 I'm Tim Freundlich and I'm one of the board members of the organization at Steward Socap and also the hubs in San Francisco and and also in Berkeley just I think Penelope we have to thank that panel it was really great with with Gene and Darren and Morgan and Xavier on it and you know Gene case said something that really struck me when I was off stage left or whatever it is about pillars and and pillars are you know there is this sense of an emerging good economy if you will and the pillars that we are all working on in this room in one shape or another really do I think in the end lay the the structure that we're going to really get some movement and and the hub is one of those and Penelope Douglas who was moderating the last panel and I have been really enjoying our board work with hub and Socap and also I sit on the global board the hub association and the as some of you know there's been this amazing growing network of physical communities of change makers that have been popping up around the world not the least of which is in San Francisco and Socap and the hub are great partners they are both about the same sort of thing that's fundamentally about people who are working in a lot of different ways to to accelerate the good economy and and to create impact in the world around people and planet and so we couldn't think of a better place than Socap just to in this interlude to announce that we're going to be welcoming and embracing what has always been there which is that that the hub network is as of today as an overtime going to be incorporating impact to to the hub brand and and so that's that's a really great I think forward looking point and and the the hub impact hub as as it's that's going into the future is about incubation it's about acceleration it's about where change goes to work every single day even as these conferences are these flashpoints where we come together occasionally and I think that what's really powerful for me is is this idea that every single major metro market in the world in the next three four or five years is going to have a physical clubhouse for social change innovation and and and kind of a amazing kind of co-working and events platform we built one we built one in San Francisco but it wasn't the first it was the first in the United States now has 800 members across 40 about about 400 enterprises non-profit and for profit the the first one actually started in London and it was a site near the angel tube station kind of a five-floor walk-up I remember visiting in in 2005 when it started but there are now hub impact hubs opening across five continents one a month and these are hundreds of people in community going to work every day so the invitation here is you know to join these 40 going to 60 cities that are coming online in an integrated network with 400 social entrepreneurs actually running these things and founding them 7,000 members and the 300,000 square feet if you want to do the translation of square meters it's about 9x across the globe join and and really bring whether it is a member or partner or actually founding one in the city that you come from bring this back and and become engaged with the impact hub network globally and there's there will be in conjunction with this with this brand extension and embrace of impact with hub over the next days a really great global campaign about sharing its stories and the impact that that the members across the globe are creating and Tim Nichols is going to come up and talk he's the managing director for the hub impact hub in San Francisco and Berkeley and he's going to talk a little bit about how this experience is going to be integrated in your experience at SoCAP over the next couple of days Tim do you want to come up and carry it forwards thanks so impact hub I think Tim's already kind of covered the part that's the global network that we've been building for almost the last 10 years and I'm going to walk through a bit of like what we've created here in the Bay Area as well as what you can see if you visit one of these spaces the impact hub is a combination of shared workspace community and event space we bring these people together with a very strong design around collaboration we want people to see and understand exactly how they can relate to other people how they can connect we have a hosted community inside and we celebrate we celebrate the fact that there is this great work going on and we do want these people to actually be recognized on a regular basis as well the work that's being done in there and of course with this well-designed thinking around facilitated collaboration we're actually also announcing a North American partnership with Herman Miller Herman Miller is coming in as a leading expert in the design of a future of work they've actually worked very closely with us on designing the impact hub space in the festival pavilion you'll see their space the space that we've created there really has a lot of opportunity for you to participate in what's going on and really kind of like play the role that we think we all want to be a part of and building this some this better world and I'd say that we're here together because we strive for more from ourselves more in our work more from our organizations more from our investments and we convene not just to talk or listen or build a Rolodex but with the purpose of a shared vision we want to cross all industries and sectors and bring these people together because we know that true innovation happens when you do this so it was Howard Zinn a famous author activist and historian who said you cannot be neutral on a moving train and I think that's evidenced by your presence here today that you take that same stance that you're here taking intention to impact so let's talk about how you can do that at the impact hub here at SoCal conferences consistently inspire people and we want to create an up we've created an opportunity to implement you guys hear me something wrong with this I'm really sorry that's okay what about now okay so we've basically created an opportunity for you to participate not only have like a one-sided conversation but actually get more engaged you don't want to be neutral on this moving train you want to participate you want to be doing something and we want to provide that opportunity for you to do that the first way is the impact hub has implemented a create space we want to harness the inspiration that you guys find that you guys find when you meet other people that you hear when you're listening to these great speakers on stage and in the impact hub space you can work with our team on design challenges formed around socap tracks you can formulate your ideas you can build teams you can prototype it will be a prototyping sessions going on there consistently also in the impact hub you're going to find the louder amplification station louder is one of the older members of the hub network here in the Bay Area and they're a hub venture alumni we're very excited about this partnership because louder is a crowd promotion platform for that moment when you think more people need to see this I've got to get this out there and so what they do is they actually promote your good idea or they promote a website that you think needs to get out there with promoted posts on social media Facebook Twitter to spread your ideas and we want to spread the ideas that you get from this conference beyond these boundaries of Fort Mason we have the opportunity to reach over a million people because socap has given five thousand dollars to these promoted posts at any time you get an idea or an inspiration or a website that you want to share you just head over to that amplification station and you talk to those guys there and they're going to be able to get the word out about it now that's the boundaries of the space but what about the boundaries of time we only get three days together to actually like convene and talk and communicate with each other what happens then do we walk away and it's over how do we break the barrier of time now I know what you're thinking and unfortunately we have not created the time machine however we've created something much simpler than that you can text your ideas if you come up with something regarding oceans because you heard something amazing there then you can text two two three three three and you send the text that's up on the screen oceans 13 with your email and we can stay in touch with you because we will be carrying on the programming that you see here at hubs around the world after this and if that's not enough well you're going to be receiving about a quarter of the program of the programming that's happening at socap actually comes from ideas that you generated programming that you wanted to see and that is how we've that's why we've taken the socap open platform and converted into the open impact hub platform we want to know what you guys want to see and you can talk to us and tell us like this is what we think is really important right now these are the ideas that we want to see in your program we want to help you put this program together we want to be on a panel about this we want to see this conversation happen and this is going to be possible at spaces around the world which unfortunately you know all of you do not live in the beautiful bay that we do and I appreciate that and as Tim mentioned there are 40 hubs impact hubs up and running around the world and there's 20 more that are going to be open before the end of next year impact hub and at socap blends the physical and virtual to bring you an experience here and 365 days a year we want to hear from you we want to know exactly what you want to be seeing we want to work with you on making sure that your message gets out beyond the audience that's directly in front of you and really ensure that we accelerate the good economy so I invite you now to join me as we go over to the festival pavilion and check out the space that we have there there will be another plenary at four o'clock and we encourage you to kind of check it out and then be back here for that thank you everybody