The Internet, Mobile Technology And Cross-Cultural Communication

Speakers

• Victor d'Allant

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  Founder & CEO, Dallant Networks, LLC

  Paris-born Victor d’Allant is a cultural anthropologist turned digital media practitioner. His work includes field research on French truck drivers in the Middle East, mental health issues in India for the World Health Organization, and agricultural development in Burkina Faso for the World Bank. He is the Founder and CEO of San Francisco-based Dallant Networks, the social enterprise building online communities for large foundations and international organizations. Current and past clients include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Skoll Foundation and the World Bank Institute. He started his career as a photojournalist and his photographs have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. He holds an MA/ABD in social anthropology from the Sorbonne and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. His motto: “Only jet. No lag.”

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• Premal Shah

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  Co-Founder & President, Kiva

  Premal helps lead Kiva.org —a crowdfunding website that connects people through lending to alleviate poverty. Since 2005, over $1B in philanthropic loans has been crowdfunded to millions of underserved entrepreneurs in 90 countries — with a 96% repayment rate. The site has been named as one of Oprah's Favorite Things and a Top 50 Website by TIME Magazine. Premal's inspiration came while volunteering in India while on leave from PayPal, where he had been an early employee. Premal began his career as a management consultant and graduated from Stanford University. He’s passionate about making it easier for anyone to discover their own power to make real impact. He serves on the Board of VolunteerMatch.org & Watsi.org — a crowdfunding for developing world health care site. For his work as a social entrepreneur, Premal was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and selected to FORTUNE magazine’s “Top 40 under 40″ list.

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• Daniela Papi-Thorton

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  Educator, Systems-led Leadership

  Daniela Papi-Thornton is an educator whose work focuses on systems-led social interventions. Daniela has served as a Lecturer at Yale School of Management, Watson Institute, and Oxford’s Saïd Business School where she was the Deputy Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. She continues to consult with Oxford’s Skoll Centre and other corporate and educational clients and she lectures globally on systems-led leadership. Her report and subsequent article, Tackling Heropreneurship, have been widely referenced. From that research she designed a tool called the Impact Gaps Canvas, used at universities around the world. At Oxford she launched educational programming designed to help incorporate systems thinking into social entrepreneurship education, including Map the System, a contest now running at ~40 global institutions. Daniela’s work in education design builds upon six years of emerging market entrepreneurial experience in Cambodia, running a hybrid social enterprise. She co-authored a book, Learning Service, focused on shifting mindsets and practices related to volunteer travel. Her 2018 Ashoka U Big Idea Talk and her TEDx talk on Reclaiming Social Entrepreneurship highlight some of her philosophies.

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• Bruno Giussani

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  Global Curator, TED Conferences Europe

  Bruno Giussani is the Global Curator of TED, the organization behind the TED conferences and the popular online TEDTalks (ted.com), and lead organizer of TED's climate initiative, Countdown (countdown.ted.com), which identifies and champions solutions to the climate crisis. Since joining TED in 2005, he has curated hundreds of TEDTalks, including two by HH Pope Francis. Prior to joining TED Giussani was the Head of Online Strategy at the World Economic Forum; a Knight Fellow at the University of Stanford; and an Internet columnist for the New York Times. He has written for numerous media outlets in Switzerland and abroad, co-founded three Internet companies, is Vice-Chairman of the Board of Swiss software house Tinext (tinext.com) and advises a number of companies and non-profits. He lives in Switzerland, where he is also the Chairman of the Geneva International Film Festival on Human Rights (fifdh.org).

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• Ami Dar

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  Founder and Executive Director, Idealist.org

  Ami Dar is the founder and executive director of Idealist.org. Built in 1996 with $3,500, Idealist has become one of the most popular nonprofit resources on the Web, with information posted by 70,000 organizations around the world and a staff of 60 in New York, Portland, and Buenos Aires. In 2000 the Stern Family Fund selected Ami as its annual Public Interest Pioneer, awarding him a $100,000 grant that allowed it to grow into the $3 million organization it is today. In 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005, the Nonprofit Times included Ami in its annual list of the 50 most influential people in the nonprofit sector, and in 2004 Ashoka invited him to join its global fellowship of social entrepreneurs. In 2005 Time magazine name him a Philanthropy Innovator, and in 2006 the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business awarded Ami its annual Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship Award

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