An overview of challenges that are faced by the sector, some success stories and best practices. Subsequently the session breaks into a panel discussion. The panel would dig deeper to understand the critical path processes, systems and strategies to be deployed to fulfill the people need in organizations. This session will help all kinds of start-up as well as advanced stage social enterprises manage their human resource needs effectively and thus make them more attractive to investors. It will also cover pressing HR and talent issues and ways and means of resolving them to deliver a cutting edge people management process for social enterprises.
Description:
Are you faced with challenges while engaging with volunteers? Do you know the when, why, how about engaging with volunteers? Volunteer management, volunteer policy, volunteer retention, volunteer support, volunteer training, are just some of the volunteering terms that muddle our minds.
Join us while we discuss these and many such volunteering terms, myths, challenges and solutions with eminent panelists from varied backgrounds.
Register & book your workshop now.
Description:
Are you a social entrepreneur who needs help from mentors to help you through the dilemmas and challenges of setting up and running your social enterprise. Mentoring has to be thought of as a mutually beneficial relationship & successful mentoring relationships come in all different forms. It's not so much about your exact experience but how you develop the relationship with your Mentee and adapt to their needs.
The session will start with a talk by Mentoredge on Mentoring followed by a discussion amongst a successful mentor-mentee relationship.
Roundtable Session on Growing the Incubation Movement (By Invite Only)
Roundtable Session on Research/Case Studies (By Invite)
LEARNING BY DOING..... TO DO BETTER!
Are you a social enterprise looking for solutions to hire and/or retain talent?
8 shortlisted social entrepreneurs will pitch to a panel of 2 - 3 HR experts. Each of them will give a brief introduction to their business, describe the HR/talent problem and seek a specific solution.
Post this, the floor will be an open house, where participants network without inhibition.
TALENT CORNER – Jobs will be advertised on the Job board and participants can fill up forms which be shared with the recruiting entrepreneurs.
You should register for this session
- if you have a talent issue which needs to be addressed (Write to unconvention@villgro.org to participate)
- If you are looking to work for the sector
Are you a social enterprise looking for volunteers to help you? Or are you looking to volunteer for the sector?
This session will allow 15 social entrepreneurs to provide volunteering opportunities. Volunteers can help in one of the following domain areas:
Website development & management
Content writing
Read Books for Visually Challenged
Teach
Help in outreach & Awareness
Do Fund Raising
You should register for this session if
- You have a volunteering opportunity to provide (Write to unconvention@villgro.org to participate)
- If you are looking to Volunteer for the sector
Are you a social enterprise looking for mentors to help you? Or are you looking to mentor & advise some of the startup social enterprises?
This session will follow a speed networking format to build business contacts. Participants will greet each other in a series of brief exchanges during a set period of time. During an interaction, attendees share their professional backgrounds and business goals.
Mentors will be identified with whom social enterprises can meet and network.
MENTORS
Vivek Tuljapurka, Consultant, Augusta Consulting
Alok Purohit, Director, Operations, RGBSi and Acculogix
Parmeshwar Babu, CEO, Param Projects For Perfection
Villgro has been in the incubation space for the last ten years and believes that there is a need to develop a national network of social enterprise incubators. But clearly don’t want this to be yet another network. A network that will truly add value to its members, owned by members. A rapid study undertaken recently by Villgro indicates that the funds available for series A stage (post incubation) in India is around $500m, while that available for early stage is $5m and that for incubation is around $1m. Incubation funding being just 0.2% of series A funding. With this level of investment can we really grow this sector? Certainly not! This session will try to dwell deeper into growing the social business incubation movement in India. Key questions will be asked like “Are there enough incubators who service social entrepreneurs in India? Are there enough social enterprises to be serviced by more number of incubators? What are the” pains” of existing incubators?Can incubators come together to address some of them?
PARTICIPANTS
Dasra
UnLtd India
Rural Technology Business Incubator, IIT-Madras
Agri-Business Incubator at ICRISAT
Manji, XIMB
Taking innovations to market is a complex and difficult task in the best of times, especially if it is to benefit the rural poor, because it’s a relatively new field in India. The best bet seems to be to ‘learn by doing’ in order to do better, promoting in the process original India-specific research and learning.
Villgro and CSIE, with the help of IDRC, Canada, have a new initiative to promote research and learning focusing on all aspects of taking innovations to market to benefit the poor.
This session will bring together researchers, academics, students and interested stakeholders of the innovation to market ecosystem to collectively think through and address some the challenges of research and learning by doing in the innovations to market journey and in promoting the social enterprise sector.
Here’s what we could be talking about: 1. Who are the customers of such research and what would they like researched and studied and why? 2.Is researching and studying innovation and social enterprise different from other kinds of research? What are some of the challenges researchers face in this new area of study? 3.Why would researchers and students in mainstream institutions consider studying and doing research on innovation and social enterprise? How might such study and research be promoted? 4. Assuming there is learning, how does one get it applied by the practitioners in these areas?
The session will use a minimum of presentations and instead use a ‘conversation café’ format to get people talking in small groups, provoked by questions.
The session will be chaired and facilitated by Rathin Roy of Villgro and R Nagarajan of CSIE/IIT-M.
To break the ice and kick-start the conversations Sourav Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Santosh Singh, Rural Market Insights, CDF- IFMR, Marina Nekrasova, Dasra, Joseph Satish, CWS + KICS, and Nisha Kumar Kulkarni, Intellecap, all recent receipients of research grants from Villgro-CSIE-IDRC will reflect briefly on some of the above questions, in the context of their research.
This is a platform to bring the community up to date with what the chapter is about and the progress we have made till date. ANDE Global will present progress on global activities including a detailed report on the "top trends in the global small and growing business/impact investing sector".This will be followed by round table brainstorming sessions between all attendees on key strategies attendees would like to see on the ANDE India chapter agenda.
Participants
Jenny Everett, Associate Director, Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE)
Be enthralled by a folk dance & theatre performance by 12 under privileged children from Government Home for Boys, Royapuram.
NalandaWay, founded by Ashoka fellow Sriram Ayer, works with children from challenging situations from the poorest districts in India, helping them raise their voices and issues through theatre, visual arts, music, dance, radio and films. Over 5700 disadvantaged children and young people in the states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Bihar and Jammu & Kashmir in India are involved in their projects. NalandaWay's interventions have helped them learn creativity, life skills and self-confidence to create the lives that they truly want to create.
AWARDS CEREMONY
The Villgro Awards recognize and outstanding individuals & organizations in the innovation and social entrepreneurship eco-system. The awards will be conferred at a glittering ceremony in the following categories
Lifetime Achievement Award,
Social Enterprise Award,
Social Investor Award,
Media Award,
Journalist Award,
Incubator Award,
Academic Contribution Award
Grassroot Innovator Award
Young Innovator Award
Wantrapreneur 2011 winners will also be announced & awarded as part of this ceremony.
SCREENING OF LAYA PROJECT, BY EARTHSYNC
Laya Project, EarthSync's maiden project is a personal and collective tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, and is dedicated to the survivors of the 26th December 2004 Asian Tsunami. This production is based on regional folk music tradtions, recorded and brought back to the studio to create a composition that mixes and enhances the original recordings, and embarks on a musical journey crossing borders, while preserving the music of the people. Laya Project's musicians are the people of coastal and surrounding communities in the 2004 tsunami-affected regions of Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar & India.
EarthSync is a record label and producer of high end audio and visual content, based in Chennai, South India. As a world music record label, EarthSync works with roots music through which cultures express themselves across time. (www.earthsync.com)
EarthSync's productions feature traditional music recorded across Asia and Middle East, often in collaboration with other traditional music styles and musicians from across the world.
Forging new, cohesive, win-win partnerships between social and traditional businesses
This session brings together social entrepreneurs and business organizations that have come together to build cohesive new ideas through some form of mainstreaming. The intent of this session is to showcase this approach to building scalable ideas – where complimentary strengths come together to create innovative new solutions. While some organizations have tried this, the overall approach is nascent in India and we hope that showcasing ideas will help trigger deeper discussions, debate and higher adoption. Participants can look forward to learning HOW these partnerships are formed, the challenges involved and the opportunities to create sustainable impact. The session highlights mainstreaming insights under three broad domains: Health, Energy & Technology, but the learning is applicable to all social entrepreneurs who wish to learn about and apply mainstreaming to their businesses.
If you are a Social Entrepreneur looking to scale your business, build a new competency area, apply technology to achieve breakthroughs or learn from traditional businesses how to grow, this session will help you see a new perspective on collaboration, funding and scale.
If you are a Business Leader keen to extend the reach of your products and services, bring in new strengths into your business, achieve breakthroughs in emerging markets, then these sessions will help you find innovative ways to build cohesive collaborations with social enterprises and civil society organizations to achieve those breakthroughs.
Panelists :
Model 1: Biometrics used to scale Operation Asha’s impact, with support from Microsoft Research
Sandeep Ahuja, Co-Founder, Operation Asha
Bill Thies, Researcher, Technologies for Emerging Markets Group, Microsoft Research India
Model 2: Development of Oorja Stoves and the Rural Distribution Model between SSP and British Petroleum / First Energy
Model 1: The Team at OperationASHA has built a highly effective approach to manage Tuberculosis Medication in Slums and demonstrate a dramatic impact in reducing instances of multi drug resistant TB. In an attempt to significantly improve patient monitoring and further decrease the treatment default rate, Operation ASHA has partnered with the Microsoft Research to co-develop a Biometric solution that introduces transparency into the process. This low-cost technology tracks TB patients’ compliance with their treatment regimens – enabling OpASHA to capture effectiveness data on a daily basis
Model 2: SSP collaborated with British Petroleum to provide inputs into the design of the Oorja Stove and distribute it through an inclusive value chain (Sakhi Retail) into the rural markets leveraging its deep network with SHG groups. First Energy was launched in 2006 through BP energy, a subsidiary of British Petroleum. It was subsequently acquired by Alchemists Ark, a business consulting firm and now works as an independent organization. Mukund has been with the model since its inception. So far 4,50,000 stoves and 35,000 tons of fuel pellets have been sold through 3000 village entrepreneurs.
Karthik Mahalingam - Partner-in-charge, Amarchand Mangaldas Law Firm, Hyderabad
Ravi Krishna - CTO & Legal Head, Ziqitza
Moderator
Sudhir Syal, Editor & Anchor, ETNOW
Maximum Number of Seats Available:75
Maximum Number of Seats Available :75
Maximum Number of Seats Available : 75
Description
The first hour of the session will teach the participants the basics of investing right - such as the forms of capital, approaching investors, terms in a term sheet and why they are there.
The second half of the session will see a panel of people who will give two perspectives- one with an impact mandate and one with a purely commercial mandate, both being early stage investors.
Description
This workshop will focus on lessons on choice of legal entity and corporate governance practices to create social impact & raise capital.
The indicative discussion points include:
Choice of legal structures for social business enterprises in India
Available legal structures and salient considerations
Illustrations of and learning from for-profit, not-for-profit and hybrid models of social business enterprises
Issues and challenges for hybrid structures in the social enterprise space in India
Principles of good corporate governance for small and growing business enterprises
Description
It is one of ET NOW’s proprietary formats where 3 entrepreneurs gain an opportunity to receiving mentoring and support from a large group of entrepreneurs from different verticals.
3 entrepreneurs in the social space will present one challenge they’re facing as regards to scaling their start-up. This could be a marketing challenge, a product challenge or a go to market challenge; entrepreneurs as part of this special group will then put their heads together to help the entrepreneur develop a solution to his challenge.
The entrepreneurs who give the best suggestions will be given special prizes. So get ready for a fun filled 45 min session and put your expertise to good use by helping the entrepreneur with out of the box solutions to his execution challenges.
The session will be telecast on the ‘Starting Up’ show on ET NOW. Starting Up is the most watched television show for the Start-up community on Indian television and is telecast every Saturday at 9 PM and Sunday at 10 AM.
While entrepreneurs focus on product development, hiring the right employees, getting their business model into shape; something they very often forget is working with the media and making the media look after their marketing for them.
Media in many ways is the most cost-effective marketing mechanism – it adds immense credibility, reaches out to more people than any marketing mechanism and is absolutely free. So how does a start-up become more media friendly – exactly what ET NOW Team will take the participant through in this 1 hour workshop.
What the media ‘really’ cares about. The 5 step guide to making your start-up more media friendly Extracting true value from your P.R Firm P.R Makeover – Pitch + Panel Discussion
MODERATED BY:
Sudhir Syal, Editor and Anchor of the Starting up show which has featured over 600 start-ups in over 120 episodes takes you through media secrets from the Fourth Estate. Case-studies, Media Pitch make-overs and a whole lot more
SPEAKERS:
veteran R.Narayanan, from 20:20 Media takes you through a 101 Lesson on working with a P.R firm. Finding the right one for you, negotiating a price and keeping track of the value delivered
2 start-ups come onto stage present their P.R pitch and get prepared for a makeover
Jt. Secretary, Ministry Of Rural Development, Govt. of India
& Director, National Rural Livelihood Mission ( NRLM)
Special Address
Ms. Carol Dahl
Executive Director, The Lemelson Foundation
On
INVENTION, INNOVATION & IMPACT – The global trends
The talk examines the social economy through the emerging spectrum of organisational forms that generate both social and economic value: from traditional charities, to social enterprises, through to socially responsible business and traditional corporations. The session will also try to analyse global trends and organisations that effect social change, social innovation and impact.
Social Entrepreneurship in the next decade
