Commit!Forum 2011: Call for Innovations
The 2011 Commit!Campaign & Forum, presented by SharedXpertise Media and the world’s largest stock market NYSE Euronext, is a year-long campaign featuring the world's leading corporate citizens and culminating in the largest-ever corporate responsibility (CR) event September 26-27 2011 in the world’s media capital, New York City. The Commit!Forum’s theme is “Changing the Competitive Equation,” demonstrating CR’s power to create competitive advantage for superior corporate citizens.
Be a Featured Innovator & Thought Leader
We are seeking session proposals for presentation at The Commit!Forum 2011 taking place on September 26-27 in New York City. Please submit your session ideas and proposals for consideration.
Who Attends?
The Commit! Forum 2011 evolves from Corporate Responsibility Magazine's 100 Best Corporate Citizens List and engages investors, employees, governments, suppliers, media, NGOs, and customers. The Commit!Campaign builds up to the two-day Commit!Forum, bringing together over 1,000 leaders and dozens of the world’s most committed Best Corporate Citizens at the two-day Commit!Forum.
What Kinds of Sessions Occur?
The Commit!Forum features three different presentation formats:
- Game-Changing Innovations. The Top 11 Game-Changers of 2011 -- the new ideas, approaches, technologies, trends, and people changing the very face of corporate responsibility. Selected innovators will give "the best speech of their lives" in a ten minute pitch during a plenary Innovation Lightening Round. All submissions will be assembled into a Guide to CR Innovation distributed to all Commit!Forum delegates. At the end of the Lightening Round the audience will vote to select the Best in Show Innovation of 2011.
- MissionPossible Interactive Case Studies. Demonstrating how multiple stakeholders -- companies, NGOs, governments, etc -- have taken on a big societal issue. In these highly interactive sessions, principals from each stakeholder describe the challenge they face in tackling the issue and engage the audience in a discussion and live crowd-sourcing of solutions. The principals conclude with a brief presentation of their results to date.
- Roundtable Discussions. Small group discussions facilitated by qualified experts.
Please submit a synopsis, preferably a 3-5 minute video, outlining your session by May 20th. Selected synopses will get posted online for delegates to see as they register. In the session description field you can insert a link to the video (on YouTube or your own site). If you don't want to submit a video, fill out the form online or download a form in MS Word format.
When are Submissions Due?
- March 1, 2011: Call for Submissions Opens
- EXTENDED - May 20, 2011: Written/video abstract submissions due
- June 10, 2011: Notification of acceptance for presentation at the Forum
- June 30, 2011: Final Agenda Released
- September 2, 2011: Final Presentations due*
*NB by participating in this process you are agreeing to have your materials included in the event materials and will deliver the finalized content by at the latest 2 weeks prior to the event commencement date.
Conference registration fees for selected presenters will be waived and the best presentations will be considered for publication in CR Magazine.
You may complete the form below or download and return a form.
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