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The internet is increasingly facilitating knowledge sharing at an unprecedented velocity. The result: paradigm shifting technologies and business models that are radically changing how we handle social needs and environmental constraints. Learn how the human imagination is redefining sustainability, and transforming business.

This panel will discuss emerging examples in urban design and industrial ecology that are changing how we view cities and the people who live inside them. It will provide the latest insights in technology, mobility, food supply and energy flows.

Social entrepreneurship is creating professional and equal opportunities in Spain and Latin America. Learn about inspiring professional re-insertion and transformation programs that are addressing social issues in innovative ways while creating successful companies.

Game-changing innovations that are driving the future of the industry. How fast is clean energy technology advancing and who is leading the way?  Coordinated with the IE Energy Club this panel sets out to take you to the edge of the renewables debate and prepare you for the next leap in the energy business.

A look at those companies that are integrating strategic sustainability into their core business as a means to increase competitiveness. A look at best practices in management, analytics and supply chain operations.

This panel will discuss the evolution and trends of philanthropy and social investment. It will explain the concepts and techniques from venture capital finance and high business management that are applied to achieve social development. The panel will describe all this from the perspective of professionals working in USA, EU and Asia.

The panel will highlight the successful internal CSR strategies as witnessed within Mondragon, as well as how external CSR strategies are affecting stakeholder engagement as seen in organizations like Oxfam and Repsol.

Sports as a vehicle for social development is an inspiring global trend. Learn how such initiatives are minimizing the effects of exclusion on youth and young adult populations both in developed and developing countries.

 

New lucrative business structures are surging as a solution to maintaining rainforest and biodiversity. Among them, sustainable logging, Reducing Emissions from De- forestation and Forest Degradation REDD (the latest financial vehicle to come out of the Kyoto Protocol) and innovative sustainable uses of forestry. This panel will discuss the challenges ahead and prospects of this market.

Businesses are becoming more aware of the conscious consumer, and are developing products and practices that take into account environmental and social impacts. Learn how companies are taking advantage of the global appetite for sustainable products, and how business models are changing to adapt to this new market.

The World Bank and CEDPA herald investing in women as “smart economics,” as such investments contribute to significant multiplier effects as well as economic growth. This panel wishes to explore the various means through which people are closing the gender gap and creating more opportunities for women.