Social Venture Network 2016 Spring Conference

Spring Conference Agenda

Conference Goal: Create highly interactive, inspiring experiences that lead to valuable
new insights, relationships and action.
Thursday, April 14
1:30 8:00pm
3:30 4:45pm

Registration Open
Welcome and Networking Session:
Co-Facilitated by Ted Ning and Dr. Donna Daniels, Social
Venture Network and Corey Blake, Round Table Companies

4:45 6:00pm
6:00 7:15pm

Reception
Dinner

7:15 7:30pm

Welcome Remarks
John Heymann, NewLevel Group and Ted Ning, Social
Venture Network

7:30 8:30pm

Opening Plenary:
Breaking Through: Accelerating the Practice of Purpose
Tom Chi, Factory X

Sunset
Ballroom

8:30 8:45pm

Artist-in-Residence Performance:
Todo Mundo

Sunset
Ballroom

Paradise
Terrace
Sunset Deck
Sunset
Ballroom
Sunset
Ballroom

Friday, April 15
7:30 8:15am
8:30 9:30am

Yoga
Led by Jocelyn Levy, Wee Yogis
Breakfast

Executive
Suites 709-711
Sunset
Ballroom

8:30am 7:00pm
9:30 10:45am

Registration Open
Plenary:
The Future of Food: Sustainable Agriculture
Sallie Calhoun, Paicines Ranch, Matt OHayer, Vital Farms,
and Kat Taylor, Beneficial State Bank and TomKat Ranch
Educational Foundation. Facilitated by Kate Danaher, RSF
Social Finance.

10:45 11:15am

Break

Sunset
Ballroom

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Friday, April 15
11:15am
12:30pm

Interactive Breakout Sessions:

1. Scaling With Purpose
Kara Goldin, Hint Inc. and Scott Kiere, eVolutionary
Green Holdings, LLC. Facilitated by Meghan FrenchDunbar, Conscious Company Magazine.

Bay View

2. How Technology Enables Social Impact

Andrea Guendelman, BeVisible and Mandela
Schumacher-Hodge, Kapor Capital. Facilitated by
Melinda Briana Epler, Change Catalyst.

Dockside

12:45 2:15pm

Lunch

2:30 4:00pm

Optional Activities:

Paradise
Terrace

1. Music Hour, Hosted by Jocelyn Levy, Wee Yogis

2. Beach Walk & Talk, Led by Lara Pearson, Brand

Geek

Bayside
Bungalow Suite
263
Meet on
Paradise
Terrace

4:00 4:30pm
4:30 6:00pm

Break
Intergenerational Mens Circle
Facilitated by Frederick Marx, Warrior Films

4:30 6:00pm

Intergenerational Womens Circle

Co-Facilitated by Crystal Forthomme, RealChange Network
and Lori Darley, Conscious Leaders

Mission Bay
Room

4:30 6:00pm

Open Circle
Facilitated by Shilpa Jain, YES!

Bay View

6:15 7:30pm

Dinner
Member-led Sabbath Celebration will begin at 6:15pm. All
are welcome.
Plenary:
What Does the Future of Energy Look Like?
Ryan Hanley, SolarCity in conversation with Tom Van Dyck,
RBC SRI Wealth Management

Sunset
Ballroom

8:30 8:45pm

Artist-in-Residence Performance:
Austin Willacy

Sunset
Ballroom

9:00 10:30pm

LATE NITE ART

Co-Facilitated by Adam Rosendahl, LATE NITE ART and
Jenny Sauer-Klein, Play On Purpose

Dockside

7:30 8:30pm

Dockside

Sunset
Ballroom

4/4/168:47 AM

7:30 8:15am
8:30 9:30am
8:30am 9:30am

8:30am 2:00pm
9:30 10:45am

10:45 11:15am
11:15am 12:30pm

Saturday, April 16
Yoga
Led by Jocelyn Levy, Wee Yogis
Breakfast
Breakfast Round Table Discussion:
Its Never Too Early in the Day to Address Climate
Change!
Facilitated by Richard Eidlin, American Sustainable
Business Council (ASBC)
Registration Open
Plenary:
SVN Town Hall: Taking SVN into the Future
Co-Facilitated by Sherri Pittman, California Clean Energy
Fund and Ted Ning, Social Venture Network.

1. Creating a Supply Chain with a Conscience

Rod Robinson, ConnXus and Denise Taschereau,
Fairware. Facilitated by Aaron Lamstein, Board
Member.

Bay View

2. Pitch Workshop
Rahama Wright, Shea Yeleen Health and Beauty
and Abianne Falla, Cat Spring Tea. Panel of
investors includes: Dawn McGee, Good Works
Ventures, Esther Park, Cienega Capital, and Michael
Whelchel, Big Path Capital. Facilitated by Joel
Solomon, Renewal Funds.

Dockside

Lunch

2:30 3:45pm

Plenary:
Barn-Raising the Roof: Community Feedback Circles
Facilitated by Shilpa Jain, YES!

4:00 6:00pm

Products & Services Expo and Reception

6:15 7:15pm

Dinner

7:15 7:45pm

SVN Auction and Fundraiser

Hosted by Keith McLane, KLM Auctions
Plenary:
Breaking Through with Business Not Bullets
Matthew Griffin, Combat Flip Flops

9:00 10:30pm

Sunset
Ballroom

Break
Interactive Breakout Sessions:

12:45 2:15pm

7:45 8:45pm

Executive
Suites 709-711
Sunset
Ballroom
Bay View

Paradise
Terrace
Sunset
Ballroom

Mission Bay
Room
Sunset
Ballroom
Sunset
Ballroom
Sunset
Ballroom

LATE NITE ART

Co-Facilitated by Adam Rosendahl, LATE NITE ART and
Jenny Sauer-Klein, Play On Purpose

Dockside

4/4/168:47 AM

Sunday, April 17
8:30 9:30am

Breakfast

Sunset I, II, III

9:45 11:00am

Plenary:
Building Great Work Cultures from the Inside Out
Roberto Arjona, Rancho La Puerta and Brooke Deterline,
Courageous Leadership. Facilitated by Dr. Donna Daniels,
Social Venture Network

Sunset I, II, III

11:00 11:30am
11:30am
12:45pm

Break
Closing Circle
Co-Facilitated by Christian Forthomme, RealChange
Network and Tina Sciabica, READ Global

Sunset Deck
Sunset IV, V

1:00 2:00pm

Lunch

Paradise
Terrace

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