Social Business Lab in Varna on November 27 and Sofia on 28 November, 2010

The Grameen Creative Lab will hold two open Social Business Lab in Bulgaria to accelerate and spread the spirit of social business, as defined by Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Managing Director of Grameen Bank.
The event will take place in Varna November 27 from 8.30am to 4:00pm at E.ON Bulgaria EAD, Business Park Varna, Building 6, 9009 Varna. The event in Sofia will take place November 28 from 8.30am to 4:00pm at the Goethe Institute Sofia, Budapest Street 1, 1000 Sofia.

During this activity, held in English, participants will have the opportunity to work on different topics under the concept of Social Business, divided in different groups and guided by experts in Creative & Design Thinking.
The session will end with the presentation of each group’s conclusions.

This is an exclusive work session with a limited number of guests. Please confirm your participation at florian.spathelf@grameencl.com

Global Social Business Summit –  November 4-5, 2010

The Global Social Business Summit 2010 is the only global and unique communication and creative platform for the social business community. Among a group of leaders and experts, we intend to highlight successes, possibilities and future prospects with you, as well as defining concrete goals for the coming years.

In accordance with your personal interests, you can choose the relevant and suitable working and discussion formats: In multidisciplinary Social Business Focus Groups, you will work on innovative solutions for key fields of activity in social business, with other leading experts from companies, universities and social institutions.

The Marketplace of Social Business gives you the opportunity to gain a unique overview of the global best-practice examples of social business.

In our Social Business Panels, distinguished personalities from all social areas will discuss the crucial social and business organizational dimensions of social business jointly and with you. Your impulses will make a decisive contribution to the success of the Global Social Business Summit 2010.

We are looking forward to redesigning business with you as a responsible global citizen during this year’s Global Social Business Summit , from 4-5 November 2010. To register please click here

Social Business Design Lab  –  October 17, 2010

IED Milan invites you to the second lab session in Social Business Design, organized in collaboration with The Grameen Creative Lab.

The IED Group has signed an agreement with The Grameen Creative Lab for the development of a series of international projects using design as a fundamental tool for creating social business initiatives.

On the occasion of Prof. Yunus’s visit to Milan to attend the Design For Social Business Conference, IED has decided to host the second lab session in Social Business to be carried out by Hans Reitz (the first was held in IED Barcelona in June 2010).

The event will take place in Milan on Sunday October 17th from 8.30am to 4:00pm, at IED’s new campus in Via Bezzecca 5.

During this activity, held in English, participants will have the opportunity to work on different topics under the concept of Social Business, divided in different groups and guided by experts in Creative & Design Thinking.
The session will end with the presentation of each group’s conclusions.

This is an exclusive work session with a limited number of guests. Please confirm your participation at a.mafai@ied.it

Social Business Lab at McGill University in Montreal, October 1, 2010

The Social Business Lab is an event conducted by the Grameen Creative Lab that is meant to accelerate and spread the spirit of social business, as defined by Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Managing Director of Grameen Bank. This event hosted by the McGill World Platform for Health and Economic Convergence and co-sponsored by Danone Canada will draw participants from a variety of sectors, from NGOs to business, from philanthropy to academia, including students, to look at how Social Business can help promote business, social and health innovation and technology to create sustainable health and wealth for all, focusing on nutrition and health, and e-health. The one-day workshop will be conducted from 9 AM to 5:00 PM, with coffee breaks and lunch provided and will be lead by Mr. Hans Reitz, co-founder of the Grameen Creative Lab.
The Morning session will outline the features of the Grameen model of social business, presenting case studies of current initiatives. During the Afternoon session, participants will be divided into groups in order to discuss how they can integrate the principles of Grameen social business into their everyday and strategic agenda.
The event will be inaugurated by Dr. Muhammad Yunus and Mr. Emmanuel Faber who will be presenting the history of their collaboration on Grameen Danone Foods. Mr. Louis Frenette, President and CEO of Danone Canada, will also be invited to present current cutting-edge initiatives conducted by Danone Canada in collaboration with Canadian aboriginal communities. These concrete examples will serve as an inspiration to the participants.
For a detailed program of the day, please click here.

Building Social Business in Russia September 28, 2010
Prof. Muhammad Yunus vision to fight social problems with entrepreneurial ideas and spirit is spreading all over the world. Corporations worldwide successfully create new kind of companies that focus on the alleviation of social challenges. We are proud to invite you to become a part of this movement as we launch the first global business initiative in Russia!
We want to invite you to the first Social Business Lab in Russia, hosted by the Russian Ministry for Economic Development, the Russian Microfinance Center and The Grameen Creative Lab. During this event on September 28th, you and other Russian key representatives from the corporate, academic and public sector will meet for one day to learn, discuss and implement the ideas of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and Social Business. Our goal is to develop and discuss new social business ideas together with you!
The social business ideas and commitments created during that day will be presented to Prof. Muhammad Yunus during his visit to Russia in February 2011 as part of the first Social Business Days Russia.  
We are looking forward to redesigning business with you as a responsible Russian citizen.
 
Mikhail Mamuta                                                                 Hans Reitz          
President of the Russian Microfinance Center            Founder of The Grameen Creative Lab
 

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Please let us know if you will participate latest by September 20th, 2010 with a short e-mail to ozharkova@rmcenter.ru or call Mrs. Olga Zharkova at +7 495 258 87 05. We will get back to you soon with further information on agenda details.