Think Future Breakaway Sessions 2019
How to Run a Campaign for Change
Participants in this session explored how to combine sociology, behavioural science, and storytelling to inspire change and drive action.
Session Champion
Dave Duarte: Treeshake, Founder
Chat for Social Impact
This session focused on how to use WhatsApp for social impact. They learned how to prototype a WhatsApp ECD service step-by-step using Turn.io, the product that helps organisations have impactful conversations at scale.
Session Champions
Estee Jacobs: Service Designer, Praekelt.org
Pippa Yeats: Product Manager, Turn.io
The Humans Behind our Human Capital
This session sought out to answer the question “What humans, and what perspective of these humans, will best serve our future human capital?”
Session Champions
Lyndsey Petro: Senior Portfolio Manager, Innovation Edge
Alia Weston: Associate Professor, Creative and Business Enterprise, OCAD University
Invest and Innovate with a Gender Lens
This session explored the core elements of investing with a gender lens, the link between gender equality and early childhood development, and how to design programmes that are gender-responsive.
Session Champions
Erika Wiese: Head of Portfolio Management, Innovation Edge
Building Innovative Business Models for Social Enterprises
Building organisations that create enduring social impact requires innovative thinking. In this session, our expert session champions brought their vast experience from different geographies, industries and stakeholder groups to craft a session that explored business models from diverse contexts.
Session Champions
Ashley Beckner: Venture Partner, Omidyar Network
Emily Gustafsson-Wright: Fellow, Center for Universal Education, The Brookings Institution
Bilal Randeree: Director, Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF)
Adliya van Niekerk: Finance Manager, Innovation Edge
Game On!
Challenge perspective by exploring how games and gamification can be used to teach and motivate… adults! Sea Monster showed how to apply game mechanics to practitioner training, and ensure all had fun along the way.
Session Champions
Glenn Gillis: CEO, Sea Monster
Mind the GAP
This workshop adopted a case study approach to exploring the practical realities of transitioning to scale, expand thinking around potential pathways to scale and highlighted key considerations to keep in mind.
Session Champion
Sonja Giese: Executive Director, Innovation Edge
Lyndsey Petro: Senior Portfolio Manager, Innovation Edge
Beyond Shared Value: Creating and Sustaining Purpose-driven Businesses
This session unpacked the logics and imperatives underpinning key concepts such as shared value, corporate citizenship and CSI, social enterprise and purpose-driven business.
Session Champions
Dr Jess Schulschenk: Director, Sustainability Institute
Theories of Change: Embedding Measurement in Your Journey to Impact
Through the use of practical examples, this session explored the use of an important model, the Theory of Change, for the specification and communication of the underlying logic, assumptions, causal linkages and expected outcomes of a portfolio, investment, programme or project.
Session Champion
Amreen Choda: Senior Associate, Genesis Analytics
Caroline Stapleton: Senior Associate, Genesis Analytics
Constructing Narratives to Drive Change
During this generative session, participants identified and explored key themes of the governing story in the early 21st century, crafted alternative narratives that put the child and the child’s flourishing at the centre, and practised using concrete storytelling tools, including real-time sharing on social media.
Session Champions
Joe Waters: CEO, Captia Social
Building Cities Fit for Their Youngest Residents
This session aimed to explore how government and other actors can best make cities where the youngest can thrive, in turn improving the quality of life for all residents.
Session Champion
Josh Lowe: Editor, Apolitical
Rushda Majeed: India Representative, Bernard van Leer Foundation