Catalyst promises to be a stimulating day-long event addressing the notion of social enterprise as a solution to both local and global issues.
The Conference is being run by the student led society, Beyond Profit. BP was set up in 2011 as a platform to spread knowledge about social enterprise, and its benefits. The conference will address a wide range of issues and approaches to social enterprise including panel sessions, discussions with inspirational leaders in the field, and workshops to empower those who seek to build their own successful social enterprise.
Our focus is to encourage innovation, ambition and idealism in order to address the social, economic and environmental challenges faced by our generation, and create real change for the better. You will also have an opportunity to submit (with a team or alone) a pitch for your own social enterprise - the finalists will be selected to pitch their idea during the pitching competition at the conference. Winners will receive: 500GBP and three months hotdesking space at Social Incubator East! Email Danielle Meredith for more information.
Keynote Speakers
Liam Black
Best known for co-founding the restaurant chain Fifteen with Jamie Oliver, Liam Black is one of the UK’s best-known social entrepreneurs. This restaurant now has business across Europe and Australia as it quickly grows into a global brand. He has authored the books There’s No Business Like Social Business and is a board member of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA). Alongside this he speaks and writes widely on leadership, enterprise and social change.
Robyn Scott
Robyn Scott is Co-Founder of the social enterprises Brothers for All and Mothers for All and innovation company OneLeap. Brothers for All helps prisoners, former prisoners and at-risk township youth in South Africa learn coding, entrepreneurship and leadership skills; Mothers for All teaches entrepreneurship skills to AIDS and orphan caregivers; OneLeap helps the world's leading organisations be more entrepreneurial by working with experienced entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs. She is author of an acclaimed memoir about growing up in Botswana. She is an Ambassador for the Access to Medicine Index, one of WIRED's 50 People About to Change the World, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
Neil Stott
Neil Stott is Executive Director at the Centre for Social Innovation in Cambridge. He is Chief Executive of Keystone Development Trust - one of the largest development trusts in the country delivering, community development, social enterprises and property development. Neil is a Senior Associate of Locality's consultancy as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Place Management (SFIPM) and a Visiting Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University.
Read the full conference programme here www.catalystconference.org.uk
Buy tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/catalyst-conference-2015-tickets-14731390987