Category: Wayfınder

Corporate social innovation was among the major themese of Wayfinder Istanbul. Participants shared their views on it in this video.

In this part of the panel, Carolyn Curtis (TACSI), Paul Steele (Donkey Wheel Foundation) and Nova Franklin (Meld Studios) talked about building regional social innovation ecosystems. You can watch the panel from here.

In this part of the panel, Kerem Okumuş (S360), Salma El-Sayeh (Ahead of the Curve) and Nader Kabbani (Brookings Doha Center) talked about building regional social innovation ecosystems. You can watch the panel from here.

Philippe Martin from European Commission was one of the speakers in A Global Tour of Social Innovation panel. “European Commission has reserved a funding of 4 billion Euros to support different projects under various themes. This way social innovation should aim at reaching different issue areas uncovered by the governments.” said Phillippe Martin. You can watch his speech from here.

Özyeğin social investments CEO Ayla Göksel, gave a speech as part of the Wayfinder Istanbul panel, A Global Tour of Social Innovation. Ayla Göksel: “Social innovation does not only require work hard to solve problems but also require to work hard to ensure that the solution is sustainable. I think there will be more and more casual collaborations for social innovation in the next 10 years.” You can watch the video from here.

James Stauch, Director of the Institute for Community Prosperity at Mount Royal University, who connects students to information, research, tools and networks to help transform students in their communities: “What is the University? I think this is the first time we look at it in the next 10 years, and I think that citizenship awareness in the community will develop more in the community.” Click here to watch James Stauch’s speech in Wayfinder Istanbul.

Kriss Deiglmeier, CEO of Tides Foundation: “Can we solve problems by acting fast enough? The answer is in communities. We need both bottom-up and top-down change. Social innovation needs to be fast. We need to be able to reach innovative people without funding restrictions. We need a comprehensive and collaborative model. All of this can be possible only if we work with social innovation.” Click here to watch the entire video.

Academic and the founder of two social enterprises (Adım Adım and Açık Açık) Itır Erhart said: “I am hopeful for the future thanks to social innovation space. It is important for ecosystem stakeholders to connect with each other. Are we talking about the same thing when we say social innovation?” You can watch Itır Erhart’s speech in Wayfinder Istanbul from here.

Nesta Chief Executive Geoff Mulgan has given a speech on the definition of social innovation in Wayfinder Istanbul. “A problem though, is the huge imbalance in where the world directs its money and its brain power. And this is what we hear about: how do we use the world’s brain power and money to really solve the problems which matters most in the world? How can we have a collective democracy?” You can watch Mulgan‘s speech from here.

imece Director Buğra Çelik and Business Development and Strategy Manager Duygu Kambur represented imece in their opening speech in Wayfinder Istanbul.

Zorlu Holding Board Member Emre Zorlu made an opening speech in Wayfinder Istanbul, describing social innovation.

Global Ambassador for the B-Corps; Marcello Palazzi made an opening speech describing social innovation in Wayfinder Istanbul.

The Executive Director of SIX; Louise Pulford made an opening speech on social innovation in Wayfinder Istanbul.