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Featured Speakers


Jenny Kassan of Cutting Edge Capital helps with financing startup and scale. Cutting Edge Capital provides small and mid-sized businesses with the information, tools, and expertise they need to raise capital in a way that fits with their unique business model and long-term goals. As experienced business lawyers, entrepreneurs, and finance experts, the CEC team has identified capital raising strategies that allow businesses to solicit non-traditional sources of funding. In addition to being a great way to raise capital, these strategies allow businesses to build public support and recognition at the same time they are raising funds.


To engineer is human, and, science alone will not solve our global problems. So says author Henry Petroski, Duke Professor and author of many titles addressing the role and value of design, engineering, and, most essentially, human problem solving. In his latest book, "The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems" Petroski calls for us to roll up our sleeves and start building, thinking, and solving problems. He also explores a little-followed strategy--that of focusing on failure. He will keynote Day 2 of ReVV2011 where we begin to explore how to generate community innovation.

Woody Tasch is a true innovator. His idea is simple: create appropriate finance tools that meet the needs of the social change. Drawing inspiration from the Slow Food movement he focuses on the relationship between our food, farms, and finance, uncovering the fatal flaw in the funding. Where nature is in charge, finance deals must follow her lead--fast money doesn't work. In his book "Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money" Woody suggests that finance tools should match the reality, not the other way around. We're honored to have Woody be our morning keynote come March 7, 2011. Read more about him on Slow Money.

"Indispensable reading, to be placed on the same shelf as Wendell Berry and E.F. Schumacher." - Gregory Whitehead, Treasurer, The Whitehead Foundation

"It goes along with Small is Beautiful on my 'books that matter' shelf." -Joan Dye Gussow, Professor, Columbia University

Not Another Conference... A Learning Summit

ReVV 2011 will be a unique opportunity to learn how to implement the new tools and ideas we've been hearing about at conferences and in books. How do we adopt new IRIS metrics? What does research tell us about how to make better business decisions? How do you match investers with new business opportunities? What strategies are nonprofits adopting to become financially sustainable?

Our mission is to generate real change by identifying and teaching smarter strategies that yield results. Our ReVisioning Value (ReVV2011) Summit is an extension of that mission. ReVV2011 will bring the best of the best together in Portland to give you a chance to gain traction around the most promising ideas.

ReVV founder and host Springboard Innovation enables community members to launch innovative, sustainable solutions to community problems. They do this with unique educational programs, facilitated forums, an online social innovation exchange, and a model for city-wide support of social innovation. Our goals are to bring more people into the discipline of leading change, and to help foster a new breed of change organization. Springboard focuses on educating, convening, funding, and building the ecosystem for social innovators, helping launch solutions to issues from global poverty to local food and family health.