Social Business Day July 28-29
The seventh Social Business Day will be held in Savar, Dhaka on July 28-29, bringing in entrepreneurs from different parts of the world to discuss, debate and exchange ideas.
The event, to be organised by Yunus Centre, will take place at the newly built Samajik Convention Centre in Zirabo, Savar.
The theme of this year's programme is “Can Wealth Concentration be Stopped?”
Social Business Day is an event for sharing experiences in the emerging sectors of social business to solve persistent social and economic problems confronting the world, said the organiser in a statement.
The event will be opened by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and will feature more than 2,000 participants, including 500 international participants from more than 36 countries. Thomas Gass, assistant secretary-general of the United Nations, will deliver the keynote speech.
The other notable speakers will include Joël Bouzou, president of the World Olympians Association; Keith Tuffley, chief executive officer of The B Team, Switzerland; Matin Karimli, deputy minister for labour and social protection of Azerbaijan; Shankar Venkateswaran, CEO of Tata Sustainability Group; Rangu Salgame, CEO of Princeton Growth Ventures in New York; Indian actor and social activist Rahul Bose; Bei Duoguang, director of China Academy for Financial Inclusion; and Wang Zhenyao, director of China Philanthropy Research Institute.
There will be three plenary discussions on wealth concentration, corporates creating social business as parallel businesses and social business in sports as well as 15 panel discussions, according to the statement.
Besides, social business practitioners, investors and enthusiasts from countries such as Bangladesh, China, Malaysia, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand and Thailand will discuss the state of social business in their respective countries.
A social business marketplace will offer networking opportunities at the event.
Comments