The Feast Social Innovation Conference

New York-based company All Day Buffet will assemble the world's most creative entrepreneurs, mavericks and innovators in one room during The Feast Social Innovation Conference on October 1st, 2009.

A creative look at the world's toughest problems, The Feast Conference presents the most innovative solutions, insights, and best practices as a catalyst toward action. Speakers from a variety of backgrounds will share insights on how the power of creativity can propel social change within and across industries.

The Feast employs an innovative ticketing model to connect and empower a bottom-up movement. All standard tickets go to subsidize $99 invitations to awe-inspiring vanguards in order to ensure perspective and participation from the highest caliber of thought and execution, regardless of background or means. In the past, attendees have ranged from advertising agencies and investment banks to non-profit organizations and entrepreneurs.

A second day of optional events include hands-on workshops and a fast pitch competition that spotlights 10 of the most innovative for-good-for-profit businesses before a room of investors, venture philanthropists and media.

Focusing their efforts on New York, All Day Buffet seeks to address global issues through a local context, inviting innovators from around the world to NYC as a launch pad of change.

Frustrated by the barriers to true participation in a time that needs it most, the organizers of the conference ask participants to do just that-participate. "We're flipping the model on its head and saying 'you can't buy change, you have to create it,'" said Jerri Chou, Co-founder of All Day Buffet. "It’s not about talk, it’s about action, and there’s no place that knows that better than New York. This city offers the perfect blend of creativity, social mindedness and get-it-done bootstrap mentality."

"This is more than a conference," said Chou. "It’s a movement to change the way we do good."

Speakers at The Feast include:

• MATTHEW BISHOP - Chief Business Writer // The Economist
  Matthew is the author of several Economist special survey supplements, including most recently The Business of Giving, which looks at the industrial revolution taking place in philanthropy; Kings of Capitalism, which anticipated and analyzed the recent boom in private equity; and Capitalism and its Troubles, an examination of the impact of problems such as the collapse of Enron.
• WILLIAM DRENTTEL - Partner // Winterhouse
  William Drenttel is a partner at Winterhouse, a design practice in Falls Village, Connecticut, focused on social innovation, publishing and online media, and cultural and educational institutions. He is design director for Teach For All, an international education network, and is currently leading a series of initiatives funded by the Rockefeller Foundation to develop models for design and social change.
• ANNIE DUKE - Professional Poker Player
  Born and raised in Concord, New Hampshire, Annie Duke grew up in a family that had cards and competition in the blood. In a home where card playing was the glue that held the family together, everybody not only wanted to win but needed to win. Over the course of the next decade, Duke established herself as one of the best poker players in the world.

• JOSHUA VIERTEL - President Slow // Food USA
  Josh was named Slow Food USA's first President at age 30. Previously he had worked as a shepherd, a teacher, a vegetable farmer, an activist, a fisherman, and a baker. His work has been written about in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly and numerous other publications, and he has presented at, or worked on projects with the American Academy in Rome, The Guggenheim, The Smithsonian Folk Life Festival, and the 2008 Venice Biennale.

• KEN BANKS - Founder // kiwanja.net & FrontlineSMS
  Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net, devotes himself to the application of mobile technology for positive social and environmental change in the developing world, and has spent the last 15 years working on projects in Africa. Recently, his research resulted in the development of FrontlineSMS, a field communication system designed to empower grassroots non-profit organizations.

• KENNA - Musician
  There are people who need to define themselves because it gives them identity and then there are people, like Kenna, who allow themselves to be undefinable and lead others onto a journey that we could never have reached ourselves. The long and winding road from the release of his 2003 debut album New Sacred Cow to the late-2007 release of Make Sure They See My Face showed the Ethiopian-born, Virginia-raised artist the dark side of record industry politics after he was passed around from label to label before finally landing on the Neptunes' Star Trak imprint (high school friend Chad Hugo co-produced both of Kenna’s albums).

• RON ARNOLD - Chief Operating Officer// Charity Water
  Rod Arnold is passionate about empowering leaders to think smarter about leadership, strategy, branding and marketing. For more than 15 years, he has worked with organizations in both for-profit and not-for-profit sectors as a strategic leader and organizational coach."¨ Rod now serves as Chief Operating Officer for charity: water, a non-profit organization focused on the global water crisis and the 1 billion people without clean drinking water.

• BECKY STRAW"“Director of Water Programs // Charity Water
  Becky has spent the last two years helping charity: water grow into one of the foremost non-profits in the sector. As the Director of Water Programs, she's responsible for building a diversified portfolio of water projects in some of the most water-scarce countries in the world. Frequently conducting site visits and evaluations, Becky has seen first-hand thousands of people drinking from contaminated swamps, rivers and streams 3/4 water she wouldn't swim in. She's also witnessed some amazing solutions implemented by charity: water's field partners. Becky is inspired by innovation, partnerships, and how business models can save lives.
• ELIZABETH SCHARPF- Founder // "¨she: Sustainable Health Enterprises
  Elizabeth is an entrepreneur who has spent most of her professional career starting up ventures or advising businesses on growth strategies in the health care industry. She is the Founder and Chief Instigating Officer of Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) which is a social venture that uses market-based approaches to address the world's most pressing social problems. SHE's first spin-out business is sanitary pad franchising to address the significant educational, health, and economic costs of girls and women lacking access to affordable sanitary pads. Echoing Green, the premier seed funder of innovative social change organizations, chose to support SHE (out of 1,500 applicants worldwide) and Harvard Business School named Elizabeth their first Social Enterprise Fellow."¨
  

Host: CINDY GALLOP - Founder // IfWeRanTheWorld
In 2003 Advertising Women of New York voted Cindy Advertising Woman of the Year. In 2005 Cindy resigned as chairman of BBH to do something different. She consults for clients who want to change the game in their particular sector, and who are looking for radical reinvention, and for groundbreaking, innovative, forward-thinking strategic and executional approaches. She is the founder and CEO of IfWeRanTheWorld, an extremely simple crowdsourced web platform designed to turn good intentions into action, which will launch this fall.

TICKETS:
Sponsored Ticket (by application only) $99.00
Regular Ticket $250.00
VIP Ticket $500.00
Micro-Sponsorship Ticket $1,000.00
Purchase online at http://feastongood.com/

WHEN:
October 1, 2009
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

WHERE:
The Times Center
242 West 41st Street
New York, NY 10018

MORE INFO:
http://feastongood.com/
http://feastongood.com/conference

About All Day Buffet:
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