GIC HEC Webinar: Impact & Networks - Do You Believe in Love at First Sight?
Forget superficial networking. It's time to redefine the real value of your connections and learn how to strategically activate your ecosystem to multiply your impact!
The webinar will bring together a member of academia and 2 impact entrepreneurs who have made networks a pillar of their business model. The webinar will explore how entrepreneurs and ecosystem players can navigate complex, fragmented environments to unlock growth, partnerships, and funding opportunities. The session will provide practical insights into how purpose-driven ventures can leverage ecosystems to accelerate their development and amplify their impact.
Following the panel discussion, participants will be invited to meet online in break-out sessions to share their own experience and build new connections.
Time:
Oct. 14 at 6pm CET
Speakers:
Anne-France Kennedy - CEO and Co-Founder at KlimateNet. KlimateNet's mission is to unlock investment into trustworthy nature projects benefiting ecosystems, local communities and organisations that need them. Trust Circle is KlimateNet's independent Nature Risk Intelligence and Review Platform, built to help organisations qualify and quantify nature-related risks with confidence. By combining human expertise with unbiased climate and nature intelligence data, Trust Circle enables organisations to invest with clarity, maximising the positive impact of every dollar committed to nature generation.
Andrea Gori - CEO & Founder at Illuminem. Illuminem is the leading sustainability information & data platform. It empowers users to monitor the ESG performance of any company, stay updated with unlimited news & discover insights from the world’s largest expert network in sustainability.
Emma France - Director of Impact Development at HEC Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute. The Institute supports entrepreneurs from all walks of life and helps them grow with that extra bit of ambition, efficiency and impact! If you are driven by the desire to shake up the status quo, to transform through entrepreneurship and innovation, to play an active role in the world's future, join us!
About the HEC Global Impact Community (HEC GIC):
HEC GIC is an initiative led by HEC graduates whose goal is to connect and match changemakers across continents involved in impact, an ambitious positive transformation along a social, environmental, and/or governance axis. Our “changemakers” include entrepreneurs, investors, sustainability and CSR executives, intrapreneurs, career shifters, academics, policy shapers, public leaders, consultants, and advisors.
Inspired by the definition of “impact” developed by the Global Impact investing Network (GIIN), our definition of “impact" is guided by three key principles:
Intentionality — Leaders and entrepreneurs have genuine, sincere beliefs and commitment to a social, environmental, or governance mission
Additionality — There is a positive contribution to the mission
Measurement — Companies or other responsible parties commit to measuring and tracking this contribution
HEC GIC works in close collaboration with HEC Transition, the HEC Alumni club putting planetary boundaries at the heart of business redesign. HEC GIC is embodied through bioregional chapters to facilitate regional connections and through a networking database and online communications tools to facilitate global connections. This WhatsApp group is the hub for anyone interested in the initiative. Please reach out to the admins if you would like to have an active role in this community!