justice & Mahdev Mohan, Co-founder and Director, Access to Justice Asia LLP & Eugene Tan, Assistant Professor of Law, SMU
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8 Jul 2009
The Future of the Non-Profit Sector
Speakers: Tan Chi Chiu, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Gleneagles Medical Centre & Aaron Maniam, Deputy Director, Strategic Policy Office, Public Service Division & Alvin Lim, CEO, Bizlink Centre Singapore Limited & Martin Tan, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Halogen Foundation Singapore
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26 Mar 2009
Social Innovation Teh Tarik
Speakers: Kenny Low, Founder, O School and CHEC & Jack Sim, Founder, World Toilet Organization & Sarah Mavrinac, President, aidha
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17 Mar 2009
Microfinance in Asia
Speakers: Executive Committee, Banking With The Poor Network
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6 Mar 2009
Socially Innovative Youth Projects
Speakers: students from SMU, two team from the United World College of Southeast Asia, National University of Singapore and Ngee Ann Polytechnic
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24 Feb 2009
The Uncertain Future of CSR in a Time of Global Crisis
Speaker: Dr Peter Shergold, Macquarie Group Foundation Chair, Centre for Social Impact
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27 Nov 2008
Social Conversation on Venture Philanthropy
Speaker: Ruth Jones, Executive Director, Social Venture Partners International
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15 Sep 2008
Open Everything
Speaker: Mark Surman, Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow
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14 Sep 2008
The Promise of Social Entrepreneurship
Speakers: Olivier de Guerre, Founder, PhiTrust & David Dror, Founder, Micro Insurance Academy & Alvaro Rodriguez Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Ignia & Arthur Wood, Director, Social Financial Services, Ashoka USA &
Kimy Tsukamoto, Director and Regional Representative, Ashoka Brazil & Karen Tse, Founder and CEO, Internation Bridges to Justice
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14 Aug 2008
Community-Owned Hydropower: A Social Enterprise that Works
Speaker: Tri Mumpuni, Ashoka fellow & Executive Director, IBEKA
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25 Feb 2008
Solar Power - The Under-Utilised Alternative
Speaker: Christophe Inglin, Managing Director, Phoenix Solar Pte Ltd
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3 January 2008
Innovations in Philanthropy
Speaker: Jackie Khor, Impact Investing, Rockefeller Foundation
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21-22 Nov 2007
Social Venture Funds & Social Entrepreneurship
Speaker: Vineet Rai, Founder and CEO, Aavishkaar Management
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9 October 2007
Corporate Social Responsibility – The TNT Approach
Speaker: Michael Drake, Managing Director, TNT Greater China
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24 Sep 2007
From Dependency to Dignity
Speaker: Yeoh Eng Seng, Co-founder, Care Channels International
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22 Aug 2007
Distinguished Speaker Event
Speaker: Fazle Abed, Chairman, BRAC
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23 May 2007
Social Innovation - Meeting Unmet Needs
Speaker: Geoff Mulgan, Director, Young Foundation
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18 April 2007
Business and Climate Change
Speakers: John Frey, Corporate Environmental Strategies Group, Hewlett Packard & Nadeem Shafi, Asia Pacific Climate Control Program Development, WWF
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23 March 2007
Corporate Social Responsibility - Dialoguing with Stakeholders
Speaker: Richard Welford, Director, CSR Asia & Professor and Deputy Director of the Corporate Environmental Governance Program at Hong Kong University.
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09 March 2007
Venture Philanthropy: A practitioner's view of the venture capital model to philanthropy
Speaker: Mr Frank Levinson
06 March 2007
The Business of Social Investing - Financing the Social Sector
Speaker: Arthur Wood, Director, Social Financial Services, Ashoka.
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28 February 2007
Social Entrepreneurism: Sustainable Solutions for Social Impact
Speakers: Kevin Teo, Senior Project Manager, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship & Elim Chew, Founder and President of 77th Street (S) Pte. Ltd.
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25 October 2006
Making the Switch from Profits to Nonprofits
Speakers: Jack Alexander, Chairman and CEO of Geronimo Investments LLC.
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