DURBAN PROGRAMME

Preparing your business for funding (DOUBLE SESSION)

11:00 – 12:45

Speaker: Darlene Menzies, Finfind

This session is designed to help you become investment ready. Bring your business model questions, your capital raising challenges, your growth & investment planning decisions to this practical workshop, which will help you get an overview of the finance available to you and how you might access it.

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

Your networking space

11:00 – 11:45

Come on in and share ideas and experience with other entrepreneurs.

Innovative finance and impact investing: An intro

10:00 – 10:45

Speaker: Tine Fisker Henriksen, Bertha Centre

While social enterprises develop new ways of doing business, social investors are creating flexible financing solutions to help them grow. This session aims to help social entrepreneurs match their business model with the available funding streams.

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

Which accelerator is right for me? Which are available in Durban?

10:00 – 10:45

Speaker(s): TBA

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION

Preparing your business for funding CONTINUED...

– 12:45

Your networking space CONTINUED...

– 12:45

Come join!

Get your term sheets down - how to negotiate with investors

12:00 – 12:45

Speaker: Aunnie Patton-Power, Bertha Centre

Drag-along, tag-along, push-pull provisions, shotgun clause – all term sheet legalese that most entrepreneurs don’t understand. However to optimise any investment, you need to know what you’re signing up for. In this session, we will be decoding some of the most important parts of a term sheet.

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

Lessons from a traffic light for entrepreneurs

12:00 – 12:45

Speaker(s): Grant Gavin, Durban Entrepreneurs Club

In 2016, Grant Gavin spent a day on the streets disguised as a street beggar. What he didn’t expect was that this experience would prove to be one of the most powerful learning experiences of his life. In this session, you will learn how to break out of your own comfort zones, challenge your fears head on, and completely rethink the way you approach your business so that you can become the best possible version of yourself – and set yourself up for breakthrough success in your business.

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

What exactly is your enterprise trying to achieve?

14:00 – 14:45

Speaker: Bathabile Mpofu, Nkazimulo Applied Sciences

As social enterprises embark on addressing social and environmental issues, it is important that they are able to measure that indeed they are meeting their objectives. This is done by measuring and monitoring indicators of the change or the impact that is intended. The session will look at clearly defining what the end looks like and how to derive the correct indicators, and tools available for measuring the change that leads to that end.

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

Innovative finance lab

14:00 – 15:45

Facilitators: The Bertha Centre Innovative Finance team

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

Creating inclusive businesses through technology

14:00 – 14:45

Speaker: Richard Gevers, Open Data Durban

Technology and the rise of the information age has seen many high-impact global innovations, i.e, the sharing economy, the rise of big data and the age of social media, etc. However technology alone can not solve our problems, but rather allows human-focused solutions to connect and scale. This session will cover how to look to the challenges of our communities and cities, and ways in which we can set up sustainable, social ventures that will result in a future inclusive and productive Durban.

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

What's the right legal structure for your social enterprise?

14:00 – 14:45

Speaker: Nicole Copley, NGO Law SA

Should I register my social enterprise as an NPO, for-profit organisation or a co-operative? How does this affect my fundraising abilities? How will it affect profit distribution? What are the tax implications? All these and other legal structure implications will be explored in this session.

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION

What types of government funding are available for early-stage entrepreneurs? (double session)

15:00 – 16:45

Speakers: Thula Mkhwanazi, Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA) and representatives from SEDA, NEF

An introduction to relevant local government funding. A panel of government funders will introduce their funds and how to best approach them.

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

Innovative Finance Lab CONTINUED...

– 15:45

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

Let us surprise you!

15:00 – 15:45

Speaker(s): TBA

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

Your successful (and fundable) business idea

15:00 – 15:45

Speaker: Dagmar Breiling, funding strategist

There are lots of business ideas out there and most of them are not profitable and even profitable business ideas are not fundable because you can’t proof the viability required by the financiers. So, what do financiers really need to fund your business?

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

What types of government funding are available for early-stage entrepreneurs? CONTINUED...

 – 16:45

Your networking space

 16:00- 16:45

Come on in and share ideas and experience with other entrepreneurs.

Ideation and Incubation Seed Funding

16:00 – 16:45

Speaker: TBA

Get insights into very early-stage funding – where to turn when you’re still working on the idea or just getting off the ground? What to think about and what to avoid?

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION

Exciting opportunities for local social entrepreneurs

16:00 – 16:45

Speaker: Poppet Pillay, Durban University of Technology Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

Tracks: IDEATION – INCUBATION – GROWTH

Social entrepreneurs tend to be very creative and practical and make use of what they have to make a difference in their communities. Social enterprises can range from cooperatives to Section 21 NPCs and have the potential of being very sustainable, especially during times of crisis as we are experiencing in SA. In this session, Dr Pillay will explore some of the opportunities for social entrepreneurs in the province, highlighting case studies from her extensive work in the field.