UPDATE: Food, Farms, Fish and Finance Forum feat. Michael Shuman Keynote Lecture
Posted: May 22, 2013
Categories: Events / Food in the News / GoodFoodBites
UPDATE (May 22, 2013): Our Food, Farms, Fish and Finance forum is this weekend! Conference tickets now include access to Michael Shuman’s keynote lecture on Saturday evening. Subsidized conference tickets are also still available. Visit the Program and Panelists page for new information about this weekend’s forum and register here.
If you can’t make the daytime sessions, come to Shuman’s keynote lecture, “Local Dollars, Local Sense: 12 Cutting-Edge Tools to Finance the Local Food Revolution” on Saturday, May 25, at 7 p.m. at Innis Town Hall. His recent book, “Local Dollars, Local Sense” will be on sale at the event.
Feeling lucky? We’re giving away two free tickets to Shuman’s keynote lecture – all you have to do is enter the draw through NOW Magazine’s Contests.
Join us as we explore the delicious, diverse and delicate potential for social finance and impact investing in our food system. Have you registered yet? If you can’t make it, register to watch a live webcast of Saturday’s panel discussion and The Fishbowl: A focus on farms and fish initiatives.
Michael Shuman, keynote speaker, is director of research for Cutting Edge Capital, and the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. He is a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and author of The Small Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses are Beating the Global Competition.
The forum, over Saturday, May 25 & Sunday, May 26, will connect social finance leaders with investors and entrepreneurs to build a stronger food economy and sustainable food system. This is an action-oriented forum with opportunities to learn from leaders in the field and participate in strategic conversations to move key issues forward.
For more information and registration please visit our website here, and join the Facebook event. You may also click on the attached poster.