Over the coming months, a range of events will discuss the business contribution to development, most notably through the creation of inclusive business models. Below follows a brief, albeit incomplete overview.
In early October the Ross Schoolof Business at the University of Michigan is organizing the BoP 2009 Conference. This is an invitation-only event, which will gather practitioners and academicians, will focus on “Creating a Shared Roadmap: Collaboratively Advancing the Base of the Pyramid Community”. The aim is to (1) share the latest ideas and approaches, (2) catalyze new thinking, and (3) generate opportunities to meet fellow colleagues in an intimate setting.
Also in early October (7 and 8), the Complutense University of Madrid will host a seminar on inclusive business and job creation, focused on experiences from Latin America, including the work of the WBCSD-SNV Alliance, which will be represented by SNV’s Christian Marlin.
For its part, the conference on Impact of Base of the Pyramid ventures (Delft, The Netherlands, 16-18 November 2009) aims to provide a platform to share conceptual and empirical evidences that address ways to better understand and increase the sustainability impacts of inclusive business ventures in terms of changes in economic, capacity, environmental and relational well-being. Topics will focus upon impact assessment (including a presentation on WBCSD's Measuring Impact Framework), value creation, sustainable production and consumption.
Last but not least, the World Bank Institute and InWEnt, in the lead-up to a conference in Ghana (4-6 November 2009) that will focus on business responses to the economic and climate change crises in Africa, will be running a 3-week eConference from 5 to 23 October 2009. Participation in this eConference will be of benefit to those attending the Ghana event, as well as to those unable to go to Ghana. The eConference, moderated by leading experts, will draw on a series of videoconference dialogues being convened by the World Bank Institute, as well as the 2009 Report from Business Action for Africa titled How to harness the power of business to sustain progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.
For a continuously updated list of events, check out this events database. If you would like to have an event included in this list, please feel free to let us know.
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