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I am so excited that you have taken the initiative to register for the Forum, potentially step out of your comfort zone, and expose yourself to a new perspective on solving the world’s issues. The world needs more people like you. We want you to walk away from the Forum inspired, by both the speakers and each other.

The team has been working since April to prepare for this event and the day is approaching faster than we would have ever anticipated. We want all the delegates to feel prepared and comfortable upon arrival, so we hope to answer some of your questions about the event in this brief mailer. If you have any additional questions, feel free to contact me at sarah.ginsberg@aiesec.net and I will get the information to you.

Are you ready to change the world starting October 26? Because we are.

See you Saturday.

Sarah Organizing Committee PresidentGeorgia Youth to Business Forum on Social Entrepreneurship Team

210 Memorial Hall

10:00amNetworking and Coffee

10:30amOpening Plenary and Back to the Basics

11:30 amWorkshop 1

12:30pmLunch

1:30 amWorkshop 2

2:30pmClosing Session

The schedule

Transforming the Box

Together, Tyler and Dr. Kisaalita, will lead this track by taking us

through the process of defining the problem, brainstorming and

discussing implementation plans. We will learn to see opportunities

when others see problems. If capitalism is a box, social

entrepreneurship is not about thinking outside it, it is about

transforming it.

The umano brothers, Jon and Alex, will discuss the

importance of taking a risk by bringing our business model to the market. The

real world teaches us lessons that we never realized we needed to

learn. A business model will never be perfect. Let's try. We might fail. Let's try

again.

Taking It to Market

Where We Come From

It is crucial that we never forget our roots. On this workshop, Dr. Roberts will

facilitate the conversation to understand the business model behind micro-finance, as it is the foundation to the movement of

Social Entrepreneurship.

* This was previously the “Financing” track, but we feel that this track will give a

more relevant and holistic view of the movement.

Never Settling

In the business world, it is said that if you are not growing, you're dying. In

this workshop, Mike Gomez will discuss how this is also true for social

enterprises. As social entrepreneurs it is our challenge to always find ways to

impact more people through the constant expansion of our business

models.

The Workshops

The Speakers

Osama Hashmi, Opening KeynoteOsama is a premed senior doing a dual BS in Biology/MPH in Health Policy. Over the past few years he has had a wide array of experiences in healthcare; he’s shadowed at private practices and faith based clinics, represented physicians suing Medicare in DC, designed prevention programs at the Greater New York Hospital Association, studied healthcare delivery in Taiwan, and researched clinical decision support systems at Stanford. His close work with physicians, hospital administrators, lobbyists, and patients taught him that healthcare is field where extraordinary people are asked to do extraordinary things on a daily basis. This year, he’s working on a startup to try and make the lives of these caregivers and patients a bit easier. In four months, he’s created Vitamin C, designed a new way to engage chronic disease, gotten investment funding, and secured pilot sites in Athens, Stanford, and Augusta. He’s planning to launch in November.

Mike Gomez, Never SettlingMike Gomez is President of Allegro Consulting, a growth specialty firm based in Atlanta, GA. In addition to being an evangelist on how to grow businesses (or non profits) Mike offers his time and experience as a mentor for the Four Athens Tech Incubator, and the UGA Business Accelerator Program. Allegro Consulting has been helping Georgia businesses grow for over 11 years. Prior to launching Allegro Mike was an international executive for Boeing and Lockheed. He is responsible for over $10B in international sales. He is also a avid runner, mountain biker and flies both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.

William Kisaalita, Transforming the BoxWilliam S. Kisaalita is a professor of engineering UGA and he holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of British Columbia. He is a social entrepreneur; he developed and directs an undergraduate research and design program (3p-Innovations) at the University of Georgia, in which students develop technological solutions to problems from low-resource communities (e.g., poor rural smallholder farmers of Sub-Saharan Africa and/or their urban poor counterparts). The students’ work has resulted in several products, commercialized through social businesses. This work has been recognized through numerous awards and grants. For example, professor Kisaalita is a fellow of the Global Social Benefit Incubator program at Santa Clara University. He is interested in better understanding of the relationship between design and success (or failure) of technological products in low-resource settings.

Chris Hanks, Closing KeynoteChris is an entrepreneur and lecturer at the University of Georgia where he teaches entrepreneurship at the Terry College of Business. He also serves as the director of the Terry College of Business Entrepreneurship Program. Certified as a business appraiser, Hanks provides expert witness testimony regarding the value of privately held businesses. He is also active in the funding and franchising of startups. He has owned multiple businesses, including music, e-commerce, publishing, and export ventures.

Alex and Jon Torrey, Taking It to MarketThese two social entrepreneurship zealots graduated from the Terry College of Business and after a few years within the corporate world, they decided to quit their jobs and founded umano. The company is a ready-to-wear fashion enterprise, which, with every purchase, gives a backpack full of school supplies to a child in need.

Tyler Wallace, Transforming the BoxTyler Wallace is currently in the middle of two startups (Small Jumps and Best Practice Store) that serve rural hospitals. Small Jumps is a project management company that specializes in breaking down large scale initiatives so that they can be easily implemented by rural hospitals. The Best Practice Store is an online marketplace that sells project plans for hospitals to implement to achieve an industry best practice. Before the startups he spent several years working as a manager in health IT. He holds an MBA from Kennesaw State University and a bachelors' degree in Public Health from Indiana University. He is also recognized as a Six Sigma Black Belt from ASQ. He currently resides in Athens with his wife and two boys.

Peter Roberts, Where We Come From Peter's research interests relate to how the behavior and performance of organizations evolve over time. This incorporates related interests in innovation and entrepreneurship; reputation, status and identity; and industry evolution. Recently, he is directing his interests in entrepreneurship and organizational performance toward topics in the field of social enterprise. His current projects focus on social entrepreneurs, on microfinance institutions, and on philanthropic organizations and foundations. For the past several years, he has also been spearheading Goizueta’s Social Enterprise Initiative, whose focus is to better understand how business principles and market-based solutions can be applied to address a range of important social issues.

Rest well the night before.The Forum is designed to be an interactive experience and we will all need to contribute to the discussion for it to be successful.

Eat breakfast before you arrive.We will serve coffee and tea in the morning and have plenty of food for lunch, but we will not be serving food in the morning.

If you have a smart phone, bring it.Though not necessary for participation, having a smartphone on you will be handy. Trust us.

Dress casually.While this is a professional event, we want our delegates to be comfortable. No athletic gear, please, but don’t feel the need to dress for a business meeting.

Tips for Success

look out for...

Personalized QR CodesOn the name tag of each delegate is a personalized QR code. If you’re talking to someone and want to continue the conversation, scan their QR code for their contact information!

Interactive DisplaysThe Forum will be full of experience everywhere you look. Definitely step up and participate, to help collaborate on some very cool ideas.

The AIESEC LoungeAIESEC is the force behind the Forum. Find out what we are about by talking to AIESEC representatives in the lounge.

I want to learn something new. That is actually all that I expect out of this

forum.

I'd like to network with people, talk about social issues, and possibly be

connected with individuals in the private sector who can begin to

make these things possible.I would like to see actions following

the hypothetical solutions we discuss.

I would like to get a better look at for-profit enterprises that are

actively making the world a better place. To me, this is the goal for the

non profit sector. If we can transition charities to a model more like that of social entrepreneurship, they will be able to more effectively

deal with the world's greatest dilemmas.

I would love to find out more about how a business can be both

profitable and socially responsible.

We hope to meet and exceed these expectations on Saturday!

expectations

This is what you told us.