7:30am to 8:00pm
Venue 1008
1008 14 Street SE
Imagination is a powerful tool. Partner it with design and engineering and you’ve got a combination that can transform – and solve — the most complex of social issues. This year during Beakerhead, meet six founders, engineers and designers tackling social issues through ingenious entrepreneurial endeavors.
Kudo’s from Oprah to ABC’s Shark Tank, Forbes Magazine and B-Corp; growing from 100 units a month to 10,000; hitting revenue of $5 Million; responding to over 270 disasters and humanitarian crises in over 95 countries – these social entrepreneurs have seen it all. Learn more about the presenters
Register for the World of Social Entrepreneurship
Good science is good for the world. An incredible array of partnerships are bringing together some of the planet’s most innovative and creative minds to offer you a day filled with inspiration. They will show how they’re using that stunning brain matter to make our world a better place – and still meeting the bottom line!
Use the hashtag #socentYYC.
$25 per individual session
$50 full day of Sept 16th activities (includes lunch)
7:30am - 9:00am
Michel Gelobter Keynote
Lean Start-ups for Social Change: Insights and Perspective for Social Purpose Organizations. Michel Gelobter is one of the country's leading sustainability and climate strategists, author of the acclaimed "Lean Startups for Social Change: The Revolutionary Path to Big Impact" and founder of his own social purpose organization.
11:30am - 1:00pm
How Doing Good in the World is Great Business
With the inventors of wearable technology that reads emotional cues, bicycles that are warm in winter, and other smart innovations, this lunch of rapid-fire discussion and world changing ideas is more than food for thought! Hosted by Kim Smith, Community Manager for Capital Ideas Calgary. Includes lunch.
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Local Social Venture Pitch - TRICO Presents: The World of Social Entrepreneurship
Calgary's top entrepreneurs and innovators. An award winning panel of judges. A $10,000 prize to make their world-changing dreams a reality, and a panel on "The Art of the Pitch." Have we caught your attention yet? Hosted by Craig Elias, resident entrepreneur for the Chiu School of Business, Bow Valley College, this pitching contest may just have the potential to make our world a better place.
This day of social and scientific stimulation is brought to you by: TRICO Charitable Foundation, Beakerhead, United Way of Calgary and Area, Capital Ideas, ATB BoostR, Calgary Economic Development, Innovate Calgary, Chiu School of Business, Bow Valley College; Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Mount Royal University; Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary; and The Calgary Foundation.
