Social Initiative Group for Managerial Assistance (SIGMA-oikos) in association with Tata Steel and HPCL is organising the 3rd Social Entrepreneurship Conclave at XLRI Jamshedpur (India) on February 8 and 9.

The conclave theme – ‘Women Changemakers in Social Sector’ - aims to celebrate, showcase, and learn from women social entrepreneurs and their ventures, and to create a platform for knowledge-sharing and partnerships. The conference design will entail sessions on various subthemes, where social entrepreneurs/ development sector professionals will share their experiences, challenges, and other issues.

We are also organising break-out sessions for participants where they can directly interact with speakers and also share their work respective to particular subtheme during these sessions.

This would be great to have you here this year as well. The keynote speaker at the conference, Chetna Gala Sinha is the Founder of the Mann Deshi Foundation and India’s first bank for and by rural women- the Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank. She was the Co-chair at the World Economic Forum, 2018.

She is also a Forbes Social Entrepreneurship awardee and Ashoka Changemakers awardee.

Talking about the conference, Prof. Madhukar Shukla, Chairperson, Fr Arrupe Center for Ecology & Sustainability (FACES), XLRI and the coordinator for the conference said, “Social entrepreneurship, which aims at development and implementation of innovative ideas in order to improve the social, cultural or environmental landscape, is the need of the hour. It is all about recognizing the social problems and achieving a social change by employing entrepreneurial principles, processes and operations.” This year’s conclave would be attended by budding social entrepreneurs and students.

XLRI hopes to provide the ideal platform for the exchange of ideas, problems and their solutions, among the speakers and the attendants by means of various interactive sessions in the conclave.