THE BUSINESS OF SOCIAL INNOVATION
"I’m deeply convinced that humanity’s future relies on our ability to explore and invent new business models and new types of business corporations."
- Franck Riboud, CEO Groupe DANONE
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is dead. Giving money to charity, staff volunteering, painting the community centre – all good things but peripheral to the business. They don’t lead to the creation of new products and services, differentiate your brand, engage your people or achieve lasting social or environmental impact.
The answers to the world’s biggest social challenges will not be found by governments, charities or NGO’s alone. Increasingly big companies are creating new business models, new products and services that deliver lasting, financially viable solutions to the big problems we face.
We call this corporate social innovation and we believe it’s the future of business.
Over the course of two days, Wavelength will showcase the corporations aligning strategic business advantage with positive social and environmental impact at scale. They will share the stories of their journeys from CSR to corporate social innovation.
They are getting clean drinking water and nutritious food to people on low incomes; solving recruitment challenges by hiring in prisons; transforming supply chains; reinventing everything in a business around the principle of sustainability.
Come to The Business of Social Innovation and be inspired, provoked, challenged, and educated!
CONTACT
Adrian Simpson
+44 (0) 7966 193 343
adrian@thesamewavelength.com
Liam Black
+44 (0) 7714 521 061
liam@thesamewavelength.com
WHEN & WHERE
When: Thursday 21st & Friday 22nd October 2010
Where: Jasmine Studios, Shepherds Bush, London
Overnight? Please note, Wavelength is not supplying hotels.
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SPEAKERS
Our extraordinary line-up of global speakers include:
- Emmanuel Marchant, CEO, Danone Communities
- Peter Todbjerg Hansen, Managing Director, Grundfos LIFELINK
- Dorje Mundle, Group Head of Corporate Citizenship, Novartis
- Mike Barry, Head of Sustainable Business, Marks and Spencer
- Geoff McDonald, Head of HR Marketing, Communications and Sustainability, & Santiago Gowland, Head of Sustainabilty & Brands, Unilever
- Wolfgang Gregor, Chief Sustainability Officer, OSRAM
- James Timpson, CEO, Timpson
- Chris Burgess, Head of Sustainability, Vodafone
"It’s not about CSR it is about consumer behaviours and changing markets. This multinational has the scale, competencies and values to make really big change happen in a world that really needs it."
-Santiago Gowland, Unilever