Welcome to #5yearsofimpact | "A world that works for all"

Speakers
Alberto Zannini, ''Impact Hub'', Global Programmes Director
Monica Cummings, Counselor for Public Affairs, U.S. Embassy Athens

Key questions to be explored:

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?

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.

Starting an Impact Hub in Athens, marked a first important step in the social economy ecosystem; the first time, that changemakers would gather together, connect & collaborate through a facilitated scheme, empower more citizens & entrepreneurs to be activated in that direction, make the sector more extrovert and represent it in corporate, philanthropic & government levels.

As a first cycle of six years of this work has been completed, it is essential to explore, discuss and debate about the looming and pioneering themes, the leading-edge trends that will define the social impact agenda and designate the following 5 years of this evolving ecosystem. It is important to set the guidelines for the next steps of positive social impact, the steps that will further establish the social changes that have been already occurred and take us to other 5 succeeding years.

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.

*All panels will be held in English.