Registrations open for the 6th Sankalp Forum’s 6th Annual Summit
World’s largest Social Enterprise focused gathering, the Sankalp Unconvention Summit, will be held on April 9-11, 2014 in Mumbai
January 14, Mumbai: Sankalp
Forum, an Intellecap initiative, announced the opening of registrations
for the 2014 edition of Sankalp Unconvention Summit (SUS). It is
world's largest social-enterprise focused gathering and brings together a
diverse group of actors focused on addressing social and environmental
issues through business. The Summit attracts large corporates, global
development finance institutions, policy-makers and small and growing
businesses.
“Sankalp
Unconvention Summit is a platform that recognizes few of the most
high-impact social enterprises from India and other developing markets
such as Africa. The Summit is also one of the most powerful convening of
global influencers, practitioners and stakeholders that are shaping
inclusive development globally,” said Aparajita Agrawal, Director –
Sankalp Forum.
In
its previous edition, the Sankalp Unconvention Summit (2013) saw over
1,000 delegates, with 120+ investment ready social enterprises, and
participants from 22 countries. Some of the renowned past speakers
included President Abdul Kalam, UTV’s Ronnie Screwvala, impact
investorAnthony Bugg-Levine, Jayanth Sinha of Omidyar, Ben White of
VC4Africa and Anil Sinha of IFC. SUS 2013 peeled back the layers and
moved beyond the conventional definition of impact.
This
year, SUS2014 is gearing up to get more global, more democratic and
more interactive; in view of a landmark partnership with SOCAP to align
the Global North and Global South, and an extremely successful expansion
in Africa in late 2013. This Summit is a convergence of global
knowledge, investment and dialog geared towards building a more
inclusive ecosystem for high impact, pro-poor businesses. Each year, it
brings several social enterprises to the forefront, and connects them to
enablers, mentors and crucial networks.
Furthermore,
the finalists of Sankalp Awards 2014 will have the opportunity to make
their investment pitch to a global audience of donors, investors,
foundations & enablers at the world's largest social enterprise
event, the Sankalp Unconvention Summit 2014. Winners will also be
declared at the Summit, and stand to win up to USD 70,000.
A
few months ago, Sankalp Forum expanded to Africa. The maiden conference
there is expected to bring together over 300 people from around the
world into Nairobi from Feb 12-13. This effort is supported by UKAid and Mara Foundation among others.
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About Sankalp Forum
Sankalp
Forum, an Intellecap initiative, recognizes & supports innovative,
sustainable, high impact social enterprises. It builds an enabling
ecosystem for early-stage businesses, channels impact investments, and
engages over 11,000 stakeholders globally through collaborative
year-round initiatives. It mobilizes a community of entrepreneurs,
investors, enablers and policy-makers to encourage innovation,
facilitate scalability, and drive consensus on matters that aid social
enterprise development.
Sankalp’s
Annual Summit is the largest social enterprise focused gathering in the
world, and in 2013 it partnered with Unconvention to become the Sankalp
Unconvention Summit. The Summit brings together more than 1,000
delegates, thought leaders, industry experts, policy makers from around
the world to voice, discuss, debate issues, trends and solutions that
aid social enterprise development.
Sankalp
Awards have sourced over 450 sustainable enterprises, enabled 200
mentoring connections and facilitated over USD 120Mn of equity
investments into more than 30 enterprises. Vetted through a rigorous
3-month process by a panel of global investors, the Awards bring
recognition to the most sustainable and scalable social enterprises that
are doing business across India.
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