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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 from 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM (ET)
Net Change partners with the Ontario Trillium Foundation and TechSoup Canada to host a reception at MaRS that includes the announcement of two Trillium granted Social Innovation Generation (SiG) programs soon to be launched.
MaRS lower concourse
5:00-6:30pm
Cash bar
To follow; a discussion on profound innovation and social change with Eric Young in conversation with Bill White. A must-see event!
MaRS Auditorium
6:30-8:00pm
Eric Young, President, E.Y.E. | The Social Projects Studio™
For over twenty-five years, Eric Young has been at the vanguard of social marketing, a discipline focused on the development of strategies and campaigns to promote social change. He is the founder and president of E.Y.E., an agency that works with leading government, corporate and voluntary organizations to address some of the most pressing issues facing contemporary society. Young has been the architect of numerous campaigns for changeä and social innovation projects in areas ranging from health, environmental sustainability and ethics in sport, to citizen engagement, corporate social responsibility, community development and global humanitarian relief.
He has written and lectured extensively throughout North America on the challenge of change, and the remaking of community in the 21st century.
He is on the faculty of the Boston College Centre for Corporate Citizenship. His current voluntary roles include: membership on the board of Ecotrust Canada, the Canadian advisory board of Right To Play and the editorial board of the Social Marketing Quarterly. He is a fellow of The Royal Society of the Arts and a member of Massey College’s Quadrangle Society. In 2008 he became a fellow of SiG (Social Innovation Generation) at the University of Waterloo.
Bill White
William White is the retired President of DuPont Canada and a member of the Board of Directors at MaRS. He held a variety of global business unit leadership roles in his 34 years with E.I. DuPont de Nemours (Wilmington Delaware), including Titanium Technologies, Chemical Solutions Enterprise and Safety Resources. Prior to his 2006 appointment as President of DuPont Canada, Mr. White worked across the corporation leading programs focused on growth through marketing and sales transformation, developing emerging markets, and step change business strategies. He is currently a partner in CBW Associates a Canadian business consulting firm. A graduate of Purdue University, he is a 2009 Distinguished Engineering Alumnus and chairs Purdue’s Mechanical Engineering advisory committee.
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MaRS (www.marsdd.com) is a non-profit organization focused on maximizing the economic and social impact of Canadian innovation. MaRS was founded in 2000 by leaders from the private and public sectors in order to improve commercial outcomes from Canada’s strong foundation of science and technology innovation. MaRS connects and fosters collaboration between the communities of science, business and capital through co-location in the MaRS Centre and more broadly through catalytic programs, structured networks and the MaRS web portal. The MaRS Centre opened in 2005.
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