Advancing Social Entrepreneurship in Calgary

Event Details

We're excited to announce our second meetup for Social Impact YYC. In partnership with the Trico Foundation, join Liam Black's keynote on the Social Entrepreneur’s A to Z at Bow Valley College (http://www.eventbrite.com/e/on-anxiety-risk-taking-and-getting-enough-sleep-the-social-entrepreneurs-a-to-z-with-liam-black-registration-4506158040?ref=ebtn) from 5:00 to 6:30 at Bow Valley College.

Social Impact YYC will continue the conversation on how we can advance social entrepreneurship in Calgary with a fireside chat featuring Liam at 8:00pm. We welcome you to come early, grab some delicious food and mingle before the chat. There will be an opportunity to meet Liam and other likeminded social entrepreneurs who are committed to making an impact!

About Liam

Liam is a UK based social entrepreneur, impact investor and writer. His early work with Liverpool-based Furniture Resource Centre (FRC) Group in the 1990's moved the small charity supplying second-hand furniture to council tenants, into a £5.5m business group giving work to hundreds of unemployed people and providing thousands of low-income families with the chance to buy good-quality recycled furniture. He has helped create and led a dozen social businesses most famously Fifteen, which, with Jamie Oliver, he grew into a global brand.

Liam brings together leaders from a wide range of sectors and industries and his clients, members and partners include Rolls Royce, the BBC, Dyson, Lego, IKEA as well a global range of social businesses including Grameen, Aravind, and many community based organisations engaged in finding solutions to some of our societies toughest problems.

He is co-founder and the Chief Encouragement Officer of Wavelength a company with the mission of ‘changing the world for the better through business’. He helped create and advises two investment funds: Impact Ventures UK and Ignite (created by energy giant Centrica) which between them are investing $80 million in social innovation.