The Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative

 

Purpose-driven entrepreneurship and impact investing are on the rise and a double bottom line of profit and impact is emerging in the technology industry. What are the future scenarios ahead of us? The Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative gathers entrepreneurs, investors, policy-makers, and other stakeholders from around the world at the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit to discuss how to mainstream technology entrepreneurship that tackles social and environmental challenges while generating profit. The initiative includes nineteen working groups focused on designing the future of specific industries, markets, and projects.

Participants include official Global Entrepreneurship Summit delegates selected from around the world by the U.S. State Department as well as established leaders from Silicon Valley and the World Economic Forum communities of Global Shapers, Young Global Leaders, Technology Pioneers and Schwab Social Entrepreneurs invited by the Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative's organizing committee.