Sponsors (Partial List)
Goodera is a state of the art technology platform that helps companies measure the progress and impact of their Sustainability/CSR initiatives at the last mile on a real time basis. Currently 180+ corporates (24 in Fortune 500) including P&G, Target, Dell, GAP, Abbott, Amazon are using the Goodera platform across 50+ countries to track, monitor and measure $200mn+ development capital annually to 6mn beneficiaries.
Goodera enables companies to collect data from multiple sources including web, mobile, voice, API integrations with internal tools and have real time dashboards to communicate CSR & Sustainability performance to internal stakeholders like CEO, Board, Marketing Head, Employees and report as per external global standards- GRI, SDGs, DJSI, CDP, IR amongst others. Goodera is amongst the first VC backed companies in this space with Omidyar Network and Nexus Venture Partners as key investors. Goodera has a 100+ team with strong domain and technology expertise.
RBC Global Asset Management is the asset management division of Royal Bank of Canada an asset manager with global scope and broad‐based management capabilities. With over $297 billion in AUM*, our capabilities include global credit, global equities, alternatives, capacity, constrained equities, liquidity management and impact investing. Our Access Capital Strategy is a fixed income impact investing strategy with a 15 year track record. The strategy focuses on serving low to moderate income communities and combines investment performance with a mission‐aligned impact allowing investors to geographically target their communities. Securities are high quality and extremely liquid, allowing investors to make an impact on their community while maintaining access to their investment.
We are building the necessary ecosystem that enables large public and private employers to transition away from the death spiral of ineffective and expensive healthcare services. Our offering has two components: (1) a specialized network of clinicians who are experts in applying systems thinking to clinical medicine e.g., they practice Integrative Medicine (IM) and (2) a technology Platform that enables us to document the patient care protocols and patient outcomes generated by those IM experts. The data is then put through a proprietary analytical engine to assess the relationship between the quality of patient outcomes and the most efficient allocation of the employer’s healthcare capital. Our Solution is best applied to that cohort of patients who suffer from multiple chronic diseases. These patients typically represent 5% of the covered population but account for 50% of total employer healthcare expenditures. Implementation of our solution will save employers a durable ~30%-50% from current chronic care expenditures.
Many would call this sensible. In healthcare it is transformative.
From a finance perspective, one could call Nura’s Platform the first to drive Economic Value Added (EVA) into healthcare capital. It represents $54 million of sunken development costs and includes proprietary population health-centric software and a unique IM-centric clinical procedure code lexicon. Its use enables Nura’s IM clinical Network to accelerate learning by embedding a continuous process improvement loop in its design that constantly drives efficiency into an employer’s healthcare capital allocation. When fully deployed, we expect to cut the healthcare innovation cycle time from 17 years (IOM assessment) to 17 months.
Our first customer is the United States Air Force.
Domini Impact Investments LLC is an SEC-registered investment advi ser that specializes exclusively in responsible inv esting. We serve individual and institutional investors who wish to create positive social and environmental outcomes while seeking competitive financial returns. Domini manages three mutual funds: the Domini Impact Equity Fund (large-cap domestic equity), the Domini International Impact Equity Fund (large to mid-cap international equity), and the Domini Impact Bond Fund (U.S. intermediate term fixed income). Domini is responsible for the development and application of our social and environmental standards applied uniformly across all of our funds. We also engage with companies in our equity fund portfolios to pursue positive social and environmental change.
Ellevate Network believes in the positive impact of women in business.
Our mission is to help women advance in the workplace, both for themselves and the greater good. We strive to change the culture of business from the inside out – by investing in women.
GoodCompany Ventures is developing a new program, Climate Ventures 2.0, in collaboration with the White House’s Climate Data Initiative. As announced by the White House in December 2014, Climate Ventures 2.0 will engage entrepreneurs to apply the scientific and technical resources of the Climate Data Initiative to global threats at the nexus of water and food security. Since the launch of GCV’s first accelerator program to serve high impact social entrepreneurs movement in 2009, GCV has earned a reputation as the “graduate school” for social entrepreneurs and its graduates have raised over $50mm in private capital to fuel their social missions. Compared to funds invested in our programming, this represents a return of over 700x to our donors. As a GCV is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, GCV has developed services for social entrepreneurs and the impact investors who fund them with support from Halloran Philanthropies, the Knight Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Wharton Social Impact Initiative, Investors’ Circle and the Kind Foundation.
Vert Asset Management is a dedicated ESG fund manager. Our mission is making investing for sustainability easier for financial advisors and their clients. As a business, we work to lead by example. We are a pending B Corp, a US SIF member and contributor to 1% For The Planet.
Thinking Heads is a strategic consulting firm that specializes in leader positioning. The company designs and implements customized programs to enhance the influence of individuals by harnessing the power of their ideas. Established in 2003 as a speakers bureau representing globally renowned figures, Thinking Heads evolved into a consulting firm, becoming a pioneer in the field of personal positioning.
The company helps clients package and promote their ideas for maximum impact. The results are more robust reputations and higher financial rewards. Thinking Heads, with operations in Madrid, Miami, Mexico and Seoul, delivers its services through: – Consulting Services: planning and implementing strategies and alliances aimed at enhancing the positioning of leaders and top executives, – Speakers & Conferences: managing the participation of speakers at local and international forums, – Intelligence Products: information and analysis to assist in the decision-making process of business leaders.
The CAIA Association, a non-profit organization founded in 2002, is the world leader and authority in alternative investment education. The Fundamentals of Alternative Investments Certificate Program® is a natural extension of CAIA’s mission to provide solutions to specific market needs for alternative investment education. The CAIA Association is best known for the CAIA Charter®, an internationally recognized credential granted upon successful completion of a rigorous two-level exam series, combined with relevant work experience. Earning the CAIA Charter is the gateway to becoming a member of the CAIA Association, a global network of 7,700 alternative investment leaders located in 80+ countries, who have demonstrated a deep and thorough understanding of alternative investing. Having grown rapidly, the CAIA Association now supports vibrant chapters located in financial centers around the world and sponsors more than 120 educational and networking events each year.
The World Tree Carbon Offset Program is managed by World Tree Technologies, a company founded in 2002 by our president and CEO Wendy Burton. Wendy has travelled to Brazil, Paraguay, Australia, New Zealand and throughout the USA to learn to successfully grow and manage Empress Splendor trees and has personally over 20 years knowledge and experience working with these trees.
While the Empress Tree is known and greatly prized in Asia, it is relatively unknown in North America. World Tree has been an innovator, leading the way in researching the best way to plant and grow the tree, educating the public in the properties of the tree and training farmers how to successfully cultivate it.
The Fairshare Model is a forthcoming book by Karl Sjogren. It’s about an idea for a performance-based capital structure for companies that seek to raise venture capital via an initial public offering. It is called the Fairshare Model because it balances and aligns the interests of investors and employees…capital and labor.
Bagito’s are smart and durable reusable shopping bags and other reusable products — with a story.
Designed to be ultra-convenient, all Bagito products are made from either premium rPet fabric (100% recycled plastics or 100% organic/nonGMO cotton and double stitched for strength. We complete the sustain ability loop by donating annually 10-20% of our net proceeds directly to our sister K-12 environmental literacy non-profit project, Power2Sustain.org.
Mayor Dyer launched Green Works Orlando in 2007 to transform Orlando into one of the most environmentally-friendly, economically and socially vibrant communities in the nation. Green Works Orlando represents our commitment to utilize the City’s regional leadership position to build partnerships and share resources that foster positive environmental changes.
Since 2007, the City has led by example, achieving more than $1 million in annual energy savings. The foundation of Green Works Orlando was built on the concept of promoting environmental stewardship, educating people about “environmentally conscious lifestyles” and encouraging others to incorporate a concern for the environment into the everyday workings of government and private business.
Wright Connatser is a law firm unlike any other. Our business is designed to serve innovators, entrepreneurs – traditional and social, and small-to-medium-sized enterprises. We combine deep expertise with low overhead and cutting-edge technology to allow a rich relationship that is fairly priced.
We are former big-firm partners, general counsels, educators, and entrepreneurs accomplished in venture and capital formation, private offerings, investment fund creation, impact finance, social entrepreneurship, commercial contracts, employment matters, corporate finance, technology, intellectual property, and related fields. We are innovators serving innovators, entrepreneurs serving entrepreneurs.
We help our clients make an impact and make an impact ourselves by being the future of law practice today.
www.wrightconnatser.com
Design By Freedom is an invention company on a mission to move the United States to zero waste. Design By Freedom achieves its mission by redesigning lifestyle products, one-time-use disposables and packaging into highly functional, fun and fashionable zero waste alternatives. Design By Freedom is working to invite the average American consumer to the climate movement by offering affordable, mainstream and human-centered switches to wasteful everyday products. Take climate action in your hands, start with the Freedom Sleeve: