Tamara Giltsoff, Managing Director, OZOlab; Jeff Mendelsohn, CEO, New Leaf Paper; Yalmaz Siddiqui, Director of Environmental Strategy, Office Depot and Robert Lapides, Managing Member and CEO, Bosque Pico Bonito, LLC Panelists will discuss the unique, unfolding opportunities for collaboration between small nimble entrepreneurs and local players, larger multi-nationals with their access to capital and distribution channels, NGOs with the ability to address large scale problems and solutions, and by new investor categories. Participants will engage in a dialogue about the connection between whole systems thinking (connected thinking) and these new sorts of emerging collaborations. Examples of 'David and Goliath' collaboration/investment to date (other than M&A) will be presented, and new thoughts from those in the trenches (including the audience!) will be explored.
