OVERVIEW | DAY 1 | DAY 2

Agenda Overview

Here you'll find a preview of the activities of NetSquared Year 2 (N2Y2), including some aspects familiar to the seasoned conference participant, and maybe - if we’ve done our job well enough - a few that are not. We’d like to say that this is meant to give you an idea of what you can expect.

Day 1 will begin with a brief opening statement, and quickly segue into the meat of the conference, as we immediately set the spotlight on the 21 projects that have been selected by the NetSquared community to be the focus of this Conference. In the first few morning hours of the Conference, each project will have their five-minute chance to captivate the entire audience in Cisco's main room. These pithy presentations will be interspersed with similarly brief talks from esteemed speakers, including Bradley Horowitz of Yahoo!

The main room will be broken down over the lunch hour into three rooms, each of which will house a Feedback Session track: (1) Social Impact, (2) Economic Sustainability and (3) Tech Innovation (this is what we are calling it in the printed guide). Each of the 21 projects will appear in each of the three rooms over the course of the first afternoon and second morning of the Conference, where they will receive feedback and questions from expert reviewers and audience members during tightly-timed 15-minute slots.

The Conference will culminate in the second afternoon, where Project representatives and Conference participants will have their final opportunity for personal conversation in an open, casual environment - the Carnival of Projects - before community voting begins. We encourage you to mix and mingle among the tables, where each project has chosen how best to represent themselves to you.

Each Conference participant will then vote to decide the distribution of the $100,000 NetSquared Innovation Awards, with the top three projects receiving $25,000, $15,000 and $10,000, respectively. We will follow voting by highlighting the contributions of the Innovator Support Network, then announce the projects that received the most votes, and distribute the contents of the Innovation Fund, right there and then, to the 21 Featured Projects.

 

DAY 1 – Tuesday, May 29th

8:00 - 9:00 am – Registration, Breakfast

9:00 – 9:15 – Welcome – Daniel Ben-Horin, Founder and co-CEO, CompuMentor

9:15 – 9:55 – 1st Round of Project Intro Presentations

9:55 – 10:05 – Yahoo! and the Social Web - Bradley Horowitz, Vice President of Product Strategy

10:05 – 10:40 – 2nd Round of Project Intro Presentations

10:45 – 11:10 - Break

11:10 – 11:45 – 3rd Round of Project Intro Presentations

11:45 – 12:00 - Social Benefit Technology - Cisco Systems, Net2 Conference Host

12:00 – 12:25 – 4th Round of Project Intro Presentations

12:30 – 1:45 – Lunch

1:50 – 3:00– Feedback Session 1

* 3 Rooms with 3 simultaneous presentations - each room represents one of the three distinct tracks: Social Impact, Economic Sustainability and Tech Innovation

Track	Projects
Social Impact	Maps 2.0, Grassroots, FamilyFarmed, TakingITGlobal
Economic Sustainability	Farmer2Farmer, Yankana, MAPLight, YouthAssets
Tech Innovation	Miro (Open Source), MyKenyanSpace (Addressing), WiserEarth, Stop Family Violence

3:00 – 3:15 – Break

3:15 – 4:25 – Feedback Session 2 [as described above]

Track	Projects
Social Impact	Genocide, Nabuur, Global Women, Aspiration
Economic Sustainability	HELP, Freecycle, Big Brothers, Kabissa
Tech Innovation	Innovatorz, TakingITGlobal, Grassroots, Maps 2.0

4:25 – 4:45 – Break

4:45 – 6:00 – Feedback Session 3 [as described above]

Track	Projects
Social Impact	YouthAssets, MAPLight, Farmer2Farmer, Yankana
Economic Sustainability	WiserEarth, Miro (Open Source), Stop Family Violence, MyKenyanSpace (Addressing)
Tech Innovation	Global Women, Genocide, Aspiration, Nabuur

6:30pm - 9:30pm – Reception at Hilton Hotel - Drinks / Buffet Dinner / Entertainment

DAY 2 – Wednesday, May 30th

8:00 - 9:00 am – Registration, Breakfast

9:00 – 9:15 – Brief Recap & Intro to Day 2 Schedule - Daniel Ben-Horin, more TBA

9:15 – 10:45 – Feedback Session 4

* 3 Rooms with 3 simultaneous presentations - each room represents one of the three distinct tracks: Social Impact, Economic Sustainability and Tech Innovation

Track	Projects
Social Impact	Stop Family Violence, Miro (Open Source), MyKenyanSpace (Addressing), WiserEarth, Innovatorz
Economic Sustainability	Aspiration, Nabuur, Maps 2.0, Genocide, Global Women
Tech Innovation	FamilyFarmed, Freecycle, Kabissa, Big Brothers, HELP

10:45 – 11:15 – Break

11:15 – 12:30 – Feedback Session 5 [as described above]

Track	Projects
Social Impact	HELP, Freecycle, Big Brothers, Kabissa
Economic Sustainability	TakingITGlobal, Grassroots, FamilyFarmed, Innovatorz
Tech Innovation	Yankana, MAPLight, Farmer2Farmer, YouthAssets

12:30 – 1:45 – Lunch

1:50 – 2:50 - Open Carnival of Projects

2:20 – 2:50 – Community Voting

2:50 – 3:15 - Break

3:15 - 4:15 – Innovator Support Network (ISN) presentation - Brought to you by Bring Light

4:15 – 5:00 – Awards Ceremony

5:00 - 5:15 - Wrap Up & Closing Comments - Phil Ferrente Roseberry, Executive Director & co-CEO, CompuMentor