Companies Doing Good Forum - The Future of Workplace April 15 - 16, 10.00 - 14.00 CET, Online Conference
2017
COMPANIES DOING GOOD FORUM 2.0
The intended impact businesses create

Wise businesses look closely at new market disruptions following up on customers’ habits and values transformation over time. Those who can see beyond the frontier of bare profit seem to hold the capacity to adopt to new market rules more successfully and lead their businesses ahead.

“Businesses holds the power to change the world and the individual holds the power to change the world of business”.

Gib Bulloch, this year’s Companies Doing Good Forum keynote speaker thoughtquoted above, reveal the magic behind the sustainable social impact that businesses can create. His motivational speech will shed light on the 04th sector, as he names it, arousing on the market – “an emerging new business ecosystem where social purpose has the same priority as profit.

New digital technologies and innovative financing mechanisms will help to catalyze new hybrid business models that will combine some of the best private sector DNA with NGO and public sector capabilities”.

Companies Doing Good Forum 2.0 is curious about the intended impact businesses are able to create. Learn about the key speakers on the Forum. Take a look at the Agenda!

The second Companies Doing Good Forumbuilds upon the feedback gained from the original initiative started the previous year.

Seventy businesses attending the first Forum suggested initiatives that will bring three stakeholders – Businesses, Institutions and Civil society sectorin creating visible social impact.

This “Triangle of capacities”aims to identify burning social phenomenon in Macedonian society and articulate specific steps able to initiate a change.

Minister of Labor and Social Policy, Ms. Mila Carovska is to offer specific steps and initiate action within the Triangle and call for partnership on specific ideas that can visibly change selected phenomenon to work on.

Public partners in realizing this year’s Forum will present good practices of partnerships among sectors from Europe.

[2017]
Speakers
schedule
Agenda
09:30 - 10:00
REGISTRATION
09:45 - 10:00
STATEMENTS TO MEDIA
It's hard to learn things on an empty stomach. Breakfast, lunch, snacks and unlimited tea and coffee are all part of the ticket price.
10:00 - 10:20
OPPENING NOTES
Government representative
H.E. Willem Wouter Plomp, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Netherlands in The Republic of Macedonia
Maja Anteska, Principal Manager, EBRD Advice for Small Business Macedonia
Klimentina Ilijevski, Executive Director of Public, Association for Research, Communication and Development
10:00 - 10:20
OPPENING NOTES
Government representative
H.E. Willem Wouter Plomp, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Netherlands in The Republic of Macedonia
Maja Anteska, Principal Manager, EBRD Advice for Small Business Macedonia
Klimentina Ilijevski, Executive Director of Public, Association for Research, Communication and Development
10:20 - 11:30
“THE RISE OF THE FOURTH SECTOR”
Gib Bulloch, Accenture Development Partnerships
Founder; Scotland

Motivational speech – The Rise of the Fourth Sector

11:50 - 12:05
COOPERATION FOR SUSTAINABLE IMPACT (part one)
Jelena Preradovic Stevanovic, Manager Community Relations & Contributions SEE;
Philip Morris Services, Beograd
12:05 - 12:50
INTERVIEW WITH THE CUSTOMER FROM THE FUTURE
Interview with Heather Hempshaw, ethical consumer
12:50 - 13:05
COOPERATION FOR SUSTAINABLE IMPACT (part two)
Dragana Jakimovska Uzunovska, Director, HAVEP Macedonia (The Dutch Circular Workwear Association)
Companies from various industries join together to deliver recyclable products
13:55 - 14:15
COOPERATION FOR SUSTAINABLE IMPACT (part three)
Maja Anteska, Principal Manager, EBRD Advice for Small Business Macedonia
WiB Programme Initiative
14:15 - 14:35
DISRUPTIVE SOCIAL SPHERES IN MACEDONIA - SPHERES WITH THE HIGHEST POTENTIAL FOR A CHANGE (part one)
Mila Carovska, Minister for Labor and Social Policy - Recorded video referral
Sanela Skrielj, Chief of Cabinet to Minister of Labor and Social Policy
Dusan Tomsic, consultant to Minister of Labor and Social Policy
14:35 - 15:20
DISRUPTIVE SOCIAL SPHERES IN MACEDONIA - SPHERES WITH THE HIGHEST POTENTIAL FOR A CHANGE (part two)
Interactive Partnership Booster Session – Round table
15:20- 15:35
THE OUTLINE OF "THE NEW MARKET" EMERGING
Forbes 500 list v.s. Game Changers 500 list. How can companies showcase the impact they make, publicly? What is the blockchain economy and what can blockchain logic bring to the plate in the context of Doing Good? What are the emerging trends relevant for the Macedonian market?
Nebojsa Ilijevski, Holistic communications
15:35 - 16:30
MERGER - THE TRIANGLE PLATFORM - “A good steps platform”
An interactive session - Initiative to create 'The Triangle platform’ – network that utilizes field work and ultimately technology to harvest an earned portion of corporate benefits for enrollment in practices that ‘Changes the Story for Good’ – introduced.
16:30 - 17:00
FAREWELL COFFEE IN THE LOBBY
Announcement of Post conference activities until the next Forum