This conference seeks to bring together leading academic scholars, sustainability-focused entrepreneurs [aka ecopreneurs] and business leaders working on and interested in scaling sustainability innovation to share their perspectives and experiences.

Stanford Ecopreneurship Programs, a partnership between Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and Doerr School of Sustainability, is pleased to host a conference on the subject of Scaling Sustainability Innovation. 

This conference seeks to bring together leading academic scholars, sustainability-focused entrepreneurs [aka ecopreneurs] and business leaders working on and interested in scaling sustainability innovation to share their perspectives and experiences. This knowledge-sharing aims to generate new holistic understanding about effective strategies and practice when scaling sustainability innovation in a variety of contexts, to accelerate a multi-trillion dollar transition to address current global climate and sustainability challenges and create a future where humans and nature thrive in concert and in perpetuity. 

Key themes of discussion include (but are not limited to):

• Various pathways to scale sustainability innovation, spanning startups, established for-profit corporations, nonprofits, governments, universities, etc.
• The role that people/leadership development has in scaling sustainability-focused innovations/organizations
• The role that various forms of capital play at different stages of scaling sustainability innovation
• The role that various forms of partnerships play at different stages of scaling sustainability
• How entrepreneurs and business owners navigate their relationship with government at different stages of scaling
• How to identify the unique “scaling risks” for your particular sustainability-focused innovation.

The conference will also include an Innovation Expo, aimed at showcasing sustainability innovation coming out of Stanford and fostering fruitful connections between ecopreneurs, investors, and partners.

Location

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Vidalakis Dining Hall (Google Map)