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Positive Change Unleashed: An Unfiltered Conversation about the Promise, Pitfalls, and Potential of Social Entrepreneurship
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“Positive Change Unleashed: An Unfiltered Conversation about the Promise, Pitfalls, and Potential of Social Entrepreneurship”
We are delighted to invite you to “Positive Change Unleashed: An Unfiltered Conversation about the Promise, Pitfalls, and Potential of Social Entrepreneurship.” This event is inspired by our new book, "Promise, Pitfalls, and Potential of Social Entrepreneurship: Positive Change Unleashed," and aims to bring the candid, off-the-record conversations we usually have with social entrepreneurs into the spotlight.
Social entrepreneurs have spent decades fostering positive change, leveraging various models, including for-profit and hybrid approaches. Learning from their experiences—both the successes and the missteps—provides invaluable insights for any manager seeking to drive meaningful impact.
Event Highlights:
- TED Talk Style Interventions: Kick off the evening with insightful talks from the book's co-authors, Concepción Galdón (IE Business School) and Sheila Cannon (Trinity College Dublin), along with Javier Pita, founder and CEO of the renowned social venture Navilens; and João Magalhães, founder and CEO of Code4All and Ubbu.
- Panel Discussion: Engage in a lively discussion moderated by Gonzalo Fanjul, Founder of Por Causa Foundation and El País' 3.500 Millones blog editor. We will delve into the promise, pitfalls, and potential of social entrepreneurship in a candid and engaging conversation.
- Exclusive Insights: Experience the behind-the-scenes stories and honest reflections that are usually shared off-the-record, now brought to you in an interactive, public setting.
This event will bring together key players from Spain's social entrepreneurship and social innovation communities, IE’s sustainability and impact faculty, IE students, and our friends and family for an evening of deep discussion and connection.
Don’t miss this opportunity to join an unfiltered conversation about the future of social entrepreneurship and how you can be part of driving positive change!
Discover more about this topic in Conchita Galdon's new IE Insights' article The Don’t-Do Guide to Business-Driven Positive Change
Facilities:
- Public parking is available at Caleido.
Reminders:
- We encourage you to arrive at least 10 minutes early. Don't let security measures and check-in take time away from this insightful event!
Food Provided
Where
IE TOWER
IE Club - Planta 24
IE Tower, Paseo de la Castellana 259E
Speakers
Conchita Galdón
Vice-Dean, Business with Purpose
IE University
Concepción Galdón, PhD, is a devoted advocate for sustainable business and social innovation, currently serving as Vice-Dean of Business with Purpose at IE Business School. Leading the Master in Sustainability & Business Transformation, she collaborates with fellow vice-deans to infuse sustainability into diverse programs. As Director of IE's Center for Social Innovation and Sustainability, Concepción guides a committed team, leveraging global networks for lasting social change. Her academic journey includes a Ph.D. in International Economy and Development, with Outstanding Award-winning research on technology and social entrepreneurship. In addition to teaching, she co-directs IE's Sustainability, Your Competitive Advantage program. Beyond academia, Concepción contributes to media discussions and speaks at international conferences, emphasizing her commitment to sustainable principles and positive societal change.
Sheila Cannon
Assistant professor of Social Entrepreneurship
Trinity Business School
Sheila Cannon is assistant professor in Social Entrepreneurship at Trinity Business School. She conducts research on and teaches about socially innovative organisations, including social enterprises, nonprofits, and civil society organisations. Her research contributes to knowledge on how organisations influence and respond to socio-cultural change. So far, she has studied contexts including peacebuilding, LGBTQ rights, reproductive rights, digital disruption, just transition, rural development, and nature based enterprises.
Sheila also serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of Shuttle Knit CLG social enterprise, and in Trinity, she won the Trinity Civic Engagement Award in 2021 for her work with Social Enterprises. Sheila is the Academic Director of Trinity’s Executive MBA and served as Director of the Global Business Undergraduate degree programme (2020-2023), Chair of Business Student of the Year Committee, and Foundation Scholarship Examiner (2020-23). She has 12 years experience in peacebuilding organisations in the Balkans and Ireland. She was Director of Development at the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, and Programme Director at the Centre for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe. She was Research Assistant in the Centre for Nonprofit Management at TCD from 2011 to 2015 and has a Classics degree from Vassar College.
Gonzalo Fanjul
Co-Founder and Head of Research
porCausa Foundation
Gonzalo Fanjul is a researcher and activist against poverty. He currently leads the policy analysis area at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health and drives the porCausa Foundation, which produces information and narratives in the field of migration. He is an associate researcher for migration at the ODI think tank in London.
In 2018, he became a fellow of the Ashoka network of social entrepreneurs. He regularly collaborates with written and audiovisual media and is the author and co-editor of El País blog "3.500 Millones," which received the FAO award in 2012.
After a decade as the director of the Research Service at Oxfam Intermón, he spent a year at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he collaborated with Lant Pritchett on research on migration and development. He has been the principal author of UNICEF Innocenti Report Card 12 on child poverty in rich countries and a collaborator of the migration program at the Center for Global Development. In 2016, he joined the Leonardo Network of research excellence, promoted by the BBVA Foundation.
Javier Pita
Founder & CEO
NaviLens
Javier Pita is an entrepreneur with a large experience in technological disruptive startups. He is currently CEO of NaviLens, a technological social impact startup that was founded to develop innovative and disruptive technology, first of its kind, for smartphone devices with the mission to create a more inclusive and accessible world for the visually impaired people. NaviLens has launched successful technological products globally and received several innovation awards from prestigious international institutions.
João Magalhães
Founder and CEO
Code4All and Ubbu
João spent the first 10 years of his professional life helping businesses to succeed. He worked at EY and BPP giving strategic and financial advice to entrepreneurs, management teams, investors and governments across several industries. After the MBA at IE Business School he started his activity as entrepreneur building impact ventures.
Since 2014 João is the CEO and Co-founder of Code For All, a social business focusing in identifying, selecting, training, and placing amazing untapped talent working as software developers and he is also the CEO and Co-founder of ubbu, a computer science and programming platform created for kids with the vision of making young minds ready for the future by turning them into logical thinkers, problem solvers and skilful conscious citizens while having fun.
In 2016 the European Commission considered Code For All as a best practice in the category “Digital Skills for ICT Professionals”, in 2018 Code For All was considered by Financial Times as one of the “Top100 Europe’s Road to Growth” and in 2022 Code For All was recognized as “Best for the World” in the category Customers among the B Corp movement.