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Wrapup: 2022 Social Enterprise World Forum Day One


28 September 2022 at 3:05 pm
Ruby Kraner-Tucci
With 2,600 representatives from 93 countries, the Social Enterprise World Forum is the largest social enterprise conversation in the world. Here’s all the news from day one. 


Ruby Kraner-Tucci | 28 September 2022 at 3:05 pm


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Wrapup: 2022 Social Enterprise World Forum Day One
28 September 2022 at 3:05 pm

With 2,600 representatives from 93 countries, the Social Enterprise World Forum is the largest social enterprise conversation in the world. Here’s all the news from day one. 

The 2022 Social Enterprise World Forum kicked off in Brisbane today, with over 2,600 sector professionals representing 93 countries joining in-person and online sessions about social impact.

The first day of the forum opened with an address from Queensland Minister for Employment and Small Business and Minister for Training and Skills, Di Farmer, who announced additional funding to the social enterprise sector and encouraged leaders to lobby their governments to ensure social enterprises had a place in addressing labour shortages.

 

 

CEO of White Box Enterprises Luke Terry shared his excitement for the future of social enterprise, announcing “this is the time for our sector to shine” and citing the development of the new national peak body, Social Enterprise National Strategy, and corporate and government collaboration as key progressions for the sector.

Next up was a ‘fireside’ conversation with Laura Thompson, Clothing The Gaps CEO and co-founder who spoke about her journey creating the social enterprise, freeing the Aboriginal flag and the influence of the Black Lives Matter movement on her work.

 

 

The conversation from First Nations leaders continued in the session entitled ‘Shifting power and making space for indigenous enterprises’ where CEO of Common Ground Rona Glynn-McDonald powerfully discussed a need to shift the concept of leadership in Australia. 

She commented that non-Indigenous people need to step back to make space for Indigenous people, and hand over funding and power to First Nations communities in order to best support self-determination.

 

 

Leaders from enterprises including Good Market, Cambiatus, Yume Food and Infoxchange came together to discuss the need to use digital transformation to help social enterprises build their capacity – and importantly address the impact on Australians that are digitally excluded, including those from rural and regional areas, who come from low socio-economic backgrounds and have a poor educational status.

Elsewhere, a lively debate about social enterprise being too narrowly defined opened the dialogue about creating impact regardless of structure, before a second ‘fireside’ conversation with 2022 Australian of the Year and disability activist Dylan Alcott AO, networking and additional virtual sessions rounded out the day.

The two-day hybrid event co-hosted by White Box Enterprises is focused on the theme ‘co-creating the future’, with speakers from a range of enterprises from around the world including Australia, Canada, Singapore, Netherlands and New Zealand.

The second day of the forum focused on the climate emergency, social procurement and the global economic climate.


Ruby Kraner-Tucci  |  @ProBonoNews

Ruby Kraner-Tucci is a journalist, with a special interest in culture, community and social affairs. Reach her at rubykranertucci@gmail.com.




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