0845

Breakfast and Registration

0915

Innovation: Shaping the Future

Plenary: Overcoming Global Challenges: Opportunities Amidst Crisis

1045

Parallel Workshops

Innovation: Shaping the Future
Workshop 5: Getting Your Message Across

If you are in a position, or aspire, to make that change happen, then you also have the responsibility to create a message that gets the right people to care, understand, believe and act. In this workshop, learn how to immediately apply a proven positioning and message development methodology that will help you tell the world why your organization makes a difference.

1. Why is it important to identify a message that highlights your specific mission, whether it is to improve economic situation, quality of life or social condition of people facing social challenges?

2. How can social entrepreneurs create a message that is credible, concise, and competitive enough to offer differentiation and present a compelling alternative to doing nothing?

Collaboration: Quantum Leap Partnerships
Workshop 6: Building Great Partnerships: What does it take?

“Private-public” partnerships are in vogue with government officials and business leaders extolling the importance of these cross sector alliances. They make it sound so easy! But like any relationship (think of marriage), it takes a lot of work to build successful partnerships and overcome the inevitable tensions along the way. This interactive workshop will begin by collectively identifying the underpinnings of great partnerships, and turn to applying those principles to constructing a potentially winning partnership between a social enterprise, a public agency and a company to address a specific challenge.

Collaboration: Quantum Leap Growth
Workshop 7: Bridging Leadership in Social Innovation 

The U-Process is a new social technology that is used for bridging leadership in social innovation. Social innovatiors can apply the U-Process to address complex social issues across the tri-sectors (business community, civil society, government). The purpose of this workshop is to concisely present the challenges faced by social innovators which are barriers to sustain significant change and positive outcomes in social innovation. After attending this workshop, participants will experience the power of the “U” because it will ignite their desire to learn from the future. This workshop is intended for senior management, from social enterprises and voluntary welfare organisations in Singapore and overseas, who desire to further develop bridging for sustainable innovation.

Social Investments and Sustainability
Workshop 8: Accessing Finance for Growing Social Enterprises

Access to finance is a strong determinant of growth. Yet, social enterpreneurs have know-hows but not 'know-whos' or 'know-wheres'. Funding can come from various sources: financial institutions, government organizations or even private parties. As cash is the lifeblood of every company, managing your financess beyond just obtaining financing is equally important. This session unveils the various funding options for growth and cash management solutions to enable a social entrepreneur to manage his finances in a secure and efficient manner.

1. What are the various funding options available today?

2. What is required to design and execute a successful financing pitch?

3. What are the cash management instruments available for social enterprises to manage their liquidity and cash flows?
 

Social Investments and Sustainability
Special Session: Re-imagining the Media as a Social Enterprise

Tony Burman, past Editor-in-Chief of CBC News and current Managing Director of Al Jazeera English stated that "there is no more important contribution that we can make to society than strong, publicly-spirited investigate journalism." Lala Rimando discusses how investigative journalists, unrecognised social entrepreneurs, cannot only deliver public educational benefit but also instigate positive social change. Companies, organisations, and social enterprises should consider partnering with the media in their missions to create a better and more inclusive world. 

Robert Chua has revoluntionised the media by reimagining television as a social enterprise. In 2007, he created the "Health & Lifestyle Channel," (HLC) the world's first 24/7 TV Channel with the contents focused exclusively on health and lifestyle, to help Chinese all over the world to lead a healthy lifestyle focusing on 'preventive care' through infotainment TV programs. Robert Chua showcases how television can be
socially responsible" and also how to take advantage of new technologies and media platforms to maximise reach and social impact.

1245

Networking Lunch & FirePITCH SPOTLIGHT!

Aspiring and current social entrepreneurs, innovators, venture capitalists and so on will have 10 minute to take the stage and pitch their ideas and resources to potential partners. Challengers and Participants will have 10 minutes to field questions after each pitch. There will be a facilitator on site to help.

Tour of Fusionworld

1345

Social Investments and Sustainability
Plenary: The Alchemy of Effective Social Investments

Social investments are easier said than done! In recent years, NGO sector scandals have rocked confidence and up corporate governance. Corporate investors need to know where the money go, the public sector needs to account for taxpayers money, while the social sector needs resources and space to experiment and grow. Fundamental to this equation, are accountability and transparency. Transparency and accountability showcasing business-social collaborations deliver on their promises will secure public trust and encourage others to step up on social investments. Meanwhile, corporate governance is a means to an end, and should not become so overbearing that it kills creativity and alienates social innovations.

1. What in the world is corporate governance, and is it overbearing for a social venture?

2. How do fundraisers and social enterprise ensure transparency and accountability? What are the hallmarks of a good monitoring and reporting system for investments in social innovations?

3. How can the private, public and people sectors work together to support effective governance of social investments?

1515

Tea and Coffee Break

1545

Collaboration: Quantum Leap Partnerships
Closing Plenary: Trillions of Possibilities

The world is witnessing a blossoming of innovative cross sector partnerships between private corporations and social enterprises that allow organizations to achieve unexpected quantum leap growth. The collaboration between Danone and Nobel Laureate Mohd Yunnus (Grameen), the customer-centric philosophy of Whole Foods and the community-centric NTUC co-ops are examples of socially invested businesses that captures major market share and solutions from within (and outside) the community. In the face of current uncertain economic conditions, where corporate budgets are tight and community needs are high, these partnerships are even more important.

1. What are some paradigm changing cross sector partnerships that really work and what opportunities are there?

2. As Asia rises and the world becomes multi-polar, how can regional partnerships be forged?

3. Is there a unifying platform for building change communities and exchange of ideas and action in Asia? What would it take?

1715

Closing Remarks

1730

End of Day 2

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