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Yale Social Entrepreneurship Conference

Saturday, February 21, 2009 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (ET)

New Haven, CT

Yale Social Entrepreneurship Conference

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Event Details

 

Social Entrepreneurship Conference at Yale

February 21, 2009

William Harkness Hall (WLH)

 

 

9:30AM-10:00AM

Registration

Continental Breakfast

 

10:00AM-11:00AM

Welcome, YES

Alina Yang, VP, Social Entrepreneurship Department

 

Keynote Address-Where we are now? Why is this important?

Elizabeth Scharpf, Founder and Chief Instigator, SHE

 

11:00AM-11:40AM

Breakout Session I: Industries

Education

Edna Novak, Teach for America - CT

Divine Bradley, Team Revolution

Green Technology

Jordan Peccia, DUS Environmental Engineering, Yale University

Health & Medicine

Anup Patel, Nyaya Medicine

Jennifer Staple, Unite for Sight

 

11:50AM-12:30PM

Breakout Session II: Roles and Stages

Raising Money & Scaling It Up

Cynthia Koenig, Hippo Roller

Abigail Keene-Babcock, Acumen Fund

Measuring Impact & Facing The Critics

Socheata Poeuv, Khmer Legacies

Ben Smilowitz, Disaster Accountability Project

Fernande Raine, Ashoka

 

12:45PM-2:00PM

Lunch

Structured Networking

 

2:10PM-3:10PM

Breakout Session III: Career Showcase

How to Pursue a Future in Social Entrepreneurship

Rich Littlehale, TwigTek

Melissa Richer, Ayllu Initiative

Kam Lasater, SeeClickFix

Fernande Raine, Ashoka

Zachary Kaufman, Kigali Public Library

Scott Grinsell, Orphans Against AIDS

 

3:15PM-4:00PM

Closing Sketch: Making SE a Future

YES Social Entrepreneurship Department