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Second edition of SKEMA Social Ventures Summit in March
The second edition of the made-in-SKEMA entrepreneurial gathering will be organised at the Grand Paris campus on 31 March, in a hybrid format. It will feature conferences, round table discussions and research corners with the aim to create synergies between the players in the positive-impact innovation ecosystem.
Supported by SKEMA Ventures, SKEMA Business School's glocal impact entrepreneurship incubator-accelerator, SKEMA Social Ventures Summit is a key date in the school's annual calendar. Organised on the Grand Paris campus with the involvement of each campus, the event will highlight social and sustainable innovation and will bring together all the current and future agents of change. This includes entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, managers, researchers, incubators, students, and even financial and institutional bodies.
Networking and a pitch competition
SKEMA Social Ventures Summit will begin with an inspiring keynote speech and close with a talk about positive leadership by Jean-Philippe Courtois, Executive Vice President and President, National Transformation Partnerships, Microsoft, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SKEMA and Chair of the Life For Good association. The event will be structured around conferences, workshops, research corners (taking stock of the state of research in terms of entrepreneurship and innovation with societal impact), and a pitch competition, to discover innovative social start-ups, and will culminate in a networking event.
Creating value and giving meaning
Social and socially responsible entrepreneurship is a major sector of employment in France, representing 10% of the country's GDP and almost 14% of jobs in the private sector. It has become an entrepreneurial reality that is now noticeable in the 200 annual projects incubated by SKEMA Ventures, more than half of which aim to generate value while creating meaning for society as a whole.
