SESSION PRESENTERS

Keynote Speaker: Victor D’Allant, Skoll Foundation and the Socialedge.org

" Facebook, YouTube, Twitter! Oh, My! - Leveraging Technologyfor Social Change"

What do all the new social media offer to social entrepreneurs and other
do-gooders seeking large scale change? Are these tools mission critical or are they faux impact for the technology “haves”? How do you leverage Web 2.0 tools to advance your mission while recognizing their limitations? Share your success stories in trying to keep up with “the next big thing”!

Victor d’Allant, Executive Director of Social Edge (The Skoll Foundation’s online community for social entrepreneurs).

Victor is a global media executive who started his career as a Paris-based
photojournalist reporting on economic and social issues and later worked asa magazine publisher and consultant for Newsweek, Bloomberg and Wired. His executive positions have included Chief Executive Officer of Ascribe, the public interest newswire.

His photographic work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Paris, and he received a 2009 Webby Award Official Honoree mention for his personal video blog.

He holds an MA in Social Anthropology from the Sorbonne and an MBA from UCBerkeley's Haas School of Business.

Caroline Cummings, Social Media Boot Camp

“ Applying Social Media to Purpose and Passion”

Learn how successful entrepreneurs are leveraging the social web to make a difference and to get real results.  Hear examples of Oregon ventures and how they are using the social media revolution to launch and sustain their new ideas through the region and beyond. 

Caroline Cummings has been the CEO of a social media company called OsoEco – a Web 2.0 social shopping and social research Web site. She also recently co-founded smartups.org – a not-for-profit support group in Oregon’s Willamette Valley for entrepreneurs that focuses on bringing start-ups together with community leaders, business leaders, and people in the venture capital and angel investing communities. Caroline currently serves as the Director of Entrepreneurial Development for the Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce. And she works with the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network in Portland by helping connect entrepreneurs to investors in Eugene, Corvallis, Medford, Grants Pass and Ashland.  In 2004, while at Bristol Myers Squibb, she received two International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Awards.

Tirza Hollenhorst, ifPeople.net

“Online Collaboration and the Ladder of Engagement”

Tirza Hollenhorst co-founded ifPeople, in 2002 by with Christopher Johnson while in Argentina. Their clients come from diverse industries and are innovating in the areas of health sciences, economic development, microfinance, and Corporate Social Responsibility.
In 2004, operations were relocated from Argentina to the US, when ifPeople created the partnership model for FairSource, which is the basis for relationships with key suppliers in Argentina and Chile.  FairSource is a fair trade initiative to support microenterprises in overcoming barriers to entrepreneurship in emerging economies through long term, collaborative trade relationships. ifPeople created the model to foster responsible entrepreneurship in South America and has enabled significant growth in the current partners while continuing to expand the initiative. FairSource partners integrate into ifPeople's team during a project and work alongside our clients to bring a project's vision to fruition.