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We have highlighted four “tracks” that may assist participants in following a particular path during the conference this year. The four themes are: Education, Entrepreneurship, Investment and Global Trends.
*Please note that this is a tentative schedule and is expected to change over the next few weeks.

Registration will take place from 7:30-8:45am on Sunday, March 2nd.

** PLEASE CLICK ON EACH PANEL TO VIEW CONFIRMED PANELISTS

KEY EDUCATION TRACK
INVESTING TRACK ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRACK GLOBAL TRENDS TRACK

7:30 - 8:45 REGISTRATION
Williams Room (General) and Meredith Room (Speakers)
BREAKFAST
Williams Room
8:45 - 10:00 KEYNOTE 1: JAN EGELAND
Burden Auditorium
10:00 - 10:10 TRAVEL TIME
10:10 - 11:20
PANEL BREAKOUTS 1
EDUCATION REFORM : LESSONS FROM ABROAD CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP MEGA BANKS IN
MICROFINANCE
GROWTH IN CSR: SUSTAINABLE?
HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE: A NEW ERA INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN 2020 CAUSE MARKETING GOING TO SCALE...
11:20 - 11:40 TRAVEL TIME/COFFEE BREAK
11:40 - 12:50
PANEL BREAKOUTS 2
NEW PRINCIPALS, SCHOOLS AND TOOLS PROFITABLE SOCIAL IMPACT INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT & VENTURE CAPITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION: CORPORATIONS TO FOUNDATIONS
TECHNOLOGY. INNOVATION. DEVELOPMENT THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISE CAREERS IN MISSION- DRIVEN CONSULTING CONSUMING WITH A CONSCIENCE
12:50 - 2:10 OPEN LUNCH*
Williams Room
*Open seating by subject area will take place in the Williams Room
PITCH FOR CHANGE
Burden Auditorium
LUNCHTIME ADDRESS:
STEPHEN LEWIS
Spangler Auditorium
2:10 - 3:30 KEYNOTE 2: NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE
Burden Auditorium
3:00 - 4:00 SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMANCE with
TERENCE BLANCHARD
Spangler Auditorium
CAREER
FAIR &
REFRESHMENTS
Williams Room
 
4:00-5:10
PANEL BREAKOUTS 3
4:00 - 7:00

HOT SHOTS PHOTOGRAPHY
EXHIBIT
Meredith Room
INNOVATIVE FOUNDATION BUSINESS MODELS IMPENDING CLIMATE CHANGE REVOLUTION INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO HOMELESSNESS ELECTION 2008: IS CHANGE ON THE HORIZON?
5:10-5:30  

EDUCATION TRACK

Education Reform: What Can the US Learn from the International Community?
Moderator: Dr. Charles Glenn, Dean ad interim of the School of Education, Boston University
- JEFF BEARD Director General, International Baccalaureate
- ANDREW COULSON Director of the Center for Educational Freedom, The Cato Institute
- HARRY PATRINOS Senior Education Economist, The World Bank
- CHRIS WHITTLE Founder and Chairman, Edison Schools Inc.
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Education Leaders Closing the Achievement Gap
Moderator: Stacey Childress, Lecturer and Senior Researcher, Harvard Business School
- LINDA BROWN Executive Director and Founder, Building Excellent Schools
- KARL CHENG Partner, The Parthenon Group
- FRANCES MCLAUGHLIN Senior Director, The Broad Foundation
- DR. THOMAS PAYZANT Professor of Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- JEFF WETZLER Senior Vice President and Chief Learning Offi cer, Teach For America
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Innovation as an Engine for Change in K-12 Education: New Principals, Schools and Tools
Moderator: Stacey Childress, Lecturer and Senior Researcher, Harvard Business School
- LARRY BERGER CEO and Co-Founder, Wireless Generation
- BENJAMIN FENTON Chief School Performance Support Officer and Co-Founder, New Leaders for New Schools
- JOHN STUPPY President, TutorVista.com
- JOSH ZOIA Founding Principal, KIPP Academy Lynn
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INVESTING TRACK

Mega-Banks in Microfinance: Endgame or Irrelevant?
Moderator: Professor Michael Chu, Senior Lecturer in the Initiative on Social Enterprise, Harvard Business School
- ROBERT ANNIBALE Director of Microfinance, Citigroup
- ÁLVARO RODRÍGUEZ ARREGUI Chairman of the Board, ACCION International
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The Growth of Corporate Social Responsibility: Is it Sustainable?
Moderator: Herman “Dutch” Leonard, Co-Chair of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative; Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration; George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management, Harvard University
- RAPHAEL BEMPORAD Principal & Founding Partner, BBMG
- ROBERT GLASSMAN Co-Chairman & Co-Founder, Wainwright Bank & Trust Company
- ALEX HAUSMAN CSR Reporting Manager, The Timberland Company
- CARLY JANSON Social Impact Director, Boston Consulting Group
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Profitable Social Impact: Exploring For-Profit Business Models that Create Social Wealth
Moderator: V. Kasturi “Kash” Rangan, Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, Harvard Business School
- COLIN BRADY (HBS ‘04) COO, (Product)RED
- CLIFFORD HENRY Associate Director, Procter & Gamble Global Sustainability
-ZLATA HAJRO Associate, Microfinance Institutions Group, Morgan Stanley
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Building New Valleys: Venture Capital and International Development
Moderator: Nick Beim, General Partner, Matrix Partners
- ASIM KHWAJA Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
- RAJ KUNDRA Director of Capital Markets and Energy Portfolio, Acumen Fund
- STACE LINDSAY Consultant; Entrepreneur, Blue Moon Fund; New England Portable Storage, LLC
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Social Innovation 2.0: Changing the Way Foundations and Corporations Do Business
Moderator: Karim Lakhani, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
- NANCY BARRAND Special Adviser for Program Development, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- MARIA BLAIR Associate Vice President & Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation
- CHARLIE BROWN Executive Director, Ashoka’s Changemakers.net
- KRISTIN D. RECHBERGER Vice President of Corporate Partnerships, National Geographic Society
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRACK

Cause Marketing: Private Gain or Public Good
Moderator: Jay Winsten, Associate Dean and the Frank Stanton Director of the School’s Center for Health Communication, Harvard School of Public Health
- ALISON DASILVA Vice President, Knowledge Leadership and Insights, Cone, Inc.
- V. KASTURI “KASH” RANGAN Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, Harvard Business School
- KATE ROBERTS Founder and Director, YouthAIDS
- IAN V. ROWE Vice President of Strategic Partnerships & Public Affairs, MTV: Music Television
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Going to Scale . . .
Moderator: Lisa Schorr Kaplan, Associate Director, Impact and Evaluation, The Bridgespan Group
- GEORGE CHU Chief Financial Offi cer, Citizen Schools
- GEORGE OVERHOLSER Founder and Managing Director, NFF Capital Partners
- ALAN SAFRAN Executive Director, MATCH Charter Public High School
- STEPHEN SEIDEL Director of Field Operations, Habitat for Humanity International
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Re-Thinking Development Funding: Innovative Foundation Business Models
Moderator: Jon Hugget, Partner, The Bridgespan Group
- MATTHEW DAGGETT Dalberg Global Development Advisers
- PAMELA HARTIGAN Founding Partner, Volans Ventures; Founding Managing Director, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
- RUTH MESSINGER President, American Jewish World Service
- SALIMAH SAMJI Program Manager, Google.org
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Consuming with a Conscience
Moderator: Tom Steenburgh, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
- DAVID CROSS Principal, (R)evolution Partners
- CHRISTINE DRISCOLL Business Development Manager, edun LIVE
- NANCY MAHON, ESQ. Executive Director, MAC AIDS Fund
- CRAIG R. SCHLONEGER CEO, Ten Thousand Villages
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GLOBAL TRENDS TRACK

The New Era of Humanitarian Response
Moderator: Jennifer Leaning, Co-director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Professor of the Practice of International Health, Harvard School of Public Health; Senior Advisor in International and Policy Studies, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
- TAREK GHANI Investment Manager, Humanity United
- ASIM KHWAJA Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
- HELGA LEIFSDOTTIR Coordinator, ReliefWeb, UN Offi ce for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
- TED OKADA Director, Microsoft Humanitarian Systems
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International Development in 2020
Moderator: Eric Werker Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
- NANCY BARRY President, Enterprise Solutions to Poverty
- TJADA D’OYEN Agricultural Development Program Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- DONALD LEE Senior Advisor, Office of Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
- DONALD F. TERRY Manager of the Multilateral Investment Fund, Inter-American Development Bank
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Technologies. Innovation. Development
Moderator: Joost Bonsen, Program Director, Legatum Center, Massachuesetts Institute of Technology
- DAMIEN BALSAN Director, Head of NFC Business Development Americas, Nokia Emerging Business Unit
- Timothy Prestero Co-Founder and Co-Director, Design that Matters
- KHALID QUADIR CEO, Brummer & Partners Bangladesh Limited; Founder, bracNet
- AMY SMITH Senior Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The Future of Social Enterprise
Moderator: Gordon Bloom, Founder, Harvard Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory (SE Lab)
- ALVARO RODRIGUEZ ARREGUI Founder and Managing Partner, IGNIA Partners, LLC
- NANCY BARRY President, Nancy Barry Associates-Enterprise Solutions to Poverty
- PAMELA HARTIGAN Founding Partner, Volans Ventures; Founding Managing Director, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
- MARK KRAMER Founder and Managing Director, FSG Consulting
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Careers in Mision-Driven Consulting
Moderator: Mukti Khaire, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
- SUSAN WOLF DITKOFF Manager, The Bridgespan Group
- MARCELA ESCOBARI Executive Director, Harvard Center for International Development
- ADEEB MAHMUD Consultant, FSG Social Impact Advisors
- MEREDITH QUINN Strategic Services Project Manager, Ithaka
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Impending Climate Change Revolution: What Lies Ahead for Businesses and Nations Worldwide?
Moderator: Armond Cohen, Executive Director, Clean Air Task Force
- KYLE CAHILL Manager, Corporate Partnerships Program, Environmental Defense
- NICK NICHOLS Vice President, Environmental Practice, NERA Consulting
- ADAM SEITCHIK Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, Trillium Asset Management Corporation
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Innovative Solutions to Homelessness
Moderator: Edward Marchant, Harvard University, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
- NELLI GARTMAN Senior Researcher, Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy at Brandeis University
- LORIANN GIRVAN Director of the Common Ground Institute, Common Ground Community
- KAREN OLSON Founder and President, Family Promise
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OTHER TRACK

Election 2008: Is Change on the Horizon?
Moderator: Darin McKeever, Co-Founder, Heads Up
- AUDREY R. ALVARADO Director, Nonprofi t Congress, Executive Director, National Council of Nonprofit Associations
- ROBERT EGGER Founder and President, DC Central Kitchen and V3 Campaign
- KELLEY KREITZ Fellow, Knowledge Sharing, Root Cause
- KELLY WARD Director, America Forward
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