A World that works for all

Having completed six years of operations, full of positive social impact and having created a community where new ideas, innovation, creative spirits gather and working together to propose the most critical issues and feasible disruptive solutions, Impact Hub Athens welcomes its "new era" by talking about what has already happened and what is emerging.

We want to discuss & assess the evolution of the ideas that we saw in their birth and today are dominant. Movements that began timidly and today are sweeping past certainties and evolved. Trends and suggestions that six years ago seemed unlikely but today determine the course of action.

Let’s discover them together.

Let’s connect and collaborate towards a common goal: to pioneer a just & sustainable world where business & profit are used in service of people and planet.

Agenda

28 March @ Impact Hub Athens

15:30-16:00: Registration

16:00-17:00: Welcome to #5yearsofimpact | "A world that works for all"

How is the world changing today? Where do we need to focus as we shape the agenda of social innovation and positive change?
What will shape the economy and society in the coming years? Where can we find brilliant points of alternative ways of organizing, consuming, cohabiting and collaborating?

With
Alberto Masetti Zannini - Impact Hub Global Programmes Director
Monica Cummings, Counselor for Public Affairs, U.S. Embassy Athens

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17:00-18:15: Tech for good | Panel discussion
How can technological developments be used for social purposes in organising, governance and disadvantage groups?

With
Vassilis Kostakis - Professor of P2P Governance, TalTech Faculty Associate, Harvard University | Founder ''P2P Lab''
Thomas Patzko - Partnership Curating | Business Development | Future of Work | ''Impact Hub Zurich''
Vanessa Mason - Research Director ''Institute for the Future''
Susanna Pollack - President ''Games For Change''
*in virtual speech
Vassilis Tsolis - Co-founder /CEO ''Congitiv+''

Moderator: Despina Mitropoulou, Director of ''GFOSS''- Open Technologies Alliance

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18:15-18:30: Coffee Break

18:30-20:00: Tech for Good | Workshop
Games & Health
A brief introduction to foresight and futures thinking and how these approaches can lead to better present day actions and strategies.
By Vanessa Mason - Research Director ''Institute for the Future''

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18:30-20:00: Activism | Panel Discussion
What can we do to empower the social movements & strengthen them further?

With
Athina Spyridaki - Bussiness Planner ''Patagonia''
Lila Tsatsi - activist ''Save Epirus''
Eleni Takou - Deputy Director ''Human Rights 360'' | activist against Golden Dawn
Cleo Barnett - Deputy Director ''Amplifier''
Gala Pin Ferrando - Barcelona City Councillor and activist
*in virtual speech

Moderator: Ivan March- ''Guerilla Foundation''- activist

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20:00-21:30: Activism | Screening & Workshop

-Activism Screening with Q&A | 'Blue Heart' : ''The Fight for Europe's Last Wild Rivers''
By Mihela Hladin Wolfe - ''Patagonia''

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-Activism Workshop | The Art of Protest
How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience?
By Ivan March- ''Guerilla Foundation''- activist

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29 March @ Impact Hub Athens

11:00-12:30: Urbanism | Panel discussion
What is the future of our cities?

With
Charles Landry - Researcher on imagination & creativity in urban settings
Tom Fleming - Creative Consultant
Sebastian Schlueter - Program Coordinator Actors of Urban Change, Berlin
Miograd Kuc - ''ZK/U Berlin''

Moderator: Elena Mavromichali - Senior Consultant of Cultural Policies

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12:30-13:30: Lunch break

13:30-15:30: Urbanism | Co-creation Workshops

-Urbanism co-creation workshop 1 | The role of culture in shaping urban life
What is the role of culture in shaping urban life?
By Tom Fleming, Creative Consultant

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-Urbanism co-creation workshop 2 | Towards an Innovative city
What does innovation mean for a city?
By Charles Landry, Researcher on imagination & creativity in urban settings
& Elena Mavromichali, Senior Consultant of Cultural Policies

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-Urbanism co-creation workshop 3 | Strengthening the social and citizen fabric:
ways of participation & influencing
How do we build resilient communities?
By Miograd Kuc, ZK/U Berlin
& Elena Lamprou, Impact Hub Athens

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-Urbanism co-creation workshop 4 | Collaborative cities and collective interventions
How can we foster intersectoral collaboration (citizens, businesses, local administrations, academia)?
By Sebastian Schlueter - Program Coordinator Actors of Urban Change, Berlin

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**As the seats are limited, 3 people will be selected to participate after registration to each workshop.

15:30-16:00: Coffee Break

16:00-19:00: Circular Economy | HYDROUSA Launching event
Regenerative and nature-based water solutions.
A community of water allies.

Circular Economy | Panel discussion
How do we manage the growing pressures on global resource systems? How to rewire the idea of progress and production in the post-industrial era?
How can broken systems become circular and regenerative? How can we exploit nature and old practices for innovation?

Keynote speech by
Johannes Kisser - Managing Director of ''alchemia-nova''

Panel Discussion With
Johannes Kisser - Managing Director of ''alchemia-nova''
Simos Malamis - Assistant Professor of the Technical University of Athens
Efthymios Lytras - Deputy Director of Environmental Affairs and R&D at EYDAP
Prof. Michael Scoullos - Chairman, MIO-ECSDE; GWP-Med

Moderator:
Matthias Reisinger, Head of Entrepreneurship and Creative Industries Austria Business Service - ''Impact Hub Vienna'' Co-Founder

HYDROUSA Presentation - Regenerative and nature-based water solutions. A community of water allies
By
Simos Malamis, Assistant Professor of the Technical University of Athens

Islands Hopping - Innovation cruise Workshop
By
-''Tinos Ecolodge'' | Presentation of Ecolodge - Water Loops in Eco-tourist facilities - hacking tourism
-''PLANET Nature Inspired Technoly'' & ''alchemia-nova'' | Low cost sea-water desalination
-''alchemia-nova'' | Designing an Agroforestry System with Circular Practices - Bridging new and traditional techniques
-''NTUA'' | Applying nature based solutions and water reuse
-''Delaros'' | Presentation of Business Opportunities from circular water practices

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*All panels and workshops will be held in English.

30 March @Kypseli Municipal Market

Let’s celebrate with a different Super Kypseli!

10:30-11:30: The day will kick off & sealed by the visit of Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist and social entrepreneur.

11:00-11:45: Community Yoga

11:45-12:15: Storytelling on Kypseli's past and present by one who remembers

12:00-14:00: Educational Programme Junior Chef

12:00-12:30: Mark your own Tote bag (Silk-screen printing) | Workshop
By Margarita | Vocational Training Centre

Jewellery Upcycling Workshop
By Archipelagos

13:00-13:30: To know us better (interactive game)
By citizen group ‘I Kypseli mas’

Community artwork workshop
By Victoria Square Project

14:00 -15:00: Community Pic-nic (treat n get treated)

15:00-18:00: Youth Cafe | A pop up cafe run by Kypseli’s Youngsters
By Hive, Streetlights

15:00-15:30: DYI - Revamp your old furniture | Workshop
By Archipelagos & Paliosinitheies

Kickboxing demonstration
By Pontikanazarenko Team

16:00-16:30: Dance Battles
By Hive, Streetlights

16:30-17:30: Craft your own Mask | Workshop
By Arsis

17:30-18:00: Concert by the orchestra of the Municipal Market of Kypseli

18:00-19:00: Improvisations - exploring the relationship between speech, movement & mind
By Liminal

19:00-19:30: Lighting up the flagship building of the Municipal market of Kypseli backed up with a special hip-hop performance with a special hip-hop performance

Pop Up Hub

10:30-11:30: The day will kick off & sealed by the visit of Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist and social entrepreneur.Interested in sharing your thought/concept on social change?
*Limited number of participants. Priority will be kept.
Participation requests for this specific slot shall be sent at [elena.lamprou@impacthub.net]

12:00-13:00: Self-management of informal city groups
By “I Kypseli Mas”, citizen group in Kypseli

13:00-14:00: What’s the buzz about Kypseli’s Municipal Market?
By Impact Hub Athens team

15:00-16:00: How an art project becomes an organic space in Victoria Neighborhood
By Victoria Square Project

16:00-18:00: “Towards a creative protest” | Workshop
By Ivan March & Cleo Barnett

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*Pop Up Hub will be held in English or Greek regarding the participants' needs

**Muhammad Yunus will stay in Athens as the main speaker at Convergences Greece Forum /Convergences
on April 1 at the Olympia Theater.

In practice.

We envision a 3 days impact festival, where experts, stakeholders, practitioners, curious & interested, young & older can come together to explore, debate and design around core issues of the social innovation & economy sector. On the 28, 29 & 30/03 we are hosting a safe & inspiring space where unlikely allies can share concerns, practices, experiences, and leave inspired, aligned and connected for potential joint ventures, programmes & actions.

After harvesting the key questions of the creative forces, cultivating ideas & initiatives formed by citizens & grassroots, and having a close look on emerging wicked ideas, we are creating a 3 days think forward event, designed around the following topics:

Systemic Change: How the world is changing today? Where should we focus as we design the impact agenda of the next years? What are the movements, what are the forces that will determine economy & society for the 5 years to come? Where can we find brilliant examples of people & organizations that are building a better today?
Which are the new tools for facing the critical technological, social and environmental challenges? Which new approach can lead to actionable solutions? Can a reviewed and evaluated value system shift the economy and drive progress? Would radical collaboration, connected economy and unlikely allies the core elements of a new positive impact driven economy?

Tech for good: How can technology create opportunities for growth for social economy? What are the benefits, the risks and the social impact of Artificial Intelligence’s expanding? What is the future of blockchain technology? What are the possible applications this technology can have and how would that change the face of the industries as we know them? How can people reverse the potential social disadvantages of the advancements in robotics? How can Internet of Things can create positive impact?

Activism: How is activism evolving and being realized from different authorities of the society through social movements, advocacy and lobbying? What are the urgent issues that we have to gather around as citizens and act? Let’s discuss the advancement of Activism from the perspective of the citizen, the institutions, the organizations, the businesses (corporate citizenship) and how it influences positive change in politics, environmental protection, access to work, representation & safety.

Urbanism: Could participatory urban interventions lead to community empowerment? Which are the gains of the community empowerment and what’s the principal intention for this movement? What radical change brings out the fact that the power is moving to the Municipalities? What’s the role of the big cities?

Circular Economy: What is the potential of the circular economy and the relevant innovative applications on nature based technologies, on sustainable food systems, on clean technology and on waste management?

Each topic would be approached by different means & formats: from debates and panels to workshops, from films & performances to practical interventions, we aspire to offer different stimuli to our guests & visitors, for a fruitful, action driven output.