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Keynote Presentations:

Day One

The role of Government in supporting Social Enterprise

Ruth Parsons, Director of the Public Sector Reform Directorate, Scottish Government.
Phil Hope MP, Minister for the Third Sector, UK Government.

Funding social enterprise

Introduction by the Chair, Sir Clive Booth, Chair of the Big Lottery Fund.
Susan Rice, Chief Executive of Lloyds TSB Scotland, video presentation to the Forum.
Michael Trail, Founder and Chief Executive of Social Ventures Australia.
Nigel Kershaw of Big Issue Invest’s Social Enterprise Venture Fund.
David Metcalfe, Lloyds TSB Scotland.

Social enterprise waste management initiatives as an instrument to tackle poverty, improve health, support the environment and engage communities

Laila Iskander, Managing Director of Community and Institutional Development in Egypt, Unesco’s UNLD Resource Person for the Arab region (2005-2007).

Changing Societies

Sophi Tranchell - Divine Chocolate.
Thorkil Sonne of Specialisterne, Denmark.

Day Two

Opportunities for social enterprise growth from changes to world and local economies

Chair, Jonathan Bland, CEO of the Social Enterprise Coalition.
Charles Leadbeater a leading world authority on innovation and creativity (adviser to Downing Street and author of “Social Enterprise and Social Innovation - Strategies for the next 10 years”).
David Fenton, Head of Micro Economics at RBS.

Achieving wider impact with young people and the business sector

Chair Graham Bell, CEO of the Kibble Education and Care Centre.
Jim Schorr of the Centre of Responsible Business at Haas Business School, University of California.
Liam Black, co-founder of Wavelength, formerly of Fifteen and the FRC Group

Social enterprise is the right way to do business – it is a business model for 21st century

Chair, Kris Prendergast, CEO of the Social Enterprise Alliance.
Jim Fruchterman of Benetech, USA.
Robert L.E Egger, Founder and President of DC Central Kitchen in Washington.