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NTEN’s conference — often referred to as the NTC — is the annual gathering of people who want to make the world a better place through the skillful and equitable use of technology. To put technology to use for your mission, you need to invest in your personal capacity to do the work. At the NTC, you'll learn essential nonprofit technology best practices while connecting with a community that shares your commitment to social change. The NTC has something for people in all roles in nonprofit technology, from those brand new to their jobs to expert practitioners. Attendees include nonprofit ...
Date:
Monday, 13 May 2024 12:00 am
Location:
(Portland, Oregon and virtual)
The G7 Summit is an international forum held annually for the leaders of the G7 member States of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US. Represented jointly by the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission, the EU participates in all discussions as a guest. As the Group of 7 (G7) Presidency in 2024, Italy will host the G7 Summit in Puglia, Italy.
Date:
Thursday, 13 June 2024 12:00 am
Location:
Puglia, Italy
We invite academic researchers, policy makers, and practitioners to attend the 16th International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC) in Bern, Switzerland. ISIRC is organized by the Bern University of Applied Sciences and is scheduled to be held at the Business School from September 2-4, 2024.
ISIRC aims to bring together practitioners, policy makers, and scholars from diverse fields interested in social innovation and entrepreneurship. We invite scholars from a variety of disciplines – including social work, management, technology, design, education, sociology, psychology, engineering, etc. – to join us in initiating new debates and developing new solutions to the multiple grand ...
Date:
Monday, 2 September 2024 12:00 am
Location:
Bern, Switzerland
The Ashoka Changemaker Summit is Ashoka’s largest global gathering of changemakers.
Every year, we bring together our global community of changemakers: social entrepreneurs, young changemakers, and leaders from business, government, and philanthropy to explore the most pressing issues of our time and together build a society in which everyone can contribute, participate, and actively engage in social change for the good of all.
This next Changemaker Summit will be held on September 5-7th 2024, in partnership with the City of Hamburg in Germany.
Date:
Thursday, 5 September 2024 12:00 am
Location:
Hamburg, Germany
The Summit is a high-level event, that brings world leaders together to forge a new international consensus on how we deliver a better present and safeguard the future. This once-in-a-generation opportunity serves as a moment to mend eroded trust and demonstrate that international cooperation can effectively tackle current challenges as well as those that have emerged in recent years or may yet be over the horizon.
Date:
Sunday, 22 September 2024 12:00 am
Location:
New York City, US
The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) community will reconvene September 23-24, 2024 in New York City for the 2024 Annual Meeting. Timed to coincide with the U.N. General Assembly, CGI brings together business, government, and civil society leaders to drive progress on climate resilience, inclusive economic growth and recovery, health equity, the full participation of women and girls, and humanitarian response efforts to crises around the globe.
Date:
Monday, 23 September 2024 12:00 am
Location:
(NYC, USA)
For more than a decade, Concordia has held a remarkable legacy of uniting heads of state, policymakers, business executives, NGO leaders, entrepreneurs, and activists. Its signature event, the Concordia Annual Summit, takes place each September in New York City and brings together thousands of attendees from across sectors, industries, backgrounds, and geographies to explore the public-private sector, and market-led solutions to today’s biggest global challenges. Today, the Concordia Annual Summit is the largest and most inclusive nonpartisan gathering alongside the UN General Assembly.
Date:
Monday, 23 September 2024 12:00 am
Location:
NYC
NACRA 2024 Annual Conference will be held at the Rosen Plaza Hotel, Orlando, Florida, October 17th -19th, 2024.
The NACRA Annual Conference is a unique opportunity to engage with other leading case researchers in a small-group format, to receive detailed and constructive feedback about your case, and to participate in presentations from experienced case researchers and educators. Our distinctive roundtable track design provides an excellent professional opportunity to enhance your abilities to develop higher quality participant-centered and discussion-based cases, that would be suitable for publication in numerous refereed journals (such as NACRA’s Case Research Journal), case publishers ...
Date:
Thursday, 17 October 2024 12:00 am
Location:
Orlando, Florida, USA
The GIIN Impact Forum is a global impact investing event with unparalleled networking, thought-provoking speakers, interactive sessions, and a diverse range of impact investing leaders from six continents. With a reputation for fostering valuable connections and providing a platform for sharing innovative strategies and industry developments, this is an opportunity you can't afford to miss. Discover new opportunities and learn from the best in the industry as you explore ways to drive continued growth and momentum in the impact investing market. With more and more people recognizing the importance of considering societal and environmental impact in their investments, now ...
Date:
Wednesday, 23 October 2024 12:00 am
Location:
Amsterdan, Netherlands
Unlike any other conference in impact, SOCAP convenes the whole ecosystem to catalyze investable and profitable businesses and industries that can solve the greatest challenges of our time. For more than 16 years, the SOCAP conference has been the flagship event and leading convener in the impact economy, gathering more than 100,000 people since our first event. SOCAP24 will take place Oct. 28 through 30, 2024, at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. We invite changemakers from every sector and across the globe who are ready to dig in to help drive urgent change for people and the planet.
Date:
Monday, 28 October 2024 12:00 am
Location:
San Francisco, California, USA
The 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 29) will convene in November 2024. It will include the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 29), the 19th meeting of the COP serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 19), and the sixth meeting of the COP serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA 6) that will convene to complete the first enhanced transparency framework and the new collective quantified goal on finance, among other matters. The 61st sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 61) and the Subsidiary Body ...
Date:
Monday, 11 November 2024 12:00 am
Location:
Baku, Abseron, Azerbaijan
Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is celebrating and empowering entrepreneurs in every country and community around the world – especially those individuals who face structural barriers or may have never considered the idea of launching a startup. It will be held on 11-17 November, 2024.
Date:
Monday, 11 November 2024 12:00 am
Location:
To be determined
The G20 Summit represents the conclusion of the work carried out by the country holding the group's rotating presidency. It is the moment when heads of state and government approve the agreements negotiated throughout the year and point out ways of dealing with global challenges. In Brazil, the G20 Leaders' Summit is scheduled for November 18 and 19, 2024, in Rio de Janeiro, with the presence of the leaders of the 19 member countries, plus the African Union and the European Union.
Date:
Monday, 18 November 2024 12:00 am
Location:
(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)