Innovation Showcase

This year, SOCAP has found more ways than ever to showcase many areas of innovation through creative place- making. From sector-focused showcases to the return of our popular Mobile Fast Pitch to a full marketplace of mission- minded products, you’ll find fascinating new companies, people, and ideas that are sure to expand your horizons.

HEALTH INNOVATION SHOWCASE

Tuesday, 11am-5pm Friday, 9am-1pm

Innovations in software and hardware technology are transforming global health and wellness. At the Health Innovation Showcase you’ll meet promising companies demonstrating how technology can offer new solutions in health and medical care delivery and beyond. SOCAP – in partnership with the innovative health leader Rock Health – is bringing you cutting-edge companies at the intersection of health and technology.

CLEAN COOKING INNOVATION SHOWCASE

Thursday, 9am-5pm

Some highly impactful and investible solutions for bottom-of-the-pyramid consumers are found in the clean cookstove and fuel sectors. Touching so many of the areas we care about – health, environment, community development, and economic empowerment – clean cooking interventions can be simple solutions to big problems.

We’ve curated some of the most promising enterprises in the sector to show that this movement – though including cookstove manufacturers – also extends to innovative models that span distribution, fuel sources, platforms for exchange, financing mechanisms, and new promising geographies.

OCEAN INNOVATION SHOWCASE

Wednesday, 12pm-9pm

You wouldn’t believe how much opportunity for innovation there is in the ocean! So we’re going to show you.
Come by to talk with the entrepreneurs and see creative inventions in aquaculture, sustainable fishing, habitat restoration, and more. This showcase might inspire you to take your next venture out to sea!

PEOPLE-POWER SHOWCASE

Wednesday, 9am-6pm

Every good idea starts with a creative mind, a person with tremendous potential. Hopefully you’re at SOCAP to meet these types of individuals. At SOCAP, we’ve partnered to create a new kind of showcase that focuses on the individuals driving impact, an interesting change from the product and technology demos we typically do. We hope that as you walk through the showcase you’re as inspired and as motivated to back these individuals as we are!

MOBILIZING WITH THE VODAFONE AMERICAS FOUNDATION

Wednesday, 1:30pm - 2:30pm in the Golden Gate Room

The world is becoming more mobile every year! This year at SOCAP we’re excited to revisit an important area for this movement: Mobile! From mobile apps influencing behavior changes that address the social determinants of health, to education technologies democratizing knowledge around the world, mobile opportunities continue to abound. It’s time for another exciting mobile update and to discuss new challenges and barriers to scale.

In partnership with the Vodafone Americas Foundation we’ve partnered to bring mobile conversation to the table and highlight up-and-coming mobile entrepreneurs at SOCAP13.

The Vodafone Americas Foundation supports U.S. and international non-profit organizations to develop and utilize wireless and mobile technology to save lives, improve the community, increase opportunities for learning, and promote health, safety, and sustainability. Complex issues can be addressed with simple and innovative solutions. They believe technology can be the bridge between the resources available and those in need. The programs they support take advantage of innovative tools to improve society by connecting, educating, and empowering individuals.

Join us for the Mobile Fast Pitch session sponsored by the Vodafone Americas Foundation on Wednesday at lunch in the Golden Gate Room.

We will be featuring the following entrepreneurs in the pitch session: