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Social leaders have a long tradition of collaborative projects but a business park fully dedicated to third sector innovation has never been experienced in Europe. The Social Innovation Park (SI Park) will host in the Greater Bilbao area of Northern Spain consolidated third sector initiatives and emerging innovation projects aiming to create the new “Social Silicon Valley”. All of them will benefit from the new resources incorporated to this initiative: the Social Innovation Laboratory (G-Lab), the Social Innovation Academy and the Social Enterprise Generator. SI Park is a pioneering infrastructure promoted by DenokInn, the Basque Centre for Social and Corporate Innovation, which provides the best environment for third sector entities to cooperate, learn from each other and to build new
shared enterprises.

For more information visit www.denokinn.eu

This week the former CEO of ABNAmro testified at the Commission de Wit. The Commission was set up to study the financial crisis and what were the root causes. Listening to the powder puff questions that the committee was putting forward and some of the nonsensical answers being offered, one could see the process was a joke or staged.
The greatest example of absolute monumental arrogance and sheer stupidity was the testimony of Groenink. When listening to his testimony you want to shout to the roof and confront him with. As Leon said in Curb Your Enthusiasm said “you get in that ass”

The most outrageous thing said, by Rijkman Groenink, regarding the 28 million euro bonus was “I didn’t take bonus money from the shareholders or clients from the bank but from the investors”. What is worse to say something as complete stupid as that or not respond to something as completely stupid as that. Either way, they should have Leon doing the questioning.

TBLI CONFERENCE™ is the largest comprehensive learning and networking event on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Investment on a yearly basis in Asia and Europe.

We are now accepting presentation proposals and sponsorship commitments for TBLI CONFERENCE™ ASIA 2010 on May 27-28, at the Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan. The first Lead Sponsors have already announced their cooperation, being Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Co. Ltd., Robeco Group and SAM Group. We are happy to inform you that Silverbirch Associates K.K. will be our organizing partner and 3iG – The International Interfaith Investment Group and ASrIA – Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia – will be our network partners.

Your proposal must be received on January 31, 2010 to be considered. We are again anticipating a substantial number of submissions, so kindly send in time. Please note that if you register before March 1st, you will receive a 25% Early Bird Discount. To register now, please click on this link.

If you would like to be a Speaker, please click on this link to send a proposal that meets the above criteria in English.
In case you would like to be a (corporate) Sponsor of TBLI CONFERENCE™ ASIA 2010, please click on this link. Remember to read all the presentation rules, benefits, and criteria.

Please note: If you choose to sponsor TBLI CONFERENCE™ ASIA as well as EUROPE 2010, you will be provided with a 10% discount.

Just a note that audio from TBLI CONFERENCE EUROPE 2009 is now available (follow the link). You may notice that although there is a healthy list of audio to choose from, some workshops are not listed because the quality of audio was not good enough or for other technical issues that arose.

For all those looking for alternative file formats (other than mp3) you can find them on archive.org, just search by keyword for the conference of your choice.