The following schedule includes the theme for each day and details the topics to be addressed. Please visit this page often, as we will be announcing the speakers for each topic regularly.
Day 1:
What are the policies, programmes and ecosystem elements required to foster the kind of entrepreneurial growth and development that facilitates both economic and social inclusion?
| # | Time | Format | Title | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moderator for the day | Alec Hogg | |||
| 1 | 9:00 | Plenary Session | Opening Remarks | |
| 2 | 9:30 | Plenary Session | Growth, employment, wealth creation and development in emerging markets – what is the recipe? | Haroon Bhorat |
| 3 | 10:30 | Plenary Session | What are the enabling policies and programmes required to motivate entrepreneurs into the market, assist them through the early stages of development and support sustained long term growth? | Jacqueline Kew |
| 4 | 11:30 | Panel Discussion | Case studies of countries/cities that have successfully developed all or parts of the entrepreneurial eco-system. Countries reviewed will include: Columbia, India and Thailand. | Dr Ajit Ranade, Santiago Echavarri and Johanna Kollar |
| 12:15 | Lunch | |||
| 5 | 1:00 | Panel Discussion | Case studies of countries/cities that have successfully developed all or parts of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Countries reviewed will include: Columbia, India and Thailand. | Dr Ajit Ranade, Santiago Echavarri and Johanna Kollar |
| 6 | 2:30 | Panel Discussion | The state of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the three major metropolises – Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. Where are these three South African cities in terms of their current programmes and policies as well as their plans for the future? Where have they found their greatest success and what have they learned from their failures? | Minister Alan Winde, Andrew Boraine, Phillip Sithole, Thembinkosi Siganda and Tsholo Mogotsi |
Day 2:
This day is split into two tracks with some crossover between them regarding issues of mutual interest. The overarching theme is “Purpose, profit and impact – the potential of entrepreneurs and the support systems required to realise it”.
Track 1: Social Entrepreneurs
| # | Time | Format | Title | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moderator for the track | Dr Francois Bonnicci | |||
| 1 | 9:00 | Plenary Session | Profit, Purpose and Impact – Differing perspectives on social entrepreneurship | Dr Francois Bonnicci |
| 2 | 9:20 | Plenary Session | Social entrepreneurship in 2031 – A ‘Fringe Non Profit Movement’ or ‘Business as Unusual’ | Randall Kempner and Patmanathan Pillai |
| 3 | 9:50 | Panel Discussion | Sector Case Studies – What can we learn? Four social entrepreneur case studies will be presented and reviewed from various sectors. | Dawie Botha, Shameemah Da Silva, Simon de Haan and Tarisai Mchuchu-Ratshidi |
| 4 | 11:00 | Panel Discussion | Social enterprise inside large corporations – The role of the private sector | Shawn Theunissen, Sisa Ntshona and Tracey Webster |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |||
| 5 | 1:00 | World Cafe | Building an enabling environment for social enterprise – What is the recipe and who are the role players? | Amanda Brinkmann, Dr Eliada Nwosu, Lesley Donna Williams, Tom Fox and Yogavelli Nambiar |
| 3:00 | Break | |||
| 6 | 3:20 | Panel Discussion | What is Impact Investment and what is its future – A Global perspective | Heather Jackson, Mark van Wyk, Randall Kempner and Tamzin Ractliffe |
| 7 | 4:10 | Panel Discussion | The Future of metrics – Where is it all going? | Jerushah Rangasami, Dylan Edwards and Olivia Muiru |
| 8 | 5:00 | Plenary Session | Wrap up of the day – What does the future of social entrepreneurship hold? |
Track 2: Cape Town Activa
| # | Time | Format | Title | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moderator for the track | Councillor Garreth Bloor | |||
| 1 | 9:00 | Plenary Session | Ecosystem realised- If an entrepreneurial ecosystem has been fully manifested, what does success look like? What will the experiences of emerging, early stage and mature entrepreneurs be in Cape Town two years from now, five, ten? What is the vision we aspire to?Two respondents:
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Alderman Belinda Walker and Iqbal Surve |
| 2 | 9:40 | Plenary Session | Activa 1-2-3 – what is the Activa model, where it came from, what it is intended to do, and how the City has chosen to manage it. | Thembinkosi Siganda |
| 3 | 10:10 | Plenary Session | Activa Progress to-date – since its launch last year, what progress has been made to-date and what is planned over the next 12 months. | Lavendra Naidoo |
| 4 | 10:40 | Panel Discussion | Central to the Activa Model are three key support systems: Funding, Skills Development and Service Integration. What has been left out of the Activa model?
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Egbert Wessels, Karin Chisholm, Phindile Tshabangu, Lizo Ntloko, Keet Van Zyl, Malcolm Gray, Marc Balkin, Mark Vella and Tony Mallam |
| 12:20 | Lunch | |||
| 5 | 1:00 | World Cafe | Service Integration | John Peters, Lesley Africa, Lusapho Njenge and Michael Bagraim |
| 3:00 | Break | |||
| 6 | 3:20 | Panel Discussion | What has been left out of the Activa model? | Aubrey Mcetywa, Christoff Oosthuysen, Eran Eryl, Robin Stead and Zayd Minty |
| 7 | 4:10 | Plenary Session | Activa- next steps. Summary of the day’s proceedings and next steps for participants. |
Day 3:
Are you an entrepreneur or do you think you are one? The focus will be on creating content that takes people through the basic steps of deciding entrepreneurism is their vocation out of necessity or opportunity, to developing an idea, selling their idea, capturing their marketplace, and funding and managing their growth.
| # | Time | Format | Title | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moderator for the day | Thembinkosi Siganda | |||
| 1 | 10:30 | Panel Discussion | What is an entrepreneur? Are you one? How do you know? What are the key qualities or personality traits of successful entrepreneurs? | Farah Fortune |
| 2 | 11:15 | Panel Discussion | Business ideas – Do you have one, are you looking for one, how do you test it and with whom, how do you present your idea to various stakeholders, and what kind of tools are required to communicate it? | Abey Mokgwatsane and Daniel Ting Chong |
| 3 | 12:00 | Panel Discussion | Market – How do ideas relate and translate into markets? How do you understand the dynamics of markets for your idea? How do ideas connect with consumer demand that already exists or that can be created? | Cheryl Laureen Nesbitt |
| 4 | 12:45 | Panel Discussion | Money – How do you get it and how do you manage it once you have it? This will explore the various options for funding start-ups, early stage and mature business ventures. It will also review some of the core tenants of financial management. | Ilana Robertshaw |
| 5 | 1:30 | Panel Discussion | Support Systems – What kinds of support exist in the City and how do you decide whom to approach for what you need? This will reveal the existing training/education organisations and other entrepreneurial service providers. | Egbert Wessels and Neal Gandhi |
| 6 | 2:30 | Movie | Documentary by Microsoft: Ctrl+Alt+Compete. This will be the 1st worldwide screening following the premier at the Napa Valley Film Festival on 11/11/11 | |
| 7 | 3:30 | Panel Discussion | Discussion of the documentary Ctrl+Alt+Compete |