Social business summit targets youth
- Youth Social Business Summit 2012 to take vicinity from Dec 7 – 9 at [email protected], Solaris Dutamas
- Aims to propagate self-sustaining companies focused on social welfare over shareholder value
YOUTH agree with basis myHarapan has announced the Youth Social Business Summit 2012, slated to take vicinity from Dec 7 – 9 at [email protected], Solaris Dutamas.
Sponsored with the aid of MyEG and Yayasan Sejahtera, the 3-day occasion pursuits to propagate social business amongst youths, and foster dialogue and collaboration between social entrepreneurs and stakeholders in addition to sharing best practices.
The summit proposing workshops, panel sessions, meetings and exhibitions, and is centered at university students, youth leaders, activists, social entrepreneurs, non-governmental companies (NGOs), academia, working experts and social marketers.
A social business is a self-sustaining organisation targeted on social welfare in place of shareholder value. Investors get hold of no greater than their preliminary investments, with profits channeled returned into the business enterprise for future enlargement, improvement of services or products, in addition to subsidy of fees.
The exercise has been largely propagated through 4 companies, namely the Yunus Centre in Bangladesh, the Yunus Social Business Centre University of Florence, Social Business Earth and the Grameen Creative Lab in Germany.
Special visitors for the event consist of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Professor Muhammad Yunus; Impact Investment Exchange Asia director of corporate finance Raya Papp; Grameen Credit Agricole Microfinance Foundation chief funding officer Juergen Hammer; Kakiseni founder Low Ngai Yuen; Tandem Fund leader running officer Kal Joffres; and Social Enterprise Alliance director Ellynita Hazlina Lamin.
Unique to the event is the Social Business Breakouts, which calls upon visitors to study present social corporations and remedy pre-decided demanding situations concerning international issues, while the Eureka Breakouts challenges them to design a social commercial enterprise that aligns with the core values of the for-profits sitting at the Platinum Panel.
The summit can also be streamed online for human beings the world over to look at activities as they unfold.
Tickets are priced at RM300 for Malaysians, RM400 for Internationals and RM600 for Corporates. Members of student NGOs Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) and AIESEC revel in discounted expenses of RM100 and RM150 for Malaysians and Internationals respectively.
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