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Thursday, July 10, 2008 from 10:00 AM - 7:15 PM (GMT)
SOCIAL INNOVATION GAME CHANGER WORKSHOP
NESTA cordially invites you to join a day of peer review, learning and action with a wide range of enablers of social innovation. The aims of the day are to:
The workshop is participatory. Speakers will provide impetus, but you will have ample opportunity to pursue your goals. The day is also cumulative. So while the last session looks deceptively relaxed, this is where you consider what everything you have heard and discussed really means – we figure you’ll have your best ideas when the formal business is done – and where you can indicate an interest in practical collaborations. Among your peers will be a wide range of enablers, including intermediaries, design and incubation agencies, capacity-builders and funders, who together reflect the plurality of approaches being used to foster critical innovation. They will be joined by a growing number of policy makers who aim to create a more enabling environment.
Learn from practitioners’ experience of facilitating transformatory innovation – expert witness is a central feature for the day.
Build a collective view of the state of the field – do we have agreed parameters, how are we learning and adapting?
Debate the ways important drivers will shape the field – new commitments from the state, an increasingly confident social finance sector, changing appetites among service users and innovators.
Discuss the role for NESTA’s Public Services Innovation Laboratory and look for the fit with your work.
Identify the priorities for the coming year, strengthen your networks and negotiate the collaborations that will help the social innovation field shift gear.
When:
10am-7.15pm
Thursday, 10 July 2008
Where:
NESTA
1 Plough Place
London
EC4A 1DE
Dress code:
Please give suits a day off
Programme
10.30 - Welcome and introduction:
Rowena Young
10.40 - Expert witness - moderated by Mike Harris
Systemic: Big Green Challenge,
Fred Steward ,
Alan Morton ,
Vicki Costello
11.10 - Where are we now? Debate
State of the field - Simon Tucker
1.10 – Lunch The Public Services Innovation Lab - NESTA Challenge team
2.30 - Expert witness - moderated by Mike Harris
Embedded: SILK (Social Innovation
Lab, Kent ), Sophia Parker
3.00 - How is the market changing? Breakouts and review
4.00 - Expert witness - moderated by Mike Harris Mediated: Live Work , Ben Reason
4.30 - Tea Break
4.45 - Expert witness - moderated by Mike Harris
Home-grown: Barking and Dagenham Local Authority Chief Executive, Rob Whiteman 5.15 - Building the field - bowl food, beer and post-its, debate and bid making Networking, generating ideas
What’s game-changing – 1 yr/3yrs?
Expressions Of Interest
7.15 - Close
Key Speakers:
Rowena Young ,
Programme Director Social Innovation and Finance, NESTA
Mike Harris,
Senior Research Fellow, NESTA
Fred Steward ,
Director, ESRC Sustainable Technologies Programme,
Brunel
University
Alan Morton , Challenge Fund Development Manager, NESTA
NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. We are the largest single endowment devoted exclusively to supporting talent, innovation and creativity in the UK. Our mission is to transform the UK’s capacity for innovation. We invest in early stage companies, inform innovation policy and encourage a culture that helps innovation to flourish.
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