Sankalp Forum, an Intellecap Initiative that influences global development discourse through market-led approaches, unveiled a stellar line up of global influencers for its sixth annual event, the Sankalp Unconvention Summit. The event is to be held on Apr 9 – 11, 2014 at Hotel Renaissance, Mumbai. Chair of G8 Social Impact Investment Task Force Sir Ronald Cohen, Dr Aravind of Aravind Eye Care and Dr Devi Shetty of Narayana Health come together with over 50 global speakers to talk about how businesses can do good.
The Summit marks annual culmination of Sankalp’s work throughout the year with entrepreneurs, impact investors and inclusive businesses to facilitate solutions to social and environmental problems in developing markets of Asia and Africa. This year, the Summit will debate, discuss and create a roadmap for the theme:
Building a Global Dialogue on Inclusive Development: Exploring Impact through Business and Capital
Aparajita Agrawal, Director – Sankalp Forum, said, “The Sankalp Summit has come to be a common platform for disparate development groups as well as practitioners from the emerging and developed world. As it grows to be a platform where significant decisions are taken which impact the course of the rest of the year for the social enterprise space, we are making a conscious effort to make it more democratic as we open up how sessions and conversations are curated here.”
In attendance will be an audience of over a 1,000 investors, donors, development finance institutions, policy makers, and academia and of course social enterprises and large businesses, both.
The Summit, lasting 3 days over Apr 9 – 11, 2014 will see over 50 speakers and 20 sessions. Some of the key speakers include:
· Sir Ronald Cohen, Chair of the Social Impact Investment Taskforce established by the G8
· Dr Aravind of Aravind Eye Care
· Dr Devi Shetty of Narayana Healthcare
· Monique Villa, CEO, Thomson Reuters Foundation
· Vineet Rai, CEO, Aavishkaar
· Zia Khan, Vice President for Strategy and Evaluation, Rockefeller Foundation
· Suzi Sosa, Co-Founder and CEO, Verb;
· Anish Kumar, Program Director, PRADAN;
· Meenakshi Nath, Deputy Head, DFID India, Head, Strategy and Private Sector programme
· Vivek Rai Gupta, GenNext Innovation Ventures
· Graeme Leach, Director of Economics & Prosperity Studies, Legatum Institute
Source : Sachin Murdeshwar