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Conferences that focus on Launching, Managing, or Investing in Sustainable / Socially Responsible Businesses.

Please let us know if there are any conferences or gatherings we should add to this list. We recognize that we are especially short on events outside of the United States. To add to or update any of the information on this page, please email us at competition@williamjamesfoundation.org. Thank you.

Several of the conferences listed below are hosted by sponsors and outreach partners of the William James Foundation. We would especially like to thank the Social Venture Network, Green America's Green Festivals, LOHAS, BALLE, the Investors' Circle, and Net Impact for their support of the William James Foundation through the years.

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BALLE tinyurl.com/BALLE2013 Buffalo, NY 06/11/13 - 06/14/13
TBLI Conference www.tbliconference.com/ New York, NY 06/17/13 - 06/18/13
Social Impact Exchange tinyurl.com/ceauhbv New York, NY 06/18/13 - 06/20/13
LOHAS Forum www.lohas.com/forum Boulder, CO 06/18/13 - 06/20/13
Asia Clean Energy Forum www.asiacleanenergyforum.org/ Manila, Philippines 06/25/13 - 06/28/13
Unreasonable Climax unreasonableclimax.org/ Boulder, CO 07/10/13 - 07/10/13
Partnering for Global Impact 2013 www.partneringforglobalimpact.com/ Lugano, Switzerland 07/10/13 - 07/11/13
William James Foundation Gathering www.williamjamesfoundation.org Washington, DC 07/18/13 - 07/20/13
Bioneers www.bioneers.org/ San Rafael, CA 08/18/13 - 08/20/13
SOCAP - USA socialcapitalmarkets.net/ San Francisco, CA 09/03/13 - 09/06/13
Global Youth Enterprise Conference www.youtheconomicopportunities.org/ Arlington, VA 09/10/13 - 09/12/13
Angel Venture Forum www.angelventureforum.com/id4.html Washington, DC 09/12/13 - 09/12/13
Criterion Ventures Structure Lab www.hansonbridgett.com/Events.aspx San Francisco, CA 09/17/13 - 09/17/13
Convergences 2015 tinyurl.com/45hjm85 Paris, France 09/17/13 - 09/19/13
Social Venture Institute - Hollyhock tinyurl.com/SVIhh Cortes Island, BC 09/18/13 - 09/22/13
Natural Products Expo East tinyurl.com/ExEast Baltimore, MD 09/25/13 - 09/28/13
A Better World by Design www.abetterworldbydesign.com/ Providence, RI 09/27/13 - 09/29/13
Columbia Social Enterprise Conference columbiasocialenterprise.org/node New York, NY 10/04/13 - 10/04/13
Opportunity Collaboration tinyurl.com/oppcolab/ Ixtapa, Mexico 10/14/13 - 10/19/13
Feast Social Innovation Conference feastongood.com New York, NY 10/17/13 - 10/19/13
Social Venture Partners www.svpi.org/annual-conference Portland, OR 10/17/13 - 10/19/13
SVN tinyurl.com/SVNfall2013 Baltimore, MD 10/17/13 - 10/20/13
Net Impact www.netimpact.org San Jose, CA 10/24/13 - 10/26/13
Social Venture Institute - Philly tinyurl.com/SVIeast Philadelphia, PA 10/25/13 - 10/26/13
SRI www.sriconference.com/ Colorado Springs, CO 10/28/13 - 10/30/13
CDFI Bank 2.0: Innovation for Impact http://tinyurl.com/cdfi-impact Chicago, IL 11/12/13 - 11/14/13
Sustainable Brands www.sustainablebrands.com/events London, UK 11/18/13 - 11/19/13
Conferences we do not have an upcoming date for are listed below with their last known occurance.
Opportunity Green www.opportunitygreen.com Los Angeles, CA Fall 2013
FT Investing in a Sustainable Future tinyurl.com/FTSIconf New York, NY 03/29/12 
Investors' Circle www.investorscircle.net San Francisco, CA 05/08/12 - 05/09/12
Social Venture Institute - Vancouver tinyurl.com/SVIvan Vancouver, BC 05/09/12 - 05/11/12
Take Action! San Francisco impactinvestingconference.com/ San Francisco, CA 05/22/12 - 05/23/12
Inner City Economic Summit tinyurl.com/ICICsummit Boston, MA 09/19/12 - 09/20/12
AIGA Design for Social Value www.gainconference.aiga.org San Francisco, CA 10/09/12 - 10/10/12
Social Enterprise World Forum www.nesst.org/sewf/ Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 10/16/12 - 10/18/12
Social Entrepreneurship Education Consortium seecglobal.org/ TBD 11/15/12 - 11/17/12
Aspen Environment Forum www.aspenenvironment.org Aspen, CO 2014
Create Climate Wealth Summit tinyurl.com/a8ee6ct South Africa 02/01/13 - 02/01/13
Harvard Social Enterprise Conference socialenterpriseconference.org/ Boston, MA 02/09/13 - 02/10/13
Green Business Forum - NYC www.greenbiz.com/events/ New York, NY 02/20/13 - 02/21/13
NYU Social Innovation Symposium tinyurl.com/4cbpa3f New York, NY 02/22/13 - 02/22/13
Green Business Forum - San Francisco www.greenbiz.com/events/ San Francisco, CA 02/27/13 - 02/28/13
SOCAP - SOUL soulboston.socialcapitalmarkets.net/ Boston, MA 03/09/13 - 03/09/13
CDVCA http://cdvca.org/programs/events/ Washington, DC 03/21/13 - 03/22/13
Investing in a Sustainable Future tinyurl.com/investfuture/ New York, NY 03/29/13 - 03/29/13
Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting www.clintonglobalinitiative.org St. Louis, MO 04/05/13 - 04/07/13
Entrepreurship in Energy Efficency tinyurl.com/cleantechopen13 San Francisco,CA 04/09/13 - 04/09/13
Mission Investors Exchange tinyurl.com/austinMRI Austin, TX 04/10/13 - 04/12/13
Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship www.skollworldforum.org London, UK 04/10/13 - 04/12/13
Global Social Venture Competition www.gsvc.org/conference Berkely, CA 04/12/13 - 04/12/13
Sustainatopia www.sustainatopia.com Miami, FL 04/17/13 - 04/19/13
Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Bootcamp www.dainnetwork.org Accra, Ghana 04/23/13 - 04/24/13
SEEED seeed.org Providence, RI 04/26/13 - 04/27/13
Milken Global Conference tinyurl.com/4f7gxjj Los Angeles, CA 04/28/13 - 05/01/13
Slow Money www.slowmoney.org Boulder, CO 04/29/13 - 04/30/13
Renewable Energy Finance Forum www.refflac.com/ Miami, FL 04/30/13 - 05/01/13
Five Funds Forum IX tinyurl.com/FiveFund Various 04/30/13 - 05/02/13
Create Climate Wealth Summit creatingclimatewealth.com Singapore 05/13/13 - 05/14/13
Social Enterprise Alliance https://se-alliance.org/summit2013 Minneapolis, MN 05/19/13 - 05/22/13
US SIF Conference ussif.org Chicago, IL 05/20/13 - 05/22/13
Impact Investing in Action agorapartnerships.org/conference Washington, DC 05/20/13 - 05/23/13
The Social Innovation Summit socinnovation.com Silicon Valley, CA 05/28/13 - 05/29/13
Sustainable Brands tinyurl.com/SustyBrands2013 San Diego, CA 06/03/13 - 06/06/13
PCBC / West Coast Green pcbc.com/theshow/Attending/home.html San Diego, CA 06/05/13 - 06/06/13