PROGRAMME OUTLINE - DAY 3

Sub-Theme :  

Innovation : The Big Shifts

Collaboration : Partnerships & Returns

Sustainability : Social Investments & Leadership

For Day 1 Programme, click here. | For Day 2 Programme, click here.  

Day 3 – Open Forum

 

08:00 – 08:55

Reception Area

Level 5
Registration and Breakfast                                         

09:00 – 09:30

Genexis Theatre

Level 6
Opening Act by Path Talent – Natri Bibi, an aspiring cross cultural singer Opening Remarks by Social Innovation Park (SIP) 

09:3010:55

Genexis Theatre

Level 6 

Plenary 7: Taking the Helm for a Better World

With the financial meltdown from Wall Street to ‘Main Street’, and the impact of climate change starts hitting our shores, value systems are shifting, new ideas are mooted while innovations mushrooms across management processes, supply and demand chains. However, as economic green shoots began to appear on the horizon and the Asian engine continues to roar, the lessons of irrational exhuberance, growth for growth’s sake and private profits may well be forgotten, until the next crises come along. Meanwhile, social inequity, access to infocomm technology and distributed periphery networks can empower individuals and ‘tribes’ to bring down established corporations and institutions—resulting in net deficit for the world. The new leader faces multiple challenges in making himself a unique chieftain and a fellow social networker, a sharp businessman and a community minded grassroots leader all at once.  

 

  1. How are schools, societies, and parents cultivating our leaders?
  2. What value systems and corporate infrastructure have top leaders put in place in order to come out on top?  
  3. While doctors have the Hippocratic Oath, should there be an oath or expectations for leaders, especially business leaders?
Chair: Penny Low, President and Founder, Social Innovation Park (SIP), Singapore

 

Panelists:  

John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Operation HOPE, USA

Suhas Gopinath, Founder and CEO, Globals Inc., India

Janice Hulse, Managing Director, Global Accounts Asia Pacific, Cisco, Singapore

Ting Choon Meng, Inventor and Author, Chairman & CEO, HealthSTATS International,  Singapore

Marzuki Usman, Former Minister of Forestry and Founder, Jakarta Stock Exchange, Indonesia

11:0012:25

Genexis Theatre

Level 6 

Plenary 8 : Catalysing Collaborative Innovations for a Better World

Social Innovation Park (SIP) is a collaborative platform that develops partnerships with entities from the private, public, and people sectors to create a better world. SIP partners with private sector organisations like DBS Bank, innovation hubs such as the Mixed Reality Lab at NUS, social enterprises including the SIP PaTH Social Enterprise, Busy Hands, and not-for-profit organisations like Conservation International (CI). How can like-minded organisations come together to maximise their impact on the world? How have SIP partnerships instigated collaborative innovations that are building a more inclusive, sustainable, and better world?

  1. What is the common vision that drives organisations to partner with SIP? 
  2. How can entities in the public, private, and people sectors come together to innovate for a better world?
  3. How do we build a more inclusive world and unleash the potential of marginalised communities?  

Chair: Augustine Anthuvan, Editor, International Desk, News Division, ChannelNewsAsia, Mediacorp, Singapore  

Panelists:

Elim Chew, Director, Social Innovation Park (SIP), Singapore and President and Founder, 77th Street (S) Pte Ltd, Singapore

Adrian David Cheok, Director of Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Lim Chu Chong, Managing Director, Enterprise Banking, DBS Bank, Singapore

Judy Ho, Founder, Busy Hands, SIP PaTH Social Enterprise, Singapore     

Andrew Wilson, Vice President, Corporate Relations, Center for Environmental Leadership, Conservation International (CI), USA 

*Translation provided by Kazay Chua, SIP Champion and Sign Language Expert 

*This plenary is a Social Innovation Park (SIP) –DBS Bank collaboration. 

12:3013:25

Reception Area

Level 5
Networking Lunch  & FirePITCH  SPOTLIGHT !

13:3014:55

Genexis Theatre

Level 6 
Plenary 9 : The Snowball Effect : Communities Empowered through Individual Leadership

By solutioning from within the community, social entrepreneurs and innovators have created products, services, and systems that change lives while building the foundation for change that will accelerate and multiply their efforts over generations. New media as a world and market flattener has also escalated the pace of change and empowered both individuals and mobilized the masses.

 

  1. How can individuals and organizations lead change?
  2. Can market efficiency be introduced into the non-profit sector and benefit all at the same time? 
  3. How can we begin to build the infrastructure that will sustain the development of the social economy?
  4. How can we not only incentivize private and public engagement with social enterprises, but also drive the creation and growth of social enterprises?

Chair: Michael Yeoh, CEO, Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute (ASLI), Malaysia

 

Panelists:

Ashoke Joshi, Chairman, Srinivasan Services Trust, India 

HE Mr Paul Madden, High Commissioner, British High Commission, Singapore

Zainudin Nordin, Mayor, Central Business District, Singapore

Graham Paterson, Head of Group Sustainability and Community, Westpac Banking Corporation, Australia

Aashmi Rana, Managing Director, Himali Pashmina Udyog, Nepal 

15:00 – 15:25

Genexis Theatre

Level 6
Closing Remarks