The conference has now been running for over 5 years. In this time, it has significantly grown each year both in terms of attendees and speakers. A wide variety of organizations and speakers have participated in the event.
2009
In 2009, the conference had a record participation with over 650 participants. The conference had a special focus on how the current economic downturn is impacting social and environmental efforts driven by business. Speakers shed light on both the effects and the prognosis for responsible business in their sectors including finance, healthcare and energy. They also shared their advice on how to continue to make progress and perhaps even create new business models and approaches better suited to sustainable development in all market conditions.
2008
The conference had a record participation with over 450 participants and over 40 speakers. The conference was opened by keynote speaker Daniel Garcia Guelbenzu, GE Regional VP Western Europe, highlighting the role of established corporations in the area. It was closed by a round-table discussion that gave answers as well as new questions for the coming 2009 conference on the question,” Is Capitalism Evolving?”
For the first time in DGDW’s history, the Cleantech Venture Seminar was set up to facilitate investments in start-ups that improve the productive use of natural resources. In addition a separate Responsible Careers Forum was held for prospective employers and employees.
The 2007 "Doing Good and Doing Well" conference confirmed that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has moved from marginal interest to mainstream business reality. Reflecting industry trends, a major thread running through this year's conference was the environment, with numerous panels on nuclear energy, climate change, wind power, fuel cells and the hydrogen economy, as well as a keynote address on sustainable energy. The former executive director of the Business Council for the United Nations shared his personal experiences of getting business people and policymakers to sit down together, share ideas and then implement practical solutions, in order to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals, an ambitious plan to halve world poverty by 2015.
The conference was opened by Mark Goyder, Director of Tomorrow’s Company who gave his keynote speech on “The Modern Company and Social Responsibility”. The conference was organized around five broad themes: Bottom of the Pyramid, Social Entrepreneurship, Corporate Social Responsibility, The Role of Business in Development, and the Environment. More than fifty speakers from around the world came to share their ideas on these issues in the two day conference. Interactive panel discussions were held on topics ranging from fuel cell development to running your business for high social impact.
This year’s conference had the main theme of the Bottom of the Pyramid. The keynote speaker was Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Founder and Managing Director of Grameen Bank. Dr. Yunus had recently won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to help eradicate poverty through microfinance.
The conference, still in its early stages, was organized with the aim of better understanding the role MBA students can play in corporate social responsibility. The keynote speaker was Dr. Mark Albion, who is one of the founding members of Net Impact. He came to share his thoughts on value-based businesses.
- London Business School
- INSEAD
- CEIBS
- HEC Paris
- SDA Bocconi School of Management
- Oxford Said Business School
- Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
- Rotterdam School of Management
- IMD
- MIT Sloan
- ESADE
- Instituto de Empresa
- Accenture
- Acciona
- Actis Private
- Equity
- Active Capital Partners
- Acumen Fund
- Agelos Social Ventures
- ARUP
- Ashoka
- At Stake Advisors
- BA100K
- Banco Santander
- BASF Venture Capital GmbH
- Blue Orchard
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- Boston Consulting Group
- BP
- Caja Navarra
- CAN
- Charity Bank
- Children's Hospital of Alabama
- Citigroup
- Demeter Partners
- Deutsche Bank
- Double Dividend
- Dow Chemical Company
- eBay
- Emerging Energy Research
- Endeavour
- Energia 2010 S.L.
- EsteamWork
- Executive Insight Healthcare Consultants
- GE
- Good Energies
- Impax Asset
- Management Ltd
- ISUNO
- KenCall
- Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust
- Medtronic
- MRW
- MSD
- Nestle
- One Carbon
- OpciónDos Energía Natural, S.L.
- Oxfam International
- PALWaste Recycling SL
- Petrobras
- Picvisa
- Procter & Gamble
- Philips
- Random House
- Mondadori, S.A.
- Recupyl S.A.S.
- Ricardo Plc
- S A Capital Limited
- Schwab Foundation
- SET Venture Partners
- Shell
- SI Capital
- Summit of the Americas Center
- The Grameen Bank
- Trestle Group
- Triodos Bank
- Triple Jump
- Triple Value Strategy Consulting
- TVM Capital GmbH
- Unilever
- United Nations
- Viridor Capital
- Volans Venture
- World Economic Forum
- Ysios Capital Partners
