Ladies and gentlemen, without further adieu…the highlights of SOCAP Day 1!
Paula showcases the SOCAP09 conference bags! Every attendee & speaker gets one of these wonderful recycled ‘trash’ bags courtesy of XSProject.
Couch area provided by the hub! These guys create a space for social innovators to work, meet, connect and inspire.
The time has come to find out whether a career can be out of being a social entrepreneur! For those of you still unsure of what a social entrepreneur is Andrew Mawson sums it up very eloquently. Those individuals that are:
commited to applying business principles to social issues.
I’m really excited as tomorrow I will be voluntering for SOCAP09.
SoCap09 will bring together a unique mix of the world’s top social innovators, investors, donors, entrepreneurs, and thought-leaders, today’s leading catalysts of change from across the globe.
SOCAP09 appears to have attracted some of the biggest players in the social entrepreneur and social enterprise space so my mission for this conference is to find out if we, the gen y and z’s, can make a career out of this type of business!
I have recently been involved in a number of discussions with gen Xers+ focusing on “what you young people stand for”. It has been pointed out that each generation had a central theme of concern that ran through their lives. There was the second world war for my grandparents, which was about fighting for the empire, for commonwealth. My parents had Vietnam, and the ‘Peace, Love and Brown Rice’ movement. It was all about anti-establishment, counter-government. But what is it that I, and my peers, stand for?
