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Social Venture Network Fall Conference
October 11 - 14, 2007
Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa
La Jolla, CA

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Thursday, October 11, 2007
1:00 pm Registration Opens
3:30 - 4:45pm Welcome & Networking Session
5:00 - 6:00 pm Reception & Silent Auction
6:00 - 7:30 pm Dinner
7:45 - 9:30 pm Opening Plenary Session
Priya Haji, World of Good, and Chris Van Dyke, Nau. Facilitated by Melissa Bradley-Burns, Reentry Strategies Institute.
9:45 - 10:30 pm Live Music
Jonathan McEuen
10:30 pm on Late Night Gathering
Friday, October 12, 2007
7:00 - 7:45 am Morning Movement with Terry Gips
7:30 - 9:00 am Networking Buddy Breakfast
8:00 am - 8:00 pm Registration Open
9:00 - 10:15 am Plenary Session
Henry Cisneros, CityView Companies and Former US Secretary of Housing & Urban Development mpassion
10:15 - 10:45 am Break
10:45 am - 12:00 pm Opening Circle
Cheri Huber, Living Compassion
12:00 - 1:30 pm Affinity Group Lunch
1:45 - 3:00 pm Breakout Sessions
  1. Social Media: Will User-Generated Content Change Everything?
    Chad Boettcher, Nike, James Elsen, SustainLane, and Tessie Topol, MTV. Facilitated by Karl Carter, Inner City Enterprises.
  2. Grow the Good: Bringing Local Food to Urban Communities
    Anna Marie Carter, Seed Lady of Watts and Brenda Palms Barber, Sweet Beginnings. Facilitated by Connie Evans, CSolutions Consulting.
  3. Growing and Capitalizing the Fourth Sector
    Jay Coen Gilbert, B Lab, Heerad Sabeti, Fourth Sector Network, and Woody Tasch, Investors' Circle. Facilitated by Joy Anderson, Good Capital.
3:00 - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 - 5:00 pm Men's Circle
Laury Hammel, The Longfellow Clubs
3:30 - 5:00 pm Women's Circle
Pam Chaloult, Renewal Partners and Endswell Foundation, and Denise Hamler, Co-op America
5:00 - 6:00 pm Free Time (One-on-One Consulting Sessions, Silent Auction
5:00 - 6:00 pm Yoga with Gurutej
6:00 - 7:15 pm Dinner
7:15 - 8:00 pm SVN Auction
8:00 - 9:15pm Plenary Session: Scaling Sustainability Panel
Hannah Jones, Nike, Aaron Lamstein, Worldwise, Inc. and Adam Lowry, Method. Facilitated by Aron Cramer, Business for Social Responsibility (BSR).
9:30 pm  Party
Saturday, October 13, 2007
7:00 - 7:45 am Yoga with Gurutej
7:30 - 8:45 am Breakfast
8:30 am - 2:00 pm Registration Open
9:00 - 10:15 am Marketplace of Ideas
Short (90-second) presentations about upcoming attendee ventures and projects. Creativity is encouraged!
10:15 - 10:45 am Break
10:45 am - 12:00 pm Breakout Sessions
  1. It's How We Live: Sustainable Branding and the Conscious Consumer
    Raphael Bemporad, BBMG and David Lubensky, Bagatto, Inc.
  2. Innovative Practices for Social Enterprise
    Jennifer Chapman, Wild Planet Toys, Kathi Lentzsch, Elephant Pharmacy and Paul Saginaw, Zingerman's Delicatessan. Facilitated by Mark Albion, Making a Life.
  3. Business at the Bottom of the Pyramid
    Marie Charles, ICEHA and Long Life Clinic Network, Chuck Slaughter, Living Goods and Paul Polak, International Development Enterprises. Facilitated by Josh Mailman, Mailman Foundation.
12:00 - 3:00 pm Lunch, Product Expo, and Silent Auction
3:30 - 4:45pm Plenary Session
Majora Carter, Sustainable South Bronx
Sponsored by Stanford Social Innovation Review
5:00 - 6:00 pm Ecstatic Dance with Lori Darley
5:00 - 6:30 pm Free Time
6:30 - 7:45 pm SVN 20-Year Anniversary Celebration Dinner
Sponsored by ShoreBank
7:45 - 9:45pm SVN Innovation Awards →
10:00 pm on Party/Dancing
Sponsored by Lori Darley, Mark Donohue and Steve Potts
Sunday, October 14, 2007
8:30 - 9:45 am Breakfast
9:45 - 11:00 am Plenary Session: Bringing World Change
John Wood, Room to Read
Sponsored by SalesWorks
11:15 am - 12:15 pm Closing Circle
Christian and Crystal Forthomme, RealChange
12:15 - 1:45 pm Lunch