YOU will be at the center of Creating the Future of Economic Opportunity
|
Highlights include:
|
Featured Innovators
Read about all our featured innovators, including the Innovators-in-Residence
and Innovative Idea Champions!
Take your place at the heart of the innovation@cfed learning community. Register today.
We proudly present top leaders speaking about expanding the future of economic opportunity:
 |
|
|
|
|
|
Asheesh Advani has more than 15 years of experience as an entrepreneur, investor and social innovator. He was the founder and CEO of CircleLending, which pioneered the peer-to-peer loan business in the United States and was acquired by the Virgin Group in 2007. Subsequently, Mr. Advani served as founder and CEO of Virgin Money USA, the American arm of Richard Branson's consumer financial services business. He previously worked with the World Bank and the Monitor Group, where he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Mr. Advani was the founding board chair of Credit Builders Alliance, a nonprofit that succeeded in enabling major credit bureaus to accept data from microlenders.
Mr. Advani has received innovation awards from the Association of Enterprise Opportunity and from the Center for Financial Services Innovation. He is also the author of Investors in Your Backyard (Nolo Press, 2006). Mr. Advani and his businesses have been the subject of case studies at Harvard Business School and Babson College, and profiles on NPR, PBS and in newspapers such as The New York Times.
Mr. Advani is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and of Oxford University, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. Mr. Advani was selected as one of Boston's "Top 40 Under 40" by the Boston Business Journal and is involved with various civic activities. He is actively involved with the New England chapter of Young Presidents Organization and with Boston Rising, an urban initiative to address poverty. Mr. Advani also serves on the board of CFED and the Credit Builders Alliance, as well as on the financial advisory committee of St. Antony's College, Oxford University. He recently joined the Advisory Board of a new venture fund associated with CFSI targeting investments in companies serving the underbanked.
Langdon Morris is a founder of and partner at InnovationLabs and an affiliate of WDHB Consulting Group. His work focuses on innovation, strategy, and collaboration methodologies to solve complex problems with very high levels of creativity and innovation. Recent clients include: NASA, American Heart Association, SAP, Gemplus, the Federal Reserve Bank, France Telecom, Stanford University Medical Center, the University of Minnesota Medical School, Cap Gemini, DuPont, Wipro, L'Oreal, Accor Hotels, and many others. He is also Senior Practice Scholar of the Ackoff Center at the University of Pennsylvania where he is researching complex social and business systems; a Senior Fellow of the Economic Opportunities Program of The Aspen Institute; and a member of the Scientific Committee of Business Digest, Paris.
Langdon has taught MBA courses in strategy at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris and Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires. He is the author or co-author of numerous white papers and six highly acclaimed books, with editions in Japanese, Korean, and French: "4th Generation R&D: Managing Knowledge," "Technology, and Innovation;" "Managing the Evolving Corporation;" "The Knowledge Channel: Corporate Strategies for the Internet;" "The War for America: Morality, Ideology, and the Big Lies of American Politics;" "Beyond Earth: The Future of Humans in Space;" and "Permanent Innovation."
He is a former contributing editor of Knowledge Management magazine, and his articles have appeared there as well as in Learning and Training Innovations magazine, Business Digest, Internet Journal, Indian Management, and Laboratory Design Journal. He is also a compelling public speaker, and appears frequently at conferences and workshops worldwide.
Geeta Rao Gupta is president of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). An internationally renowned expert on gender and development, Rao Gupta has more than 20 years of experience in women's health and is a leading global authority on women's role in development programs. She frequently lends expertise on issues such as gender mainstreaming in development, women's health, HIV and AIDS, women's economic empowerment, private sector roles in development, strategies to empower women and advance gender equality and women and poverty.
Prior to becoming president, she held a number of positions with ICRW including consultant, researcher and officer. She also served as co-chair of the U. N. Secretary General's High Level Panel on Youth Employment and co-chaired the U. N. Millennium Project's Task Force on Promoting Gender Equality and Empowering Women from 2002-2005. She also serves as an advisor to the UNAIDS Global Coalition on Women and AIDS. Geeta was the recipient of the 2007 Washington Business Journal's "Women Who Mean Business" Award and is frequently recognized for her commitment to quality research and dedication to the protection and fulfillment of women's human rights.
She is regularly sought out by the development community and media, and has been quoted by The Washington Post, The New York Times and USA Today, as well as other national and international news sources.
Geeta holds Ph. D. in social psychology from Bangalore University, India; a M. Phil. , M. A. and B. A. in psychology from University of Delhi.
Ian V. Rowe is a deputy director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, focused on the strategy to achieve large-scale improvements in college completion rates, especially with low-income young adults. He is formerly the senior vice president of Strategic Partnerships and Public Affairs for MTV, where he oversaw MTV's "pro-social" multi-media campaigns to engage, educate and empower millions of young people to take action on some of the greatest issues facing their generation, including climate change, voting and civic engagement, sexual health, education and global disease and poverty. Mr. Rowe previously was the White House director of strategy and performance measurement for USA Freedom Corps, the President's initiative on volunteer service created to encourage every American to make a lifetime commitment of at least two years in service to others. He is a two-time Emmy Award winner, an Echoing Green Fellow, a Harvard Social Enterprise Fellow and was also founder and president of Third Millennium Media, a media consulting business. He spent two years with Teach for America, holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a degree in computer science engineering from Cornell University.
Michele Jolin is currently a Senior Advisor for Social Innovation for the Domestic Policy Council at The White House. In this capacity, she is developing policy tools to support and catalyze greater innovation directed at solving our most serious social problems, especially in the areas of education, economic mobility, energy conservation and health care. This includes developing structures to invest in innovative ideas that have demonstrated they work and partnering with citizens, non-profits, the private sector and foundations to make progress on our great challenges.
Prior to joining the White House, Jolin was a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where she co-edited the Center’s presidential transition document titled Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President. As a Senior Fellow, she also authored a number of articles and reports on policy tools to promote innovation and impact in the nonprofit sector, including a Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) piece arguing for a White House Office of Social Innovation.
Prior to her work at the Center for American Progress, Jolin was a Senior Vice President at Ashoka, a global foundation that invests in leading social entrepreneurs in 45 countries around the world. At Ashoka, she was responsible for launching and managing several global initiatives designed to support the growth of the work of the 1,500 Fellows in Ashoka’s global network and to replicate the most effective, social entrepreneurial ideas.
During President Clinton’s Administration, Jolin served as the Chief of Staff at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Jolin also worked for Senator Boxer on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee and as an Associate at the Washington, DC law firm Patton, Boggs & Blow.
Innovators-in-Residence and Innovative Idea Champions
CFED's inaugural set of Innovators-in-Residence and Innovative Idea Champions will present their groundbreaking concepts.
| 9:00 a.m. | Summit begins Opening mission exercises Buffet-style breakfast |
| 10:00 a.m. | Opening plenary Animation video, meet the innovators, headliner remarks |
| 11:00 a.m. | Innovation Exchange Interact with 21 top innovators, answer burning questions |
| 12:30 p.m. | Innovation Café Timely and future-oriented conversations Buffet-style lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. | Knowledge and Skill-Building plenary Headliner speakers, instant feedback |
| 2:30 p.m. | Design Challenge Together we design next-generation solutions |
| 3:30 p.m. | Taking It Home plenary Top take-aways, headliner remarks, what’s next |
| 4:30 p.m. | Summit ends |
Schedule subject to change