Ashoka Announces the Next Globalizer Summit – Geneva, June 2012
After four successful Globalizer Summits in Vienna, Stockholm, and Munich from 2010-2012, the fifth Ashoka Globalizer Summit will be held in Geneva, Switzerland in June, 2012. This summit will focus exclusively on the topic of Rural Innovation and Farming in India and Sub-Saharan Africa, and is being executed through Ashoka's partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
At the Globalizer Summits, roughly thirty of the world's leading social and business entrepreneurs come together to explore the future of scaling social innovation. Over three days, these leaders of their fields work intensely to refine and reinforce strategies for scaling some of the world's most exciting social innovations. They also come together to distill broader insights in order to help the global community of social entrepreneurs deal more effectively with the challenge of scale.
The Globalizer Summit is not a conference but an intimate gathering of world-class entrepreneurs doing what entrepreneurs love to do most: apply their talent and skills to solve intractable problems. Participants leave the Summits energized, inspired, and provoked to act beyond the confines of their own organizations to ensure that their solutions have the potential to affect as large a population as possible.
Stay tuned for more news, information and results of the Summit!