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Yunsu Centre Press Release( 27 June, 2019)
Delegates are coming from 58 countries
27 June, Bankok
The 9th Social Business Day, hosted by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, will be held on June 28-29, 2019 at the CentaraGrand & Bangkok Convention Centre, Central World in Bangkok, Thailand. It is jointly being organized by Yunus Centre, Dhaka, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and Kasetsart University, Thailand.
This year, theme of the event will be “ Making Money is Happiness, Making Other People Happy is Super Happiness". Panel Discussions will address a range of topics related to the social business ecosystem ranging from food and agriculture, deforestation, green energy to education, health, technology, sports, culture and arts. Social Business Day is an annual event of experience sharing and goal setting for social business activists, supporters, partners, and investors and getting ready for the coming years.
The event attracts international and local social business activists, corporates and social leaders, leading NGOs, students, innovators and early adopters of the social business philosophy that looks to tackle socio economic problems at its core to update themselves on the social business frontier.
It also creates an opportunity for participants to engage in different plenary sessions and workshops, broaden the social business network and gain a holistic understanding of the operational, financial system that drives social businesses globally. Delegates look for new ideas and new partners for their next social business initiatives.
Bangkok will be the venue for Social Business Day for the first time. Eighth social business day event took place in Bangalore. All other previous social business days were held in Dhaka.
This year 1450 delegates from 58 countries have registered to attend the event. Professor Muhammad Yunus will inaugurate the event. Keynote speeches will be given by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific and Mechai Viravaidya, Chairman, Mechai viravaidya Foundation and Father Enzo Fortunato, Spokeperson and Communication Director of The Holy Convent of Papal Basilica of Assisi.
In more than eleven Pecha Kuchas (a storytelling format, where a presenter shows 20 slides for 20 seconds of commentary each in 6 minutes and 40 seconds total), participants will discuss various ground breaking projects such as the Pracharat Rak Samakkee Social Business presented by Tongjai Thanachanan, Managing Director of C-ASEAN, Thailand, ‘Paris Olympics 2024’ presented by Marie Barsacq, Impact and Legacy Director of Paris 2024, which is the apex body responsible for organizing the Paris Olympic 2024, and Elisa Yavchitz, Representative of Mayor of Paris, and General Manager of Les Canaux, Paris representing the social sector of Paris.
There will be many other speakers in various sessions. Notable plenary speakers include Corinne Bazina, General Manager, Danone Communities, France, Mr. Noppadol Dej-Uddom, Chief Sustainability Officer CP Group & Vice President of the Executive Committee, True Corporation, Thailand, Eric Lesueur, Chief Executive Officer, 2EI-VEOLIA, France, Dr. Nico Rose, Professor, International School of Management, Dortmund, Germany, JuergenNagler, Co-Founder of the United Nations Transformation Network and Happiness Researcher, Enzo Cursio, Coordinator, FAO Nobel Alliance for Food Security and Peace and OPC, Food and Agriculture, Claire Lyons, Senior Strategist, International Partnership, Water.org, Amy Dahmen Co-Founder of Kabubu, Ge Yang, Paralympic Gold Medal Winner,
France, Pierre-Antoine Lefevre, Manager of Social Business Initiatives, Peace & Sport.
In addition there will be nine country forums ranging from Bangladesh, China, Australasia, Japan, Europe etc where delegates from individual country will have separate conferences to address the most pressing socio economic issues plaguing their nation and try to come up with social business solutions to tackle those problem and review the existing social business in in their country.
There will also be the Pre-Conference of the Social Business Academia Network on June 29, 2019, in order to prepare for Social Business Academia Conference 2019 which will take place in November in Germany. Many of the representatives from Yunus Social Business Centres in 74 Universities in 34 countries will attend this Conference.
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