Arrive at 5:30pm for 6:00pm start
You are warmly invited to the first gathering of our event series "Act with Wisdom" taking place on Aug. 2nd at Embarcadero Center, San Francisco. We will be joined in this event by impact investing and systemic change experts. Our goal is to communicate and develop an understanding on how to leverage impact investment in synergistic social innovations and social enterprises to create broad-ranging social change. There is increasingly overlap between investors and impact investors. Being in the tech mecca, we address the challenge of transitioning from the broader tech sector to the impact sector benefiting a plethora of social innovations.
Co-hosts
Kaustav “KC” Chaudhuri is the co-founder of Pitch Globally and is an Advisor to several other large tech events groups and Angel Funds. He has extensive experience as an Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur and Executive in Silicon Valley both in startups as well as for large companies like HCL Technologies. He co-founded Biztech, an outsourcing strategy and leadership company, which got acquired by TCG Software, outsourcing arm of private equity& VC funds affiliated to George Soros where he became part of the Management Team and helped leverage significant investments in companies like Perkin Elmer("PKI"), Sybase(acquired by SAP for $ 5b), Selectica(went IPO), Oblix(acquired by Oracle) etc. He is the author of Design your Mind (soon to be launched) and was part of a team of Silicon Valley experts who wrote The First Mile (John Wiley), a book on entrepreneurship on behalf of The Indus Entrepreneurs(TIE), the largest organization of entrepreneurs in the world. He is also an Executive Committee Member of the Leukemia& Lymphoma Society.
Bobby Fishkin is the CEO of Reframe It Inc and Co-founder of CrowdDoing, a joint initiative between Reframe It and Advance Social Innovation to connect the social enterprise sector and volunteers; he also serves as a strategic partner of the Social Stock Exchange. Bobby has also co-led deliberative democracy projects internationally.
Ankur Jain is Managing Partner at Emergent Ventures (www.emergent.vc), a seed stage venture capital firm. Previously, Ankur was a venture investor at Nexus Venture Partners investing in US and India. Prior to that, Ankur was venture investor at Blumberg Capital investing in US and Israel. Prior to that, Ankur did strategy consulting at Accenture across a range of verticals including healthcare, financial services and technology. Earlier, Ankur led product teams at Andiamo Systems and later Cisco which acquired Andiamo in 2004. Prior to that, Ankur held engineering roles at Softaware Networks and later at Digital Island, which acquired Softaware Networks in 2000. Ankur is also co-founder of Vama, an eco-technology company.
Ankur holds a Bachelors in in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Delhi, a Masters in Computer Science from UCLA, and an MBA in Management from the Wharton School where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar. Ankur is also a co-inventor for five technology patents. Ankur is Chair for TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) San Francisco.
Agenda
- 5:30 - 6:00 pm: Registration
- 6:00 – 6:45 pm: Fireside Chat where Ankur Jain is interviewed by Kaustav “KC” Chaudhuri, co-founder of Pitch Globally (www.pitchglobally.com)
- 6:45 - 7:00 pm: Q&A
- 7:00 -7:30 pm Interactive Fireside Chat (including Q&A) between Bobby Fishkin & KC.
- 7:30 - 8:00 pm Networking
ABOUT
CrowdDoing
CrowdDoing helps social enterprises address gaps in human capital and financial capital. It is designed to help social enterprises to scale and compete successfully alongside companies that have no or minimal social missions.
Pitch Globally
Pitch Globally is Silicon Valley's leading community of startups, VCs, technologists, mentors. Meet them at the LIVE weekly Pitch & Networking events.
Emergent Ventures
A successful startup’s journey involves growth in multiple dimensions. Growth in revenues and customers. Growth in capabilities such as product and marketing. Growth in team’s inner capabilities such as ability to handle stress, relationships and conflicts. Our role is to be a catalyst for multi-dimensional growth for early stage startups.