Social Innovation Japan (SIJ) held the 1st Social Entrepreneur Gathering (SEG) on 1st and 2nd October, 2005 at Roppongi Hills, Tokyo Japan. The SEG 2005 was the very first gathering for social entrepreneurs in Japan.  Nearly 200 people, such as social entrepreneurs, business persons, government officers, students and academics, attended the big event.

Social entrepreneurs are emerging globally, but Japanese social entrepreneurs had almost no opportunity to gather and foster cutting edge knowledge of Japanese social entrepreneurship until SEG 2005.

The theme of SEG 2005 was about social entrepreneur, social business (SB), CSR, etc. Talk sessions, case studies, and 2025 vision workshop were performed.
 
【Overview of SEG 2005】
■Date  
1st Oct, Sat 13:30-19:30 (Party (“Yajuku”): 20:00-22:00)
2nd Oct, Sun 10:00-16:00

■Place
Academyhills 49, Roppongi Hills
6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo Japan (Map)

■Program

- Keynote Speech "Social innovation and social entrepreneurship": Prof. Kanji
   Tanimoto (Hitotsubashi University)
- Talk Session "Social Innovation is to change Japan"

- Case Study 2 "How do social entrepreneurs develop products and social value?"
- Case Study 3 "How do social entrepreneurs overcome and utilize institution?"
- Networkign Party & Fair Trade Fashion show

- School 1 "Funding for social business"
- School 2 "How to utilize the net community"
- School 3 "Social communication"
- Panel Discussion and Workshop "How will social innovation change japanese
   socielty in 2025?"