Winnipeg, Manitoba November 18–20, 2015 SPONSORSHIP GUIDE Our Goal To provide a unique, first of its kind, national-level social innovation summit for Aboriginal people. Introduction In the autumn of 2015, the National Association of Friendship Centres (NAFC) will organize and host a unique Indigenous Innovation Summit in Winnipeg aimed at unlocking new ideas and approaches to address some common challenges. external shareholders. Social enterprises can be structured as a for-profit or non-profit, and may take the form of a co-operative, mutual organization, a disregarded entity, a social business, or a charity organization. Partners Many commercial enterprises would consider themselves to have social objectives, but commitment to these objectives is motivated by the perception that such commitment will ultimately make the enterprise more financially valuable. Social enterprises differ in that, inversely, they do not aim to offer any benefit to their investors, except where they believe that doing so will ultimately further their capacity to realize their social and environmental goals. The Summit has emerged through a partnership between the NAFC and the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation with the Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada playing a key convening and co-development role. Beyond these three key partners, the Summit will involve other strategic partners operating in the social innovation field. Identified to date are: • Canadians for a New Partnership • The Government of Canada • The Government of Manitoba (TBD) • Winnipeg Boldness Project Why Host a Summit Designed Specifically for Aboriginal People? What is Social Innovation? Aboriginal people constitute one of Canada’s youngest (increasingly urban) and rapidly growing demographics. There is a great appetite for change. There also exists within this national community a tremendous degree of creativity, energy and knowledge that if tapped would unlock new ideas and new thinking with tremendous implications. Social innovation is the creation, development, adoption, and integration of new concepts and practices that put people and communities first. Social innovations seek to resolve existing social, cultural, economic, and environmental challenges. Like never before, Canada’s Aboriginal population are technologically savvy and socially engaged both online and offline. This represents a huge opportunity for communication, collective action and mobilization. Put simply, a social innovation is an idea that works toward increasing the public good. Some social innovations involve systems-changing to alter the perceptions, behaviours, and structures that previously gave rise to challenges. To date, there has been no national level summit like this in Canada, especially one designed specifically for the purposes of network and partnership building, inclusive of all ideas. The Summit will seek to bring together public, private and not for profit actors. It will also invite participants from Canada’s creative communities. The Summit will continue to reach out to other sectors and communities to contribute their expertise and experience. Social innovation can come from individuals, groups or organizations. Increasingly, they are happening in the spaces between these three sectors as perspectives collide to spark new ways of thinking. What is Social Enterprise? Social enterprise refers to an organization that applies commercial strategies to maximize improvements in human and environmental well-being, rather than maximizing profits for Creating a Summit with “FieldBuilding” Intention The very structure of the conference will be innovative. To this extent, the Summit itself will take on a unique, participatory format. The Indigenous Innovation Summit would build on the incredible work done at the recent CKX Summit in Toronto in the area of “field-building”. Indigenous Innovation Summit | 02 to accommodate learning at all levels. The Summit will help to connect fragmented players in the social enterprise space, strengthening existing networks and creating new long-lasting networks, ultimately fostering an organized industry around Indigenous social innovation. The Summit would help the new “field” to cooperate more effectively and efficiently, teasing out best practices, improving outcomes and working together across the emerging area of social enterprise. The Summit will feature three unique streams: 1. Emerging Knowledge in Social Enterprise: Suitable for all level of participants (geared towards beginners/intermediate learners) 2. Integrating and adopting Social Enterprise Culture: Suitable for all level of intermediate learners The CKX team reported that: “As we reflect on the summit and the journey that got us there, “field building” is what CKX was and is all about. Creating and holding a space for community organizations, academic and research institutions, governments, funders and grant makers, and engaged citizens to come together in the spirit of collaboration and openness.” This idea of “field-building” is crucial to success of social innovation and enterprise in urban Aboriginal communities. Using a series of workshops, conversations, jam sessions and open spaces the Summit team would create an innovative and responsive schedule for approximately 300 participants. It is designed 3. Creating New Networks: Suitable for all level of advanced learners Potential Speakers Speakers will be finalized in the coming months. The types of speakers will be individuals with an exciting story and/or knowledge to share. This would include leaders in social innovation, representatives of the NAFC, activists, academics/research, political figures (past and present), youth leaders, leaders in technology and the digital space, business strategists, entrepreneurs, artists and representatives of the news media (domestic and international), culture jammers, hackers, men and women who “think outside of the box” and the “disruptive”. Indigenous Innovation Summit | 03 Key Dates Format November 18 evening welcome reception at the WAG The Summit will seek to develop demonstrable new enterprises, connections and collaborations. Formatting will: November 19 morning and afternoon programming (specifics forthcoming) November 19 evening reception at CMHR November 20 morning and afternoon programming (specifics forthcoming) • • • • • • Encourage interaction and networking Enable “field building” Seek to overcome communications, cultural, economic and geographic hurdles Facilitate new partnerships, connecting supply and demand in a variety of fields Use the latest in social media and digital integrations Be truly innovative in both design and programming Primary Venue Programming Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) We have moved from a world of Infotainment and Edutainment to one of crowdsourced Idea-tainment. In other words, we have moved from a world of Monologues to Dialogues. This event is designed to embrace these changes by way of its venue, format and programming, harnessing new possibilities in technology to |foster deeper engagement. The WAG is an unconventional, adaptable space with many floors and rooms of various sizes. It has a beautiful auditorium perfect for lecture style or TED Talk style events. Secondary Venue Canadian Museum of Human Rights Thursday Evening Cocktail Party Canadian Museum of Human Rights is a downtown and historically significant location. Exhibits can be made available to participants and a discounted ticket can be provided for individuals interested in visits the following day. - with Exclusive VIP/Sponsorship Reception This is an exclusive and very special cocktail event for dignitaries and sponsors. It features a stunning view of the Museum and overlooks the cocktail reception area “Garden of Contemplation”. Attendees can wander through the museum afterward. Since this is a Social Enterprise/Social Innovation event, these principles must be reflected in the programming. There are number of ways to achieve this by adopting new approaches to knowledge transference and collaboration. Content is increasingly user-generated both online and now offline through new experiential and participatory event formats. In other words, we have too much information and not enough time to digest it. Today events have to be able to crunch, disseminate and present several new and fresh ideas in smaller and smaller packages of time. The Summit will seek to accommodate more 2-way conversations, feedback and Q & A sessions to leverage more value from our audiences, attendees and clientele. Certain formats allow for a greater volume of grassroots actors and local level social innovators to be included and to share their knowledge. Our Summit will be as inclusive as possible, strengthening our event and better achieving our stated goals. Indigenous Innovation Summit | 04 INDIGENOUS INNOVATION SUMMIT SCHEDULE NOVEMBER 18–20, 2015 ECKHARDT HALL MURIEL RICHARDSON AUDITORIUM PENTHOUSE LECTURE ROOM Beginner Sessions Intermediate Sessions Advanced Sessions Solution labs 9 AM 10 AM 11 AM 12 PM 1 PM 2 PM 3 PM 4 PM 5 PM ALL DAY WELCOME SPEAKER SPEAKER SPEAKER COLLABORATION CONTACT SPEAKER SPEAKER LUNCH SPEAKER SPEAKER SPEAKER KNOWLEDGE CAFÉ SPEAKER SPEAKER GUIDED NETWORKS MAIN SPEAKERS SPEAKER The Winnipeg Boldness Project is a new initiative in Winnipeg’s North End community working to improve outcomes for children in Point Douglas. Using a community action research process, the Winnipeg Boldness Project capitalizes on existing community knowledge in the North End to tailor strategies that work for the area. Together with The Winnipeg Boldness Project, our Summit will feature an onsite Solutions Lab. This is a two-day interactive session and conversation that will tap Summit participants’ knowledge and skills to provide real feedback to an existing real world challenge facing the community. Participants will apply tools and techniques from various fields like social innovation, design thinking, change management and social movement theory to come up with remedy to challenge outlined by the project coordinators. Indigenous Innovation Summit | 05 Potential Formats Pecha Kucha | Ignite Talks Knowledge Cafes | World Cafes From the Japanese for “Chatter” or ” Chit chat”, these are now familiar to many in design-based or creative industry events. They involve a series of short 5 minute stand up talks, usually 8-15 sessions in total. These may or may not contain multi-media presentations. Some events restrict presentations to “20 images in 20 seconds”. Presenters talk about their passions, brave new ideas or news ways of problem-solving. A workshop styled event format that kicks off with a general keynote address event. A facilitator provides open ended questions based on a predetermined topic or puts forward a problem that needs solving. The group gets into small round table groups, discusses, digests the problem and submits feedback for the larger group at the end of the round table pod sessions. Conversation and participation are key to the process. Lightning Talks | Data Blitz Crowd Sourced Installations A fast succession of 1-10 minute talks with no multimedia. The visual arts world is engaging more festival goers and members of its community with crowd sourced installations that get centre stage display rights during the event. This brings a sense of ownership to all contributors who are bound to spread the word virally and attend to view the end result. Fishbowl Conversations | Unpanel A concentric circular arrangement of seats whereby an inner ring of people discusses a topic. They are surrounded by a larger circle of audience members who may just observe or dip into the debate by taking turns sitting in the inner active ring in order to gain speaking rights. Crowdsourcing ideas with a hashtag Displaying tweets and ideas on the day via multimedia as a backdrop to the event. These crowd-sourced ideas are put into a Pinterest board pre-event, turning this into a large scale visual backdrop at the event. This is a real world display wall or slideshow. Indigenous Innovation Summit | 06 Sponsor Opportunities Presenting Sponsor - $100K Delegation Sponsors - $20K • • • • • • One of our goals is to create lasting partnerships between members to increase access, and develop new relationships and networks with a community of professionals, policy makers, executives, investors, entrepreneurs and thought leaders. We want your team there! Ideally a three year commitment for title sponsorship of the event 6 tickets to the event Exclusive invitation to VIP reception at museum (private cocktail reception with special guests) Opportunity to make opening remarks from the podium at event as presenting sponsor Ongoing special recognition from emcee Premier logo recognition at event, in sponsorship material, newspaper ad and event website WAG Venue Sponsor - $50K • • • • Naming rights to major areas / workshop spaces within the venues 4 tickets to the event Exclusive invitation to VIP reception at museum (private cocktail reception with special guests) Premier logo recognition at event, in sponsorship material, newspaper ad and event website Technology Sponsor - $25K • • • • • Logo rights to the key technology installations 4 tickets to the event Exclusive invitation to VIP reception at museum (private cocktail reception with special guests) Recognition from the podium Premier logo recognition at event, in sponsorship material, newspaper ad and event website Advantages include: • Sponsor a delegation of five participants from your organization (or firm) to share their ideas on a national stage • Logo recognition in marketing materials, newspaper and web advertisements • Recognition from the podium • 5 tickets the event, plus discounted tickets for additional guests • Option to host either a branded Knowledge Cafe or Lightening Talk where your organization becomes the focus of the Summit Sponsor - $10K • • • • 2 tickets to the event Exclusive invitation to VIP reception at Museum (private cocktail reception with special guests) Logo recognition at event, in sponsorship material, newspaper ad and event website Recognition from podium Friend of the Conference - $5K • • • 2 tickets to the event Recognition from podium Logo recognition at event, in sponsorship material, newspaper ad and event website Keynote Speaker or CMHR Cocktail Reception Sponsor - $25K • • • • Naming rights to the keynote presentation or cocktail event Exclusive invitation to VIP reception at museum (private cocktail reception with special guests with photo opportunity) Opportunity to make remarks at cocktail reception Premier logo recognition at event, in sponsorship material, newspaper ad and event website Indigenous Innovation Summit | 07
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