8:30am Registration Opens
1 st Floor Business Center
9:00am Introductions & Speed Networking
Location: Ivory
10:00am ANDE Update: State of the SGB Sector & 2015 Strategy
Location: Ivory
Randall Kempner
10:45am Reports from the Field
Location: Ivory
Short presentations on ANDE and ANDE member activities in the field.
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Nicki Goh, Global Innovation Fund, Introducing the GIF and its goals
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Hugues Vincent-Genod, I&P, Introduction of new handbook for impact investors: “Investing in Africa’s
Small Growing Businesses”
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Tom Adams, Acumen, Insights from the Lean Data Initiative: how to measure social performance and gain customer insight
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Sonja Kurz, GIZ, Learnings from India MSME Ecosystem Initiative
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Sean Peters, Emory University, Updates on accelerator research from Entrepreneurship Acceleration
Research Initiative (EARI)
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Charlotte Keenan, Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women, Introduction to new Women Entrepreneurs Opportunity
Facility, in partnership with the IFC
12:00pm Lunch
1:15pm Plenary: Private Sector Partnerships
Location: Ivory
Discussion with Henning Ringholz of GOAL and one of their key private sector partners, Max Makuvise of
Makera Cattle Company, a small and growing agribusiness based in Zimbabwe. They will discuss the challenges of business development with a BoP lens, the role of NGOs in market facilitation, as well as financing for SGBs.

2:00 pm Concurrent Breakout Session I
Corporate Partnerships
Location: Tower 14
Moderator: Yasmina Zaidman, Acumen
Partnerships between large corporations and small and growing businesses can add value to both sides -- but can be difficult to make work. This discussion will dive in to reasons that these partnerships can be challenging, and strategies that intermediaries use to facilitate effective relationships between corporates and SGBs.
ANDE and Emory Accelerator Research
Location: Ivory
Moderator: Sean Peters, Social Enterprise at Goizueta, Emory University
Drawing on two years of research into over 3000 early-stage ventures, Sean Peters of Emory University discusses trends in entrepreneurship around the world, including gender differences, investment levels, and the impact of acceleration programs.
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Location: Tower 14
Moderator: Randall Kempner
Exploring Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: What are they? How do they emerge (or get built)? What can ANDE do to catalyze them?
3:00 pm Coffee Break
3:15 pm Concurrent Breakout Session II
Talent in the SGB Sector
Location: Ivory
Moderators: Tom Kagerer, LGT Venture Philanthropy & Manuela Mueller, edge
This session will seek to identify effective strategies for human capital management in the SGB sector.
Discussion will focus on how collaboration can help replicate and scale successful solutions.
Women’s Entrepreneurship
Location: Tower 14
Moderator: Giulia Corinaldi, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
This session will bring together the Women’s Entrepreneurship Working Group for its first in-person meeting of
2015. During this session, we will look at the work of ANDE members WEConnect International and the Cherie
Blair Foundation for Women. We will also use this time to plan how to best use the many case studies on access to finance for women entrepreneurs that the working group received in early March.
Capital Aggregation: Trends in SGB Finance
Location: Tower 14
Moderators: John Kohler, GSBI at Santa Clara University & Jan Piercy, Enclude
The Capital Aggregation Working Group has historically been a group where members can share ideas and collaborate around the spectrum of available and needed appropriate capital for SBG financing. Our fearless leaders are ready to pass the torch to the next visionaries and this session will be used to co-create the framework for the group moving forward. We are looking to create an action-oriented framework to guide the working group for the coming year.
Funders Working Group (by invitation only)
Location: Callista
4:15pm Coffee Break/Free Time for Networking
5:00pm Evening Reception (Public Invited)