SKEMA Alumni Entrepreneurs Club Drink

How to become a change entrepreneur?

SKEMA Alumni and your Club Entrepreneur ambassadors invite you to come and talk about Social and Solidarity Entrepreneurship!

Rendezvous on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 7 p.m.

at Espace de co-working Cool & Workers
30 Rue du Chemin Vert, 75011 Paris
Metro Richard Lenoir (line 5) or Bastille (line 1/5/8)

Registration required by Monday, April 24
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What is Social and Solidarity Entrepreneurship? Should you set up your own business or change the system from within? Should you go through conventional business before trying to change things? Where and how to act?

Three SKEMA entrepreneurs involved in Social and Solidarity Entrepreneurship who are shaking things up will try to answer these/your questions!

An apéritif dînatoire will be offered to encourage informal networking, exchanges and contacts between SKEMA entrepreneurship professionals .

With testimonials from:

Boris Marcel (SK 2012), co-founder of Europe Tomorrow:socialentrepreneur, social innovation consultant and teacher, Boris specializes in the prospective of the desirable. Founder of the Say Yess social economy online media, he is also co-founder of Ticket for Change, a French social innovation program designed to inspire young talent to become agents of change. In 2015, Boris decided to focus his energies on an international project and co-founded Europe Tomorrow with Florian Guillaume, a social enterprise dedicated to growing the best social and environmental innovations in Europe. Boris works with a wide range of players, helping to turn social innovation into a strategic lever for development, including major corporations (such as Air Liquide, Orange and L'Oréal), public bodies (Ministry of the Economy, Ministry of Education, Town Hall, etc.) and the private sector.re de l'éducation, Mairie de Paris), international institutions (European Commission; Convergences forum), business schools (HEC, SKEMA, 3A) and social enterprises (notably the Cols verts association, which he has just taken over).

Baudouin Vercken (SK 2009), co-founder ofEcoTree: a graduateof the SKEMA Grande Ecole program and certified in corporate finance at HEC, Baudouin worked for 8 years in consulting, helping his customers to transform their organizations, build master plans and implement governance to improve their operational efficiency. transforming their organizations, building master plans and implementing governance to improve operational efficiency. Long fascinated by the entrepreneurial challenge and in love with wide-open spaces, he found his cornerstone in theEcoTree adventure! Convinced that the issues of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development are today's levers for rethinking our human and economic model of tomorrow, Baudouin and his co-founders wanted to launch a company specializing in sustainable development, with the aim of rewarding ecological awareness by offering innovative investment solutions in France: EcoTree was born!"

Gaspar Villard (SK 2014), Social Entrepreneur for Gawad Kalinga: a 2014 graduate of Skema's Grande Ecole Program, specializing in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Gaspar joined Videodesk, a startup specializing in the development of web solutions, as a Business Developer on graduating. Passionate about entrepreneurship and looking for a new challenge, in June 2016 he decided to make a radical change by leaving his job to join Gawad Kalinga's Enchanted Farm, a Philippine NGO fighting poverty. La Ferme Enchantée, dubbed the "Silicon Valley" of social entrepreneurship in Asia, is a social enterprise incubator based on the "farm, village, university" model. As a volunteer, for 7 months I was in charge of Free Birds, a free-range chicken farm. Back in France, Gaspar is still involved with Gawad Kalinga and has joined the association La Fourmiliè;re, which aims to make occasional volunteering accessible to all.

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