Purpose, Goals of Conference:

• Sharing of Information – needs, solutions, case studies, success models to replicate.

• Forum for Collaboration, Networking, Sharing of social impact efforts, focused on Women.

• Developing Outcomes driven action plans for Key Issues.

Target Audience:

• Industry: Silicon Valley and US companies, Startups and Multinationals.

• Universities, NGOs, Government, & UN agencies, WHO, etc.

• Private Foundations, VCs, Social impact investors.

Key Issues to address in Outcomes driven Action Plan:

• Improving healthcare delivery for women and children in rural / underserved communities.

• Creating values based and culturally-grounded educational opportunities for girls and young women.

• Influencing changes in government policies and social programs to enhance gender equality and leadership opportunities for rural women.

• Directing social impact investments to develop entrepreneurship opportunities which generate  sustainable livelihoods for rural women in the context of a male-centric business ecosystem.

Desired Results (long term):

• Execute above Outcomes driven action plans to demonstrate progress prior to 2019 conference.

• Put in place structure and mechanism for funding Social Impact projects, women entrepreneurs.

• Develop Social Impact business case approach, based on Stanford SEED template, for approving project funding.

• Identify and fund 3-5 new and specific women empowerment initiatives in Ideal Village context.

• Demonstrate fully operational Ideal Villages, which can be scaled globally.

• Develop Ideal Village Center in Stanford (Medicine, Engineering, Business, Education) as collaboration platform and clearinghouse for ideas, solutions, and the analytics needed to assess progress, impact and best practices.