Ideagen 2015 Social Impact - Partnering for Good Summit and Release of Summer 2015 Edition - InterSection Quarterly Review
Ideagen - Where the World's Leading Corporations, NGO's and Public Sector Organizations Convene to Innovate and Collaborate
The Ideagen 100, a crosssector, collective impact member network where the world’s leading corporations, NGO’s, and public sector organizations convene to innovate and collaborate, hosted its latest quarterly summit at the Embassy of Greece today focused on “Social Impact Partnering for Good”.
Impact leaders convened at Embassy of Greece to facilitate crosssector collaboration, impact leadership, and collective impact. The overarching theme, “Social Impact Partnering for Good” focused on the pressing needs and emergent strategies within key topic areas within the theme: Data for Good Education, Global Health, Entrepreneurship, Innovation/Technology, Workforce, Equity, The new UN SDG's and Impact 2030.
Ambassador Christos Panagopoulos, welcomed the world’s leading organizations from across sectors at today’s Ideagen Summit at the Embassy of Greece, noted: “In our globalized world, the most complex problems can only be solved with collaboration and cocreation among business leaders, social entrepreneurs, civil society and the public sector. In recent years, the economic crisis showed us that only if policy makers, the business community and others work together is there a significant possibility to stimulate the future economy’s growth and prepare young people for their task.”
George Sifakis, CEO and Founder of Ideagen, outlined the importance of social impact and the power of partnerships with a crosssector collaborative focus. “We honored to convene at the Embassy of Greece in Washington. Today, here, now, we convene the world’s leading organizations for our quarterly summit to hear from many of the world’s leading thinkers and to develop ideas and solutions to address some of the world’s most vexing issues.
Inspiring Ideagen Talks were presented by a series of luminaries including Mr. Theodosios Vallas – Head of the Office for Economic & Commercial Affairs at the Embassy of Greece in Washington; Dr. Kiko Suarez Lumina Foundation; Mike Wenger, George Washington University on behalf of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation; Emily Simone, Lockheed Martin Corporation; June Sugiyama, Vodafone Innovation Challenge Panel featuring: CalTech Sanitation Project, California Institute of Technology; WellDone Mobile Monitor, WellDone Mobile International; Mobile Stethoscope Diagnostics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology DLab; Sue Stephenson, Ritz Carlton; Jeff Senne – PwC; Jen Kim Field, UN Foundation; and Craig Nakagawa, Global Good, a collaboration between Intellectual Ventures and Bill Gates
During the ideation and strategy sessions, Ideagen members outlined the big ideas and emergent strategies as we drive toward structuring grand challenges, from ideation to pilot to practical implementation for scale and replication.
“We are honored to unveil the latest edition of the Ideagen InterSection Quarterly Review and to highlight the 2015 Ideagen Impact 100 List” George Sifakis noted during his remarks.
Nominated by their peers in the Ideagen 100, individuals including the UN Secretary General Ban Kimoon, Former First Lady Laura Bush, Bill & Melinda Gates, Arianna Huffington, Daymond John and organizations including Citi, Western Union, Amway, Intellectual Ventures, Lumina Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation are among many others on the 2015 Ideagen Impact 100 list. Today, we highlight and recognize the tremendous leadership and impact each of these individuals and organizations are demonstrating and their focused commitment to the empowerment of women”. –George Sifakis, Founder and CEO – Ideagen.“
A Collective Approach to Deliver a Collective Impact
Largescale change to meet the unprecedented social, resource, business, political and organizational challenges of today requires broad crosssector coordination. When organizations and leaders from different sectors commit to solving a specific problem through a collective approach, they can make a collective impact that far exceeds the potential of their individual agendas.
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The 2015 Ideagen Impact 100 List Individuals and Organizations who are empowering women via their leadership and or organizational mission.
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“We are honored to highlight the 2015 Ideagen Impact 100 List. Nominated by their peers in the Ideagen 100, individuals including the UN Secretary General Ban Kimoon, Former First Lady Laura Bush, Bill & Melinda Gates, Arianna Huffington, Daymond John and organizations including Marriott, Under Armouri, Western Union, Amway, Intellectual Ventures, Lumina Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation are among many others on the Impact 100 list. We recognize the tremendous leadership and impact each of these individuals and organizations are demonstrating and their focused commitment to the empowerment of women”.
- George Sifakis, Founder and CEO – Ideagen.
