Learn from world-class Social Innovators
Eden Academy features captains of industries sharing their deep experiences in Social Innovation, covering a range of perspectives and industries including healthcare, mobility, education, disruptive technology, smart cities, and human capital.
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Masterclasses
Gain deep insight into the expertise areas of best-in-class changemakers in different fields.
Becoming a Changemaker Today
Alex Budak, Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Formative Influences
Meet Alex and what moved him towards a career in changemaking. Hear his experience in India and about his social entrepreneur hero that inspired him.
Becoming a Changemaker 101
Learn the key principles of the Changemaker Impact Equation that Alex teaches at Berkeley. How can changemakers balance between incompatible values?
Changemaking Today
Is there a better leadership model that scales change? What happens when changemakers grow impatient? How does Silicon Valley celebrate failure and risk-taking? Can culture become a catalyst for change?
Effecting Change in Organisations
Why should organizations think about change? How should they go about their transforming themselves? How can companies balance short-term survival with longer-term responsibility?
The Future of Leading Change
How can changemakers effect change, especially in the face of power or the cost of popularity? What does Alex most hope to accomplish, and his best career advice.
Exponential Technologies
Monique Giggy, VP SU Ventures, Singularity University
Approaching the singularity
Monique kickstarts the series with an introduction to exponential technologies, the launch of new fields and industries with the support of the ecosystem networks including businesses, policymakers, citizens, and academia.
Technology and society
What role does technology play in helping to tackle the world’s greatest challenges? Monique relates to the work that the Singularity University does to achieve its mission and unlock global opportunities.
Sustaining societal impact
Monique shares how technology plays a critical role to achieve social impact, and how better articulating economic value exchanges helps overcome market limitations.
Technology leadership
Monique discusses the importance of technology leadership particularly in the public sector, how leaders can help to create momentum and overcome inertia.
Future forward
In this last video, Monique gives her take on how the future would look like, including the adoption of technologies in smart cities, how policymakers should think about the use of technologies, and which technologies she views as most promising.
Introduction to design
The series begins with an introduction from Xiaodan on design empathy, and Design Thinking.
Good design
Xiaodan shares her thoughts on what defines good design, attending to consumer insights and needs, as well as cross-cultural design.
Working as a designer
Xiaodan provides her perspectives on thriving in the workplace as a designer, organizational culture, articulating the value of design, leading cross-functional design teams, as well as her favourite design framework.
Design and society
Zooming out to a more macro level, Xiaodan discusses the role of design in solving social challenges, particularly among cities and for non-profits. She also speaks about the importance of chaos to ignite creativity.
Growing as a designer
Xiaodan closes this series with some inspiring advice on learning, design technicalities, world-class design, and the designer’s career pathway.
Good Business
Andrew kicks off this series with an introduction to how business should be seen as a force for good, and how the B Corp Certification in supporting this movement.
Creating Value
Andrew discusses how businesses can create value not just for shareholders but also for stakeholders, and the true business of business.
Addressing the market
How do we address the pressures of the capital market? In this chapter, Andrew talks about how we can shift the capital markets and quantify externalities to demonstrate the true value of businesses.
Leading impact
Andrew discusses the importance of the role of each stakeholder in scaling and maximising impact, including boards, social enterprises, non-profits, CEOs, and governments.
Looking forward
Andrew provides his perspectives on emerging global social innovation trends, and his outlook about Asia.
Urban Science
Anne Dodge, Executive Director, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, University of Chicago Institute for Urban Innovation, University of Chicago
Breaking Research Silos
Urban science research cuts across all fields and disciplines, but it has been done in isolation. Anne narrates the birth of the Mansueto Institute, stemming from its aim to break research silos and the emerging fields of urban science research.
Interdisciplinary Research
With an emphasis on interdisciplinary research, Anne shares some practical applications such as urbanization’s effect on human behaviours in cities and how conversations can be bridged between disciplines, closing off with the rise of technological tools that have helped to enhance research methodologies.
Data-driven Research
Anne speaks about grounding research with data and the challenges associated with the empirical approach.
Emerging Urban Trends
Anne gives her take on the global challenges to urbanization, the rise of neighbourhood-led urban development, and shifts in urban governance.
Start with Embracing Data
How can citizens engage and include themselves in their city’s research and development? Anne believes it starts with empowering citizen with data, making data accessible and easy to use, as well as viewing cities as opportunities.
Developments in Charity Giving
How has the charity sector developed? Michael shares his observations of the charity sector’s growth and the key drivers behind this phenomenon.
Collaboration Challenges
Michael draws from his private sector experiences in forming partnerships and collaboration, contrasting it with the Third sector.
Shifting Donors Mindsets
How can non-profits and charities convince donors to invest in their growth and capacity building? Michael discusses on how articulating impact helps change donors’ mindsets.
Organizational Challenges
Limited resources and manpower often make it challenging for non-profits and charities to achieve operational excellence. Michael speaks about how non-profits can leverage on technology, and the role of leadership to facilitate the process.
Articulating Non-profits Impact
Michael offers advice on how we can shift towards intentional giving, and shares his thoughts on the future of the charity sector.
Adopting Smart City Technologies
Mayor Bernard talks about how Cauayan City has emerged as the Philippines’ first smarter city, and his citizen-centric approach in adopting technologies that prioritises improving lives.
Resistance to Technology Adoption
It can be challenging to bring people alongside the Smart City journey. In this chapter, Mayor Bernard shares his difficulties and the process he uses to help people embrace technological change.
Ensuring Inclusiveness
A Smart City is not necessarily defined by how advanced its technologies are. Mayor Bernard discusses the role of small cities, and how he ensures that all segments of the population are included in Smart City development.
Smart City Partnerships
As a consistent awardee of the Most Outstanding Mayor in the Philippines, Mayor Bernard describes his leadership style and how his experience in the non-profit sector influenced his partnership approach to sustain change in his city.
Supporting the Smart City Ecosystem
To end off this series, Mayor Bernard shares his thoughts on the role of the government in pushing for innovation, including creatively sourcing for financing to support his Smart
City initiatives, as well as enacting enabling policies to drive the Smart City agenda.
Conversations with
Our conversations with thought leadership is a podcast series that brings you global perspectives on contemporary social innovation issues today
Achieving Mobility for All
A Conversation with Paula Bisiau, Undersecretary of Sustainable and Safe Mobility, Government of the City of Buenos Aires
Paula brings us through her journey in moving towards greater inclusivity and people-centricity in public transit planning for the city of Buenos Aires.
Going Digital in the Automotive Industry
A Conversation with Ben Stanley, Global Automotive, Aerospace & Defense Research Lead, IBM Institute for Business Value
Ben shares his insights on how automotive companies can respond to the many demands of the future of mobility: new service models, declining traditional car sales, as well as autonomous and MaaS vehicles.
The Future’s in Freight
A Conversation with Adriel Lubarksy, Senior Director of Business Development, Udelv
Adriel invites us to take a look at another dimension of urban mobility – the transportation of goods, and how cities can gear up towards supporting autonomous delivery vehicles.
Laying the Groundwork for New Mobility
A Conversation with Danielle Elkins, Executive Advisor to City of Minneapolis, FUSE Corps
Danielle shares her experiences of advising local governments in planning proactively to meet their citizen’s mobility needs and establishing the challenging but critical groundwork for new mobility initiatives to thrive.
Unpacking the Mobility Toolbox
A Conversation with Mara Bullock, ITS and Technology Planning Lead, WSP Canada
Mara shares 3 things that cities need to get right for the successful implementation of technology solutions to address mobility challenges and upgrades: technology testing, regulation, and collaboration.
Achieving Mobility for All
Paula Bisiau, Undersecretary of Sustainable and Safe Mobility, Buenos Aires City Government
What does it mean to create a ‘city for all’ and how can you get there? In this Conversation with Paula Bisiau, we learn about the mindset shift necessary to begin thinking about multiple groups of citizens and their varying mobility needs.
