Event: Futur en Seine Digital Festival
13–23 June 2013 
Paris, France
Futur en Seine was created by Cap Digital in 2009, as a ten days festival presenting the latest digital innovations from France and around the world for professionals and the general public.
The festival will start with the Innovations Village (exhibitions, conferences and workshops around innovative projects…) at CENTQUATRE centre from June 13th to 16th, 2013. It will continue all over Paris Region, with approximately one hundred partner events, until June 23rd 2013. Learn more.
Opportunity: Grand Challenges Explorations
One bold idea. That’s all it takes. Unorthodox thinking is essential to overcoming the most persistent challenges in global health. Vaccines were first developed over 200 years ago because revolutionary thinkers took an entirely new approach to preventing disease.
Grand Challenges Explorations fosters innovation in global health research. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $100 million to encourage scientists worldwide to expand the pipeline of ideas to fight our greatest health challenges.
The grant program is open to anyone from any discipline, from student to tenured professor, and from any organization – colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies. Click here to learn more.
Opportunity: ‘ABI’ Change Agent Awards
The Change Agent Awards celebrate the accomplishments of rising technical women leaders from outside the United States, with an emphasis on developing countries, whose work results in social, cultural, and/or behavioral change. Recipients are honored by the technical women’s community at the Grace Hopper Celebration. The award covers the winners’ expenses to attend the conference. Click here to learn more.
Event: 2013 Inner City 100 Symposium: A Cast Of Urban Heros
20–21 May 2013 Boston, United States
Join the fastest-growing urban firms in America at the Inner City 100 Symposium to access the tools and know-how small businesses need to scale.
The Inner City 100 Symposium will take place on May 20–21 at Harvard Business School and the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, where hundreds of high-growth small businesses from across the country will gather for a full day of cutting-edge management education and networking opportunities. Among the participants will be CEOs from the selected 100 fastest-growing urban businesses.
The Symposium is the culmination of the Inner City 100 Program, a ranking of the fastest-growing companies located in America’s inner cities. This year’s event will feature case studies presented by Harvard Business School faculty and peer-to-peer workshops led by standout Inner City 100 CEOs. Learn more.
Event: Webinar: Equity, Demography and the Future of the American Economy
10 April 2013 Webex
Advancing equity — just and fair inclusion into a society in which everyone can participate and prosper — has often been viewed separate from, or even opposed to, efforts to foster economic competiveness and efficiencies in the marketplace.
This webinar makes the case that in light of the nation’s demographic transformation, pursuing strategies that create more inclusion are no longer only moral imperatives — they are economic ones. Presenters will share the latest on the demographic shifts changing the country and outline emerging research that makes the case that equity-driven growth and business development are fundamental to the nation’s economic future. Learn more.
Opportunity: Intel for Change: Smart Girls = Smart World
Intel believes education is a fundamental right for everyone. But in many parts of the world, girls continue to be disproportionately denied access to education.
Let’s join together in a quest to ensure that the path to an education is open to everyone. We’re looking for three dynamic people to partner with us as members of the Intel® for Change team. This year each Intel for Change team will be sent to India, Kenya or Ecuador where you’ll spend ten transformative days working to make a real difference there on the ground. Teams will be tasked with delivering crucial information about education in these developing countries. After your return, you and your teammates will become the voice of change for girl’s education sharing your experiences via documentaries, essays, and speakerships arranged through the Intel for Change program. Click here to learn more about the contest.
Event: Sankalp Forum
17 April 2013 Mumbai, India
Sankalp Forum’s annual summit was the first platform for social enterprises in India, and rapidly became the world’s largest. It is a convergence of global knowledge, investment and dialog geared towards building a more inclusive ecosystem for high impact, pro-poor businesses. Each year, it brings several social enterprises to the forefront, and connects them to enablers, mentors and crucial networks. In 2013, the Summit joined forces with Villgro’s Unconvention to consolidate the social enterprise space in India. Now called the Sankalp Unconvention Summit, it will be able to offer more new initiatives and focus more strongly on regional deep-dive. Learn more.
Event: Global Forum on Innovation & Technology Entrepreneurship
28–30 May 2013 East London, South Africa
infoDev, a global innovation partnership within the World Bank, and South Africa’s Department of Science and Technology cordially invite you to the Global Forum on Innovation & Technology Entrepreneurship on May 28–30, 2013, in East London, South Africa. The Forum will take you on a journey into the world of learning, business matchmaking, strategy, and knowledge sharing, with a special focus on the needs of African innovators. Learn more.
Event: African Perspectives 2013
14–17 November 2013 Lagos, Nigeria
African Perspectives is a series of conferences on Urbanism and Architecture in Africa, initiated by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Kumasi, Ghana), University of Pretoria (South Africa), Ecole Supérieure d’Architecture de Casablanca (Morocco), Ecole Africaine des Métiers de l’Architecture et de l’Urbanisme (Lomé, Togo), ARDHI University (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) and ArchiAfrika.
The objectives of the African Perspectives conferences are:
- to bring together major stakeholders to map out a common agenda for African Architecture and create a forum for its sustainable development
- to provide the opportunity for African experts in Architecture to share locally developed knowledge and expertise with each other and the broader international community
- to establish a network of African experts on sustainable building and built environments for future cooperation on research and development initiatives on the continent.
Learn more.
Event: 6th Making Cities Liveable Conference
17–19 June 2013 Melbourne, Australia
6th Making Cities Liveable Conference will be held in conjunction with the Sustainability Conference “SustainableTransformation” bringing a new era of collaboration, information sharing and professional networking.
The conference is being held from the 17th–19th June 2013 at Novotel Melbourne St Kilda. The joint conference brings together National, State and Regional delegates to exchange ideas, discuss Business, Government and Community initiatives and examine opportunities in the sector, we hope you will join us. Learn more.