Thursday, April 24, 2008 through Saturday, April 26, 2008
Adelphi University
Garden City, New York

Special two-hour session
Global Perspectives on Social Entrepreneurship
Friday, April 25, 2008
1:00 p.m. to 3:00p.m.
Adelphi University Alumni House

Program Fees
Regular Price: $250.00 (includes meals except continental breakfast at hotel and banquet)
Regular Price + $30 Banquet Fee: $280
Accepted for Scholarship: Free

Please note that registrants from outside the U.S. will need to pay the registration fee, if applicable, via a bank wire transfer of funds directly to Adelphi University:

Commerce Bank, N.A.
855 Franklin Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
ABA #026013673
Account #7918965661
For credit to: Adelphi University Operating Account

Be sure to include your full name.


Registration
Advance registration is required. Space is limited and all registrants must be approved before attending.

Use our online form to register now for the full conference

Special Registration for Friday's Session, Global Perspectives on Social Entrepreneruship
If you have already registered for the full conference, you are automatically included in the guest list for this session. This form should only be used by attendees who have not registered for the full conference. If you would like to attend the full conference, please use the form above.

Use our online form to register now for the special Friday session

Air Transportation
The New York John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) is the most convenient airport when traveling to the Adelphi Campus in Garden City, New York.

Click here for a map and driving directions from JFK airport and the Adelphi University campus. The hotel websites listed below provide driving directions from the airport to the hotels. Shuttle service will be provided between the hotels and the campus.


Accomodations
We have arranged for a block of rooms to be held for a limited time at the following hotels:

La Quinta Inn & Suites — Garden City
Stewart Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
p - 516.705.9000
f- 516.705.9100

Price: $145.00 per night plus tax.
To reserve a room at the group rate you must make your reservation by phone via the number above. Online reservations will not be eligible for the discounted rate.

Red Roof Inn — Westbury
699 Dibblee Drive
Westbury, NY 11590
p - 516.794.2555
f - 516.794.2539

Price: $133.00 per night plus tax.
To reserve a room, call 800.733.7663 and use the group #B266001220

Shuttle bus available between the hotels and the university

Please call as soon as possible to insure space as rooms are only held through March 24th. When making a reservation, please indicate you are with the "Adelphi Conference on Social Entrepreneurship" to receive the reduced rate.

Thursday, April 24 4:00 p.m. Registration begins 5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Welcome & logistics Jeffrey Goldstein & James Hazy: welcoming remarks, logistics, conference flow (in packets as well) 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Opening Session: Complexity themes for the conference Peter Erdi: "Complexity Explained" Bill McKelvey: "Pareto Based Science" Kurt Richardson: "Networks & Graphs" James Hazy: "Dynamical Systems" Jeffrey Goldstein: "Emergence" 7:00 p.m. - 9:45 p.m. Welcome Reception and Keynotes Reception Beer, Wine, Appetizers and Carving Station Piano by Karolina Baker Networking Opening Keynote - "Social Business-- Designing the Possibility Space for Social Action" Ron Schultz: Well Known Author, Speaker and Social Entrepreneur" Keynote - "The Pleasures and Challenges of Large Scale Social Entrepreneurial Organizing" Jim Gibbons, President & CEO, Goodwill International Table Discussions 10:00 p.m. Bus back to Hotels Friday, April 25 7:00 a.m. – 7:15 a.m. Bus From Hotels 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Continental breakfast 8:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Welcome Jeffrey Goldstein & James Hazy: Short recap of program and logistics Jeffrey Goldstein Introduces Adelphi University President Robert Scott Adelphi University President Robert Scott 8:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Plenary Paper Session 1 - Creating Social Value Through Social Capital from a Complexity Perspective Bill McKelvey et al.: Toward a Social Capital Theory of technology based new ventures as complex adaptive systems Maria May Seitanidi: Adaptive Responsibilities: Non-linear Interactions across Public Sectors: Cases from Cross Sector Partnerships Mary Lee Rhodes et al.: In What Way is Social Entrepreneurship 'Complex' (Case Study in Ireland) Jessica Mankowski: An Exploratory Study of Cross-Sector Partnerships in Canada Using Complex Systems Thinking Thomas Lyons (Discussant) 10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Break 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Plenary Paper Session 2- Leveraging Complex Networks In Social Enterprises Kurt Richardson: From Complicated to Complex: On the Relationship between Connectivity and Behavior Ugo Merlone et al: Social Entrepreneurship Effects on the Emergence of Cooperation in Networks Daniela Beck & Li Choy Chong: Social Entrepreneurship through Creative Interaction in Culturally Diverse Groups (Case Study in Indonesia) Peter Erdi (Discussant) 12:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch - Setup can begin for Interactive Poster Sessions in room UC 313 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. OPEN Campus wide plenary - Global Perspectives on Social Entrepreneurship Joyce Silberstang: Adelphi Professor as Facilitator Goldstein/Hazy: Moderators Panel Mariano Torras, Adelphi Professor of Economics Ron Schultz, Author and internationally known in social entrepreneurship Rodrigo Zeidan, Professor of Economics, Rio De Janiero Brazil M. Imrul Kayes, Scholar, Bangladesh Narcisse Mbunzama Lokwa, Democratic Republic of Congo and Founder of Infogroup International 3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.. Break/Networking World Café - First Interactive Poster Session: Interaction Poster presentations Juan Lauro Aguirre: We All Got Time: A Proposed Systemic Social Enterprise Ali Cheaib & Joan Conger: Multiple Realities and Subject-in-Process: Exposing Both Sides of the Concept of Agency within the Complexity of an Organization Ecology Albert Dietz et al: Organizational Integration and the Social Dynamics of Change: An Explanation of Systems Theory and Organizational Reality Louis Klien & Suk-Han Tang: Social Design: Exploring the Systemic Conditions of Social Entrepreneurship Dick Knowles: The Patterns and Processes of Social Entrepreneurship Larry Petcovic: StoriesUSA/MuseumsUSA as a hybrid social entrepreneurial experiment Sara Ross: Theory and Praxis or Requisite Increases in Hierarchical Complexity of Individual and Social Tasks for Metasystem Social Innovation Merwyn Strate et al: Social Entrepreneurs Engage in Adaptation: Twin Virtues for Leading Complex Systems Steven Wallis: Seeking the Robust Core of Social Entrepreneurship Theory Christopher Wasden & David Schwandt: Addressing Social Needs by Creating Social Markets: A Case Study of Social Entrepreneurship 3:30 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. Plenary Paper Session 3: Social Entrepreneurial Ventures as Dynamical Systems James Hazy: Dynamical Systems Contexts for Social Entrepreneurship Jeff Trexler: Is Social Entrepreneurship Sustainable? Mallary Tytel: Social Responsibility and Social Norms: Creating the Context that Matters Allison Pinto, Heater Curry, et al: A "Swirly Goodness" Approach to Community Sustainability Sandra Greenstein: Case Study of Workforce Development in New York City: A Holistic/Complexity Perspective Michael Wolf-Branigin et al: Engaging Adolescents with Disabilities in Constructing their Social Niche Mallary Tytel: Social Responsibility and Social Norms: Creating the Context that Matters David Schwandt (Discussant) 6:15 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. Interactive Poster Sessions (Continued) 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Gala Banquet Keynote address: "'Development Economics, Complexity and Social Entrepreneurship" Rodrigo Zeidan, Professor of Economics Rio De Janiero, Brazil 10:00 p.m. Bus back to Hotel Saturday, April 26 7:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Continental breakfast 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Paper Plenary Session 4: Emergent Communities: Form Local to Global Tina Odinsky-Zec et al.: Evolution of an Organic Champion: Social Entrepreneurship, Complexity Theory and Leadership in Transition-A Croation Case Christine Woods et al.: Social Entrepreneurship and Complexity: Social Innovation in an Indigenous Context (Case Study Maori) Silvia Catalina Mitra: Social Entrepreneurship - A Challenge but an Opportunity David Haskell & Janice Hayashi Haskell: Social Entrepreneurship Ventures in the Middle East: A Practitioners Perspective Gita Surie (Discussant) 9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Break/Networking 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Plenary Paper Session 5: Building a complexity science of social Entrepreneurship Jeffrey Goldstein: The Self-Transcending Construction of Emergent Communities David Schwandt, Scot Holliday et al.: The Complexity of Social Entrepreneurship in Effecting Sustainable Social Change Doncho Petkov et al.: A Case of Using SSM in Community Revitalization Brenda Massetti: The Social Entrepreneurship Matrix as "Tipping Point" for Economic Change James Hazy (Discussant) 12:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch 1:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Plenary: Next Steps and Good-by: Where do we go from here Joyce Silberstang: facilitation Goldstein & Hazy: Moderators Brendan Giordano: Building a Virtual Community of Complexity-Social Entrepreneurs. All participate as panelist