Saturday, July 26,
2008
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Your Future in an “Everyone a ChangemakerTM”
World
Bill Drayton
CEO, founder, and chairman, Ashoka: Innovations for the Public,
Arlington, Virginia
former assistant administrator, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.
Ashoka
is the global association of the world’s leading social
entrepreneurs—men and women with system-changing solutions for the
world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1981, Ashoka has elected
over 2,000 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows, providing
them with living stipends, professional support, and access to a
global network of peers in more than 70 countries. This speaker will
discuss how and why, over the past 30 years, the growth of the
citizen sector has quickly outpaced that of the traditional business
world. Additionally, he will discuss how
young people are the last big group to set
out on this journey; they must start early to become powerful and
cause change. Highlighting Fellows’ work and
discussing the historical
relevance of the social entrepreneur movement in today’s world and
for the future, he
will illustrate how we can
experience an “everyone a changemakerTM” world.
Who should attend:
Youth and adults who are interested in knowing more about the role
of social entrepreneurs in changing the world.
What you’ll learn:
Attendees will learn how they can be part of the largest citizen
sector movement in the world and how they can apply their
entrepreneurial passion to flip the systems that are limiting the
citizen sector’s ability to creatively, innovatively, and
effectively solve some of the world’s most intractable social
problems.
How can this new knowledge be
applied:
The new knowledge can be applied by youth
and adults to learn how they too can be social entrepreneurs and
changemakers in our future world.
key words:
entrepreneurship, global citizens
issue area:
Social and Cultural Trends, Business and Careers
Creating the Future
Through New Eyes
Edie
Weiner
president, Weiner, Edrich,
Brown, Inc;
co-author, FutureThink: How to Think Clearly in a
Time of Change
New York, New York
The world is not flat. We are moving past our
present multidimensional world to the extra dimensional globe just
around the corner. If the present world were flat, then it would not
just be goods and services moving around the globe without barriers;
it would also mean best practices would be adopted quickly and
effectively. There continue to be significant obstacles to:
water management,
protection and care of women and
children, the elderly and the sick,
carbon sequestration and reduction,
access to excellent education and good
employment, etc.
Who should attend:
Business leaders, government and public policy officials, non-profit
managers and educators concerned with the global economy and new
ways of thinking about it.
What you’ll learn: Attendees will better understand the
barriers to innovative change, including the cognitive, political,
social and academic impediments. Case studies such as global
microlending will be examined, as well as cutting edge dynamics in
the frontiers of extra dimensionality, including cognitive gender
dynamics, the power of non-tangibles in change and the critical
nature of evolving intelligence.
How can this new knowledge be applied: By examining the
importance of non-linear and non-rational information, new metrics
can be developed that can better address a radial model of global
connection. The goal will be to enhance anticipatory and proactive
approaches to create more effective performance and institutions.
key words:
microlending, gender dynamics, change
issue area: Social and Cultural Trends, Governance and
Communities, Resource and Environment
