Oxford Internet Institute
1 St Giles, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3JS
UK
The Oxford Hub of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers invites you to a new lecture with Saif Kamal (Founder of Toru & Curator of the Dhaka Hub of the Global Shapers). Saif is visiting Oxford to speak at the Skoll World Forum and has kindly agreed to give another lecture on the challenges and opportunities of building social innovations in the developing world.
Saif has been a leader in the transformation of innovations to social enterprises in Asia, having founded the first social innovation hub in Bangladesh that connects development sector challenges to young innovators and incubates them on design and sustainability to transform ideas to social enterprises. Has has had an illustrious global career in knowledge management, consumer goods and media. Saif returned to Bangladesh to empower youth and help local innovation ecosystem thrive. He is also a Cordes fellow and founder of the British High Commission’s Young Leaders Bangladesh. For his work in building an integrated social innovation ecosystem, Saif was recently awarded as a New Champion (2015 -16) at World Economic Forum’s Summer Davos China.
Venue: Seminar room, Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, OX1 3JS (note the change of venue!)
Date: 14. April 2016, 12:30-13:30
You can read a recent interview with Saif Kamal here:
http://icebusinesstimes.net/transforming-innovations-into-social-enterprises/
Find out more about Toru’s innovation ecosystem:
http://toru-bd.org/
The Global Shapers Community is an initiative of the World Economic Forum – a network of Hubs developed and led by young people who are exceptional in their potential, their achievements and their drive to make a contribution to their communities.