THANK YOU to those who attended. It was really nice to have the chance to get to know some of you, and your diver­sity and expe­ri­ence added a lot to the con­fer­ence. 500+ par­tic­i­pants, 12 pan­els, 3 work­shops, 3 case com­pe­ti­tions, 2 keynotes, 11 net­work­ing lunches, 3 learn­ing lunches, and a lot of good dialogue […]

Devex: Our Media Spon­sor. The most pop­u­lar inter­na­tional devel­op­ment web­site, Devex con­nects the peo­ple and orga­ni­za­tions that make global devel­op­ment hap­pen. [http://www.devex.com]

This year fea­tures an excit­ing list of speak­ers includ­ing Abhi­jit Baner­jee (Direc­tor of the Poverty Action Lab), Gayle Smith (Spe­cial Assis­tant to the Pres­i­dent and Senior Direc­tor at the National Secu­rity Coun­cil for Global Devel­op­ment, Sta­bi­liza­tion, and Human­i­tar­ian Assis­tance) and Ban Ki-moon (Secretary-General of the UN), in a spe­cial video address.

Michael Chu (Senior Lec­turer, Har­vard Busi­ness School; Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, IGNIA Fund; Senior Advi­sor, Pega­sus Cap­i­tal) Nicola Crosta (Head of Pol­icy, Knowl­edge and Advo­cacy of the United Nations Cap­i­tal Devel­op­ment Fund, UNCDF) Eliz­a­beth Thomp­son (Exec­u­tive Coor­di­na­tor, United Nations Con­fer­ence on Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment) Dr. Jishnu Das (Senior Econ­o­mist, World Bank; Vis­it­ing Scholar,Center for Pol­icy Research) Dr. Fred Mednick […]

Last year’s IDC Keynote speaker – Jana­mi­tra (Dev) Devan, Vice Pres­i­dent and Head of Net­work for Finan­cial and Pri­vate Sec­tor Devel­op­ment at the World Bank and Inter­na­tional Finance Cor­po­ra­tion (IFC). As leader of the net­work, Devan engages with gov­ern­ment pol­icy mak­ers who shape the busi­ness envi­ron­ment for the pri­vate sec­tor. He works to pro­mote collaborative […]