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Systems Innovation: Breaking Barriers To Large Scale Change

Friday, April 1, 2011

Session Description

For social entrepreneurs, innovation is about developing creative solutions to seemingly intractable systemic challenges. Numerous barriers exist that reinforce the system’s status quo, including patent and regulatory restrictions, long-held beliefs and behaviours, and lack of infrastructure among others. This session features three different perspectives on systems innovation, and explores ways that new approaches, technologies and business models can help social entrepreneurs break through to large scale change.

Time & Location

Time:
09:00 - 10:30, Friday, April 1, 2011 BST
Speakers
  • Speaker
    Design Director, IDEO
    Tom Hulme is Design Director at IDEO, London, where he uses a human-centred innovation approach to design new businesses. A serial entrepreneur and angel investor, he has firsthand experience in building successful enterprises and, as a result, he has a thorough understanding of business…
  • Speaker
    Founder and CEO, Cambia, Professor, QUT, NICTA
    Richard is a prominent molecular biologist, social entrepreneur and innovation systems strategist. He founded Cambia, an independent non-profit social enterprise to democratise problem solving using science-enabled innovation. Richard developed the landmark hologenome theory of evolution, the…
  • Speaker
    Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, M-KOPA
    Nick Hughes has been at the forefront of mobile commerce activities in emerging markets for over 10 years. He is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of M-KOPA, a company providing pay-as-you-go solar energy services in East Africa. Nick was previously Head of Mobile Payment Solutions at…
  • Speaker
    Partner, Hornthal Investment Partners
    Jim Hornthal is a parallel entrepreneur, angel investor, and educator. Jim is the co-founder and Chairman of Zignal Labs, LaunchPad Central, and M34Capital. His private investment partnership has invested in more than 50 startups including Lyft, Lending Club, KIND Snacks (Mars), Krave Jerky…