Upcoming events: 2007

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ifPeople provides a central place for information about upcoming events related to responsible enterprise, systems thinking, sustainability, and technology. Check back for updates.

Events spanning the issues we are involved with: sustainability, technology, systems thinking, local economy, corporate social responsibility.
(organized by date)

    2007
    • 2nd Annual Women's Small Business and Procurement Expo 2007
      March 20, 2007
      Atlanta, Georgia
    • Greenprints 9th Annual Green Building Conference and Tradeshow
      March 22 & 23, 2007
      Atlanta, Georgia
    • 2nd SoL Business Innovation for Sustainability Forum
      March 27-30, 2007
      Atlanta, Georgia
    • N-TEN Nonprofit Technology Conference
      April 4-6, 2007
      Washington, DC
    • 8th Gathering of the Social Enterprise Alliance
      April 17-19, 2007
      Long Beach, California
    • Earth Share of Georgia, Earth Day: Leadership Breakfast
      April 20, 2007
      Atlanta, Georgia
    • The Investors' Circle Spring Conference and Venture Fair
      May 22-24 2007
      San Francisco, California
    • 5th Annual BALLE Conference
      May 31- June 2, 2007
      University of California, Berkeley

    • The Alliance for Nonprofit Management Annual Conference
      July 18-20, 2007
      Atlanta, Georgia

    • O'Reilly Open Source Convention
      July 23-27, 2007
      Portland, Oregon

    • System Dynamics Society Annual Conference
      July 29-August 2, 2007
      Boston, Massachusetts

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    Recent (past) Events

    2007
    • Fourth Annual Sustainable Business Day at Georgia Capitol
      January 25, 2007
      Atlanta, Georgia
    • Sizemore Group's Fourth Annual Quality of Life Conference
      February 9, 2007
      Atlanta, Georgia

    2006
    • 3rd Annual Sustainable Business Day at the Georgia Capitol
      January 25, 2006
      Atlanta, GA
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    • Open Source CMS and Blogging Tools Summit                                             
      February 7 - 9, 2006
      Vancouver, Canada
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    • 7th Gathering of the Social Enterprise Alliance                                           
      March 7 - 10, 2006
      Atlanta, Georgia
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    • dotOrg: Southeastern Nonprofit Technology Conference
      March 8, 2006
      Atlanta, GA
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    • Plone New Orleans Symposyum
      March 8-10, 2006
      New Orleans, Louisiana
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    • Visionary Dinner                                           
      22 March, 2006
      Atlanta, Georgia
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    • II International Forum on Solidary Tourism and Fair Trade                                      
      23-26 March, 2006
      Chiapas, Mexico
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    • Latin American Carbon Forum                                       
      23-24 March, 2006
      Quito, Ecuador
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    • Greenprints 2006
      23-24 March, 2006
      Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center
    • 2006 Nonprofit Technology Conference
      24-26 March, 2006
      Seattle
    • Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
      29-31 March, 2006
      Oxford University, England
    • Sustainable Business Conference
      31 March, 2006
      Montreal, Quebec
    • Center for Sustainable Enterprise Conference: Reinventing Today's Business
      March 30-31, 2006
      Research Triangle Park, NC
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    • Annual Ceres Conference
      April 5-6, 2996
      Oakland, CA
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    • LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
      April 3-6, 2006
      Boston, MA
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    • Introduction to Systems Thinking: Applications for the Non-profit, Education and Public Sectors
      April 6-7, 2006
      Atlanta, GA
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    • Third Annual Conference of Social Entrepreneurs: Where Practice and Research Align
      April 6-8, 2006
      New York University, New York
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    • I International Women Leading Sustainability Dialogue
      19-20 April, 2006
      Portland, Oregon
    • Social Venture Network Annual Member Gathering
      20-23 April, 2006
      Kennebunkport, ME
    • 2006 Green Design Solutions conference
      May 2-4 2006
      Atlanta, GA
    • TechSoup Netsquared Conference and Gala
      May 8-9 2006
      San francisco Bay Area
    • 2006 National Environmental Partnership Summit
      8-11 May, 2006
      Atlanta, GA

    • Investor`s Circle: 2006 Spring Conference and Venture Fair 10-12 May, 2006
      San Francisco, California
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    • Media That Matters                                          
      May 17-21, 2006
      Hollyhock, Canada
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    • 4th BALLE annual conference
      8-10 June, 2006
      Burlington, Vermont
    • Latin American Social Enterprise Symposium
      9-10 June, 2006
      Santiago, Chile
    • Conference: How to Communicate your Corporate Values to Consumers
      14-16 June, 2006
      Philadelphia, PA
    • Gaining Ground Sustainable Urban Development Leadership Summit
      15-17 June, 2006
      Victoria, Canada
    • Sustainability and Beyond: The Emerging Triple Bottom Line of the New Economy
      19-22 June, 2006
      Charlottesville, Virginia
    • Copyright vs. Community in the age of Computer Networks
      2 July, 2006
      Baltimore, MD
    • 24th International Conference of The System Dynamics Society
      23-27 July, 2006
      Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    • 8th annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention
      24-28 July, 2006
      Portland, Oregon
    • A Regional Natural Building Colloquium
      2-8 August, 2006
      Bath, NY
    • 1st Georgia Environmental Conference
      16-18 August, 2006
      Savannah, Georgia
    • Green Festival DC
      14-15 October, 2006
      Washington DC
    • Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategies to Create Business and Social Value
      18 October, 2006
      Harvard Business School, Boston, MA
    • Business as an Agent of World Benefit Global Forum
      22-25 October, 2006
      Cleveland, Ohio
    • 25th Annual Congress & Expo of the National Recycling Coalition
      22-25 October, 2006
      Atlanta, Georgia
    • 11th International Conference: Global challenges, issues and solutions. 
      23-24 October, 2006
      Illinois Institutte of Technology, Chicago
    • Plone Conference 2006
      25-27 October, 2006
      Seattle, Washington
    • Sustainability Quest
      28-29 October, 2006
      Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado
    • Investors Cycle Fall Conference and Venture Fair
      5-7 November, 2006
      Boston, MA
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    • Co-Op America`s Green Business Conference
      7-10 November, 2006
      San Francisco
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    • Pegasus Conference
      13-15 November, 2006
      Waltham Boston Hotel, Waltham, MA
    • Balle Atlanta: Local First Week
      4-9 December, 2006
      Atlanta, Georgia
    • IV Inter-American Conference on CSR: Good Business for All
      10-12 December, 2006
      Salvador. Brazil
    • Southface Winter Solstice Party
      19 December, 2006, 6-8:30 pm
      Atlanta, GA

    2005
    • Base of the Pyramid Learning Lab Meeting
      Feb 17, 2005 -- Feb 18,2005
      Cornell Univesrity, Ithaca, NY
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    • Sustainable Enterprise Career Fair
      Feb 25, 2005
      Sheraton Chapel Hill Hotel, Chapel Hill, NC
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    • Social Venture Institute
      Feb 28 - Mar 1
      San Francisco, CA
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    • National Green Building Conference
      Mar 13 - 15
      Atlanta, GA
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    • Southface Visionary Dinner
      Mar 23
      Atlanta, GA
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    • 2005 National Nonprofit Technology Conference
      Mar 23 - 25
      Chicago, IL
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    • EarthShare Green Day Volunteer Day
      April 2
      Atlanta, GA
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    • Seventh Annual Green World sponsored by IIDA
      April 7
      Seattle, WA
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    • SoL Core Competency Course: Introducing and Applying the Disciplines of Organizational Learning
      April 11 - 15
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    • Social Enterprise Alliance 6th Gathering
      April 17 - 20
      Milwakee, WI
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    • EnvironDesign9
      April 20-22
      New York City, NY
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    • LOHAS 9 Forum
      April 25-27
      Marina del Rey, CA
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    • II Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Central America, Panama and the Caribbean
      San Pedro Sula, Honduras
      April 27 - 28
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    • SVN Spring Members Conference
      April 28-May1
      Tarrytown, NY
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    • SoL's Foundations for Leadership Program: Exploring the Sources of Natural Leadership
      May 18 - 20
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    • Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) Annual International Conference
      June 2 - 5
      Vancouver, Canada
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    • District1Atlanta Electronic Waste Recycling Day
      June 4
      Atlanta, Georgia
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    • Open Source Geospatial '05 Conference/MapServer User Meeting/EOGEO
      June 16-18
      Minneapolis, Minnesota
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    • Southface Summer Solstice Party
      June 21
      Atlanta, Georgia
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    • Where 2.0 Conference
      June 29 - 30, 2005
      San Francisco, CA
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    • Plone Symposium
      July 20-22
      New Orleans, LA
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    • Bell Conference 2005
      July 20-22
      Ithaca, New York
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    • O'Reilly Open Source Convention
      August 1 - 5, 2005
      Portland, OR
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    • The GPL and Legal Aspects of Free Software Development           
      August 31
      New York City
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    • Georgia's Common Ground
      September 9 8am-5:30pm
      Emory Conference Center Atlanta, GA
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    • Corporate Compliance and Ethics
      September 12-14
      Chicago, IL
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    • Natural Products EXPO East
      September 15-18
      Washington, DC
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    • SAI Conference and Benefit Dinner
      September 19
      New York City
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    • Green Festival
      September 24-25
      Washington, DC
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    • Grand Opening of the Southern Living Idea House at Glenwood Park
      June 18 - Oct 2
      Atlanta, Georgia
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    • III Inter-American Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility
      September 25-27
      Santiago de Chile
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    • Fair Trade Futures Conference
      September 30- October 2
      Chicago, IL
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    • Web 2.0 Conference
      October 5 - 7, 2005
      San Francisco, CA
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    • "Sustainability as Security" ESW National Conference
      October 5-9
      Austin, Texas
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    • Electronics Recycling and Collection
      October 8, 9am - 1pm
      Atlanta (District 57), GA
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    • Bioneers Conference
      October 14-16
      San Rafael, CA
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      Also see Bioneers "beaming" conference in Atlanta!
    • Social Venture Network (SVN) 2005 Fall Invitational Conference
      October 20-23, 2005
      Tucson, Arizona
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    • Privacy and Data Protection in Ibero-America: Analysis and Perspectives
      October 20-21, 2005
      Bogota, Colombia
    • Bioneers Southeast Forum
      October 28-30
      Atlanta, GA
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    • 2005 CPSR Annual Meeting & Norbert Wiener Award Reception
      October 29
      Palo Alto, CA
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    • Open Source Business Conference East
      November 1-2
      Newton, MA
    • Business for Social Responsibility Conference
      November 1 - 4
      Washington, DC
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    • Coop America Green Business Conference
      November 1 - 4
      Ramada Hotel, San Francisco
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    • GreenFest SF
      November 5 - 6
      San Francisco, CA
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    • USGBC GreenBuild
      November 9 - 11
      World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA
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    • Meeting the Sustainability Challenge
      November 10 - 13
      Los Angeles, California
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    • 13th Annual Net Impact Conference
      November 10 - 13
      Palo Alto, CA
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    • Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia
      November 16 - 17
      Philadelphia, PA
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    • Embracing Interdependence:  Effective and Responsible Action in Our Organizations and the World
      November 14 - 16
      Hyatt Regency, San Francisco
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    • Recruit, Retain, Develop: Strategies for Success                   November 16
      Georgia International Convention center, College Park, GA
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    • SVI Boston
      November 17 - 18
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    • New Ventures Brazil Investor Forum
      November 19 - 30
      Sao Paulo, Brazil
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    • Bioneers World Cafe Dialogs
      November 22 and December 15
      Atlanta Community Food Bank, GA
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    • Forest Stewardship Council General Assembly
      December 7 - 9
      Manaus, Brazil
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    • Southface Winter Solstice Party
      December 14
      Atlanta, GA
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    • Inspiring Futures World Cafe Dialog
      December 15
      Atlanta, GA
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    • Transportation in Atlanta: Solutions from our Living Economy
      16 September, 2006
      Atlanta, Georgia
    • Green Business Training Week
      18-22 September, 2006
      Atlanta, Georgia
    • Second Annual Sustainability Awards and Symposium
      25-26 September, 2006
      St. Paul, Minnesota
    • Practical tools to communicate your ethical values to employees
      26-27 September, 2006
      Brussels, Belgium
    • Open Education 2006: Community, Culture, and Content
      27-29 September, 2006
      Utah State University, Logan, UT
    • Engineers for a Sustainable World National Conference 
      27-30 September, 2006
      Iowa city, Iowa









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